Evening Star Newspaper, December 11, 1926, Page 6

6 THE EVENING STAR With Sunday Morning Edition. WASHINGTON, D. C. SATURDAYS. . December 11, 1926 ‘naen N Towe: Furopean Oce . * lexent St Eagline ne Star. w'th he Sundar morn- o edi ie deliversd br carr city ul G0 cents per month: conts ‘her month® Sundtays only. rer_month. Orders maz he sent by mail or e /aphone Main 5000. Collaction is mude by carrier at end of each month. Zzie by Mail—Pavable in Advante. Maryland and Virginia. Daily and Sundas . Daily oniv Sinday only All Other States and Canada. Daily and Sunday..1 yr.. $12.00: 1 mo.. $L00 Daily onlx ....0001 $8.00° 1 mo. 75 Sunday only 1mo! S8¢ Member of the Associated Press. The Associated Press is excinsively ertitled 1o the nse fc on of all itws dis patches creditad 10 it or rot otherwise crad- ied 0 this paper and aiso the loval news nblished heram. Al rights of publication ©of apecial dispatches hersin are also reserved The Utilities Commission Bill. 1t is indicated that the President is tempted to veto the Lill providing for w separate Public Utilities Commission for the District of Columbia on the zround of the residential qualification requirement ynd also that which pre- vents the appointment to the commis sion of any person tvho has had e perience with a public service utility corporation. His objection the stronger toward the latter of the two vestrictions. There is no substantinl ground for objection to the three-vear residence cliuse which Leen written into this legis in keeping with the w relating to the appointment of District Commissioners. That require- ment was adopted in 1878 as a means of insuring the selection of municipal administrators who were identified with the community and familiar with its needs. Tt has worked admfrahl; and while occasionally it has prevent- ol the selection of men of highly spe- cialized qualifications b ise of lack of “residence” in the District, it has served to protect the Capital com- munity from exploitaticn and any pro posal for its repeal modification would be vigorously opposed. There ¢ be Tack of zood rial for the Puablic. Utilitles Commis- €&ion in consequence of the three-year residence clause that has been writ- ten into the measure In just the S«me way as in the case of the Dis- trict Commissioners. it will be alway possible to find District people who are competent to fill these offices and Qischurge these duties. 1t is unfortunate that Congress has lanited the range of selection by the ~econd restriction. Experience in pub- lie utility matters should be rated as qualification rather than as a bar to faithful, competent service for the community, The suzgestion of the restriction that who has v ithin five years had direct or indi- rect connection with a utilities cor- poration be trusted to be a taithful and eflicient public adminis- trator is preposterous. In fact, the niorve fully acquainted a utilities com- riissioner Le with corporation practice: the more com- petent ke is likely to = in administer- fig the law in behalf . the people. It must be assumed tuat he iz honest and that on taking office "he will spect the oath that is administered to him. Howeve President this provision 1e must efther sign it as it is or reject it as a whole. The District has wuited a long time for this legislation “#nd it n hopes that it will not suf- fer another postponemant hecause of features that mercly ha of narrowinz the fi of selection without assuredly lessening the effi- cieney and the fidelity of the person- nel of the Utilities Commi = - of is has tion mate- a person a cunnot may re- t end carries The music were as orches! 1a Russians are If their urately organ the, n of government 1 as their would be a lovers, S, pruspect A\ problem that has puzzled in- dividuals and nations is that of how to get rid of a deht without paying it. - —————— - Not Money Worshipers. Gilbert K. Chesterton, Rritish essay-: 1<t and critic, rebukes the proposition that has for some time prevailed in! Fingland that the American Is a wor- shiper of money. “An American never talks of money in the hushed and awestruck tone that an Englishman employs in referring to financial matters.” 1t is gratifying to find this acute ob- server thus discerning a fact that can- not with propriety be specifically ex- pressed by an American exponent of the western philosophy of life. Now that Mr. Chesterton has broken the ic by giving the lie to the statement tha Americans worship mon without risk of incurring British di pleasure be pointed out that the Amer- fean people. thrifty as they ave, are not hoarders or misers. They are spende They are liberal users of their means. The worship of money is an entircly different thing. To the American rich man money is merely a means of expanding his life, of enlarging his experience, of e Joying move adventures. There are few American misers, and it is the miser who worships money, not the spender, not the- user of wealth, In perfect frankness it must bo acknowledged that ‘here are a great Americans who flaunt their wealth, especiall when th who make a show of their good for- tune In possession of means of luxury. They are. however, not typical of the people of this country. And eventual- 1v they learn the lesson of good taste and with few exceptions adont a more modest and becoming attitude, Mr. Chesterton. so fur us the report of his renmiks indicates, does not wuch upon the real cuuse the «pread of the belief abroad that Ame: ne are money worshipers, which 1« that the less fortunate people of Jiureps ave. more thag & bit. jealous’ X say of ve the effect | In an address be- fore the American Club at Oxford h2| travel, | of the greater prosperity of this coun- try. have adopted a “lord and lady bounti- tul” pose toward their less fortunate brothers and sisters in the old coun- try and have given this spirit sub- stance. Then there is the feeling that has heen aroused over the matter of the war debts, which is undoubtedly a factor In causing the unfortunate title of “Uncle Shylock” to be applied to the United States. Somehow it i would seem that many Europeans fee! ! that the individual prospeifty of the | American people is due to the exacticn of repayment of these oblizations, which, of courte, Is nonsense, for America would be prosperous if ali { the debts were canceled. Traffic Rule Enforcement. Despite the campaizn of the traflic office to have enforced the morning and evening rush-hour parking ban on alternate sides of various streets, nineteen automobiles were counted this morning parked on the west side of Twenty-second street between N and L streets northwest. Added to an Important regulation, a patrolman wes observed yesterday at Scott Circle leaning nonchalantly against a tree while three motorisis delih- erately ignored the red electric auto- matic signal and narrowly escaped collision with cars running the ! green light. These two caxes vividly illustrate the laxness of certain members of the police depurtment, especially in en- forcement of vitul rezuations. Ivery policeman, it seems, ix avid to arrest an overtime parker. to bawl out the chauifeur who parks abreast for a minute or so to let out or pick up his emnloyer. to be severe with the motorist who parks too near the corner. But when it comes to keep- ing the traflic clear in the morning and evening when the penk hours are reached and to laying the heavy hand of authority upon the motorist through stupidity defiance, runs past a red signal and nvites a serious accident, there on lanes who, seen difference. There ure serious infractions of the trafiic regulations and there are minor infractions. IEvery motorist who parks his car in the prohibited zZone at morning evening rush hours is a serfous viulator of the rules; almost as serious as the mo- torist who runs by o red danger siznal. Both the parking ru'e and the automatic control are regulations of the greatest fmportance, are uni- versally accepted ¢ the best meuns of handling heavy tr work to the benefit of every and pedestrian in the city if the recalcitrants are weeded out hy the stmple and efiective measure of strict enforcement. Violations of both the regulations are taking place by the wholesale every day. It ix time for the poiice department to get busy so that the Nutionsl Capital rveceive a full return from the adoption of modern traflic practices, r——— Clothes or Drinking Water? Clothes are more important to the shipwrecked than food and or motorist cun person tributed to a noted Englishman who had been asked by the London Board of T necessities should placed on life- rafts for persons forced to leave their ships. Elaborating on this advice. the expert declared that experiments con- dueted by him and his tants showed that it was far more important be the bill now lying before | to be possessed of warm, waterproof | garments than it was to Lave auvail able plenty of hardtack and water. He ! therefore urged the board to dispense entirvely with food and drink but to make mure that warm clothes were a | part of every liferaft’'s equipment. Comperatively dars of fine ships and comfort on the | high seas, have the unplausant experi ance of being forced to take to the life- boats after a wreck. On this account 1t is difficult for the uninitixted i know exactly what he would need under such circumstances. Tn the brofling hot sun of Summer, however. even those who had never been ship- wrecked, and probably those who had would agree that drinking water would be w paramount consideration rather than waterproof clothes. In Winter and in the northern stretches of the ocean the garment plan would undoubtedly be the most feasible, although -drinking water | would certainly be needed to sustain life. The very hest plan would seem ito be to provide a little water, a few clothes and a little food. Ship- wrecked persons are entiiled to all the comfioris that are possible, and even if {it was necessary to build larger rafts | and boats for thix purpose, it would be | well worth it. Deople oo “ frain of which was “Lest We Forget.” When it comes to comment on an in- jternational debt, his motto appears to “Forget it.” i : Damp Drudgery Dispelled. Both bathtubs and washing wma- | chines are going into American farm- i houses at wuch a rate thjat statisti- | clans can barely keep count of them, | 2ccording to & Western home econom- lios expert. Thirty-elght per cent of jthe farm women of \America have ialnkndonod the slavery of the wash- tub and the washboard in favor of washing machines, <he declares. Commendation of the common sense of these women cannot possibly par- (take of the nature of a puff for the ! manufactyrers of these labor-saving devices. any more than to mention | automobites as being more cffictent !than leg muscles. Ask almest any housewife, urban or rural, what household duty is the most monoto- nous, the most wearing, the least sat- isfving in accomplishment. The an- | { 1 laundry work. There {8 a certain thiil) in competent cookery, and there li+ the gustronomic plewsure gained by the family as a Mor can its result, D physical labor be much The sousing clothing and household linen by hand in A% archale, as uneconomical and as foollsh ae the manufacture of boards Perhaps some American tourlsts| this shocking lack of enforcement (l(‘ or s to be a decided policy of in- ! and will} This unusual stutement is at- ' 1de to give his opinion of what | in these | w Mr. Kipling wrote a poem the ve- | swer will almost invariably be the | rubbing avd rinsing of | ‘ by means of adze and whipsaw, or the { wearisome turning of & roast on a ispit. How womankind has borme it this long is a marvel. There comes to mind a picture of a tiny farmhouse in extreme northern New Hampshire, far beyond the Summer hotel belt; a house not much bigger than the little offices erected on subdivisions by real estate firms. Tt has, to the city mind, no conveniences of any sort except a telephone. Lxistence thercin, barring he change from open fireplace and crane to wocd-stove, is as piimitive as that of a century ago in the same i The man of the house 1 in the fields or off in the woods. On th: back porch, empowered by a small ttery, a merry, little wash- ing machine hums and gurgles, each revolution thereof spellinz a benedic- tion to the young housewife, who sits | by it and wazes enthralled at « higl colored mail-order catalogue. v—o—s - | She Trumped His Ace! Society will ‘divide sharply on whether Mrs. Gudrun Garner of San Franciseo had just cause for divorce in & suit she brought aguinst her hus- band Fred. She based her claim for separation on an act of crueity. Gud- run and Fred were playing as part- in a game of cards, probably bridge, and in one of those lapses that occur to even the most caveful play- ers, she trumped his ace, whereupon he threw a deek of cards in her face. This, she said, was the last straw and she demanded al dissolution f the bonds of matrimony There are those who will side with I'ved rather than with Gudrun. They will hold that the assault committed on her was justifiable and provoked. They will contend that a husband has a perfect right to punish his wife for trumping his ace in a card gawe. The old English law which permits a man to Leat his wife with a stick 1o larger than his thumb does not | prevail in this country and there is no atute which warrants a husband in 1g a deck of cards as an instru- jraent of punishment. Tndee deck of cards has never been considered as a punitive weapon. Much depends, of | course. upon the cards, the range and [the aim of the wielder. A deck of cards encased in its original package might inflict a very severe injury. But a loose deck flung in anger would probably scatter and would impose only a moral wound, leaving no visible scar, however deep the hurt. The judge in this case, it is related, has granted the petition. that there were other grievances than the assault by printed pasteboards. Perhaps this was merely the culmina tion of a long serics of tyrannical demonstrations. 1t would be of value, if a line could had on the reasoning of the justice who sut tin this to determine how the court viewed the assault. As a guide {to domestic relations generally, it ix | important to kne ners a I however, be case, in retaliation fi sin of trumping a partner’s ace. ——————— Tt is generally conceded that Mr [Coolidge can have a renomination {if he wants it. There is no mention i,.r any reason why he should not want it. At least one great question in national affaivs appears to be | rationally disposed of. et When a motion pleture stur quur- rels with his wife the silver screen continues to show them ! tions § instead fmestic drama in which the public has been compelled to interest itself. o Efforts of Mr. Doheny to save this countiy from the Japs have cigsed jthe conrteons Japinese to tuuk through the files to ascertain it there in conven- if so, wh: and how much. — oo 3 Complaints wre made that radio i has been comuercialized to o degree that classifies cven ihe -greatest of { the 0'd poets and musical composers | 1s ud Writers. fa . - Lote Fuller has had a great deal of i publicity which, as a dancer, she may ! 1ot be able to utilize unless she can learn the “black bottom.” The fiction writer again assurnes his place in attention. The Hall-Mills case could wot last forever. .. 1 SHOOTING STARS. BY PHILANDER JOHNSON Home Condensed. A cabin where the ivy climbs | And woodland crcatures roam !Inspires the sweetest of all rhymes | “Theve's No Place Like Home." i A folding bed, a kitchenette. Nearhy a brush and comb- But just the same we're singing yet, | “There’s No Place Like Home.” Important Distinction. “Did you use much money in secur- ing your election?” & {“What my promoters may have done 11 don't kmow. T am a statesman. not | an expert accountant.” The Real Bos: The traffic cop may spoil my life, Yet I take cheer anew. | When he gets home, T know the Wife Tells him a thing or two. Jud Tupkins says music appeals to his emotigns, and a saxophone always leaves him in doubt whether he ought to rejoice ‘or sympathize. “Riches,” said Hi Ho, the sage of Chinatown, “strengthen the weak and ralso weaken the strong.” Queer Business. “I hear they arrested a bootlegger in vour settlement.” L ‘He ain't at all penitent,” sald Uncle Bill Bottletop, ruefully. *“He simply says that when he gets out o’ jail he'li charge extra for his loss of time,” [ “A humble thought well expressed,” d Hl Ho, the sage of Chinatown, “is like!'y to prove more powerful than the lengthy edict of a mandarin.” “Fvojution.” sald Uncle Eben, “ain't no comfort to nobedy. A monkey couldn't no mo’' be happy In « small t dan we could be in a trestop." ’ Tt may be| v how far a husband | |—or a wife—is warranted in going' that unpardonable | of the do-! | was any sevious trouble lrewing and, ' nswered Senator Sorghum. | THIS AND THAT BY CHARLES E. TRACEWELL. “The first hundred years are the hardest,” some one has said about life. ‘Templeton Jones believes this to be true, after his recent five-mile walk through the snow, the longest tramp {he has taken in many a long year. Let no one sneer. There are tens of thousands of per- sons in Washington who have not done #0 much as walk two miles at a stretch for nobody knows how many years. No doubt there are thousands more who can scarcalv recail the last time they walked a rafle. As for those who regularly walk as much as five miles a day, their num- {ber probably could be counted on the fingers of a good-sized octopus, at least. With real hikers, of course, five miles i as nothing, something just to be rolled off the feet, a pleasant diver- |sion, alittle pick-me-up before hreak- fast_or gentle trot after dinner. Why, Charles Dickens thought no more of a l5-mile walk than most of us today do of a Sumile run in the car on a Sunday afternoon. 1f one may believe what he roads of Vie- torian England, cven the ladies took pleasant strolls of 10 miles all of a sunny afternoon, or “just walked over” eight or nine miles to call on a friend. Tramping through the rain, accord- ing to what one has read, is still the most genuine entertainment English- men can find. They must have stout boots over ther x As for our friend Jones, e never could see any fun whatover in waik- ing through the rain. The last time he tried it he got his feet wet, and re turned only to find that the thick red ipaint which the painter had put on the roof that morning was dripping the back porch. After that Jones was not surprised when a rival P viewing the roof, declaved “That's nice red ink yvo vour roof. Better let me paint it for you.” This cured Jones of walking in the rain. Thereafter the day had to he sunny, at least, if the world was to be treated to the diverting sight of Templeton Jones extending his legs methodically one after the other ove considerable stretehes of ground. Now a mile seems nothing at all, or {even less, when one reads about it in [the paper. So and So went 200 infles an hour in his airpiune. Some e ploring party has covered 5,000 mile and another one been six times around the world and back aguin. All this means nothing: it is only theor in which a mile ix an unknown unregarded quantity But get out on your two legs and start walking! Then a mile turns out to be @ quantity of measurement, in- deed. Tt is the same woy with a ton {or coal. A ton, in the bin, seems littie enough, Hewuven kn Nor does it particularly strike one ae immense | when the man is putting it in with h shovel and wash boiler Put in a ton of coal vourself. im mediately it becomes stugsering thing. a heap. indead. a real quntity, through which one digs and digs and | digs, und which one lugs and lugs and lug: n the matter of mode longer, as cvery one ko ratio to the time <pends trom personally counting then The longer one refuses to walk. the longer beconic the mile 12 you don't belicve it try a l0-mile walk tomorrow! nd mile e, aw in ¥ walking Jones was getting the wmid-section. He feit as if he piilow tied around his waist aced permanently in tfront too fat around only L office | town | food intake One of the earliest successful first time in his life he became rest-| Woman journalists lived in Wash- less when putting.on his shoes. Any one who has ever tried to fold a 60-pound mattress will know how Temp Jones felt when he tried to put on his shoes, Thé big trouble is, one has to bend at the very place it is harde: Now, when a person is engaged in what is pleasantly termed a “seden- tary occupation” he ‘s not thereby relieved of the responsibility of put- ting on his own shoes. Probably there are not 100, cer tainiy o re than 1,000 men alive in Washington today who have valets to put on their shoes for them. Great and small, bank presidents and clerks, Washington puts on its own shoes every morning, and takes or kicks them off every night. Templeton Jones saw himself as he would be 5 yvears hence, if he did not do something about it, pictured him- self mere bag of fat, utterly unable to put on his own shoes, perhaps even unable to see his shoes as he trod along. - It was a fearful vision, and Jones determined at once to d¢ something about it. He would cut down on his and take plenty of exer- cise. ‘There is no other way. This is the common-sense way to reduce, Jones told himself. “I'll begin with a 6-mile walk today,” he said. * ok Kk K It is just about 5 miles from Jones’ to his residence, part of the way—the last part—considerably up hill, The most capable snow for ite thick- ness ever to visit Washington lay on 1e ground as Jones started out, rub- ber shod. o a snow only about 'y of an inch thick it was sticking bet- ter and lasting longer than Joues had ever known a snow to do. Jones hot-footed it along the down- strects, cansing various ' slow pedestrians to turn avound in nazement. out of which action Jones ot considerable “kick.” 1f he we going to walk. he would walk right. He would do the thing up brown. “By George, 1 ought to du this every day,” he said to himself. as he struck into an avenue leading up town. Now t he was getting into the speed | swing of it, he liked it very much. lis had | light coat was warm enough now. Rounding a civele he pui on additional speed. He was breathing deeply by this time. Splash! went the autono biles in melted ruts of water and ice. Jones splashed along. t0o, crossing a bridge and turning into the hilly country. Tt was at this point that he st became conscious of his leg: Three mitles and conslderuble speed were beginning to tell on them. They were getiing tired just below the place where Jones sits down. But he re sisted the wrge to 1 a bus and kept on. How nice and warm it looked in the bus! Resolutely Le turned his back on the vehicle and went up il He admitted o himself that he was glad when the sidewalk leveled out. This was the home stretch. Sparrows were hop ping and singing about. No doubt they could hop five miles and not feei it a bit. Jones compared himself to ws with much humiliation went a squirrel! That baby could even run five miles without quiver. Jomes felt completely squelched His home looked pretty good to hir as it came in xight at lass Suddenly his pains began to clear up. I f fine,” he siid; but that evening. after listening tp the radio, he could scarce Iy get out of his chair. But he was determined to walk another five miles the next day. b;'ess Divide;l When” on Medicinal Liquor 1t mous agraement “to say when' as was before the days of prohibition, At least this conclusion s veached from the wide variety of opinfon ex pressed concerning the Suprenic Court’s declslon as to the limit of { physician’s cription for alcohol. The fact that the court wus divided widely commented upon and the verdict of the commentators is less harmonious. Few seem sat with the “pint every 10 days” ruling. “By the legal profession as well as students of Government,” in the opinion of the Chicago Daily News, !“five to four decisions of the United Sta Supreme Court are regarded as extremely unsatisfactory.” The Daily News admits that “the reasoning of the vigorous dissenting opinion is very ersuasive.” but it recognizes that the decision of the ority is_the uthoritative intcrpretation “of both he Volstead aci and the constitutional ‘lsuses invoked in the case.” That ver adds that “one thing is plain upreme Court is affording the tead act every chance to succeed benefit of every doubt raised be- acerning the act has to that aet, or is by is K i | | the i Vo! { The {fore the couri ¢ ibeen given deliberatel to its author, Congress, “Phe notion that @ physician has constitutional right to prescribe @ !curgo of rum for the sick room as {often as he likes,” according to the | Springfleld Republican, “is not toler- ated by five of the nine justices: and no wonder it isn't. ar attack on the whole prohibition system can be made through the physician if he is , unrestrained in his use of spirits for ihis patients.” The Spokane Spokes- { man-Review refers to the fact brought out in the opinion that “practicing I physiclans differ about the \:\hl? of ! malt, vinous and spirituous Tiquors, iand concludes that “where physicians Giffer, and the preponderance of Judg- | ment is against the internal use of al- i cohol for medicinal purpose, its bene | fieial uge is far from proved and, in- | deed, the presumption is strong that {the alcoholic dosing of patients by | physicians is more baneful than help jfui w * | “The picture painted is not that u‘( | meddlesome Iederal authority arbi- of being preseribe, but opinion ans may medical into law and liberal safe- euards allowed Dbesides, savs ihe ! Flint Daily Journal. while the Des Moines Tribune makes the incidental | charge that “liquor prescriptions. a | general rule, have proved to be merely a handy means of doing a favor to the The Columbus Ohio State ournal adds the comment. “It is often argued that the Volstead law could not validly be liberalized as long as the eighteenth amendment stands, but this decision indicates that the Supreme Court is ready to give Con- gress a pretty free hand in the mat- ter of liquor legislation.” The end of a long fight is seen by the New Orleans Tribune, which re- calls that “the case has been decided four times in lower I'ederal courts. the clause being upheld twice and held invalid twice.” The Springtield Illinois State Journal l'emarkx_\hal | “when nine men competent to sit on the Nations’ highest court cannot sce the same evidence alike, and acquire from it diametrically opposite con- victions, is it strange that jurics of ordinary men sometimes ‘deadlock’ or return verdicts at variance with pop- ular notions of the case? “The dissenting opinion contends that the court’s opinion has | ferred the control of medical pract \from the Statex, where, under the L plain inference of the Constitution, it belongs, to Congress,” states the Co- lumbia Record, with the added opinion that “in this belief the four dissenting I ph | majority | enacted ems as ditficult to get u unani- | jections [ The the Yorl o majority decision. New Herald Tribune | scribes the decision as “wholly | ! were drastically | crats i | | {m the eris and expre: the hope thi gress, ng had it< demorali work approved by the Supreme Court, now change the law so that a physician, having the Hippoerati oath in mind, may legally do ever thing possible o save a patient’s life ses * % “The physician may be safely trust ed to use his professional judgment as to the amount of strychnine, arsenic or other lethal drug requ in the treatment of any given case.” argues the Omaha Worid-Herald, “but whis ky he may preseribe only in the amount which, in the scientifie judg- meni of hgress, is reasonabiy cura tive, Thus Congress hecomes pos sessed of another power which was hitherto reserved to the States—the power 1o regulate the practice of med icine. The San Francisco DBulletin inkes the further position that “the ruling is indirectly a reflection upon ihe medical profession, and it remains te be seen whether enforcement will materially helped by the restric tion." A pint of whisky in 10 days, L3 is pointed out by the Newark Evening News, “is equivalent to few spuo fuls per day. In the influenza ey demic many hizh-grade physic used literally quarts in shorter periods per patient and saved lives. Iven law eniorcement officers, appealed to de the legalistic view and aided in procuring the neces- sary liquor in extreme cases." The Charleston Dally Mail sugzgests 1 test ol the value of liquor, asking: s it possible, by means of such tests, to determine this question? Tt is im- portant that a definite decision should be reached in the interest of the pa. tient, as well as to give i like stability to the prescriber: Cleveland News holds that “the ma- Jority dictum of ‘so much and no more’ is not made easicr to understand by being based largely on #@ contention that none actually necessary." — A Dry Democracy. he | From thy Philadelphia Evening Bulletin, | trarily setting the amount of liquor California democracy’s dry stand emphasizes the fact that prohibition is what Gen. Hancock considered the tariff, decidedly a local issue. The Me- Adoo following secured a majority in the convention to acopt a bone-dry platform indorsing the rigid State en- forcement act and condemning the wet proposal to repeal it by initiative at the November election. Irrespective of any relation this action may have to the McAdoo cam- paign for presidential nomination, it shows the impossibility .of making the prohibition issue a matter of national party division. In States in which their normal constitusney is predomi- natingly wet, as in New York, New Jersey and Mussachusetts, the Demo- crats naturally take the wet end of the argument. 1In States where the prevailing sentiment is not clearly defined, they tend to pussyfoot. In dry States all factions tend to be po-; litfeally dry. But not even State platforms, wet or dry, will bind the candidates whose bailiwicks register convictions con- trary to that of the pariy platforms. In the days when party platforms for tariff reduction there were always protection Demo- where.“Neither wets nor drys will be bound by pronouncements contrary to their convictions or their political forecusting issue. Modification will come, if it does. when u national may ity of the districts rezisters a po v convincing mandate for the change, and ft_will be a bipartisnn ! of the Dial, aotion with nelther party nationally |ary editor Justices have exactly stated our-ob- committed (o eliher alde Pty ~ this State, Lodisiana and elne-' | | ington during and immediately fol- lowing the Civil War—Mary Clem- mer Ames. A year before her death she marrfed kEdmund Hudson, a Washington editor, but all her writ- ing was under the name “Mary Clem- mer Amet or “Mary Clemmer,” and her simple gravestone in Rock Creek Cemetery bears only the name “Mary Clemmer.” For many years she contributed to the New York Independent articles under the title | “A Woman's Letter From Washing- ton.” These letters were by no means fllled with the social tattle of ‘Washington, though that played a part, but discussed politics in such a vigorous and outspoken manner that the writer often made enemies. As they covered the period of the impeachment trial of Andrew John- son and the presidency of Gen. Grant, there was opportunity for the expression of decided opinions. Of Grant's administration she wrote: “After years of close personal obser- vation . . . So far as my words can reach the people, I warn them . . . against the repetition of such an_administration as closed March 4, 1877.” In the galleries of the Sen- ate and House, at public gatherings, in the drawing rooms of Washing- ton and at her own Monday “at homes” on Capitol Hill, she had the opportunity of seeing and meeting people of prominence, and pen pic- tures of public men were frequently in her “letters.” Of John Sheri Secretary of the Treasury, she wrote: “He has the judicial brow and mind, a wise, strong man, with a ten- der heart, which he never hangs out for the world's inspection.” Of Gen. Garfield, at the time of his election to the presidency, she wrote, “The firse consciousness of his immense vitality.” ¥ Two published volumes of Mar. Clemmer Ames drev- some of their material from the \Washington “let- ters"—"Qutlines of Men, Women and Things" and “Ten Years in Wash- ington.” One of the best descrip- tive chapters in the former volume in “Arlington in May.” In this there 15 a touch of her strong anti-Southi- ern feellug. e was very close to the Civil W She says, “Far be that day when to Mary Custis (wife | of Rovert E. Lee), or to her chil- dren, shall be given back the home of her fathers!” The chapter “Wom- an Suifrage” in the same hows Mrs. Ames as sympathetic to- ward all efforts to gain justice for women, but not herself hellever that the baliot was the greatest need | “Ten Years in Wash- { interest to many resi- ot women. ington” is { dents of Washington today, who de- | 10 know the Capital of the past. | siye One chapter, “Old Washingion.” tells of the building of the city and | and | *ly muddy condition; the Capitol” car the story of origins. siona) Library” describes the old libiary in the Capitol and gives an interesting skgtch of Dr. Spofford | the librarian. “The White House" chaupter covers the official residen-e | irom the davs of Abigail Adams, who hung ner linen to dry in the east room, to those of Lincoln. of the White House,” “Wi Presidents” and ip” are all gossipy chapters. White House Now” and { Reception” are devote | the offictal social lite of the Grant | administration. “Inauguration Day at Washington” enables those who have seen recent inaugurations to make comparisons. es on % * | The Middle West occupies & very | lurge place in our medern American literature, perhaps a disproportion- ately lurge place Easterners and Far Westerners might say. Hooth Tar. kington., Willa Cuther, Sinclair Lewis, Zona Gale, Hamlin rland and Sherwood Anderson have all helped to make the Middle West vital and sometimes poet The life of a { child tn the Middle West in the years following the Civil War is the sub- ject of Sherwood Anderson’ A Midwest CEildhood.” In his ord Mr. Anderson characterizes Tar” as pardy autobiography. partly fancy. Tur Moorehead sensitive hoy who grows up hit-and-miss sort of way, because his father has too little sense of rvesponsibility toward his family and too little love for conventional work. He ix @ delizhtful boy. with his love of solitude and of the woods and streams, his dreams. his pathetic at- tembts to understand things. and his loneliness in the midst of sordid town lite. “Tar” is a compunion to “A Story-Teller's Story” and the two seem to give Sherwood Anderson’s sincere feelings not only about the is in Middle West, but about much of life | anywhere. Self-realization and self-expression may be the ideal of most of our mod- ern novelists for their character crea- tions, but it is not an ideal which seems adequate or worthy to Mar- garet Deland and Dorothy Canfleld. These two established fiction writers have this Fall had new novels pub- lished, in both of which the old-fash- loned ideal of self-sacrifice is revived and vigorously defended. In euch case the example of self-sacrifice is 0 eccentric and is carried to such an extreme that it becomes an excellent argument for the modern doctrine of the right of each individual to self- realization—even selfishness. In Mar- garet Deland’'s novel “The Kays.” Mrs. Kay devotes over 20 vears of her life to caring for the insane for- mer mistress of her husband. With some distorted idea of vicarious atone- ment for her husband's sin, she with- draws herself from all human asso- ciations and passes her days secrethy in the antechamber to the insane woman's attic room, until she self becomes at least decidedly “queer.” 1In Dorothy Canfield's novel “Her Son's Wife,” Mrs. Bascombh as- sist« her daughter-inlaw to bhecome a bed-ridden invalid—really pushes her into invalidism-—and then devotes the rest of her life to caring for her. The reason for this extraordinary course of action is that Mrs. Bascomb wishes to save her granddaughter from the contaminating influence of a hopelessly vulgar mother, and the only way which she can discover to accomplish this is to consign the mother to an upstairs bedroom, so that the family life may go on smoothly and beneficently below stairs. The question suggests itself —are not both Mrs. Kay and Mrs. Bascomb pathological cases? wok K The prime minister of Great Britain, Stanley Baldwin, has written a book which has run into four editions, and is still going. It is not fiction, either, yet the British public asks for it eager- 1y at the bookshops. It is called “‘On England, and Other Addresses.” and presumably expresses his convictions and ideals on government and public 8. questiom . S The John Billings IFiske prize in poe- try of the University of Chieago has been awarded to Sterling North of the class of 1929, for his volume of verse antitled “Village Posms.” The judges were Prof. Robert Mo Lovett, act- ing head of the Knglish department; Miss Marianne Moore, associate editor *‘ Liewellyn Jones, liter- * volume | ‘The Congres- | { was assumed to be practically ! by gas die from the a her- | the Ciloago Ejening| ANSWERS TO QUESTIONS BY FREDERIC J. HASKIN. Q. What State ranks as the most arid and sparsely settled?—A. A. Nevada. Q. What is meant by a “piedmont plain”?—R. P. A. It means “a plain at the foot of & mountain.” Q. In betting, where must a horse finish in order to win place money?— N. L A. In the United States, place refers only to second place, and a horse must finish first or second in order to win place money. In England usually the term {s used as the term “‘show™ is ui here, and includes first, second and third places. Q. Are there two towns in Pennsyl- vania named. “Elizabeth” and “Eliza bethtown,” or are they one and the same?—S. 8. G. | _A. Elizabeth is 14 miles couth of | Pitteburgh, and has a_population of | 2,703. Elizabethtown is 18 miles south- east of Harrisburg, and has a popula- tion of 3,319. Q. How does the width of Wash- ington street, Indianapolis, compare with that of Market street in San Francisco?—J. K. D. A. The width of Washington street, Indianapolis, from building line to bullding line at the center of the busi- ness district is 120 feet. The width of Market street, San Francisco, is 76 feet from curb to curb, with sidewalk of 22 feet on either side, making a total of 120 feet trom building line to building line. Q. Iow many stockholders h: the Pennsylvania Railroad” -H. L. A. This company has about 140,000 j separate stockholders Q. Whom did marry?—L. W. H. A. Margaret, daughter of James G. Blaine, married Walter Damrosch, composer and now conductor of the | New York Symphony Orchestra. Margaret coast to ) A. 1t is lighted from New York City to Salt Lake the portion from Salt Lake City to San Francisco Q. How many black walnuts are there in a bushel?—G. Tt A. There are about 1500 Q. How much money is raised by the sale of the tuberculosis Christi; seals?—P. H. A. Last vear the sale ran to §4.900 000. The first seals were sold in 196 { to the amount of $3,000. Q. What from?—R. C. A. The question BACKGR ountry is still unsettied. BY PAUL Y Senate ¢ ! The discussion by the it into ligh chemical warfare hrings in ll affairs of modern whether preserving human lif a few yeurs ago. science Progress. ng or Public opirion. horror against the toleration o poison zas as a means of warfare. but within recent time at lea of the public has come to look upon the subject with greater equanimity since it is proved that only 2 per cent of the victims put out of action r injuries, while in battle by in of the men wounded a direct result of the wounds. In the debate in the Senate - ator Wadsworth gave statisties dis< | proving the allegations often h: {that gassed victims I tuberculosis. Official statistics showed that “there was less | among gassed men than among those { who had never been gassed at all | Senator Reed of Pennsylvania added that “in the investigation of the | Veterans' Bureau, Dr. is one of the leading experts on tuber culosis in the United States, testified that in his_judgment of chlorine led to a thickening of the surface of the membrane of the lungs. S whicn made It more resistant against the lodgment and spread of the bacil lus of tuberculosis, and he gave it as his opinion that gassing did. for that { reason, tend to prevent it. . That led to the conclusion of Sena | tor Shipstead (educated in medicine) !that “the Senator (Reed) evidently | does mot believe that killing people in | war with bayonets and shrapnel is any | nicer way than killing them with ¢ “The Senator’s remarks are painful, because they ‘debunk’ a lot of this stuff about ‘makinz war ! humane'. ; The most significant development of the debate is the fact that it proved fthat no less & “tyro” at war than | Gen. Pershing was quoted on both sides of the subject, though it only proved that his latter judgment re- { versed his first commitment. Testif {ing before a House commi K | general declared that our chemical | warfare department “should be main- i tained by all means. | Every organization of veterans has | gone on record against the Geneva | protocol, and last October the Asso- | ciation of Military Surgeons at Phila- delphia, at its national annual meet- ing. adopted strong resolutions to the same effect. Three years ago the American Legion had adopted resolu tions against chemical defense, which they have now rescinded. Whatever may be the final con- clusion of the debate in the Senate, it has demonstrated that men change their minds as they delve more deeply into facts, and that the de- velopment of chemistry is changing many phases of modern life. not only in warfare but still more broadly in PO ould be a very fine distinction to draw the dividing line hetween the known facts of chemistry and of hacteriology. except that in chem- istry all elements are dead and in bacteriology all are living. Both sci- ences might almost be ascribed to the discoveries of the present gen- eration, and both sciences have given us miracles within the last two decades or so. Also, both sciences have produced achievements within the periods of the great wars of our days which were of sufficient value to pay the entire cost of each war. (This statement is not to be construed as justifying or measuring the horrors of war, but is a simple statement of financial fact.) * ok k¥ e of the leading authorities of the S\lor:mn General's office of the Public Health Service, being asked yesterday to name the 10 most important discov- eries in medicine and its allied sci- in modern times, did so as fol- 1. Jenner's discovery in 1796 of vaccination for prevention of small- pox, which in the century and a quar- ter has saved millions of lives. 2, Pasteur's discoveries in the 70s and 80s, showing that all communi- cable or infective diseases come from germs, each disease having its own particular microbe. On Pasteur’s work is based all modern development in preventive sanitation and medicine against communicable diseases. Jen ner found vaccination by observation Pasteur developed it by se .. or en- | goat with the disease germ, which created the resistant serum. with which the human being inoculated becomes immune against the-diseass, ~ tuberculosis | There is no doubt as to the extrers antiquity of the Basque settlements on the Pyrenees. It is now pretty generally received that the Rasque race is connected with the fent Iberian or Celtiberian. and was dic persed over the districts named above Q. Do objects welgh more on tha ground, under the ground, or at an elevation?—J. B. A. The maximum weight of any oh- ject is at the surface of the earth Weight above or below is less than at the surface. Q. What is colonjal time and where is it used>—R. H. B. A. Standard authorities refer to fifth standard of time k tercolonial,” “colonial, “provineial” time, corresponding to the sixtieth meridian and one hour faster than Eastern time. This fifth standard is used in New Brunswick and Nova Scotia. Q. What is vegetable ice cream? A. M. A. The chirimoya, a fruit grown in FEecuador, has this name. Its pulp is white and its flavor is a delicious com bination of pineapple, banana and strawberry. Q. Please define elcctricity —C. B. E A. Electricity is a materlal agent which, when in motion, exhibits mag netic, chemical and thermal effects and which, whether in motlon or at rest, is of such z nature that when it is present in two or more localities within certain limits of association * mutual interaction ¢ betwes: such localities is observed tecent i vestigations indicate that it is discreis or granuiu in nature and that thep: may be two kinds. positive and neza tive. for force Do the Naval class Q. have lemy so0, what ar Nav The elas way be used class 1o in the has class colors used in the same which u class seal would designate the particular b one belongs. demy colors are You a You want to know something wish to_be positive before you alead. Well, The Evening Star wi teil you what you want to know and give you asswrance before uou pro A, Our Washington bureau can answer any question of fact pro pounded to it. Here is the universit; of information—a great free cduca | tiomal institution eatablished solely o are the Basques | Address The the vast increase of the importance of | dis | suved annually united | coveries in relation to rabies, unthrax f |and other maladies s shell or gunfire. 24 per cent die, as|of 159% one soldier out of ever: | rd | diers developed | half of Francine, who | whe inhalation | 2 ttee, the |tured that secret and made the medi | [wueh | ating serum by infecting the horse or | serve you. Send in your question aud et the right answer. Inclose ! cents in stamps to cover the return postage ening Star Injorime Hon Bureaw. Frederic J. Haskin, d rector, Washington, . . OUND OF EV COLLINS. k in saving the Frenc grapes and of silh from the preying upon them W France than the e Pasteu crops of wo worth more to in the matter of iof the Prussian wur. including the Thousands lives anr by means of his dis demnit Von Behring's development « st part | gerum againgt diphtheria which toda has annihilated that dread disease wherever the serum is used 4. During the Boer War in South a_ Sir Almoth Wright studied typhoid fever and found a serum: against It. In our own Spanish War v six had typhoid, from which disease 1,550 died out of an army of 17 1 the World War only 1 to 1 typhoid, and mo hose were in one camp—at Chickamauga, the entire Army 6f aaore than 4.500,000, only 213 deaths ‘om shoid rred 5. From colonial days to 1849, t country suffered 96 outbreaks of ye low fever. In one epidemic, in 185 New Orleans alone loxt 7,000 vietims and the financial loss to interrupted commerce and travel amounted 1t hundreds of millions of doltars. Ther a score years ago. it was found that it 1e from the femal “Aedes mosqui which couid ggot live without hite humia By destroving all po of wat treating them with kel <y pti chemicals, all sucl led. and I vellow value of that wus greater than the entire our Spanish War, including of the Philipy 6. Ebrlich rlin overed the germ of @ certain blood disease, and a chemical company in Germany mo nopolized the patent a dose for the specifi so called because that was the bundred and sixth experimental co bination of arsenic and a neutrali tested which would destroy the germ without Kill the patient. In the World War the United States cap or fever squite cost « the cos mosquit years we T onom o cine for 30 cents a dose —a 108s to Get many equal to her entire cost of the World War. 7. Until within the last 30 vears it was not known that the discase of peilagra existed in Americ W hat 1s pellagra was diagnosed as tuber s, skin disease or malaria. Re h' by the United States Public Ith Service disclosed the fact that in 1911 there were in our South more than 100,000 cases of pellagra, with 1.000 deaths annually, all due to de fective diet—polished rice, molisses and_cornbread—lacking vitamines, There is now to be a “pellagra preventing vitamin.” abundant in milk and milk products, eggs. peas beans and meat; also in lemons and limes. 2 No vitamin was known vears ago and little was known 10 vears How much is really known to as to what is a vitamin? Rocky Mountain spotted feys: baffled physicians. until a decade ago a special research proved it came from a germ on an infected tick. & they captured billions of ticks, orushed them. attenuated the virus with heat and vaccinated. That ends the spot ted feve Three or four years ago tula remia was discovered. That i a pain ful disease, quite pi-valent in parts of the country. There are four cases of it now in Washington. To acquire it, Kill a wild rabbit and dress it your seif. The rabbit is infected, and the hunter is poisoned in the process of dressing the rabbit. Tame rabbits are not infected. The wild mabbit has been bitten by a deerfly. The cura tive serum has not. yet been developed. 10. One of the greutest discoveries is toxin-antitoxin as a cure of diph theria. Toxin is the poison germ: antitoxin fs the naturul enemy or the poison. If a child be inoculated with the toxin alone, it will probably di¢ it inoculated with the antitoxin alone, it will not get diphtheria so long as the effect of the antitoxin lasts—three or four months. Buf 1f given both at the same time. the antitoxin_will neutralize or preven serious effec s of the toxin, whils the toxin will create within the hodv » wort of perpetual chemical worls pro a continuous supply the patient The docte e exeum newleet o otection for his chill. Ye was unknown a decads ago Nince 1000 seience has added o vearn (o the average life of all e lized humans, (Copsmiahl 1080, b PuA-Wpsd o/ieee mune parent