Evening Star Newspaper, October 15, 1926, Page 8

THE EVENING STAR With Sunday Morning Edition. WABHINGTON, D. C. FRIDAY.. . .October 15, 1926 THEODORE W. NOY: The Evening Star Newspaper Company Business Office Lith <t and Pennavivania Ave New York Office: 110 East 42nd St. Chicago Office: Tower Building. Zuropean ome’ul Regent 8t.. ngian The Evening Star. with the Sundar morn Ing edition. arriers within the city at 8 : daily only. #5 cenis per month: S s only. 20 centa month_ Orders m: men! by ‘mail or . Collection is made by month. earrier at end of eac! Rate by Mall—Payahle in Advance. Maryland and Virginia. flv and Sunday....1yr.$0.00: 1 mo.75c aily only ... 1 yr $8.00° 1 mo. 50c undar only . 1¥r. $3100; 1 mo.. 25c All Other States and Canada. Wiy and Sunday..1yr. $12.00: 1 mo aily only 170 §8.00.1mo undav only 1vr %4000 1 mo Member of the Associated Press. The Associated Press is exclumveir entitled te the use for republication of all news atrhes credited to it or not otherwise cred- ed in this paper and also the local news published herein All righte of publication f special diepatches herein are also reserved The Battle of Elizabeth. Pride In American progress in civili- zation has, of late vears, heen severe. Iv shocked by repeated and increas- ing outbursts of crime. Lawlessness has developed on the part of a large part of the population. Banditry in the most crowded centers of inhabita- tion ha the occupation of thousands of men and women. Mil Hons of dollars in valuables are stolen, not by the former methods of steaith and craft. hut by military assault, hy ralde. by organized companies of armed comhatants. Lives are taken without merey. A reign of terror has come tn pass Yecterday eight using motor cars for hlockading and escaping. at- tacked a Government mail truck in the atreets of Elizabeth. N. 1., opened fire with highly effective weapons, killed one man and wounded two others. opened the truck with special tools, and escaped with currency to the value of from $160,000 to $300,000, according to present varying esti- mates. This was the most daring crime of its character ever committed | n this country. The men are now at large, pursued by State troopers and police There is every evidence that these robhers had information regarding the contents of the mail truck. This 18 not the first case In which robbers have worked on mail with certainty of loot. Several yvears ago when mail wagons were being held up and robbed the suspicion was entertalned that “inside information™ had heen given to the thieves. The Elizaheth crime suggesis that there 18 treachery in the postal service, a thought that, though abhorrent in view of the high standard and excel. lent record of postal employes, would seem to be justified hy the stances Men do not engage in such daring desperate crimes merely for the love of adventure. hecome men, convevances cireum- They are after loot, and they go after it with the helief that they can “get away with it,” that they can escape unharmed and undetected to enjoy the product of their fllicit enterprise. They are en- conraged in these ventures by a cer- tain percentage of chance in their fa- vor. They use the most efficient wea- pone for the attack. They use speedy autemobiles for their escape. They em- ploy military methods of assault. | They hava reduced crime to a sy tem. Some of them escape the law altogether. Some when caught ahle tn svade the highest [\finnl'l-l' and after a short term in prison re- | turn to their criminal activities. In every city in this country the transport of valuables through the streets fs now virtually a military maneuver. Armored cars and trucks are employed, guarded by men with the most efficient weapons. Innocent and unoffending persons using the highwavs are required to be on their guard constantly against attack. The other day in New Jersey a man and hix little son were killed and his wife war grievously injured by a band of criminal raiders, perhaps the same zang which operated in FElizabeth vesterday. These men, it ix belleved, were on their way to hold up an air plane valuables, The frontiers of early davs held no greater tarrors or perfle for pionesrs than de the streets of our cities and the roads of settled country. Our progrese toward civilization has, indeed, heen checked. Our safe. guards of law and law enforcement have failed. 1t thev are not restored to effectivensas through the speeding of ndicial processes and the thor- eugh execution of the utmost penal. | Hes for law hreaking and law defiance | this country will suffer irreparably. ————— are carrying The sports of the season will very possibly reveal new demands for a “safety first” rule that can be re. lably applied to foot bail. A O TR - Tn many a trial the jury geta locked up while avervhody eise goes free. s B Portugal Pops Up. On the shores of the Taunton River, betwsen Fall River and Taunton, in Massachusetts, standa Dighton Rock. On the rock it an Inacription which for a long time has intrigned residents of that region That the charactera thereof are rather vague i& indicated by the fact that certain students have always con- tended that the carving was done by Indtans and were in Indian hiero glyphics. Another clique of cogno- soent! has maintained that the char agters were Rcandinavian runes and were put there by Norsemen centuries before Columbus started in to make a name for himself. Now the other day & group of a hun- dred and fifty prominent Portuguese restdents of the Bayv State journeved to this famed bowider, chaperoned by the Portuguese consul at Providence, and YHstened entrancad while a distin guishad professor of Brown Univer: sity transiated the varicusly deci phered marks as reading: ‘‘Miguel Corteral, 1511 by the Wi of Ged here e aader ol the Indiana.” I or Corte Real, or Cortral, as the name is variously spelled, it seems, was an early adventurous Portuguese mari- ner. The consul and his companions, convinced that the inscription bears out claims of a pre-Columbian discov- ery by a compatriot, broke into the Portuguese equivalent of “Attaboy” and all went home happy. There is a story of a mountain climber who vears ago had ascended what he considered a hitherto uncon- quered prominence somewhere in New England. Thrilled by the prospect and by the thought that he stood where certainly no white man, and probably no Indian, had ever before set foot, he gazed long and widely. Turning to be- {gin his precarious descent he noticed on the rock back of him certain black marks, which, to his utter disillusion- ment, he was compelled to admit spelled out the slogan, “Wear Plym- outh Rock Pants It may he that some day some superannuated adver- tising. man, familiar with the trade marks of long ago, shall wander by Dighton Rock and onee and for all settle this controversy. el The Police Court Site. Discussion vesterday of a site for the proposed new police court building between members of the Commission of Kine Arts and representatives of the local judiciary resulting in no con- clusion, the matter has been post- poned for conalderation at the Novem- ber meeting of the commission. Two distinct propositions are in mind—to place the new court on Judiciary Square or to place it on privately owned land in the neighborhood. Ad- vocates of the park site are inspired by the belief that only by that meth- od can the building. which is urgently neaded, be quickly secured. Opposi tion to the park site does not spring entirely from an indisposition to tres- pass further upon the public reserva- tion. Space still available there, it would seem, is desired for another type of Judiciary building than the Police Court. A new police court building is un- doubtedly urgently needed. It should not be delaved. The business of the court is hampered by the present equipment. The public isdiscommoded, endangered. indeed, and humiliated by the shameful condition in which the business of this court of first instance has perforce to he conducted. Natu- rally the Police Court judges are de- sirous of the speediest possible action and look to the space of Judiciary Square not yet occupied by buildings as promising the earliest possible re- lief from their present embarrass- ments and handicaps. But it does not follow that Congress, though alwavs disposed toward economy in the mat- ter of building emplacements, will hes- itate about appropriating funds for a sfitable site outside of the park. The need of the bullding is already demon- strated. It must be provided in the very near future. The thought of filling up Judic with public buildings is not It now contains three structures, the old and recently modeled District Supreme Court house, the Court of Appeals and the Rquare agreeable, re- great red brick barn known for dec- ades as the “Pension Office.” Orig- inally this reservation was not de- signed for building uses. The “City Hall.” according to first plans, which should have been on Pennsylvania avenue, was placed there by com- promise in an emergency of need when it was found impossible to agree upon an Avenue site and the price for the same. Then afterward the old jail was located in the the north side. it being considered as an ppropriate situation in view ot the presence of the courthouse on the southern side. When the present jail was built on the banks of the Anacos- tia the cld one was razed. The park should then have been kept free of further trespass. But when pro- vision was made for a home for the Office & mistaken sense of economy caused it to be located on the site of the old jail. In recent vears the Appellate Court was given a new housing on the west side of the square. Judiciary Square should not be made & dumping ground for public structures, sites for which are square on Pension not readily obtainable because of strin- geney of appropriation. If it is de- sirable to group the judicial build ings, land adjoining but outside of the park area should be taken. . Hia management of personal finances should commend the former Emperor of Germany to many citi- zens as & good business man. N A prize fight has come to be largely regarded as a tempestuous rehearsal for a vaudeville act. e British Liberals Leaderless. Greatly to the surprise of his parti- aans, the Earl of Oxford and Asquith has definitely resigned his leadership of the Knglish Liberul party and pre cipitated a situation which may result eventually in the disappearance of that party ax a distinet factor in Brit- ish politics. For several months the Liberals have been divided Into two factions under the antagonistic leader- shipe of Lord Asquith and David Lloyd George. respectively the lead- ers in the House of Lords and the House of Commons, the former being the titular head of the party. The general atrike of last May precipitated an open break when Mr. Liovd George axpressed sympathy with the strikers, He was excluded from the seastons of the “shadow cabinet” of the Liberals in Parliament. Recently Tord Asquith has been ill. Upon his recovery he announced that he would outline his policy at a meeting of the Scottish Iiberal Federation at Greenock. To the amazement and chagrin of the I.iberals there gathered, l.ord Asquith sent a letter which announced his ir- revocable decision to retire from the leadership on the score of his age— he is in his seventy-fifth vear—and his unwillingnese to take part in fac- tional controversies. Lord Asquith’s decision leaves the Liberal party in a very dificult posi tion. Theré is nn methad whereby a new leader can be selacted who will be recognized by Beth factions and by Sritlah publia, Party leadarship has heretofore been determined by the choice of the crown in naming a premier on the occasion of a party parliamentary overturn. There is no prospect whatever of Liberal success in a general election. Consequently no occasion will arise for such a des- ignation, and the choice of leadership muat be left to the party itself, which, being divided into factions, one head- ed by the devoted adherents of Mr. Lloyd George and the other by his irreconcilable opponents, cannot con- ceivably agree upon a head. In these circumstances it would appear to be probable that the Liberal party will eventually split and merge with the Conservatives on the one side and the Laborites on the other, in which case it may be that the Laborites will adopt the old title of the Liberal party, succeeding to its traditions, but itself divided into two camps, a situation which gives promise of a fairly long continuance of Conserva- tive government in Great Britain. N - New York has philanthropic plans for doing away with “slums.” Such plans have hitherto heen regarded as visionary. But good roads and the automobile now enable a man, what- ever his occupation, to ind a home in the open spaces, if he has the courage and energy .to do so. e e An archeologist has the moral satis facidon of being under no responsi- bility for the similarity of modern dress to that of pictures on ancient pottery. An archeologist is usually & visionary student. He has missed his opportunity as a dictator of fashion. RS O RO The primary system is attacked by Vice President Dawes. It has one ob- vious disadvantage in making the pre- liminary proceduré so exhausting that a candidate is lisble to loss his pep for the regular election. o A crime wave is accompanied by an extraordinary output of underworld fiction. Philosophers must be left to fight out the question of which dem- onstration is the cause and which the result. s American tourists are unpopular in France. This should be good news for the night clubs in New Yo which announce themselves as fully prepared to include all possible forms of Parisian gayety among the com- forts of home. The American dollar is frankly coveted by Suzanne Lenglen. Ac- cording to the pictures, she has achieved a style of athletic display surpassing even that of the Charles- ton. e No city of more than five hundred thousand inhabitants is now regarded as holding its own in public interest without a homicide mystery. The underworld grows steadily bolder in asserting itself as a civic influence. . Prohibition affords another example of the manner in which earnest and conscientious endeavor may be ig- nored. The valiant old prohibition party 18 no longer heard of. o School children are again confronted with the task of trving to be ax much interested in their books as they are in foot ball. e Reduction of working hours by Henry Ford will possibly result only in more worry as to where the price of gasoline is going to come from. S Soviet Ruasia, as it realizes the need of aubstantial credit, grows more Russia and less Soviet. S SHOOTING STARS. Y PHILANDER JOHNSON. The Demands of Leisure. I would not work eight hours a d Or six, or even four. Two hours, or one, I frankly say Would prove a weary bore. And vet the leisure T enjoy Seems something of a crime. Those who amuse me must employ Themselves at overtime. ed Sentiment. “What is position with ref. erence to the Kuropean debt?” “My attitude so far is purely a per- agnal on ansawered Senator Sor- ghum. “I'm not going abroad next vear. Hereafter, if I have any tips to distribute I'm going to hand them out in the cafeterla in my own home town.” Self-Sacrificing Orchestra. The katydid attention begs And music makes with his hind legs. He thereby misaes all his chance Of gayly joining In the dance. your Jud Tunkins says It's got so he never knew some folks was married till he reads the news that they are gettin' & divorce. Representative of Wealth. “What would you do if a bootlegger called ou Yo “I'd treat him politely,” answered Uncle Bill Bottletop, “and try to bor- row money from him. “Wisdom,” said Hi Ho, the sage of Chinatown, “is the ambition of youth and the pretense of the aged.” The Amateur Sheik. “Do you think you could learn to love me? Vo." answered Miss Cavenne. “You ook like a movie star. But you labor under the disadvantage of being com- pelled to disclose your natural talk.” Anstomlcally Speaking. They struck the convivial pace In haunts of the wassail and song. His heart sure was in the right place. His liver went terribly wrong. “A filvver,” said Uncle Eben, “ain’t near as companionable as a mule. It jes' has its own way an’ leaves no chance for argument.” Little Drops of Water. From the Stoux City Daily Tribune. Minting af $5,115875 in nickele and pennies 1ast year i= Announeed by the United States Government. That ahould mean a noticeable increass in aburch collastions, “This program, ladies and gentle- men, has been furnished you through the courtesy of the Bloop-Bloop Pickle Co., manufacturers of Bloop-Bloop sweet pickles and Bloop-Bloop sour pickles. ' “If vou have enjoyed the perform- ance of these sweet singers,” went on the bland announcer of station XYZ, “just mention it to your grocer the next time you are in his shop. He will be glad to hear about it. Templeton Jones, radio fan, deter- mined to do it. Surely old man Hun- Kklefritz, the corner grocer, would like to know that one of his best cus- tomers enjoyed hearing Mme. Doolark sing “Believe Me; If All Those En- dearing Sweet Pickles.” “Y'll just do it saild Jones, suc- cumbing to the earnest exhortation of the bright young man away off there in the distance, who succeeded in invading his ears every evening with more or less success. Jones cordially hated the young man. Jones sincerely believed that eve one else who was forced to listen to the fellow detested him with equal fervor. Did he not believe that he, J. Tompkinson Donaldson, chief announcer of station XYZ, was the principal reason for the station being on the air? Did he not give the listening mil- liona the impression, by every flirt of his voice and every curve of his well olled inflections, that he, the same J. Tompkinson Donaldson, was about the prime cat's whisker of the radio world? Jones decidedly felt that he did. o XA This evening. however, Templeton Jones was contrite. He felt qualms in_his radio consciousness. Here he had resisted the blandish- ments of the announcement for nearly a vear. Not once had he written to a Dbroadcaster and told her that he thought her mediocre soprano voice was excellent. Never for so much as a line had he vielded to the temptation to write the Bloop-Bloop Pickle Co. and tell them that he enjoyed their music. He had often wanted to, and would have done so if J. Tompkinson Donaldson had not so strenuously insisted upon it Jones long ago made a mental re- solve never to do anything urged by the aforementioned nuisance named J. Tompkinson Donaldson. Tonight, however, Jones got to thinking of the thing from the stand- point of pickles. Pickles are hoth sweet and sour, of course. just like radio programs, but the joke of it is that what tastes sweet 10 one will taste sour to an- other, and vice versa. - Hence the troubles of broadcasting stations. Jones began to feel very tontrite of heart. How earnestly the Bloop- Rloop Co. had worked to gain his | approbation! The sturdy manuf: turers of both Bloop-Bloop sweet pickles and Bloop-Bloop sour pickles had achieved the impossible for his sake. Out of vinegar they had made Beethoven flow in a steady stream. Mozart had sprung to life from cu- cumbers done in brine. Aladdin and his lamp had nothing on the Rloop- Bloop Pickle (o. and their pickle | vats. A rub on_their golden lamp (lamp Is good) and the old pickle jar came | to life with a bang. Once every week for an hour the old jar jarred the atmosphere for THIS AND THAT BY CHARLES E. TRACEWELL. | Jon | radio—sweet and sour—fine—fine- — hundreds of miles in every direction humanly and inhumanly possibl Invisible micro-organisms phone poles, 345,654,34! square inch, drinking in with their absurdly little ears the pickled mel- odies of pickleland. This was something, indeed! * R ok ok “I must go tell old man Hunkle- fritz, bless his soul, just how much 1 enjoyed this, now,’ said Templeton Jones, radio fan, coming to life for the supreme effort of his radio career. The thought made Jones happy all night long. All through the night of which Mme. Doolark has sung so sweetly, so sourly. he rolled over in his mind the happiness he was go- ing to give to old man Hunklefritz. Surely the old fellow would be tic kled immensely to know that he, Tem- pleton Jones, had enjoyed the con- cert broadcast through the courtesy of the Bloop-Bloop Pickle Co.. manu- facturers of Bloop-Bloop sweet pickies and Bloop-Bloop sour pickles. Come to think of it, the Bloop-Bloop people must be the most courteous fellows in the land. They were not just saying “Thank you" with a bow, or “Beg your pardon,' with an ac- cent gratis on the first word. & ‘The Bloop-Bloop Co. was o courte- ous that it was loosening up for hun- dreds of dollars of good hard money in order to put pickles into the air once a week, as well as in 19,762 grocery stores throughout the land. 1t pickles were any criterfon of po- liteness, the courteous Bloop-Bloop Co. should have been named after Lord Chesterfield, and none other. ERE Morning came, and with it Temple- ton Jones. “They both came at 7:30 a.m. to the corner grocery store of Mr. Hunkle- frits, shortly after that gentleman had pulled the long loaves out of the bread box and had taken the mom- quito netting off the pickle barrel. Jennie, the grocery cat, had a fond- ness for pickles, and it was not safe to leave her in the store with them overnight. Yawning barrels intrigued her fancy. So Hunklefritz covered their mouthe. S “Good morning, Mr. Hunklefritz, said Jones, courteously, preparing his little speech. The grocer, not vet having gotten the sleep out of his eyes, mistook the customer for the persistent agent who had been trying to sell him a gross of Miracle salt, when he preferred Marvellous salt. “Hum," replied old man Hunkle- 7. “That was a beautiful concert last night.” went on Jones, fondly eveing the pickle bar “What's that?" asked Hunkl “I thought vou were selling sal “I enjoved it very much,’ persisted fr 0. 1 can’t let you have no space in my windows for a concert poster,” retorted Hunklefritz. “The only space left s there on the right, and' if I glve vou that where will my cat sleep” “The man told me you would he glad to hear about it.”” said Jones. “Bloop-Bloop Pickle Co.—broadcast pickle serenaders last night over Jones hopefully made large picklish motlons in the air with his arms. “1 never heard no radio,” said old man Hunklefritz. “How many pickles do vou want, mister? WASHINGTON OBSERVATIONS The top case on the Supreme Court docket, numbered one and entitled Federal Trade Commision vs. Claire Furnace Co., Is “ripe for decision,” as the lawyers say. No case now pend- ing before the court surpasses it in importance and far-reaching conse- quences to husiness—big and little The issue is whether the Federal Trade Commlission can compel private busi- ness corporations -to submit their books and records when they refuse to do s0. Congress intended to give the commission thix power. But it is contended by the defendants that it olates their constitutional rights. e lower court upheld thisx conten- tion. The Government appealed. It may almost be sald that upon the final outcome rests the fate and future of the commission. If the Supreme Court upholds the commission, then ita powers of the broadest scope are established. If the decision ix, like that of the lower court, adverse, the commission’s wings are effectually clipped. Not only that, but proposals for regulation of coal and other in- dustries now before Congress will be of small consequence because im- potent to require production of *‘the facts.” The Claire Furnace case was argued first in the Supreme Court two vears ago, and re-argued last year— an unusual proceeding, indicative of the great importance which counsel and the court attached to the issue. It has been “under advisement’ éver since, and a decision would seem 1o be close at hand. ook ox The campalgn of American club- women to have women doing house- work classified as “homemakers” in the Federal census of 1930 in order to “‘dignify the home” meets with sym- pathetic response with Census Bureau officials here. But the request pre- sents certain practical _dificulties. Chief of these is the problem of de- termining how much housework a woman should do to be classed as a homemaker—of striking an average somewhere between the woman with servants who dusts off a table now and then and the housewife without help who works from sun up to sun down. * K K X The Rumanian legation is at the moment a busier place than the White House Executive offices. Invi- tations and offers, requests and sug- gestions presented in person, by mail and by wire, pertaining to the Ameri- can tour of Queen Marie have at- tained staggering proportions. Auto- mobile companies are in keen com- petition for having their car honored by the Queen, when she has occasion to use a motor. Rival photograph stu- dios are at swords points on the fs- sue of who shall secure the favor of a “sitting”” from Queen Marie, and fountain pen makers are concerned with the pen she will use when she autographs her portrait. Painters and sculptors, novelists and interviewers are trying to arrange for an audience, and the baker and tailor and candle- stickmaker for the privilege of serv- ing her. As for invitations, they are pouring in faster than the legation clerks can slit the envelopes. Every playv on Broadway solicite Queen Marie's attendance. The Paris cables viewed any of the results or who knows what “subjects” she chooses to photograph. But a real treat and surprise are perhaps in store for the guests on future yachting parties on the Mayflower when the moving pic- ture hour cofhes around. EE Anothér Coolidge movie story ar- rives from Masmachusetts. The pu- pers there announce that the famous Coolidge talking movie is (o be widely exhibited as a feature of the present senatorial campaign. Cool- idge on the stump by proxy, if not in person, is to be utilized to arouse Republican voters to come out and vote for Butler. This talking movie is the one taken at the White House two' vears ago under the direction of its Inventor, De Foreat. It was labeled the Coolldge economy film because the President's favorite theme was the topic selected for the talk which accompanies and synchro- nizes with the plctures of the Prea- ident in action. It was intended to use it widely in the 1924 campaign, but the plans miscarried for reasons never fully explained. * %k X X The Nationul Press Club was acene of an impromptu ¢ domino bout one day recently. Charles L. Burrill, formerly State treasurer of Massachusetts, was a visitor in Washington. Among his other claims to fame he ia rated as the champion domino player of the Boston City Club. Burrill dropped in at the Press Club here and craved a round of his favorite pastime. Club members present offered apologies and regrets that none of the club's really g0od domino plavers were at hand. but finally located & lone mem- ber who admitted knowledge of the game of dominos and was willing to play. although Burrill was told his opponent was really a “dub” player. The “4ub” player beat Burrill five out of six games plaved and Burrill boarded the Federal express back to Roston considerably crestfallen and chagrinned. He does not know yet that his dub opponent was the domi- no ace of the club. * ko ok Man milliners, man dressmakers and man designers of women's fash- fons e the order of the day, but here ix one that reverses the order. The Patent Office has upheld the patent issued to one ry D. Nellson for an improvement in a wnifon suit for men. the ampionship LR The announcement that an Eng- lish delegation, representative of British business and commerce, will come to America next Spring at the invitation of the State of Virginia and ar gueats of that commonwealth to survey Virginia'a trade and in- dustry, gives striking evidence of Virginia'a steady advance in com- mercial development. Gov. Byrd in makin, the announcement invites “sister” States to join in the w. come and in the program, but makes gave & hint of her interest in that di- rection. Mayors from Maine to Flori- da, and from Atlantic City to Los A geles want to present to her the key of their city. And as to society—just run the social register from A to Z and you will have the list of those who crave the honor of entertaining the Queen at breakfast, or lunch, or tea, or dinner, or supper, or at tennis, or polo, or foot ball, or musical. * X % % Mrs. Coolidge is in & fair way to | quality for honorary membership in the White House camera corps. She has provided herself with a small moving picture camera of the ama- taur type designed for making “home movies,” and in her strolls through the gardens with Rob Roy, the collie dog, is observed caimera in hand. Neo ons bas been ¢ it clear that it {s primarily a Vir- sinia party. The English delegation will be assembled under the uper- vision of the British Chambers of Commerce, the Federation of British Industries and the Chamber of Shipping of the United Kingdom. (Copyricht. 1936.) Settling Down. From the Omaha World-Herald. American people are bullding dwell- ing houses pretty fast now and it looks as if they intended to st — e Unbreakable. From the Detroft News Practicaliy the only athletic record which has survived over a period of 70 ered who has years is Eliza’s for crossing the ice. ] Learners’ Permits Hit. New Auto Regulation Called In- fringement of Rights. To the Editor of The Star: Protest should be made against the new regulation requiring learners’ permits to study, practice and learn, and instruotors’ permits to teach motor car driving, on the following grounds: 1. It is an unwarranted infringe- ment of inherent rights of the people, because the people have an inherent right to study, practice and learn anything useful or beneficial, and re- quiring them to leave their occupa- tions and spend time and money to travel to the trafic office. there to stand in line and have their ‘feelings ruffled and tempers rolled” and humbly ask for a permit, Is surely an infringement of such right. 2. It is unnecessary, because ade- quate rules, restrictions and penalties were already in effect to provide proper safeguards for the public. Laziness decrees it is easier to pass new rulea than to enforce old ones. 3. It is an unwarranted expense for additional clerk hire and printing, which the taxpayers must bear. 4. It s an additional cause for the | disgrace aifd dishonor of arrest im- posed upon an already-suffering | people. 5. The 30-day period is inadequate. requiring a second or third trip to the permit office. & 6. Many people will be discouraged from or retarded, in learning to drive, vet Uncle Sam wants his people to be able and accomplished, and the abil- ity to drive is a useful accomplish- ment. 7. If our arbitrary Government has the right to impose this, why can it not require ux to get permits to learn to drive a horse, milk a cow, run a lathe or sewing machine, or get any kind of training, and, at the rate it is usurping power, how long will it be before we will he bound hand and foot by restrictions? We need an addition to the Bill of Rights providing that hereafter no further reatrictions on the liberties of the people shall be imposed, and that any Government official who advocates suck shall be prima facie guilty of malfeasance in office. ERNEST HAVILAND HORBRBS. e World Court Defended. i “All Out of Step but Jim” Atti- tude Seen in U. S. Stand. To the Editor of The Star: In your editorial of October 2 on “The World Court Slip" is there not & auggestion of the “all out of step but Jim™ attitude? When nearly 60 na- tions have gotten together and agreed upon a World Court protocol and one lone nation, under the threat of a mi- nority group of irreconcilables, ax your editorial implies, demands a change in the protocol which will ad mittedly give this Nation greater privilege than any other nation in that body possesses, can we fairly find fault with those member nations for insisting that they will grant equality, but not special priyilege? It is not necessary to assume that the court nations were either biind to the problems of our Senate or were trying to “traffic” with us for better terms. Obviously an organization of fering special favors to us must grant compensating favors to other mem- bers, thus reverting to the old Euro- pean type of diplomacy which we are continually decrying. To appreciate the situation we need only imagine our own position re- versed. Suppose the United States to be one of an organization of approxi- mately 50 nations with Great Britain a an outsider proposing to join. Let her insist that the orgamzation rules be amended to give her special power to veto the consideration of matters in which she “claims an interest.” What then would be the American at- titude?> Can any one imagine the Sen- ate, the press or the people submitting to such special privilege? Would it soften our hearts to learn that Great Britain was prevented from joining on even terms because some irrecon- cllable members of Parliament were determined to foin with unfair ad vantage or mot at all? Who would trust that nation to “‘claim’ an inter- est only when she had a reasonable one? The indications are that the court members want the United States to join, hut not at such a sacrifice to consistency and fairness as we have thue far demanded. Only by entering on equal terms with the other 98 per cent of the interested nations can we make our membership a real asset to the World Court. T. PARKINSON, - e Gives Omitted Line [ R0 In “Reply to Kipling” To the Editor of The Star: In your issue of October 2. T note You published “The Ingrate beins my rhymed reply to Kipling’s sense- less and ungrateful attack on the Uniled States. Through some inad- vertence the printer omitted the fourth line of the third stanza, which reads as follows: t the eleventh hour we came With generous and unselfis aim. ‘When their backs were 'gainst the wall We answered their despairing cal ANTHONY J. GRIFFIN THINK IT OVER Short Cuts. By William Mather Iewis, President George Washington University An important mercantile establish. ment in a large American city recent. 1y has been absorbed by another con- cern after many vears of successful business. One who had known the absorbed firm for a long time expressed the idea that of late veara it had not made the profits that were formerly shown be- cause of the increasing number of highly pald officers. Said this ma “Every time & member of the famil was graduated from college he wa: put into a position of prominence over the heads of faithful employes who had greater knowledge of the busi- ness. This is an expensive process and harmful to the morale of & busi- nees. The trouble with college educa- tion is that voung men who acquire it feel that thev should start at the top of the ladder and not at the bot- tom of it."” That last statement has a strangely familiar sound. It is @ stock charge brought against the college. But is it fair? Search the catalogues of col- leges, the annual reports of pres dents, the statements of college policy, and rarely indeed will you find the suggestion that college is a short cut to business preferment; that the value of higher education can be estimated in dollars and cents. As a matter of fact, the student who has gained the most from his college course finds in his life other values above those of a monetary nature. Obviously, the aim of the college is to prepare for life, and the legitimate ac- cumulation of wealth is one measure of success—but only one. The well educated man should be able to pro- gress more rapidly in the fleld of busi- ness or in any other field because of his general training, but his diploma s not a reserved seat ticket for the top rung. No education in the world will supply the place of specific knowl- edge and hard work. 'he e 18 living up to its real mission. hut it is falling far short of the ideal set by those who look upon Q. Please distinguish between the words ‘“flammable” and “inflam- mable.”—A. D. A. “Inflammable” in its usual sense implies explosiveness of a char- acter that will burn readily, and “flammable” has the same meaning. So much confusion has resulted that the former term has been abandoned, “flammable” now being used to in- dicate ready combustibility and “non- flammable” the opposite. Q. How did the three golden balls | become the symbol of a pawnshop’— A M. G. A. 1t has often been suggested that these were the arms of the Medici family. but another theory has been advanced to the effect that they were the symbol Lombard merchants hung in front of their housex. It ix conjectured that originally three flat vellow effigies of byzante, or gold coins, laid heraldically upon a sable fleld. were used. Later they converted into balls so as to attract mere attention. Q. When did the United States Mint_coin the pine tree shilling?-—A. H. K. . A. This was not a United States coin. It was issued during the colo- nial period before the regular coins were authorized. Q. tableland on top of a mountain? 8 N A. Was the site of Monticello a G. The top of the mountain was not flat. Thomas .Jefferson had 30 feet of soil removed in order to fur- nish level ground for his home. Q. What are the “stars” made of in the Tower Chamber of Mammoth Cave?—P. S. B. A. The Geological Survey says that they are crvatals of white gyp- sum that sparkle when the chamber is lighted. Q. When was the first correspond ence course in art given?—J. A. . A. It was a feature of the old Chautauqua course, £nd was ‘aught by Frank Fowler in 1880-88. Q. What is the Army Music School?—J. H. G. A he Army Music School is a separate branch of the United States Army. It is located at the Washing- ton Barracks, Washington, D. C. A bandsman's course extends eight months to one year. This i course for beginners. A soloist cou is for advanced musicians, and lasts for one year. The course for band leaders is a two-yvear: course. It has heen the experience of the facuity of this school that young men under the age of 21 absorb the musical training quicker than older men. For this reason young hoys in_the ‘teens are enrolled in this Army Music School. Where is Guantanamo?-J. E. T. A. Guantanamo = a town situated near the head of the most important harbor east of Santiago. Groves of lime and lemon trees, coffee planta- tions and the residences of wealthy planters make the vicinity famous for its beauty. Q. What are the property require- ments for voting in Great Britat A. " In the United Kingdom posses- sion or occupancy of freehold or leasehold property of a certain value, or occupancy of premises of a certain annual value, also occupancy of lods: ings not less than [10 (approximately $48) a vear, entitles the holder to vote, Those in receipt disqualified. Q. How high can the temperature be and still bave frost form?— G.G. A. When frost forms, the tempera ture is 32 degrees Fahrenheit or lower at the spot where the frost occurs. The temperature a few feet ahove the . surface of the earth on still, clear mornings often is several degrees higher than it is at ghe surface. Hence frost may occur on the grass and in low places when the tempera were | froms parish reli of ‘parinhirellef ate | [ 5 1nsen out i the e itho guesses ANSWERS TO QUESTIONS BY FREDERIC J. HASKIN ture on one's porch. for instance, is distinctly above the freezing point. Q. What. color trunks 4id Tunney wear when he won the champlon- ship>—T. W. E. In the recent fight Tunney wore purple trunks and Dempsey wore blue trunks. A. It {8 a form of leath the curing process stops short of de- stroying the life of the material. Tt is tough, durable. strong and pitant. Q. Does high visibility occur_on land just before a storm?—A. B. D. A. The Weather Bureau sava that it does. but the highest visibility eo- cura fust after certain storms. The explanation of increased visibility just before a storm is as follows: Ona of the things that spofls visibility is tha glare in the atmosphere, die to syn- Hght scattered by dust hetwean tha ohserver and the ohject in view. Now when the skyv hecomes clonded. as it does before a storm. the sunshine fs eut off and with it the disturbing glare. Immediately after many storms the air is exceptionally free from light-scattering dust—washed out by the rain—and viaibility fs cor respondingly good Q. What city is known as the Ven- ice of the East?—J. M A. Soochow. China. has heen calied this because of the many canals with which it is intersected. There are 12 canals, which cross each other every quarter of a mile. and these in turn are connected with the outlying country by smaller canals. The Grand Canal. on which Seochow le bullt, is sald to be the longest art ficial waterway in the world 1 i= nearly a thousand miles in length and runs from Hangchow to Tientsin. Tt is considered one of the greatest works of engineering on earth. Q. What was a Raines law hatel? —B. W. A. The Raines law was passed hy the New York Legislature in 1898, It provided for State control of liquor traffic and high license for cities. The law permitted hotels to sell liquor to guesta on Sundaye. This led to the establishment of numerons places which complied with the strict lettar of hotel regulations. hut*did chiefly a lavor saloon business. They wers called Raines law hotels. Q. How much ceal i mined in Quebec?— C. R A. There is no coal in the province. Q. Tn 1925 1 failed to pay my in come tax. Now I should liké to pav off my debt. How shall I go ahout 1t>—C. R. A. You should communicate direct with the collector of internal revenne for vour district. It will be necessary for you to make an affidavit stating the “reason for vour delinquency. There may be a penalty imposed hy the collector. which will not exceed 75 per cent. Q. Who was the first president of the Roval Academy”—N. D, A. Sir Joshua Reynolds was made president of the Roval Academy upon its establishment in 1768. The son of Rev. Samuel Reynolds. master of a grammar school. Joshua Reynalds was knighted by George 111, who ap. pointed him court painter. Find out achaterer you want to know. There is no room for igno rance in this busy world. The person The person who aels on is always the one who acts upon reliahle informa tion. This paper employs Frederie .1 Haskin to conduct an information bureau in Washington for the free use of the public. There is no charge ex- cept 2 cents in stamps for return postage. Write to him today for any facts you desirc. Address The Fre- ning Star Information Bureaw, Fred- eric . Haskin, director, Washington Dn.c. Un?eiiil;g of _Tildeil Stat ue Recalls Life of Patriotism The unveiling of a statue to Samuel J. Tilden on Riverside Drive, N. Y., i made the occasion for glowing eulo- gies of the man who half century ago withdrew in the interest of public order his clalm to he President of the United States. Tiiden is acclaimed as one of America's great patriots. “To the widespread corruption of his era he issued a challenge which as State legislator and governor of New York he was able to make good.” recalls the Cincinnati Times-Star. “He was a leader in the exposure and removal of the venal judges of the Tweed regime, and his acumen, gained in corporation law—at one time haif the rallroads north of the Ohio and east of the Missourl were his clients ‘enabled him to ascertain just how the members of the ring divided their booty. He broke up the bipartisan canal ring, and exemplified a new conception of public service in ex ecutive office. Never of rugged physique, no public speaker, the stu dent rather than the back-siapper but astute withal, Tilden was a figur unique in the politics of his period In his mental and spiritual equipment. there was a_streak of Jefferson. a dash of Van Buren and just a hint of Wilson.” “Mr. Tilden earned his title to long | remembrance,” in the opinion of the New York Times, “ag a reformer sparing against corruption in his own party and elsewhere: as an executive who investigated and stopped official extravagance and dishonesty. as in the case of the canal ring, of which the spoils were about equally divided be- tween the two parties: as a statesman who insisted* on sound financial princi- ples, reform of public administration economy and reduction of taxation *oxox ok The Louisville Courier-Journal de- scribes him as “the indomitable cham- plon of rectitude in public service. and says of his career: “Clean poli ties and clean business were the un- ceasing objects of his knightly solici- tude. He warred on corrupiion at the bar. Thorough, indefatigable, vig- orous and compelling, he outmatched the intrenched forces of graft. Yet his was no errant soul. He possessed business acumen to an extraordinary degree, and amassed an immense for- tune from his corporation practice, displaying an extraordinary talent for setting plundered enterprises on the of prosperity.” Ton s Umonument on Riverside Drive,” according to the New York Evening World, “should be seen by all school children. It s the statue of a man who was robbed of the it .as an airplane route to the gold flelds. As Prof. Karl Young says: “In the face of much adverse criticism and a certain amount of friendly despair, { must record my impression that the American college is in good health and 1s doing its work with reasonable suc- cess. This work, as I understand it, consists in helping voung people ta axplore the essentials of human na- ture.” As Willlam James ohserved: ‘A college i= a place where one learns to know a good man when one sees him. In making known to youth the essen- tial nature of mankind the college serves the community and prepares for lite.” (Covyright. 1926.) L, un- | | | presidency of the I'nited States ™ The Evening World holds that “this crime was the erowning act of the reconstruction period.” and save that “as a result, Federal troops were withdrawn soon thereafter from tha subjugated and outraged States.’ The country has produced nn purer or worthier man. no more dis interested siatesman than Samuel .1 Tilden,” declares the Nashville Ban- ner, which, after reference to fhe disputed election, adds Four vears later he could have had a renomi- nation. with every prospect of sue cess. hut Mr. Tilden had tired of public life. He felt that there was no necessity for his making the sac- rifice. though assured of vietory in he general election Tilden's service to his State i« thus summa d by the Rochesier Times-Union: “By 1870 he had made a place for himself in the practice of law that was second to none in the United States. In hig handling of cases for the Erie Railroad he 1iscovered that stupendous fraud was heing practiced hy the Tweed ring in New York. Although they pro- feaced to he Democrats, under the guice of Tammany. this made no dif- ference 1o Mr. Tilden, who fought them to a finish. In 1874, having urged his party in the ate. he epted. against his desires, the nomination for governor and was elected by more than 50.000. During thai term he completed the. clear- ing ont of the rascals who had seized the administration of the ecanals.” * o ox x ‘The Akron Reacon-lournal, re- marking that “at last the pride of a great commonwealth in a great tatesman prevailed,” says further “The spirit of this mighty champion of democracy cannot he offended. If it has taken the Nation a hundred vears to provide a suitable memorial to Thomas Jefferson, one of his later political apostles will not complain of a 40 years' delay. The best tribute Samuel J. Tilden could have from his country i remembrance of hie awn patriotic conduct when the Haves- Tilden election dispute in 1 threatened to Involve the Nation in another civil war. Against his own interest in the controversy. Tilden counseled his partisans 1o forget their grievances and deport them selves as their ancestors had dona in time of llke public crisis ‘when none wera far the party, but all wera for the State.’ " The Rock Island Argus. also recog- nizing his great services in “extri- cating New York City from the depths of corruption,” declares: “He was never greater than when, with matchless dignity, he accepted the verdict of a partisan electoral com- mission and lost the presidency to which more than half the voters of the United States believed him 1o be entitled. Mr. Tilden was a great Democrat, and, more than that, a great American citizen and patriot.’ In his conduct, according to the Grand Rapids Herald, “is revealed the source of strength in this repub- lic'a government” for, “from t earliest ve patriotism has dictat sportsmanlike acceptance of defeat " while the Brooklyn Eagle rejoices that “Tilden's admirers share with his old political antagonists the spirit that justifies the memorial.” Iz