Evening Star Newspaper, October 10, 1926, Page 50

2 THE EVENING STAR With Sunday Morning Edition. WASHINGTON, D. C. SUNDAY... . .October 10, 1926 THEODORE W. NOYES. .. .Editor The Evening Star Newspaper Company 111 st S Fenrarivania Ave % b § Naw Tork Gffice: 110 Eaat 42nd St Chicago Office: Tower Bnilding. Buropesn Offics: 14 Reent St.. London. England. The Evening Star. with the Sunday morn- e mtition” ia Aelivared by carriers. within ha ety at 60 cent month: dajls” only. 5 cents mer month: Sundaya only. 20 centa month_ Orders may_he sent by mail or hone Main 5000. Collection is made by tarrier at end of each month. Rate by Mail—Payable in Advance. Maryland and Virginia. Paite lyr.$9.00 1 mo. TR DAlls oty SUTIAT oo} T SR00 1 ma B0 Sanday only 13783.00: 1 mo.. 26c All Other States and Canada. rw}v and Sundas A $1200: 1 mo.. u’.";l: Sondasomy o1 0 3800 1me: 380 Member of the Associated Press. The Associated Preas fa exciusivaly entitied fo the use f;lv.lr‘dupuvrllulmn‘n" il news dis- atches credited to it or not of D hia. maber and alwa. the locat news Dublished herein. Al rights of publication ®f enecial dispatches herein are also reserved Russia and the United States. Negotiations with the Soviet Re- public of Russia for the acknowledg- ment of the debt of that country to the United States are indicated as pos- &ible by the envoy from Moscow to London. He says that as a condition to induce the opening of these ne- gotiations Russia will drop its counter claims against this country. His statement indicates a dilemma for the Soviets, They cannot pay their debts until long-term forejgn loans give them internal financial stability, and they cannot secure those credits until they begin debi negotiations. The so- Jutien of this prohlem, he sugges Jiee in the cancellation of the counter claims. It i= difficult to ses how the United States can enter Into negotiations with the government at Moscow, which s net recognized hy it as a member of the family of nations. Tt 1« possible, of course, that it may treat with the present successors of the government with which 1t formerly had relations as with a debtor without governmental standing. but there will he nn support whatever In this coun try for any proposal to trade recogni- tion for debt settlement. Sentiment in the United States is strongly agalnst any recognition of the Russian Soviet. The fact that it has changed its policies does not cleanse it of its sins. The record of treachery and endeavor to subvert government In thix country Ix too strong to permit any condoning by America as long as conditions remain unchanged. No matter how far from the false economic principles the present Soviet regime at Moacow may drift. through axpediency, thers remains the fact that the basin of that regime is com- munism, and the directing force of the Rurelan adminitration i the Third Tnternationale—an organization which alme at the complete averturning of Al established governments in the world founded upon true representa- tive principles. ¢ the United States holds true to its principles it must refuse, without any limitation of time, to recognize Russia under its present regime. Sin- cere repudiation of the subversive doc- trines that it is seeking, through ill- concealed official propaganda, to spread here must be required as an initial condition of any direct dealings, whether regarding the debt or any other relation. This present proposal, not as vet of- ficlally offered, to reopen the debt queation with the United States comes from a government that recently, under the thin camouflage of work- men’s unions that were actually under the compulsory dictation of the Saviet. sought to Intervene In the Rritish Iabor strike. The: present industrial situation in Great Britain is largely the resnlt of Russian influence and aid. Tt in perfectly well known that efforta are constantly made by the Snviet to subvert the American work- ers’ organizations. The agents of Mos- santly At work to ‘hore Communist centers, Moscow. are conducting guidsd by campaigne of “education” among the children of the Tnited States, No confidence can be feit in the sin- cerity of any Russian protests of good faith as long s the “interlocking di- rectorate” of the various circles of Communism and state administration at Moscow remain in authority. Tt may be expedient for Moseow now to seek some readjustment of the debt, in order to secure credits. But hefore this country lends fts aid. by accepting anv concessions. it should have proof t the system of concealed Commun- istie government has bean ended. def- initely and permanently. Let Moscow come forward with clean hands and the T'nited States may deal with it on A husinsss hasis, U, The Hall Mills case continues to in wolve suspeets apparently in accord- ance ith the old idea, “the more, the merrier.” —omo Antarctic Nursing. 1t was only thresa.quarters of a cen- mother ships, veritable floating fac- tories, send out Ilittle fleets of “catchers” which tow In leviathans to be flensed and tried out either on the big vessel herseif or at shore stations erected for the purpose. The intrepid whalemen, their little vessels crusted with ice and buffeted by polar &ales, go boldly after finback, hump- back and the great blue whale, which vields three times as much ofl as the varieties formerly sought and, in some cases, now largely extinguished. The old-time whalemen passed all these up for one reason or another, usually be- cause of their fierceness and speed. The Invention of the bomb-gun and of madhinery to extract oil from the bones and entralls as well as from the blubber of whales has encouraged plgmy man to attack succeasfully and to utilize anything that ewims. Cut- ting spades are as sharp as ever; decks are as slippery; exposure has the same effect as it did In the more romantic old days and the realization that near- Iv & thousand men will be isolated for months in that distant spot makes evi- dent the need for the services of phy- siclans, already employed, and for the nurse who will without doubt hecome the most popular individual in the fleet and whose list of proposals will probably, by next Spring, make Cleo- patra and Helen of Troy appear like “the sort of girl whom men forget.” e Z The Deciding Game. Base ball's uncertainties were again illustrated yesterday, when the New York Yankees, after winning two games, which gave them a margin in the interleague contest, dropped the game that was necessary to clinch the world title. So the race calls for a seventh meeting of the two teams, which will be plaved today, thus ex- tending the series to its utmost. Under the system of rewards which limite the players to participation in the gate receipts of the first four games, there is no possible inducement for the prolongation of the series. It one of the teams can win four straight the players get as much ‘“‘series money” as if the limit is reached. So it must be accepted that the see. saw which has to dafe brought the two teams to a tie with three wins each is merely the fluctuation of base ball fortunes. Yesterday's victory by the Cardinals of Bt. Louis was the result of another exhibition of masterly pitching by the veteran Alexander, coupled with a series of effective hits by their bats- men. The New York pitchers fared badly. The starter lost the game, as it proved, in th® first inning. His suc- cessor did no better. The third twirler, simply finished the game against heavy odds. Taken as it stands to date, the series has proved the Cardinals the better hitters, and conversely the Cardinal pitchers the more effective manipula- tors of the ball. Today's deciding game finds New York in difficulties about pitching talent, while the Car- dinals have available two or three men who are sufficiently rested from previous efforts 10 warrant them in starting. But base ball I8 too uncertain a game to warrant any deductions from the ecords. A lueky hit, an unfortunate error, a momentary lapse by a pitcher, and the result may be changed in the twinkling of an eve. So, weather per- mitting, this day’s contest, the climax of an exceptionally thrilling series, will remhin & matter of indecision un- til the end of the final inning. It would be a hardy venture into the realm of chance to forecast the result. Philadelphia’s Sesquicentennial Ex- position not only recalled the old fighters, but established a new cham- plonship. It has provided an inter- esting link between the ancient and the modern. George Washington would have been as useless in a prize fight as Gene Tunney would he in an emer- geney requiring military science. The public requires a fighting hero, and may congratulate itself on being able to concentrate on a figure who rep. resents the prowess of comparatively peacetul Asticufts. — vt — Peace-is presented to European at- tention as an influence not merely of sentimental idealism, but of economic advantage. oot Eloquent Statistics. According to A survey recently made by a Cornell professor engaged in rural school research, there has | been an Increase in forty-four vears | of over 570 per cent in the budzet of | & typical tarm fanuly in this country The figures and deductions have heen given in a news story in The Star and furnish food for reflection upon the changing habits and needs and tastes of the people of this country. The budget was that of tHe successive generations o0f the same family in 1880 and 1924, the family in each in- stance consisting of six persons, liv- ing on the same farm. II‘ 1880 the total cost of tamily mainténance was $821.45 and In 1924 it was $2,563.76, An increase of $1.842.31, or, as stated. mora than 570 per cent. Here is the way the items are stated in the news dispatch, given, as print- 4, with a slight and immaterial error in addition In each of the columns, which cannot be corrected in the abs sence of the original figures: $other exclusively in Esperanto here. clothing bill would have been stil| smaller, for the family looms and| needles were busy. The item of ““three | children” is obscure. It must be left | to the imagination. But note the Yact | that there has been the least increase of all the items in that for “church,” $72.20 in 1880 and $95.07 in 1924. E: dently religlon has not advanced in cost. The literary tastes of the farm family have become more expensive, $2.50 In 1880 and $161.70 in 1924. And the “doctor’s bill" has likewise grown, not because of more sickness, prob- ably, but hecause the rates have in- creased, and, furthermore, doubtless because, with the telephone at hand, it Is now easy to summon the doctor and easy for the doctor to respond. In 1880 probably more of the family ills were cured by domestic remedies. In 1880 the family' remained at home and entertained itself on the farm. Now it goes traveling, with a consequent Increase in the two items of “trips and®vacations,” and amuse- ments from nothing in 1880 to $49.91 in 1924 Closely related to these two items, that covered hy the title “gen- eral Bperations, coal, gasoline, auto &nd labor” reflects the greatest | change in the family economy. The auto alone is a net addition, replacing the old family buggy, which had been in the barn for perhaps a generation or two hefore. And “labor"! What A story that word tells! For the son of the tamily did not leave the farm then, staying on and doing the chores and the daughter the housework. Now the son goes to college, and tire dzughter also, and the “hired man” and the “hired girl” take their places on the farm. Statistics make dry reading, as a rile, but these figures tell the story of a wonderful change in family life and domestic and rural conditicns in a span of a little lass than haif a cen. tury T Cupid Learns Esperanto. A London barrister is about to be, or has just heen, married in Esperanto, he and his bride being ardent believers in the universal language. It is alto- gether appropriate that they should be united by a ritual in that speech, for their acquaintance began at an Esperanto congress at Salshurg two vears ago and then followed a corre- spondence, of course in that medium, and finally the young woman herseit broposed in Esperanto, having vowed that she would never wed any one but an Esperantist and having re. fused a wealthy Austrian nobleman for that reason. It is announced that the happy couple will talk to each after, Does not this situation constitute a hoom for Esperanto? Think of the premium it puts upon matrimonial chances! And voung women may well be eficouraged by the fact that the falr Esperantist herself popped the question. And, Again, think of the advantages of having a household tongue that is unknown te the serv- ants or the neighbors! ‘ But what about the other systems that are proposed for the universal language? There are several others, the name of one of which still figures in the cross-word puzzles occasionally. Their claims should surely not be af- fected by this happy adventure. If a synthetic speech {s aver to he estab- lished as the common medium of com- munication the matrimonial episode Jjust reported from London should not be the determining factor of selection. | . Having declared that he does not care to be a presidential candidate, | it now becomes proper for the un- sWprving friends of Gov. Al Smith to listen for the volee of the Overwhelm. ing Demand. B Smugglers usually say they were | merely bringing in a few presents for | a friend. The philosopher who pray-| ed to be saved from his friends still| has & volee in present affairs. — s The term “Crar,” as used in hase ball and motion pictures, has under- Rone a proceas of evolytion which changes it from an American epithet to a eompliment. e SHOOTING STARS. BY PHILANDER JOHNSON. Learning. I studied mathematics some, With scant success I own. When to the spelling hook I'd come, Great patience I have shown. In history 1 was not slow. My rhetoric was neat— But now I find T do net know, Enough to cross the street! My teachers were accomplished men Whose memory I revere. Alas, their lessons fail me when Conditions new appear! I am a student still, T vow In modesty complete. Oh, gentle copper, téach me how To get across the street! Amid Discord. “Can you sing ‘The Star Spangled Bann “Yee,” answerad Senator Sorghum. “But my singing {8 like my oratory. Discord is such that it doesn't always seem able to hold on to the original {never he a public opinion that will in ! negligence, the Jay EVERYDAY “ROAD MAPS.” The road map has become indispen- sabie to one who travels by automo- bile. Before starting out on a jour- ney, with a definite objective, we are compelled to study the maps to deter- mine the best routes. We not only wish to know the way, but the best and most picturesque, and the journey is planned to this end. Some routes on the map are marked as ““main high- wayvs,” and now and again there are indications that detours are necessary. One of the interesting things in auto- mobile travel is to experience the novel and the unusual. Even a break | in the main road, with its consequent detour, frequently takes us into by- roads that are full of interest, The ex- perienced traveler knows that his best security lies in following the principal highway, and no matter how frequent- Iv he has to detour, he feels a sense of renewed assurance when once he is back on the main road. The whole experience is quite illus- trative of life’s course. The wise youth who has had his training and has come to know his own aptitudes be- Rins his career by layving ,out his route. Before him and in the distant future is the pbjective he seeks. He is fully aware that in the pursuit of an occupation or a profession there are definite road maps, maps that di close the ‘routes over which others have traveled to their satisfaction and | ultimate success. He is largely gov- erned by the experiences of others, and if he is a wise planner. he makes choice of those great highways that have proven the most satisfactory. Obviously, now and again he will come to places where unexpected obstruc- tions compel him to make extensive detours. Again by failing to observe the road marks he will miss his wayv and he compelled laboriousiy and with diffi- culty to retrace his steps. His only guarantee of ultimate success is to keep clearly before him his objective. He will get misinformation, misdirec- tion. suggestions as to a hetter course and a thousand other things will tend to hinder and embarrass him. It will not always be a smooth road | And an easy one that he must take, tempting as it is. It has heen repeat. Trevention of accldents on streets and highways will be the dominant Subject at the fifteenth annual Safety Congress, which will be held in Detroit, October 25.29. Industrial safety will receive attention. but as traffic casualties and traffic problems growing out of the constantly in- creasing use of automobile vehicles continue to overshadow all other kinds of accldents, s they will feature the program of the congress, | That trafic accidents can he pre- vented through educational methods, | engineering revision and law ohser ance will be emphasized in addresses and reports by motor vehicle com missioners, city planning engineers, chiefs of police traffic_court judges. school officfals =nd officers of com munity safety counclls and of the Natfonal Safety Council. It is vegarded as of first importance that this he impressed upon the general public and upen drivers of automobiles, for 45 long as the impres slon prevails that with the traffic con- gestion there is throughout the Unifed States a large number of accidents are | unavoidable and inevitable the ex.| perts say little progrese will be made | toward ‘minimizing traffic menaces. The driver of a car who believes that he is certain to fgure in some kind of | an accident at least once every vear. | with a large chance that the accident will be attended by serious if not fatal results to him or to some one else, is apt to hecome a fatalist and grow careless or indifferent to the precautions that he should observe every minute he is behind a steer- ing wheel And if the public gets into a frame of mind such that the average person hears of an accident horror with a shake of the head or a shrug of the shoulders, as if to sav that such affalrs are to be expected, then, ac- cording to those who are directing the national safety movement, there will sist upon the maximum of law en- torcement and law observance and censure mercilesaly all forms of reck- less driving. Once the country is seld on the idea that accidents can be prevented, then some headway may be made through a discussion of waye and means and Aemonstrations of safety methods and devices. Jay Talker New Factor. At the forthcoming gathering in Detroit much will be heard of a mew factor in trafic accidente—the Jay Talker. He is an old offender, dating back quite ax far as his comrade in | Walker, but he Is new in the sense that he has but recently heen christened and that a special effort is being made to direct public attention to his derelictions. The Jay Talker is the driver of a motor vehicle who becomes so absorb- | ed in conversation with some one in the car with him that he becomes in- | attentive to traffic signs and signals, careless in handling his own machine, and unmindful of what other drivers | are doing with their vehicles. Like the Jay Walker who tries to cross a traffic lane at the wrong place or in | the wrong way and frequently gets himself run down and killed or seri- ously injured, the Jay Talker is eom- stantly getting himself and others into trouble or disaster.. A conspic- uous offender in this line is the driver who turng hizs head to talk to oc cupants of the reAr seat. Jay Talking may also be indulged | in by persons other than the driver| of a car. The driver's attention may | be distracted merely by his efforts to listén to what his passenger or passengers may be saying. Traffic laws and regulations have | been made under which Jay Walkers | may be punished, but how to deal| with _the Jay Talker is recognized as a dificult problem. In the first place, BY THE RIGHT REV. J.“;ES E. FREEMAN, D, D, LL.D., Bishop of Washington. ANNUAL SAFETY CONGRESS BY FREDERIC | nances and Regulations, 3y L O, | Rounds of the Detroit. Police Depart. | ereatly simplified. | tore. product be formulated? 'Shall the | the four-vear period of the present school methods and school organiza- | administration and that the parties tlon be devised, perfected and refined | must present a hlstory, standing. |lowed to the exclusion of the other. | Paratively a young man of 33 years Capital Sidelights While leading publicists spasmod- fcally advocate the establishment of a National or Federal university for the people of the United States, vet in | these matriculating days there are many thousands of inhabitants all over this country who appreciate that already we have In effect such a RELIGION edly demonstrated that the easy way is not the hest way. Life's main high- v ¢ university, to which they turn. The e Bt e | o oot | misslor of Jhe incerior. Department is largely educational. many matter of supreme importance to US|, iiities heing devoted to the dis- If it has been made out by one who has lived carelessly and whose regard for direction and objective is indefinite and uncertain, it may cost us dearly and place severe handicaps upon the attainment of our goal. Once the course has been laid out it does not pay to deviate from it nor to accept counsel from those who depend upon chance or good luck. The highway is strewn with those who have hroken down or have been wrecked through their own failure to observe traffic regulations, or to keep on the main course. The kind of road maps we must con- sult if we would live usefully and sat isfactorily, with assurance of reach- ing the highest and noblest attain- ments of life, has to do with certain definite and fundamental moral and religious principles. No man has meas. urably succeeded who disregarded these: he may have seemed to make progress and to enfoy for a while a degree of satisfaction and a measure of success, bu experimental high way, largely of his own making, fails to bring him lasting joy and peace. ‘The greatest designer of a road map | that the world has known was Jesus of Nazareth. His plan of life not only took cognizance of its principal high- ways, but He always kept in view the ultimate obfective. T4 Him “man was not so much a fact as a possibility.” He reckoned with bad roads and de- tours: He saw and gave directions concerning difficulties. He knew that the main roade could not alwavs he smooth. His own life’s course was in demonstration of this. He gave no promises of freedom from rough places, hut He did guarantee that where Hiz course was followed it had compensations and rewards indescrib- ably great. Jesus Christ's scheme of life is definite and precise: its rules cannot bhe ignored without resultant unhappiness and dissatisfactios The pursuit of the great highways He planned is designed for our highest ®good and the fulfillment of our noblest desires anfl ambitions. The road map is indispensable. covery and dissemination of knowl- edge. Its “curriculum’ covers many flelds of learning. Its facul in- cludes hundreds of scientists, profes- sional men and speclalists in manv branches of education. Ite student body is the people of the United Staies. % Similar to American colleges or in- stitutions of highér learning, the In- terior Department has many schools | of instruction—education. botany, en-| gineering, geology, geography, Aan- thropology, zoology. psychiat chem- istry and research. Propagation of knowledge on these subjects by a dozen or more bureaus comprises their major duty. The Bureau of Education s a na- tional clearing house for general edu- cation and information. It surveys all flelds of education, conducts con- ferences on problem: of education. publighes booklets and leaflets, issues a monthly educatiomal periodical and biennially a statistical and textural survey, administers a system of 85 schools for the natives of Alaska, 1aintains the largest exclusively edu- cational library in the world and pro- motes an annual American education week, which emphasizes thé needs of the schools. The Indian Rureau administers a system of 226 schools for the Indians. Howard University is the leading in- stitution of higher learning for i negroes in the United States, with | 2,500 students. Freedmen's and St. | Elizabeth’s Hospitals maintain train- | ing_schoole for nurses. ‘A schoot of zoology i= maintained in the national parks. which contain specimens of wild animal life of the | Western Hemisphere. Thers are also | sanctuaries of hird life for the use of _arnithologists. The natives of Alaska have been | taught to raise reindeer for food. | clothing and transportation — the | Bureau of Education having originally | Introduced the reindeer In that region, where there are now 350,000, In the field of anthropology the Rureau of Indian Affaire, with guard- | lanship over 100 trihes of American | Indians, ofters unusual eopportunity | for study of the customs. language. i religion and history of these ohoriginal | | people. The Bureau of Education. with protectorate over Eskimos. Indiana and Aleuts, presents similar | opportunities for studv of these primi- tive races of the Arctic regions. The J. HASKIN. Congress are: “Safety-A Necessity | NAtional Park Service affords pre- of the Motor Age,” by Frederick J.| Serves for study and observation of Haynes, chairman of the board, Dodse | Ancient cliff Awellings. habitations. Bros., Inc.; “How Accidents Happen.” | 'elics of prehistorie people. monu- | ments containing hieroglyphics, mo- saics, implements and other handi. | work of Rygone ages for students of anthropology, history and ethnology. A school of engineering is provided by the Bureau of Reclamation with land irrigation, location and construe- tion of dams, principles of hydraulics, condition of soil and other land eco- nomics. Some of ite publications are | by Dr. Louis I. Dublin, chairman of the statistics committee of the Na- tlonal Safety Council and statisticlan of the Metropolitan Life Insurance Co.; "What Laws Are For,” by Judge Charles L. Bartlett of the Recorder’s Court, Detroit; “Citizenship and Safe- ty Education,” by Dr. Zenos E. Seott, superimendent of schools, Springfield, Mass.; “Safety < ity Prob. fem." by Charles . TN its peedy. | Picneer engineering textbooks. while | dent of the National Safety Council| thers.are texthooks for teathers and children in graded scheols. The Geo- | logical Survey also gives instruction and general safety agent of the New York Central Lines: “Adminis i of'n Siate Moior Vehicle ety |0 an neering. contributing o solu-| i s s g | tion of problems of irrigation, power | Robbins B. Stoeckel, Connecticut com. i and flood control. i Miseloner of motor vehicles: “Head: | ™y seiool of pavehintey 1o found in | light Regulations and Enforcement.” | ¢, "y | FElizabeth's Hospital, with facil- | Tt 6f (AR CETenAt Motors | ities “unaxcelled _elsewhere n this | 6Int by 1. B DAl ’_'"“"fm e | country. This hospital gives inatruc- polnt. arrn mer, president of | 1{on 1o students of the Army Medical | the Ohlo Farm Bureau Federation: ; Practical L{cenue Tav for an AR | Sy Vg, VoYY Sehocl the veterans:| cultural State.” by Judge Lee B Sheel \} ulnu’._ v;nl‘.’, asl 1nz}on. Feorge- of the Cleveland Safety Council: “A | LOWN. Catholle and Howard Univer- Practical System for Reporting and | SI1168. It offers opportunities for train- | Tabulating Accidents.” by William . | IN§ Social workers, maintains a men. | O'Nell. superintendent of police. Troer. | 1Al hygiene clinie. trains nurses and dence, R. T “Uniform £ keeps the medical profession in touch s ; @76, [ with advances in psychiatry. ‘Three hureans make up the school of geography—the Geological Survey. General Land Office and Reclamation | Service. The Geological Survey | makes A master map of the United States. and thousands of copies of sections of this map are furnished an- nually to schools for'textual use. The | General Land Office surveys the pub- lic domain and thus secures geo- graphical information avalable in no other way and distributes maps with varied geographical and historical data. The Reclamation Servis® sup- plies cartographic datg on the develop- ment of the West. A school of geology is maintained through the Geological Survey. which | conducts field investi; fons. Natural geophysical laboratories where scien- tists may study geyser formations and processes of erosion are preserved in the national parks. The Hawaiian tional Park is one of the world's P greatest geophysical laboratories. d—Adapt chlld o Sehool or | Er Tnterior Department's sehool of 4 | research includes official records of What is the place of the child in | the Pension Buréau on the Revolution- the scheme of education? | ary War, the War of 1812, Mexican If this question could be answered | War and Civil War. A library is easily, educational practice could be | maintained for use of students of Thie question al. | zenealogical and historical research. has been the subject of chief b et consideration to professional educa-| The Republican party was horn Such an important subject like- | “IU'nder the Oaks™ at Jackson. Mich., wise has interest for parents as well vears ago (July 6), Representative as teachers. John C. Ketcham of Michigan points Shall the child be studied. and from | out in commenting upon the fact that those studies shall the methods for | 7,715.000 young people of this country making him an intellectually superior | are coming into veting age during I3 | men ‘The Dramatic Aspects of Our National Accident Toll,” by the Rev. Alfred W. Wishart of Grand Rapids, and various phases of the subject of the operation of taxicabs and their re. lations with the public, by a special section of the congress that will be presided over hy Dale Harman, man. ager of the Yellow Cab Co. of Kansas YOUR CHILD IN SCHOOL By Dr. Frank W. Ballou, @mmerintandent of Sehnole. Washington D.C. No. until it becomes an infallible process | for developing the youthful mind? | On the other hand, shall the school be organized and administered largely or exclusively with a view to fitting he child into the community in which he lives? Is preparation for citizen- ship the primary purpose of the school? In a democracy such as ours neither of the two plans implied in the above questions will fully satisfy our edu- cational needs. The former is too in- dividualistic and the latter does not give sufficient consideration to the in dividual. Hence neither can be fol- | program and leadership that matches the high ideals of this forward-looking army of young people. L While our city fathers were in Philadelphia during the week, attend- ing District day at the Sesquicen- tennial, they were told many stories incident to the time when Philadel- phia was the Capital of the Nation, a majority of which'showed Thomas Jefferson's keen sense of humor. “The Declaration of Independence is indissolubly connected with Thomas Jefferson, its author. He wrote that famous document when he was com- The limitations and needs of each|-— red-headed son of a Virginia individual child, as well as his place | planter. He strongly believed in the in democratic society, must determine | doctrine of equal rights politically, he place of the child in the scheme | 30cialiv and religiously. He had been of education. | the author of the Statute of Virginis The school necessarily must deal ' for Religlous Freedom and caused its with children en masee. They are the A DAssage by the Virginia Assembly." materials to be worked into the fin One of the annecdotes was Jeffer. ished product by the skillful practices | 00" Iy to an inquiry how the of trained and capable teachers. But Declaration of Independence came to the child must never lose its indi. De Si&ned so quickly, as follows: MEN AND AFFAIR New York has just passed through the throes of its annual moving spell and never before has the restlessness of the human soul heen so thorough- ly demonstrated. The moving indus- try, which thrives on this restless. ness. this constant search for some- thing better, something different, esti- mates that between 100000 and 120.- 000 familles changed their abode in the metropolis during the hurricane of transfer which centered about the first of October. The telephone company in New York €ity had orders for more than 5000 changes in service, fairly swamping its mechanical force and placing out of date- something like a million immenge telephone directories. The gas and electric companies were inundated with “changes” and with new service, as many modern apart- ments were opened for the first time. The remarkable part of this extraor- dinary human shift was the fact that only an infinitesimal number of the movers made any marked changes in their manner of living. Few. if any. of the families moved “to the coun- Few flat dwellers moved into homes, and few home dwellers switch- ed to apartment houses. Virtually all of the moving was from flat to flat. It was a great game of rainbow chasing, looking for something more desirable, just around the corner; lots of families moved $rom one apari- ment to another in the same building. For the most part the movers, it seems, were seeking to better them- selv New York has been rolling in prosperity and an orgy of spending. The first significance of success to a New York family is to put on more style, to move uptown, to move downtown, to change from the West to the East Side, from Manhattan to the Bronx or from the Bronx back to Manhattan, always conditioned upon paying more rent and thereupon feel- ing more satisfied with life., The §1.200.a-year flat dweller moved into a $1,400 flest. The $5.000 rent payer moved up to $7.500. One new apartment house on the upper East Side opened this October with a rental fee of $35.000 a year for a seven- room suite. Yet moving day was not all beer and skittl Some families had to slow down. to give up rich apartments and return to the obscurity rentals. In a rising tide there are al- waye some who do not ride the crest of the wave. Hank O'Day. the noblest Roman of all the umplres of the national game. insists that hase ball fans in general And the bleacherites in particular have been much maligned. He thinks this is especially true of the St. Louis fans, wha for some reason or other have achieved quite a wide reputation as slingers of “pop” hottles and as umpire baiters when things on the diamond are not favorable to the home team. “It fs all the bunk,” sald Hank as he stood in the lobby of a St. Louis hotel during the world series spasm which held the Missouri metropolis enthralled during the past week. Hank has been chief umpire of the series for the National League. “I'm 62 vears old.” said Hank, “and I have been umpiring off and on most of that long and somewhat eventful life. 1 have been in more tight places than most umpires; and have to call BY ROBERT T. SMAL t cheap | ‘em close and hard in many a tough game. And I have vet to have a pop bottle thrown at me. Nobody has ever heaved a soft drink jar in my di rection—nor a heer hottle In what you call the good old days." “Of course, the fans have tossed empty hottles on the field. just as vou have seen people sometimes throw them from a car window or from an automobile.” They throw cushions sometimes, too, but it is just a ges ture of carelessness and not an effort | to murder the umpire. as the news paper hoys =0 often have it. I am | for the fans all the time. I wouldn't ltake a thing away from them. If they couldn't vell at the umpire there would he no national game. It is a part of the spirit which keeps the game alive. Kill the enthusiasm and | the spirit of the fans and vou kill base bail. Let ‘em yell, I say. That what they are there for, and they know in the long run that the um pires are all right. We don't worry about that.” » On one of the world serfes An"la running ont to St. Louis the first part of the pgst week. an old engineer was A passenger. The train was traveling late across the Indlana flatlands and was trying to make up time. It kept gaining speed until it fairly emed to be fiving along the rails, only touching the high spots. The pa sengers were enjoyving themselves hugely. all save one. The old engineer was nervous as n cat. He kept con- sulting his wateh and giving an ap- praising eye to the passing landscape. He has long been a judge of pace. You could picture him unconselous Iy applying a restraining hand to the throttle and easing.on the air just a trifle. In short. he was a back seat driver to the life. He was palpably un comfortable in the Pullman. In the engine cah he would probably have stepped on the steam. It is an odd: thing that the most reckless autol drivers are the mos: nervous auto pas sengers. The men who sit at tha wheel of a racing car at 130 miles an hour and never blink an eye are nerv ous after a 15.-minute drive in a taxi cab. Let the psycho-analysts solve the problem if they can. There is no denying it. The modarr Teminine stvies are revealing. To the observer who travels thay reveal among other things. that feminine knees are much the same the coun try over. Western knees and New York knees are sisters under their silken hose. The affiazing thing about sty of today the fact that a new idea flashes from one end of the country to the other almost overnight. There was a time not so very long ago when styles traveled slowly from the East to the West. Jobbers of the West he a chance to work off “old stock” be fore the new wrinkles became popular Iv known. All this is past. San Fran- cisco knows the noveaux modes from Paris as soon as New York does. The comparatively new art of national ad vertising has been largely responsible for bringing this about. There was a time, too, when East erners predominated in the tide of European travel. All that is past. The Westerner has hecome a giobe trotter. too, even if he does have to trav across the Continent to reach the | steamer s de (Copvricht. 1926} Fifty Years Ago In The Star Although Samuel J. Tilden had been much in the public ave as a po political factor in New Sketch of York prior to his nomina- s tion and election as gov- Tilden. ort*"in 1574 and his ination for the presidency in his personality was virtually unknown to the count There was much curiosity regarding the manner of man whom the Democrats had chosen as a standard bearer. In The Star of October 3, 1876, is reprinted an article written by George Alfred Townsend, better known by his pen name of “Gath,” in the Cincinnati En- quirer, in part as follows: suit of black cloth that may have cost $200 and a tall, glossy silk hat. just out of a bandbox., driving a black horse to a hrand-new opén wagon. Thought I: “That's certainly respect able. The horse can't be worth less than $800: the wagon cost $500." I and at the same time such propriety. in the streets of New York. “At thie peint the man. evidently the owner of the rig, raised his hat 1 recognized in the small but deep- chops and very humble yet subtle ex pression the Democratic candidate. He had to wait some time before a gentle- man came up. as if by concerted ar rangement. and got up beside Gov. Tilden. Then they turned into Broad way, the old juvenile lifted his hat a= he drove himself along among street cars and cabs, reécognized by a few among the thousandssof walkers. He is not a familiar face in New York He s not a man of the crowd, hut has gone to work assiduously to hecome one. “Mr. Tilden does not look as if he weighed 130 pounds: his face is of that character which takes all the va rieties of expression. Someétimes he appears a boy; again an old man; at other times a regular gossip, full of personality; then a severe, reticent taskmaster: anon a purposeless man: again a man too deep to fathom. An account of himself written near head quarters says that he is a rare specl men of the purely nervous tempera- ment. This, you must understand, nervousness of the man as a very electrical and impressible brain. This sort of temperament is superior to do A great variety of instantaneous acts, to be sympathetic where it is engaged. to he awake a good deal and busy. It 18 algo fond of the closet as a relief from the jar and racket of out-of doo! Dr. Flint, his physician, put him under a course of exercise, food. tonies and sleep. He was formerly a man of inattentive habits, a lover of whole hottle of brandy during a “Two days ago I saw & man in a | haven't seen such universal newness, | shaped head. smooth brown hair. clean | does not mean so much the actuall "This and That By Charles E. Tracewell. ‘Thousands of Washingtonians have | never been to St. Louis, but St. Louis |came to them last Tuesday, when the | third game of the world series was | broadcast. | Certainly from | heard such yelling as “roared loud speakers then was nev over the air hefore, as the | frantic St. Louis base ball fans screamed their heads off. aided by every species of sound-making device obtainable. Jack Spratt, the cat, sitting in his living room in Washington, set up sundry meows as a protest against the shrill whistle emitted by an un known gentleman of St. Louls sit- { ting some place in the stands near the microphone. As Graham McNamee, premfer sports announcer, filled in the time taken out by the half-hour rain, we thought seriously of sending him a | telegram, as follows: “Pet cat objects strenuously to | gentleman near you with whistle. 0w meowing in protest louder than | St. Louis fan." | There was another St. Louit gen tleman with a triangle, upon which | he beat_with fervor throughout the | #ame. This nofse also aroused Jack s | ire. Between it and the whistle his | ears were constantly laid back, his | eves round wita indignation | Jack, heing a little fellow in fur, | had no idea that he was listening tn |one of the wonders of the modern world. He was not impressed with the fact that the noises to which he objected were being made hundreds of miles awa As for us, we got quite & “kick" out of that broadcasting. As far as we can recall, the Lroadcasting of the Rumes from St. Louss ia the first time that an event has come to Washington listenersin from so far a point west. Perhaps the late President Harding spoke from a (arther point, we aras not sure. Then, too, there was the wonderful telephone demonstration several years agu when San Fran. cisco voices were heard over Washing ton radio sets. Just about the time radio listenery {here begin to feel that radio is an ole story something happens to pep uj their interest. The world series thi year is doing 1t to the king ans queen’s taste. | It ix a callous person, indead, whi {can listen to the enthusiasm of a who city as far away as the Missiasipp, land not get a bit of a thrill out of 1 | Washington has had two world serig of fts own, and knows how to apprecs 171; the way the 8t. Louis enthusiasty | Washington, an Eastern eity, got a jnever-to-be-forgotten tingle out of that first great world series in which its base ball team participated, with the ,famous last game in which Walter : L a % A {Johneon “came through.” tury ko that seidiers in the fReld frat | 1880 4 nctuding uokesn el D e honeand in | Viduality. Even if the consclous at. | _“While the question of independence | fayy 5 discursive exarcisar and given | We did a pratty bit of yelling, then, ot A A . . | differences among children, sc o 3 very 3 e mem % equal 8t. Louis. They feminine ““"l"‘d Industry as well as "‘ggm Taree children. Reethoven and Wagner are dead. [wns(;glglnxm:::r::m“ ::Indh’]m:“-?h'”fl‘“" Ry f’-"um\ (hm“m‘,'(;?:hlj':"r | bers wore flh:rl h;eo}:‘ha; and a1k | UP all night . :‘M o wm‘)ll\ l.sr}'}::.r;‘stl’lil’:':? war today regards the tralned nuree| ‘§40 Doctor and medicine. While holdly the radio raves, e ML S ) her | DEINZ taught either will h e ockings, and with handkerchief in first 10 mi 9 D ) 3 , vhether | = ill have more L anch Bt " - % minu the game was fin “as an easential adjunct to carrying on. O s tand vacatior To believe we are solemnly led B e el e inflieted spon | efect on one child than another or e oL reatind caiiioyen | progress MeNamee was spsaking She s In many ways as fmportant as| .0 o Amusementa ©oC They turn even now in their graves, | the falker or the talkee. | et 3Pty of one will clearly exceed | o0 (1 08, aHious was this snatserry | When the Govertiment took over Jeninue & Joady rour of schems, the doctor, In 8ome WAYR even more o asoline. auto. labor) .. Only through education. it is said, | (3t of the other. = and to so great an impatience did it |the Washington Monument with a 5. whistles, vells, shrieks, cheers. 1617 Miscelaneous = Jul Tunkine saye @ man who|can this phase of the traffic menace | Education of the present day takes | 8 4 view {0 completing| It did a person's soul good to lia. The newest field for her endeavors| ‘%17 ud Tunl 3 It with. Drivers must he im.|notce of these individual differences arouse the sufferers that it hastened.|Monument's the shaft the first|ten to the racket. Unrestrained en. ace the whaling grounds. A voung | $371.43 _ $%86376 orags about how much money he has|be deall R | DFEEIs MASt IS (O by studying the individual children | i It did not aid. in inducing them to . question that arose! thusiasm Is good for us all, mow Scandinavian woman has just satled| Significant changes hive occurred | made fs lucky if he can keep on and| For "l none the less a crime because | And endeavoring to ascertain the de. | Dren acument o signature to the | Foundation. \ag as to the suf.and then. Modern ety lifs tends to from Norfolk on the Norwegian whaler | in this span of nearly four and a half | brag about how he made it. it is fndeterminable, and passengers |ETee of mental variation. In view of | ciency of the foundation upon which [make us pent up our perfectly 3 a The family spende more on 2 must be made to understand that it | these differences and on the basis of m—e—e———e——————m—m——m——— |, 0 T fure had been reared.. In|wholesome emotions. C. A. Larsen for South Georgla, where | decades. ¥ spe e is equally an offense to distract a |the mental varfations, instruction is The Star of October 3, 1876, is the PP she will act as nurse for the more | each item, and spends much on some | . h""l". driver's mind from what he is doing. | provided. the classroom is futile. Tt I8 in the | following item: T T TP shixyinclioe o Y than 800 men who will spend six | that did not require sny expenditure { The cow I much gelight to meet. especially in traffic congestion or| These studies make it possible for | follow-up that henefit is achieved. “The board of engineers, consisting | inhibitions. - 5 months or more in the vicinity of that barren island, where Shackleton died, which lies in the Antarctic Ocean woutheast of Cape Horn and-whose wole industry is whaling. Perhaps no group of men stands in wreater need of skilled nursing serv- Ire. The past few decades have wit- nessed many changes in the technique of whale catching. Different species of “fish” are sought than when in the days when whaling voyages lasted for yesrs. the ship often scarcely touching land ia all that time, Great steel at all in 1880. Note that light, which cost only $1.73 & vear in 1880, cost $8% in 1924. Candles and kerosene lamps in the long ago, and electric lights now, perhaps from home plants. Food, which doubtlest means pur- chased supplies, cost $52.44 then and now coste $447.73. Then most of the food came from the farm itseif. Now most of it Is bought at the store in the nearest town. Clothing costs more, though the farm did not pro- @uce clothing as recently as 1880. A balf century back beyond that the A simple drink I sip. She brings a draught surpassing sweet And never aska a ti Hi Ho, the sage of Chinatown, says vouth knows the truth in spite of the disguises in which old age has dressed it, but is too diffident to de- stroy the pleasures of the masquer- | wait until they park hefore starting |of time suffered by the child. ade. “A bootlegger,” said Uncle Eben, “starts more dan he can finish. He never ‘tends no funerals.” A . when the car is going at high speed. | Irenee E. DuPont, chairman of the board of the Delaware Safety Coun-| cil, i& credited with having originated | the terms Jay Talker and Jay Talk- ing. There is one form of inattention or carelessness on the part of a driver) that can be regulated by law—one- | arm driving. The offenders are al-| most invariably youths who will not their petting parties. Washington has | a traffic regulation under which one- ;rm drivers are subject to arrest and ne. Among the subjects upon which ad- dresses will be made befors the Safety the teacher to gauge with a reason- | able degree of accuracy not only the classifty pupils into homogeneous capability of the different children un- | groups. Those who are heing retarded der her care, but to determine a& well | because of the less brilliant majority the progress they are making. It fs | may be given special lessons that wiil one of the means education of the|enahle them to do more than one present dav fs using to eliminate re. | grade of work each vear. while the tardation and repetition, evils which | youngsters who show powers bhelov have Feen expensive when calculated | the average iikewise may he given in dellars and Socially unfortunat | special attention that may bring them when evaluated according to the loss | up to the level of the average pupijl. | Always, however, it is the child an Mental measurements, a8 such not the system that is given the most studies are correctly termed, are use- | attention. Only by adapting the Through such tests it is possible to of Lieut. Col. John B. Kurtz, Lieut. Col. James C. Duane and Lieut. Col. Q. A. Gilmore, detailed to examine the foundation of the Washington Monu- ment. met at the offices of the society today and after an examination of the varfous papers and drawings pro. ceeded to the Monument grounds, ac- companied by the clerk of the soe Mr. F. L. Harv WwWith a view to a there. The bench mark established by Mr. Robert Mills, acchitect of the Monument in its early days, for deter- ful and necessary adjuncts to educa- | school to the child can education eve uon"lhey are properly utilized. Mere | provide the greatest service to the measurement of the child's power and | greatest number of childrem. willingness to m;m the tasks of (Copyright. 1084.), mining in future time whether any settlement has taken place in the foundation, was noted by the board.” partial_examination of the situation | When Jess Halnes knocked his homa |run a million loud speakers through- out America simply rocked with the sound let loose by the cheering, mad §t. _Louisians. ! The cow bells jangled "'man with the with abandon there with the with all his lungs. | " Above the roar Graham McNamee was trying to make himbelf heard, to tell us something we had already senzed, that the St. Louls pitcher had achieved what is generally as the impossible for a the gentle- ngle beat upon it oft the fellow away shrill whistle b}