Evening Star Newspaper, October 11, 1926, Page 8

r 8 -_— THE EVENING STAR With Sunday Morning Edition. WASHINGTON, D. C. MONDAY. .. .October 11, 1926 thereafter only one man reached first on his pitching, and that one was Ruth, who “walked” in the ninth, only to “dle stealing.” | Each year that the rivals of the two THEODORE W. NOYES. .. .Editor | leagues clash in the ssic’” new e | figures appear as heroes. Thevenow The Evening Star Newspaper Company | is this vear's wearer of the laurels. Buriness Office | And each year there is a “goat,” upon N!::':?n;?l'(mmvw'x"x‘n‘".f-"t.l'.":‘?sl. | whom the blame for the defeat is Buropean Omer-s Werent ot Lodon, |mainly placed. Last year the veteran Peckinpaugh, Washington's shortstop, was that unhappy person. This vear England. the doubtful honors in this role are The Evenine Star. with the Sunday morn- g adition. 14 deljered by carriers within | the city at 60 cents er month: dajly’ only, 45 cents per month 15,20 _cents Meuse Zoeniz, New Bl L L o SN by Wl dad Besnle, SOW tolepbone i’ B0 “colleciio 18 made by | York's jeft fielder and shortstop, re- - SR CORIRRCh AOnH: - spectlvely. Their errors of omission and commission lost the series. Heroes and goats! They are alway {to be found in the roster of the con- ¢ | testants in these mighty contests of | brawn and brain. There are others, 00| the hard-worl Rate by Mall—Payable in Advance. Maryland and Virginia. Pafly and Sund: er.. $1.00 . 75¢ oy oy o8 Ao funday only ¥ All Other States and Canada. Pally and Sunday -1 yr. $12.00: 1m0 SL0 players who have v onls Ve TSR 00: 1 mos - 35¢ | o \ Sentati Dby only oo 1 yrl TSR0 mon " 78¢ | dome thelr task without ostentation, |to whom no, glorious opportunities Member of the Associated Press. me to be grasped, whose slips were The Ascociated Press is excinsively entitled | inconsequential, who played the game #0 the lia for renubl cation. of all newa dis- Patches cradited 10 1t GOF 10t otherwiss cred | as best they could. Bioned™ The St. Louis Cardinals, first win 1blished b of special dispa ers of the world championship for —_—— their city, have earned their victory rly and decidedly. It is now for the The Citizens' Associations. Twenty-two cit \tions | Washington team, twice league cham- | 214 o conduct a general membership | PIONs and once world champion, to ceed to resume its rightful place in the ranks of base ball and bring that great gonfalon back to the Na- tional Capital in 1927, drive during the weck of November 18:20. They will <aek the enrollment send out scouts to | of dwellers in thelr respective areas to bring the ! | totals closer to a truly representative ST OO proportion of the people. Their ef- Bad Day at the Crossings. | forts should be successful The New York Central Railroad had | Tn the present condition in Wash d luck yesterday. Two of its trains Ington, with o direct voice in legls- | Struck motors filled with people, one atfon, no representation in the body | It New York and the other in Ohlo, hat makes the luws for the District | and in consequence ten persons are and fmposes taxes upon it, the asso- | dead. But the ten victims had the efation of the people in neighborhood | Worst luck he railroad company sroups i not only desirable, but es. | Will not suffer in damages from these wential. In no other ay can thei accidents, for the motors were tres. he any expression of local sentiment | PAssers on the tracks. The loss falls any formulation of local wishes, | Wholly on the sufferers and thelr fam- hese citizens' tions have | 1V survivors. been of great assistance to the mu.| It cannot be otherwise, unless the micipal adininistration of the District | 8ccident isidue toipome lapse)onthe Cince. their early formation. They | PATt Of a watchman or gatetender at ‘When a car gateman’ a “protected” crossing. is struck by reason of a oners to as- s of the have enabled the Com; certain the views and desir e mistake or lupse or negligence, his eople of all parts of the (pital and H ) 1 5 e et employer, the railroad company, may BEDI Y ‘i’ . ity i | e held to account. The user of the e i i | BIEDWAY must take Lis own precau. TR £ tions at other points, 1o is supposed’ To the extent that the membership has been full and the meetings well uttended there has resulted a depend able indi of s and needs for the information of officials and of Congress as well. to know where the road and the rails intersect at grade. He is supposed to op, look and listen” before cross- ing. That he does not do so is only | too tragically evident. But although the raflroad company | ation preferenc 1t is in truth the duty of every iy within its rights in running its cltizen to join his neighborhood asso- | trains across the intersections with- | clation and to rticipate in its ac- [ out responsibility for the consequences tvitles. At present these bodies are | when motorists or drivers try to pass | much larger than ever before and | without stopping and looking and us.l thetr work is more capably conducted and directed. Grouping into commit- tees, charged with specific tasks and vesponsibilities, they are veritable | safeguards against neglect and impo- | tening, there is a decided responsibil- lity for maintalning such ecrossings | | without protection of some sort. Per | haps the laws do not require the blishment of gates and watchmen. | sitlon. Still the liability for the public secur- | When {he “drive” occurs in No- | ity remains. The law should require vember the associations will have the such safeguards, and the railroads indorserent of numerous achieve- | should provide them even if there is inents to their credit as an argument | no legal compulsion. for enlistment. It ®an be readily | [ventually all grade crossings in shown to all who non-members | Tezions of heavy traffic will be elim- that they have much fo gain from | inated. Tt will cost an enormous sum of money. It will take a good many participation in this civic work, which is the more effective for the benefit | of all as it is engaged in by greater | numbers vt vears. But it must come. The slaughter at these crossings is a shocking waste of life. Of course, the fault les with reckless, thoughtless _ . |drivers. That is evident. But the In arranging 1 act | orossings must be made foolproof, Gene Tunney edits out any line Which | qongitions have changed sinco the inight huiit the feelings of Jack ""‘“'{‘ | railroads were established. There are sey. The influence of art is refiniNg. | now pany more people on the high- ‘There was no hesitation whatever | ways than on the trains. There are about handing Jack a black eye. ‘vastly many more individual trans- . port vehicles on the roads than there Jurors in the Daugl are railway cars. And this dispropor- found it difficult to agree. The juror, | tion will increase, and the time will detained from home and business, | come, if it 13 not now here, when the figures as the innocent bystander in | railroad will bo regarded as the tres- numerous cases. | passer, and not the road user, o —A——— RN Prohibition has introduced a new | France and Germany have Indicated element in political calculation. Re- | an Inclination to be friendly. The fiens lare o complete until sta- | situation should be turned over to tions W. E. T. and D. R. Y. are heard | psychologists who understand the i | management of inhibitions. — e ! & Old-timers now agree that anythin, The World Champions. ficanipiks ek nt SURTGIA RS The base bail season of 1 ended 1 regarded as a serious contender for vesterday afternoon, when George | yage ball honors. Jerman Ruth, better Kknown as| e ~Babe,” was thrown out at second in 4 desperate attempt to steal after walking with two men gone in the ninth inning. The game was the con- cluding contest of the world serles be- tween the Yankees of New York and the Cardinals of St. Louis, champions respectively, of the American and the It was the twent vaudeville y-Miller case R Florida s rapidly recovering from disaster and confidently asserts that the real estate boom was not lost in the wreckage. ] A Million-Dollar Series. i That base ball is truly the natlonal sport 1s demonstrated anew by the figures of attendance at the seven zames of the world series, just fin- ished. with the consequent financial result. The total pald admissions were 328,051, and the /total of the money at the gate was $1.207,864. Of this amount the players divide $372.- | National Leagues (Mrd of the great asue series with the alltime score standing twelve 10 ten in favor of the Americans, with the serfes score of games standing three to three and with the game | score standing three to two in favor inter i the dinals. That throwout at wecond decided the game and the 30051, this sum being split between 1926 contest in favor of St. Louis, now not only the contenders in the serles, the world champions of hase ball but the other teams of the two They are the champions by reason leagues that finished in second, third of better playing. They were superfor |and fourth places. Each of the twenty- in the fleld, at the bat and in the !ecight eligible St. Louls players will pltcher's box. All the figures show |receive $5584.51 and each of the thirty-one eligible New Yorkers will zet $3417.75. The two contending clubs, the owners and not the players, zet $327,191.94 apiece, and a similar sum goes to each league. The ad. visory council gets $181,179.60. series on their | individual players | True, the hat they won the ierits as skilled and as a harmonious team. Anal game was theirs by reason of two errors coupled with hits, two of them clean and indisputable and an other that resulted from misunder-| Thus is the base ball “melon” split atanding or overambition on the part | several ways, and all participants re- of two New York But as a ceive generous slices. Base ball is veteran observe <port used |truly a business enterprise. . It is| ames won | strictly onal, and it is com- to remark in @ and lost—ever iost, raing errors and laps of the game. Three figure: wercial. s given a liberal support by the public, which gets its money’s worth. During the season the turn- | stiles click in scores of cf some !to great numbers. Nobody has com- puted or compiled the amount of cash spent by the people in the course of the months of league playing, but! without doubt it runs far into the | millions. The management of a pro- game is either won or to the viewpoint— of judgment are part | ac tand out in this con- test of seven games, Ruth for his rec- ord of four home in a single series, Thevenow, the St. Louis short- | stop, for his remarkable fielding and | runs is batting, and Alexander. the vet- rran pitcher, for his supreme work in | fessional base ball team s costly. | e box for the Victor in There are parks to maintain, and | two games, in which he was the mas. | there are players to pay, at rates | ser from start to finish, he was sud- | higher than in any other professional | Jenly called tnon o relivve one of his | Sport. considering the numbers. There | fellows In the seventh inning of the |13 a heavy “overhead” in ground ~eventh game, the bases filled |maintenance and traveling expenses. nd two men ont Advertising costs little, for the game :‘«_I\f-v‘i.:e.«’ itwelf. It Is “new: for witt gerous batter THE EVENING STAR, him out with four pitched balls, and | the public demands the fullest pub- licity of happenings on the ball fleld. A young man with skill in pitching or batting or flelding may look for- ward to a highly successful career as a professional ball player. If he fs exceptionally talented he may acquire a fortune. The rewards of the game are rich enough to tempt many a youth to adopt the sport rather than a trade or a business or a profession. But the selections for big league serv- ice are but a fraction of the candi- dates. Hundreds apply and dozens are chosen. And of the dozens only a few gain the top ranks and partici- pate in the extra emoluments of world series profit division. Heigh-ho! The world s full of strange things, and this spectacle of a million-dollar gate at a series of sames between hired men for a sport. ing title and a split of the public's money is one of the strangest of them. But nobody grudges the price. as the spectacle is well worth while, : o China has long regarded war as a necessary means of reducing surplus population. A rudimentary system of cconomics considers it quite as merei- ful fo sacrifice superabundant citizen- ship in battle as to let it starve to death, 7 oo Reports from the Mayflower record no fishing exploit: it is to be feared that the 0ld Potomac is losing prestige s a fishing groynd when brought into comparison with the New England iukes, Washington, D. ., was long re- garded as a city of magnificent dis- tances. It is now a city in which motorists have to be watched to pre- vent them from taking short cuts. TS, European music halls have taken up the Charleston. Tt has always been the misfortune of America to be esti- mated abroad on its lowest artistic terms. oo 1t has been Mussolint’s privilege to demonstrate that an Itallan genius may become famous in America with- out being either a poet or an opera singer. = S —— It is said that the Prince of Wales has learned to dance the Charleston. The Prince, if this is true, is mol secure as a disciple of Terpsichore | than of the Centaur. e Old-fashioned tunes are in demand. They serve to impress the fact that, as in the case of modern tunes, some are agreeable and others merely an- noying. e In addition to the “three r's” school children are required as a matter of. self-preservation to learn the traffic regulation: e The former Kaiser has been o suc- cessful in regaining property that he may at least enjoy the dignity of fig- uring as a retired business man. e e Italy apparently is willing to go to work without insisting on any revival of the glories of ancient Rome which might involve Tiberlan magnificences. e Radio promises pictures over the afr. The voice at the microphone may vet have the benefit of the charm of faclal expression. -os SHOOTING STARS. BY PHILANDER JOHNSON. Serious Folly. In character there is a trait That must be deleterious. How often men in sadness state, “He took hisself too serious!” A man with purpose very high Adopts a style imperious. And next we are compelled to sigh, “He took hisself too serious!” Thus, we are often led to laugh At Fortune’s ways mysterious. This is the common epitaph: “He took hisself too serfout Seeking to Oblige. “Every time you talk over the radio you stutter.” “That's intentional,” answered Sen- ator Sorghum. “I'm trying to regulate my elocution so as to get in line with all this syncopated stuff.” Going After Fish. Fish he could catch without stopping In leafy and lelsurely scenes. His technique he seemed to be drop- ping ‘When he opened a can of sardines. Jud Tunkins says distant planets may be habitable, but it makes no aif- ference so long as the theory attracts only astronomers and is out of the reach of the realto The Will to Power. “You always saild your boy “Josh was born to command.” “He has proved I was right,” de- clared Farmer Corntossel. “He has got hisself a job as a traffic cop.” “A good housewife,” sald Hi Ho, the sage of Chinatown, “tells her spouse | what he ought tg eat and lets him vote as he chooses.” Fickle Brass Band. O Musie, thou art but a bluff! Thy way with grief we see. The band plays “Conquering Hero™ stuff For each who pays the fee. “Luck,” said Uncle Eben, man'’s excuse foh bein’ poor and an- other’s apology foh gettin’ rich Or Parsnips. From the Fort Wayne News-Sentinel. Thank goodness nobody has _dis- covered many vitamins in eggplant! o The Twosome Family. From the Sioux City Daily Tribune. A few of the oldest inhabitants can still remember a time when two peo- ple were not commonly considered a “famil Reserves and Reservations. From the Providence Journal. ‘The European debate on the World Court suggests that the Europeans would prefer our gold rmrvllk our reservations. WASHINGTON THIS AN had ja few words to say anent regenerative sets. His tirade, as we recall it, went | Templeton Jones, radio fan, about as follows, with the exception of various expletives, which it would not do to set down in a home news- paper. “I have only the highest admiration for Maj. Armstrong, the inventor of the regenerative principle,” said Jones. “The principle of the feed-back was and s a great one. It came in the course of evolution, and this scien- tist was its father. “In the early days of commercial broadcasting. and the vogue for listen- ing in, the straight regenerative: set gave enthusiasts the greatest distance ible on one to three tubes. “Five years, however, in this radio business, is about equal to 25 in any other; ot least that is the way it seems to most of us. New and better Sets have followed from year to year. Maj. Armstrong went on in his work |to_discover the superheterodyne, un- less we are mistaken, using in it the best of his discoveries in the older days of regeneration, me of the best ket today—so it strik tube tuned radio frequency outfit, with congrolled regeneration. The squea and yowls of the tickler coil are con- | fined to the set, and not allowed to go out on the air, to spoil the reception of thousands of listeners for blocks around. “Although the radlo art, therefore, has far passed the straight regenera: | tive set, thousands of them yet re-| ets dn the mar- e—is a five- main in use, or rather misuse. Au- | thorities have not been able to do | much with them. | * ¥ 1 “On farms the regenerative set, | even if improperly manipulated, can- not have much adverse effect, owing | to the distances between receiving sets. [ have heard figures quoted from 1 mile to 10 miles as the dis- | tance a regenerative set can broad- st squeals. Take your chofce. “In_cities, however, the unrestrict- ed squealer, or blooper, as it is often can ruin the reception of thou- of sets. It unfortunately re. 4 fact’ that hundreds of re- generative sets still remain in opera- tion in Washington. “They were purchased three or four vears ago, and at_that ‘time repre- sented the acme of radio perfection. They had—and unfortunately have— no methods of choking out the trans- mission of the howls set up when the perfect point of regeneration is passed. This is secured, as almost every fan advancing the tickler coil, or whatever the regenerative control | is called on the set, to just below the | point_where it boils over, as it were. “With the tickler set at this point, the maximum of distance and volume imay be secured. Above it, the tone quality is made shrill and nasal, and a series of the queerest sounds in the world is set up. “By moving the tickler back and forth, shrill squeals are transmitted from the detector tube, now a small transmitting station, and these are received on every antenna within the range of this miniature broadcasting station. “No matter how much a set will not radiate, itself, it will receive these atrocious squeals, as a matter of fact, the better set it is, and the more sensitive, the louder the squeals will come in. * ok kK “The other noon, for the first time in months, I managed to get home to listen to the organ recital. I like Oliver Wendell Holmes, the senior Justice, both In age and in tenure of service, of the Supreme Court, ap- peared as alert as ever in mind and i body when the court convened last week after the Summer recess. Ten years ago talk was rife that Justice Holmes would shortly retire on ac- count of age. Five years ago his retirement was treated as a near cer- tainty and stories kept popping up | in the papers of varlous eminent Jurists sure to be named to the im- ! pending vacancy. This talk has ceased. The justice, who graduated from Harvard College the year of the outbreak of the Civil War and who was three times wounded while serving on the Union side, who was nearly 62 years old when Roosevelt appointed him to the Supreme bench, and who has served there 24 years, is the marvel of the age. His faculties, both mental and physical, are ap- parently unimpaired. He always was | and still is one of the most attentive listeners when cases are argued, chock-full of pertinent questions—the terror of weak lawyers or lawyers with weak ses when they appear before the court. He does a prodi- glous amount of work, studying briefs | and writing opinfons. There may have heen a time, long time back, when he contemplated the arrival of a day when he would feel disposed to lay aside his burdens. No one knows, for that is a question no Su- preme Court justice is ever asked. But that time has passed. It is safe to surmise that he now expects, and his colleagues now expect, that Justice Holmes will die in the harness | —and that, a long time off. % K. Mrs. Emily Newell Blair, vice-chair- man of the Democratic national com- ‘mittee, and Mrs. Alvin T. Hert, who holds a like post on the Republican side, were both recent Washington visitors. Both busied themselves at| the national headquarters of their respective parties and then departed, Mrs. Blair for her home in Missouri and Mrs. Hert to Kentucky Each professed to be pleased with the politi- cal outlook. The woman voters are likely to have considerable to say at the polls next month, but so far as surface indications go, they ap- pear to be saying very little in the conduct of the campaign. * ok Kk The Battle Monuments Commission has approved the project of the Yankee division to acquire and restore a tiny church in the little town of Belleau, France, as a permanent memorial to | the division. This will be the first | memortal of its kind placed In France |by any unit of the A. E. F., and the | commission, which is headed by Gen. i Pershing, believes the plan an excel- lent one and certain to meet with general approval, both here and in France. The French government is restoring other churches in the battle area. The church selected to be the Yankee division chapel is near Bel- leau Woods, scene of the heaviest casualties on the American side. To forge another link with the past, the chapel will be reconstructed in the 1 style of the middle ages. e The Democratic senatorial nominee | fn" Californa, John B. Elliott, has| lots of friends in Washington who are pulling for his success, for he| |was not so long ago a newspaper | correspondent here. It he should win, he will be the first man in many| vears to move from a seat in the Senate press gallery to a seat on the Senate floor. California Republicans. however, refuse to admit that their| {State is in the doubtful column this | year, and_seem very comfident that Senator Shortridge, who opposes El- lott, is sure of re-election. Elliott | is a McAdoo adherent, and his Mc-| Adoo backing in California this yvear appears at long range 10 be both an asset and a lability. * % ® % The Harding Memorial Assdclation BY CHARLES E. TRACEWELL. | with“the program.’and just te WASHINGTON OBSERVATIONS | factor D. C. MO D THAT ! the organ over my set, but seldom et to enjoy it. is day, however, I managed to 1'pulled the switch in the middle of a number. The organ came rolling in like the real thing. It was perfect. I got a real Kick out of it. | Sometimes 1 think we use our radios | too much. We get fed up on so much | musie as they say, “I had not heard®he organ recital | for so long, however, T thoroughly en- | od it. I sat back in my chair and | Was having a good time. This was about 12:20 p.m. 5 o'clock some one in the nt a long, quavering set. It was one of You have heard rts out low,| es the top olls over, gurgles whistle into m; these darn blooper them—the whistle mounts in intensity of the hill of sound, down again. “This blood-curdling iek spoiled the climax of the beautiful number, playe® by a lady who fondl agined that it went over perfectl; 1, it did come over finely—bu was not taking into consideration little Johnttie playing with his father's radio set. “I soon realized that it must be little Johnnie, for the brat—no other word is good enough for him—sat there for 30 solid minutes, and moved that tickler control bac 1 forth. Whee! Wee—oof ! What | chance had Reethoven, Mozart, Ruben- stein, against such monkey tricks as that? 1 waited patiently, hoping t the kid would tire of his performance. | “He wis due back at school at 1| o'clock, of course—no doubt he would quit, then. The organ would too, un- | fortunately “Sure enough, at precisely five min utes to 1 o'clock, Johnnie gave over his little game and turned off his set. I got to enjoy three-fourths of one number in peace. The fact that the | blooping ceased at the time it did convinced us that it was a schoolboy. g H I recall one time last Winter when | some similarly playful youth grew tired of listening to the symphony orches A concert, and sent uc cession of squeals into radio almost 45 minutes without ce: “I have been told of two boys who | spent their evenings signaling to each other by means of their regenerators It was nice for the boys, but pretty tough on the real radio fans. “Many persons have hought radio | sets within the last year or so—sets so easily operated that they do not have to know.a thing about the inner 2 To many of these per- teriot out of their loud spe inexplicable. < “Well, most of them are produced | ogme kind neighbor who is bored es out his spleen on mankind in general, and the soprano in particular, by making | a nuisance out of himself with | <queals that come kers are utterly his | | “There have been many proposals of banning these sets hy legislation, but it is pretty hard to do a thing Iike that in the United States. Time, which cures most lls, is slowl curing this one. As better sets come onto the market, people are bu; ing them. “In time, no doubt, every owner of | a stralght regenerative set will junk it. We hope they are thoroughly junked. A museum is about the only place for them, for they are not safe in the hands of boys. I guess if I were a kid again just for tonight I would make the old set squeal, too. But I ought to be spanked it I aid.” passed its third birthday this month and at its annual meeting here re- ceived a “report of progress” from the committee in active charge of the | erection of a marble mausoleum at| Marion, Ohlo, the Harding birthplace. | Final plans were approved and the announcement made by former Sena-| tor Frelinghuysen of New Jersey, the | president, that the work of building would be started soon and completed by 1928, It is hoped to have the me- morial ready for dedication on the fifth -anniversary of President Hard- ing’s death. If this hope is realized, it will- set a precedent in planning,| financing and finishing a great me- morial In such rapid and orderly Tt s | The financing 1 concluded near ear ago. | The building is to cost $550,000 and | site and landscaping $100,000, and an additional $150,000 {s &et aside as an | endowment fund to defray the annual | cost of maintenance. All this money | has been subscribed and paid | * koK K i Thursday, for some undefinalle rea.| son, has long been the day of the week | spectally favored for the White House ceremonial dinners and reception: Mrs. Coolidge continues the custom | and this Winter’ssWhite House soclal | schedule announced this week finds every one of the big functions slated for Thursday. Starting with the cabi- net dinner on December 2, the first Thursday of the month, the diplo- matio reception and diplomatic dinner follow on the two succeeding Thur: days. The judiclary reception and the Supreme Court dinner come along in January, and the congressional recep- tion, the dinner to the Speaker of the House and the Army-Navy reception will take place on successive Thurs- days in February. The largest “party” of all—the public reception on New Year day—must follow the calendar. This vear it falls on Saturday. Mrs. Coolidge announces her socixl pro- gram early to leave the field clear for other Washington hostesses to plan their own functions. Naturally enough, the President's wife has the first choiee of dates. * K ko Quite an array of Republican speak- ing talent is pouring into Oklahoma to aid Senator John W. Harreld in his battle for re-election, and Okla- homa_dispatches picture the situ tion there as a real battle. Secr tary of Labor Davis has been stump- ing the State during the past 10 days. Secretary of Commerce Hoover is due for an appearance there the latter part_of the month. Senator Capper of Kansas and former Gov. Lowden of Ilinols are other headlinérs whose names appear in the Oklahoma billing. Senator Harreld is quoted as saying that he has a personal promise from Senator Borah to come to Oklahoma and speak in his behalf. This finds no confirmation from Senator Borah, who s “sitting tight” In his office at | the Capitol a long distance from the Oklahoma. battle front. * ok ok % Harold Phelps Stokes, former Wash- ington journalist and more recently private secretary to the Secretary of Commerce, Herbert Hoover, lea this post this week to join the edit rial staff of the New York Time George E. Akerson, managing editor of the Minneapolis Tribune and later its Washington correspondent, s ceeds Mr. Stokes as assistant to Se retary Hoover. Mr. Hoo acti ities and responsibilities are so nume ous and £o widespread that serving him as private secretary is a man- slze job. He has a big reputation, too, of picking good men. (Covyright. 1926.) e Something for Nothing. From the Baltimore Evening Sun. Economists tell us that you don't necessarily get more by spending more, and modern fashffis prove it. quence. fto v | busines | biles are driven 1926, Regards Heavy Busses Detrimental to City To the Editor of The Star: Let us appreciate that a few resi- dential avenues of our National Capi- tal, covered with attractive, detached residences, villas and residential apartment homes of the same height. rank not only high in the interest of city beautification. but in fact €Om-| .\ oq " erackers and bread crusts in | pose the chief factor in any city's greatest asset—beauty. Let us never forget that our Na- tional Capital is not a commercial town. It is essentially a residential town, a would-be_model town for the whole cotntry. Every facility should be given by the city Government to encourage home builders to do their and when the very few of our dential avenues, set apart as such, have become beautiful through pri- e means, they should not be the pecial target for commercial exploita- tion, What now renders private homes intolerable in Washington are double- | any size and a com- mercial firm in New York. They are of the same type that now run on “ifth avenue, New York. Poor Fifth avenue! Certain facts concerning them are as follows: First. These huge and heavy ve- are a_quick death to asphalt pavements. In a very few years (if they were to continue) either private residents or the town will pay enor- mous sums_for ing and resur- omnibuses of facing roadbeds. Trucks are now e cluded from Sixteenth street, but double-decker still worse. Second. Trees on the street are ymmodate passengers. The weight of these double bus structures ich that houses are shaken and the a general cry of ilen ceiling: D night nois reeching wding of huge grist mills. Such a s sleep is not considered. th. As in. New York residences on elevated car lines, all privacy has abandoned below the third floor without the closing of the opaque window shades. ixth. One m dences on S safely say that all eenth street, with few exceptions, are provided with private motor cars. When de- siring public ynveyances the Iour- teenth street railr car lines are but two squares away, as far as Park road, and farther on but one square away. On the west side, the Connec- ticut avenue railroad car lines wind- ing into Mount Pleasant street are very near. Also a railroad car line er s Sixteenth street at U street. Seventh. Thus_for purely commer- cial purposes ew York double- story hus line is allowed to go all the W from the several miles on & re very xteenth street for {10 cents. Eighth. This is a very attractive proposition, when a business concern may utilize the principal or capital owned by others for private profit. Do not think for an instant that T am discouraged about Sixteenth street, Discouraging ftems in the way of commercial exploitation will _be !changed and President’s avenue will vet become the finest residents’ thor- oughfare In America. MRS. JOHN B. HENDERSON. o Sees Protests Ignored. Writer Traces Speed in Traffic to Tts Earliest Stage. To the Editor of The Star: In The Evening Star, October 4, J. W. Smith protests against the dangerous speed with which automo- certain conditions. His conclusion is that “the city fathers will have to consider reducing the speed limit to 16 or 18 miles an hour, with half of that while passing safety zones or loading platforms.” Mr. Smith and many others would hold the automobile to a moderate speed because, according to their view, the price of high auto speed Is death. Rut in so thinking they fail to consider the traffic preblem in re- lation to “the long results of time.” It may be that the first resource- ful savage to mount and ride a wild animal made himself unpopular as he dashed through, the Cro-Magnon camp in man’s first proud outbreak of speed mania. But he was one of | the chief forerunners of civilization. Following him came the horse- drawn sledge, rude cart and war charlot, “expediting traffic.” In fact, from the start the speeding up of intercourse has had an important, perhaps the most important, part in human development. Those unfortunates who are physi- cally and mentally handicapped amid the hurly-burly of crowded streets should not forget that the price: pald for civilization has been high in per- sonal sacrifice. The loss of individual freedom, painful tofl, indigestion, ap- pendicitis, stoop Shoulders, bald heads, flat feet, bobbed hair, jazz, synthetic booze, are some of the items in the'account; and hroadly speaking the progress of the past is an epic of pedestrian deference to the man on horseback. It s hardly lkely, therefore, that the protests of the fretful pedestrian will have any great effect against speed at its present rate and its future increase on city streets as well as everytwhere by land and sea and sky. WM. TIPTON TALBOTT. r————————— Cites Duty to Children. ! Citizen Urges Closing of School Streets at Certain Hours. To the Editor of The Star: 1 have read with great interest the articles and editorials in The Star with regard to the dangerous situa- tions surrounding our schools because of the traffic conditions. Apparently many suggestions and schemes have been made and given a trial, but still we have the menace to the children with us, and, in my opinion, we will continue to have it until something drastic is done. The only way to safeguard the children is to stop the traffic on the school streets during the time the children are go- tng to and leaving the schools and also during the recess periods. I do not believe there are many schools on the so-called arterial Righ ways, and even if there are, the chil- dren who are so often referred to as our most precious heritage have their rights on those streets. All traffic_should be stopped on school streets from 8:40 to 9, 10:30 to 10:45, 12 to 1 and from 3 to 3:15. This will give the children an oppor- tunity to play an the streets—and no laws or regulations will be able ta keep them off—and to disperse on their way home without the constant danger of serious injury or death. 1 have seen in New York City a street blocked off for children to play in without regard to school hours. By closing these streets during the above periods 1 dare say very few motorists would be inconvenienced, and then perhaps énly once a day. The life of one of these children is surely worth such an infinitesimal amount of inconvenience on the part of our citizens, ROBERT E. ACORN. o Pangalos’ Plot. From the Sioux Falls Daily Argus-Leader. Now it is revealed that former Dic- lenjoyed by I!c art is a very important subject for ness and inspiration. The various colors or shades are believed to have ia de ed effect upon one’s mental Toutlook. Lincoln Memorial to | | in this city under | ANSWERS TO Q. What is meant by “dunking"? —M. B. A This term s applied to the | moistening or softening of zwiebacks. | coffee, tea or milk. While it is not considered “good form,” it is greatly small_children and old | people, whose teeth are no longer strong enough to cope with such hard substances. Q. Ts it necessary for a person who is studying voice with a view to do- ing concert work to take up a dra- matic course?—M. D. M. A. An authorjty that dramat- one who is preparing for concert, ora- torio or opera. It is believed that it great advantage to a singer along line to know how to conduct himself before an audience. It would seem that such course would do much to relieve a person of nervous- ness or self-consciousness when sing- ing in public. Q. How much money did the Gov- ernment collect in internal revenue taxes on cigarcttes, and from which State was the greatest amount col- lected>—E. H. H. A. According to a statement of the Commissioner ot Tnternal Revenue, during the fiscal year 1926, there was collected in taxes on cigarettes | $254,951,590.42. The State of North Carolina contributed $149,637.306 of | this amount. Q. Can you tell me what is meant by the psychology of color’—W. E. D. A. Color is said to have much to do with the promoting of mental happi- For instance, spring green is a restful color and denotes fresh- ness, vouth, hone, new life. Dark dull blues are depressing and are apt to produce despondency and melau- | choly. Brewns and taupes are som- ber and qulet unless they are strong- | ly tinged with orange and red, when they become enlivened and express richne effulgence. Grays are cool and quiet, and suggest the more quiet moods of youth or the calmness and dignity of age. Q. May ordinary sawdust be com- pressed into forms so as to make s?7—C. . A. Ordinary sawdust is seldom com- pressed into forms and shapes in mak- ing toys, ornaments, etc. It is, how- ever, often made into briquettes for fuel. These have a very limited mar- ket, however, and can only be profit made on a large scale and where | arkets are particularly sifted or ground other- | treated, is used to @ limited ex- or tent in the manufacture of molded products. The variety of such prod- ucts is quite large, including adver- tising noveltles, wallboards, wood tile, small boxes, etc. Q. Has any other large city been bought as cheaply as was New York? —E. H. H. A. The site of the city of Ottawa was originally settled by Philemon QUESTIONS ingland. He later to this ki ayment of ‘Wright of New transferred h Nicholas Sparks a woodeutter. accepted the | tantly. Tt is yment most reluc Q. How many people are empioved in the office of the League of Nations in Geneva? What does it cost to run the League?—G. S A. AU the present time the sec- retarfat of the League of Nations in cludes approximately 500 people. budget for the eighth fiscal year 1926 was §4,340,000. Q. What is the mean altitude of Washington, D. (".?—-M. A. M. A. The approximate mean altitude 1s 150 feet above level. The high- est point, in the northwest section of the city, is 420 feet above sea level Q. Are the steam vehicles of Oliver ac Newton M. ator of Me Evans and Sir Is: served anywhere?—F. 11 A. C. W. Mitman, Cu chanical and Mineral Te pre- that geither Sir Isaac motive, 1680, nor Oliver I am phibious steam vehicle, 1804, is now in.existence. Q. Is it easier for a parrot to lear: to talk by hearing a man's or a woman's volee?—V. . A. As a rule. a parrot will learn quicker from hearing a woman's voice, but quickest of all by hearinz a child’'s voice. Q. What has radlo broadeastin A. less than ther was only one broadeasting station | the United States organized for the servjce of public programs, while to day ' there are more than 600. I Al expenditure in the 1 not much more thar or 1925 the total wa $350,000.000. When was the basement kitche gland?—M. P. 8. A. Marjorie and ¢. Il. B. Quennel . “The basement Kitchen was i ror imported from Italy as earh 1583 at Barlborough, but as a been the growth .f G K. B dustry $1.000,000. approximataly Q introduced Into as general type, it belongs to the seven teenth century.” Q. What was the first stringed strument_to be played from a key board?—D. T. A. The manichord of the thirteent! century. Letters are aoing every minute frow our free Information Bureau in Wasli- ington telling rcaders whatever th want to know. They are in_answer kinds of queries. on all kinds of subjects, from all people Make use of this free service which he Evening Star is maintaining for you. Its only purpose is to help you and we want you to beneflt from if. Get the habit of writing to The Eve- ning Star Information Bureau, Fred eric J. Haskin, director, Washington D. €. Inclose cents in stamps for return postage. \Ford’s Five-Day Henry Ford's latest innovation, the five-day week in his motér car plants, leads to general speculation as to whether other industrial producers will follow fn his footsteps. Much of the published comment indicates a feeling that while the experiment may | he successful In such an organization | as Ford has built up, it hardly will | prove that industry generally is ready | for such a radlcal change of habits. | “For a century the trend toward shorter hours in factory production has been steady,” says the Baltimore | Sun, “and it would be absurd to state | dogmatically that the present stand- | ard of the eight-hour day, fiveand- one-half-day week, is finalin the devel- opment. Standardization in produc- | tion, truly scientific management, bet- ter marketing methods so as to steady the relation between demand and sup- ply—these and a hundred other fac- tors indicate that the hours of labor | may be further cut without curtail-| ment in output. The five-day week, however, will come slowly and after, not before, its desirability is proved The Racine Journal-News suggests that “in all Hkelthood the men will have to speed up a little more,” but argues that “It must be remembered that the Ford plants have a highly | organized force, and in such a busi- ness as Ford's there is not much room | for the man who has passed his pro- ductlve powers, or the one who is not able to keep up with the rest of his fellow employes.” “Perhaps Mr. Ford is looking fur- ther ahead and seeing more clearly than any of the industrial captains. says the Toledo Blade. “He may be more fortunate than others in that he can do what he pleases without inter- ference from other heads. His dreams are not hampered by boards of direc- tors, and he makes them come true. Eventually it may come to a five-day week for most workers, with as much done as {8 now accomplished in six days.”” The Little Rock Arkansas Democrat, asking “How can the great Detroft manufacturer do those things which other Industrial kings declare are impossible if a profit is to be made?” offers as its own reply, “Mass production and keen knowledge of men seem to us to answer that ques- i tion. [} * kK x 1 | s latest innovation,” as it the New York Herald- Tribune, “is looked upon as an experi | ment that would be impossible for ap- | plication except in a handful of highly | specialized. plants like the Ford fac-| tory. The length of the working day. | best suited to the needs of industry | and the physical limitations of the worker, has been pretty generally es | tablished as eight hours. One Is likely | to overlook, in these innovations of Mr. Ford, the fact that, despite his big pay roll, Tabor is a comparatively ininor | factor in his productfon. The reduc- {tion in the size of a pulley here, the {tightening of a screw theee—these | things may mean more in added pro- duetion than the extension of the working day by 30 minutes or an! hour.” There are too many industries in which the five-day week will never 'be applicable,” in tH& opinion of the Canton Dafly ews, “to warrant the Ipelief that Mr. Ford’s example will | {be followed to any very great extent.” | While the San Bernardino Sun con- |cedes that “if industry finds that it fcan get from 40 hours’ work the same | {production as 48 hours gave, the | shorter working week would be wel- comed,” it adds: “That this is possi- ble as a general proposition is un-| |likely without further important im- | |provements in _machinery.” The | Rochester Times-Union feels that “it | is still too early to say whether the | plan marks a general trend toward a | shorter work week in large-scale in- | dustry,” and asserts that “the validity | of Mr. Ford's general economic argu- | ment that greater time for recreation will_bring an increased demand for | | goods, which modern machine indus- | {try under efficient management is | able to supply, also remains to be | tested.” | “Mr. Fo is viewed | s | In explaining that the test of the | ter Week Plan’s . General Value Is Doubted but for study, the better to equip him- self for the battle of life and to ae- quire the measure of cuiture that In the old da; wit the grasp of the favored few only.” The St. Paul Dispatch, however, asks “what is to become of the constitutfonally less efficient, the elderly and the tem porarily infirm, who are willing and anxious to work six days to earn the living they could not carn in five?" The Springfield Republican adds “There is nothing revolutionary about the proposal, but it suggests a ques tion of how much e want to be transformed into speedy machines, fn order to have more time, as human beings, to use what we have made.’ “The danger to the individual from lelsure that may not he well em ployed” is suggested by the Rich mond News-Leader, which asserts that “lelsure i3 not being well used in America”; that “much crime i being born of 1t,” and that “Americn cannot safely begin to work less unti she learns to play more.” The Wor: Telegram, in the same v gues: “If the employes spend thei time in golf, driving the fiivver through_ the countryside, fixing up the henhouse or playing with the baby, the result is likely to he re freshment and accumulated energy 1t they spend it playing the market on margin, drinking hooch or envy ing their neighbors and reflecting upon how much more they need than they need to need, the result is lkel: to be depression. “We are inclined to helleve that M: Ford's shorter week will prove a suc cess,” savs the Salt Lake Deseret News, while the New York Evenins Post polnts out that “the per capiti output of the worker in the automo- bile industry has increased 25 to G0 per cent,” and that “in all probability the arrival of the five-day week in one sectlon of that industry is far from being a merely sentimental innova tion.” THINK IT OVER Back to the Woods. By William Mather Lewis, Precident George Washington University On the slope of Pisgah Mountain at Saranac Lake is a bronze statuc which haunts the memory of those who have seen it. The body is partly recumbent and _over the knees i spread a rug. The head is large, the forehead prominent, the ears low set It is & most unusual head. This fs not strange, because the statue ix that of a most unusual man, Dr. Ed ward Livingston Trudeau, “the be loved physictan.” Back of the statue on the hillside Trudeau's most fitting monument the Trudeau Sanitarfum for. the treatment of tuberculosis. It was n who robbed the great white of many of its terrors, who ¥ to lead many of fts victims back to health. And he found the way, quite by accident, because he loved the woods and the sports of the woods. Himself a victim af tuberculosis in the days when Mttle was understood about it, he longed Ao it the forests where he might spend his few remaining days in the en vironment he loved. Here he might Ibe able to raise the gun to his shouider in one last hunt. And so he wus taken to Paul Smiths, a widely know: hunter’s resort in the Adirondacks near Saranac TLake. So weak was he that he had to be carried up to his bedroom. But his little remaining strength did not ebb. In the pure and bracing air of the mountains there was tonic. Here he learned the secret which has revolutionized the treatment of tuberculosis. In these woods he lived for years it blessing to mankind. A poet of old 1 “T will lift up mine eyes unto the hills from whence cometh my help.” In times of physical weakness and mental stress that one who loves the outdoors and the sports of outdoors has a priceless tator Pangalos of Greece had plans to | pew plan will be watched with in- |asset. make war on Turkey and restore Con- stantinople to Greece. Too bad he didn't get it! It would have served him right. terest, the Pasadena Star-News recog- nizes ‘that “the workingman is com- ing into a status which gives him time not only for rest and recreation, Recreation is one of the most meaningful words in the English language. o g