Evening Star Newspaper, January 3, 1927, Page 8

8 THE EVENING With WASHINGTON, D. C. MONDAY.......January 3, 1927 ST mday Morning Editio THEODORE W. NOYES. .. .Editor The Evening Star Newspaper Company Business Office I1th St and Pennsvivania Ave. s York Office: 110 East ¢2nd St. “hicago Office: Tower Building. Euiopean Offien: 13 Reent St., London. England The Evenin with the Sunday morn- fnz edition. ia delivered by carriers within the city a1’ 60 cents per month: daily only 45 cents per month: Sundays o cents Per month Orders may_ be sent by mail ory felephone Main 5000, Collection is made by | carrier at end of each month. Rate by Mail—Payable in Advance. Maryland and Virgini Paily and_ Sunday. Daily only - Sunday’ only i $6.00° 1 mo All Other States and Canada. 1 yr., $12.00: 1 mo. Slfilzfl v SR.00; 1 mao 75¢ $1.00: 1 mo.. Member of the Associated Press. The Associated Press is exclng vely entitled | patehes ad 10 it OF mot otherwise o 1ted in this 1 d also the local news piablished herein A rights of publication of special dispatches herein are also resert ed The Smith Boom. With perfect consistency in respect his prior expressions regarding the pos of his nomination for the presidenc . Gov. Smith of New York on Saturday, in the cou of his | address at Albany. announced his “recepti n the fol- lowing terms: I have no idea of what the future has in store for me. rybody else in the United States has some notion | of this except myself. No man would stand before an assemblage like this and say he was not receptive to the| highest n the gift of the people. But T that 1 will do nothing | 10 seek it e ive to the y e the kind and cha 2t will make me deserve | ing of serv StIf T ever get it. The most ardent advocate of “Smith | for President” could ask mo more | than this statement. Indeed, any more would be'a handicap. No man| actually in advance of a nominating convention ever says he wants the of-! fice or the chance to run for it. The sovernor says, in effect, that he is go- ! ing to try to give the people of the | State of New York such service that he will be regarded as fitted for the | presidency if the people should in 1928 wish to advance him to that{ honor and responsibility. Read in view of all the clrcum- stances, however, this brief interjec- tion in the course of the inaugural] nddress at Albany constitutes a decla- ration. It is reported that it was re- cetved with thunderous applause both | in the chamber in which it was de-! livered and in other portions of the State Capitol to which it was trans- mitted by amplifiers. Those who heard the governor's words evidently re- garded them as tantamount to an an- nouncement that “his hat is in the ring.” Despite the fact that Gov. Smith \will not turn his own hand in an ac- tive campalgn for the nomination, but will stand apon his record at Albany during the past two years and the next year and a half, his friends are already moving actively in the drive {as an for delegates. Indeed, the Smith boom is on its way. It is early. It is vigor- ous. Tt is widespread. It is in the same position as the McAdoo boam of AR ] {all cases of such kind, was to es the ownership of the automobile. But | {crime is proof that he is incorrigible. i | the wheel. The prosecutor v { to establish the owner: | the ta hun le men of the legal profession as well as the laymen. The following might be cited as an fllustration: A man was charged with stealing an automobile in Washington. e was arrested and later confessed to the crime. When the evidence was brought before the grand jury the first requirement, as in when the car was stolen it was chang ing ownership. The first owner and another man had entered a house for ten minutes, and while they there the exchange was made. were passed. When the men stepped to the front of the house the car was gone. It was later found, with the thief at s unable hip of the auto- mobile; it was not a joint ownership; it may have belonged to either man involved in the sale. The grand jury was unable to bring in an indictment, and the thief, who had confessed, was allowed to ramble on his way. —on— Washington a Botanical Center. Despite the shortness of the pres- ent session of Congress, resumed today, the bill now pending before the House, having been 1y d ready by the Senate, for the lishment of a national neighborhood should urgent items of business, to be dis- posed of surely before adjournment. But it should not be passed in such ab. of Washington the Senate bill which establishes the rboretum as a reser: lic recreatlon, for the arboretum should not be regarded as a park. It is to be a laboratory, an adjunct to the Department of Agriculture, a place where living plants may be as- sembled for study and breeding and { development. Recently the Smithsonian Institu- tion acquired the botanical library of 1,600 volumes and the herbarium of 100,000 specimens from Capt. John Donnell Smith of Baltimore, this "library and collection relating chiefly to the plants of tropical which Washington taken a leading part in developing. The arboretum will be another step toward making Washington a bo- tanical center, permitting direct study by the scientists of the depart- ment and by others of living plants in a manner that even the most ex- tensive library and herbarium will not permit. Nurserymen and horti- culturists throughout the country will be benefited by such a field laboratory. Thus the arboretum has a national character which must be established in the organic act cre- ating it, and which must not be lessened by any reference to the proposed reservation as designed for recreational purposes. Promptness in the passage of this bill is essential if the area that is so eminently suitable for arboretum purposes is to be secured in its en- tirety. Building operations are al- ready in contemplation for early action that will, if not checked by the taking ‘of this land, destroy its value arboretum. Projected real estate developments will destroy trees and remove the soil which is exceptionally suited to the growth of indigenous North American plants. there are many little problems to puz- ablish | The | car was sold and the money was | trusted at liberty, rboretum in | be regarded as one of the | as to carry the language of | ion for pub- | America, a field of botanical research | botanists have | ¥ EVENING STAR, WASHINGTON, D. C., lishing the Baumes law as efl'?ctlve% | regardless of the character and grav- | {ity of the third offense. . | Under this system of punishments | no recommendation for mercy by a| jury and no sympathetic leniency by | a judge can save a convicted man| with such a record. Tt is based upon | the principle that two convictions | should suffice to cure a man of his| criminal tendencies, and that a third | and that if set free he is a menace to society. He has had his chance to re- form, and while he may plead * cumstances” in extenuation of his third breach of the law he is not to be Certainly the report of the police | commissioner of New York justifies the enactment and points to the wis- dom of similar laws in other States. While it is, perhaps, too much to ex- pect complete uniformity in this gard throughout the country, the tional Crime Commission is working to that end, and doubtless will by de- grees approximate to the adoption of consistent penal code in all the ates. The cost of crime in this land enormous, and surely a measure that lessens it as does this New York statute is to be welcomed as an in- surance. re- a s is ————————— Mules Versus Aviation. Newly compiled statistics demon- strate the safety of flying. In a re- | port to the American Soclety of Avia- | tion a former Army pilot makes the | startling announcement that zipping through the eth is much safer than playing around mule, especially a Missouri mule. Eight commercial pilots lost their lives last vear, says the report, but eighty persons were kicked to death fn Missouri alone by the stubborn four-footed creatures. In addition to th interesting figures the chance of mishap in a four- hundred-mile flight with a single mo- tored plane estimated at one in seventy-four, and with a three-mo- tored plane only one in three hundred and forty-three thousand. If mules accounted for eighty deaths in Missouri they must be es ceedingly dangerous animals—far | more dangerous, in fact, than the | Eastern species. Aviation in Missouri, at least, should be on the boom, be- cause anything s better apparently than getting in the way of a pair of flying hoofs. The report, therefore, | hould do its part in keeping Mis- sourians off the ground. o A distinguished Japanese citizen shot himself because of his grief over the death of the late Emperor. His life could not be saved. Two attend- ants at the Emperor's home tried hara- kiri, but failed. Suicide s an anclent ceremonial regarded as permissible in | case of such bereavement. The an- clent methods, however, do not com- pare with the modern for effectual results. a . | There was never a time when the | newspapers of this country, of weight | and character, did not support their Government in any situation that! threatened a crisis. The reminder of | President Coolldge of the duty of | loyalty was timely and carries with it | the knowledge that only a suggestion is necessary to bring into terms of action and expression the spirit of universal support. e T | once. MON DAY, JANUARY 3, 1927 THIS AND THAT BY CHARLES E. “There are thousands of flakes in @ box of Blah-Blah." Quick! Without looking a tence agaln, say how many re in it. It you will to it. There are, however, will discover on closer peru little trick of the eyve is ma rounds of Washington®t the present although it may be an old one, we know. it on your friends. At least | 9 out of every 10 will see the “f” in the word . but fail to see it in the “ the word and In the “of” after the word “hox.” Others will make a wild guess, some ving been known to pronounce, h a weighty air of finality: Astute business men from their labors in all of the | National Capital to_“spri this on their associates, and to enjoy a good laugh at them. The victim must not be given, of | course, but one good glance at the | sentence. Opportunity to actually | study the momentous pronouncement is not to be allowed, else the point of the experiment will be lost. It is understood that some are even placing bets on the madtter. * ok kK | The “follow up” is to ask the| reader of the sentence, after he has | missed lamentably, to give his opin- | ion as to the reason for his failure to see two of the “fs.” All sorts of theories arc being ad vanced. One is that the average pro- | nunciation of the preposition is slur o that one mentally slurs it in | ding it. This explanation seems at fault, to | us, because the case is not one of | pronunciation, but of reading., We | are an ‘“eye-minded” race, some | one has said, and are not in the habit the sen- | 1s” there re the average person, immediately say one, and three, al. are parts | | | toppins | | of even mentally pronouncing words | thing very few persons will do. brave man, Generally such when we read. Tt Is said that all we see of a print ed line, anyway, is the top half. Any | one may prove the truth of this for | himself by placing a plece of paper | over the top half of a sentence and |before most of us, our pride is We see that the gentleman | who is propounding the teaser be- attempting to read it from the lower | part of the letters. THe will find thag he n scarcely do i Covering the lower half, however, | then determined not to fail. \llows him to read the sentence easily. | Much in the same way, it seems to | us, he fails to see the “fs” on the | ends of the two prepositions because | they are, forsooth, on the end. | In other words, in reading, we take a flying glance at a_word, especially | if we ave normaily fast readers, and absorh he remainder of it without looking at it. There are some persons, you know, who read whole paragraphs at a glance. This is impossible who take in complete sentences at | little pleasure in reading flction. reading a story we secure much of the | sense of reality through the obviously | physiological = achievement of rapid reading. This is why the rapid reader ' WA et [ much of | with | say, “I don't know. | an attitude toward questions is the re and experience. | When some such sentence is placed | . TRACEWELL. nerilly gets more_*ki novel than dées is is why child be taught tc urately, it “There are hox of “Blah-Elah. In this sentence two psychologi and the iccount for the seeing and the failure other two. Let us continue the study. As stated, in sentence quick as col the perpetrator of the tr only the beginnings of w tops. What we really read along this order: “The ar thous o fla i a The eye leaps from w taking in only enough se, refusing to cumb the remainder. of effort is necessar: formed unconsciously b If it were not so, readi 1 intolerable hore. It will he noticed, too. sentence, that the lette by most persons is di middle of the line, as typewriter or average paper. This central prominence w wise have, other two “fs” do not ha ane of them, it must comes pretty clc position nd which, The 1 Kk sent The main reason why DPop out w of cours monly pose To confe t that mos omniscien to ignora It takes a sult of much maturit take. lieves that we will fail, hurry. A convincing adopted in making of “There is one “f" in th we declare, with finall storm the truth, even trivial matter. tone, The truth, however, even In trivi- alities, is not decided When we are told—as v —to “take another look at it that there are, for the|truth, three full-sized “fs” in the sen-| average person, but there are many | tence, and we admit it to the world, forced to confes publicly, and to ourself, it we had not been so cocksure we If this were not so, there would be | could have taken the time to real In | look at the sentence, in the first place and to h by replying correctl, are three ‘fs’ in the sen of it2” SHINGTON OBSERVATIONS BY FREDERIC WILLIAM WILE. All short sessions of Congress arenot vet hoen reached. That will ar- s, | rive a year or two hence, when their | 3 mount but the one which has just recom-|pjshor figures than any that have had crammed and jammed with business, | menced, as a witty son of Erin might put it, is just like the rest, only more so. A staggering array of big issues confronts House and Senate. Without | exception, they bristle with contro- ver Vo single one will emerge from | proposal into law without bitter dis-| cussion. ests the hot and heavy | Here's an gram and sug, argument it will generate. annual payments to be met thus Gil came Assistant Secretary ury before he was 30, looking as he was then, | turned 34. T e President Coolidge presented to him by Jan he is to become | der in after life. This written on hich it would not other ve balked our qu is A mere_tabulation indicates | proud of the magnificent vellum vol- | the importance of the legislative pro-| ume of his address on advertising, just | International Trade Reaches Pre-War Peak | From the Canton Daily News International trade has fought its to a pre-war level. During the t half of 1926 it approximated the figures of 1913, the high level reached during the closing months of 1925 be- {ing maintained this year. and for the first time since the World \ Figures just given out b rtment of Comm » for the current - and based on the foreign trade ? countries whose aggre- e foreign trade represents four- fifths of the world are of spec terest, now ‘that American business is getting ready to ice its hooks i open up a new page total value of export £ these countr vear was § count £ American, two As ropean, with a total tr ok out of a the laborfous it is essentis » read rapidly of flakes in factors, the! physiologi of one letter discover the and import - the first 000. Thir ed, includ- fe and physiological | 1 reading the mmanded by | ick, one sees | prds and their ing four an incre * cent over st months of 1925. The rem ith o trade of $15 is something | how a decline bo o Bl BL" ord to word, to get the| ser the mind economy and is pel Among the striking changes shown the statistics may be mentioned of imrorts over exn United States trade, which amounted S aret 6,000.000; the excess of exports ir every one. | carp mounting to $128,000, ng would be o ed with an excess of A .. imports of $337,000,000 in 1925; the de in the ="“j;",v1mn of more than 11 per cent in the ' causht{ajue of foreign trade of the United rectly in the | iKingdom, which was reflected in the printed On & jecline in the trade of British India, v sheet of { \ustralia and New Zealand. Business naturally is interested in knowing what brought about the in se of $289.000,000 in United States ts during the first half of the for that really is of more im- ance than the fignres themselves So the department explains that it was due chiefly to the higher prices of rubber, coffee and jute, and a larger { importation of silk, precious ston most_persons | naper, aluminum, copper and tin. " in it, | reduction of $157,000,000 in exports t of us com-|was caused by the decided drop in the t. price of cotton and the decline in the nee is some- | exportation of grains and non-ferrous I metals, to l gives it a| indeed, lhn! T ave, although | be admitted, | indeed, - —e— New Plan Under Way to Conserve Lumber From Flint Sunday Journal. Conservation profects apply unique methods to effect savings in various forms of natural products. Waste in lumber has been common and exten- Who but Mr. Hoover and his national committee on wood utiliza- tion might reasonably be expected to conceive the ingenious idea of produc- ing lumber grooved at the ends as well as the sides, as at present? The com- mittee has appointed a subcommittee, consisting of nine representatives of builders, contractors, architects, lum- i ber distributors and lumber manufac- turers, to work out the scheme, which will be ready for adoption soon. The use of lumber grooved on the sides has been common for centurfes, the Hoo- ver committee reports, and points out that reasons of economy and conserva- ‘ion demanded no such plan of match- , | ing lumber when the practice was first oy there | begun. With a. lumber scarcity at { hand in this country the grooving of | ends of flat boards is a practical move | that fits in well with the national cam- paign for the elimination of waste in the use of wood. Short-length lumber, pleces of 8 feet or less, can be utilized under the new plan, it s stated, and much timber now useless for building purposes can be salvaged. The idea seems trivial. but the earnestness with which the Hoover committee and the representatives of the building indus- try are proceeding to put it into effect indicate that a realization of the seri- ousness of the timber shortage is wide- spread. Just reasonable precautions, not the saving of odds and ends, a He has just | few years ago would have prevented | the present situation. Reforestation and the careful use of the existing - | supply will help to remedy it. at and we are So we of voice is ur decision. at sentence,” thinking to in such e we alw i s are we are in secretly, that nizzical friend | to vastly bert, who be f the Treas. | as boyish immense {Alabama Welcomes 1es O'Shaugh- n its ledger. de of | he nessy, executive secretary, and Louls BY FREDERI Q. H ¢ much silk is obtained from a single c B. B. single cocoon of good quality furnish from 400 to 800 yards of reclable filament. Q. What s the «¢ “Pig and Whistle | coffee houses?—W". A. Some authorit iption of ‘e is from the neaning a m such as w W “peg tank an old expression of the liguor used ths, gin of the as applied W. believe it to be and Wassail.” w o German asure of Tiquid s arked by W wd wishes for drinking term to what are C. E. The Bureau of Stan re made up of horny material rbon: containing matte seq com Q. of shelis S ards sa Iter and_eal little organic Q. Why does the freezin hrenheit thermomete, —J. E. H. A. The freezing point of the threnheit thermometer is obtained | by immersing the bulb in melting ic and marking at this point the column of mercury. In order to lessen the use of minus deg the thermom eter graduated that the free; ing point comes 3 above zero. point come | | Q. What is scrapple?- A. Scrapple is the produ ing of meat, or meat hyproducts, mixed with meal or the flour of grain, and cooked with seasoning materials, after which it is poured into a mold Q. Is the Diesel engine m by American engineers built on th same prineiples as the German one? —M. L. D, A. The Society of Automotive En- gineers sa; that the two outstanding eatures of the Di 1 en gine are that it compresses instead of an explosive mixture of a and fuel vapor, and that ignition is effected by the heat of compression The combustion of the charge pr ceeds at, or approximately at, con- stant pressure. The term “Diesel en- gine” Is very often misused and_the only Diesel types of engines are those with the two outstanding mechanical features as outlined above. The Diesel type of engine. as built by American engineers, is bullt on the same prin- ciples and operated in the same man- ner as the German-bullt engine. Q. Why does wood alcohol poison- ing_so often result in blindness?— EMEC A."Wood alcohol acts on the blood vessels, causing hemorrhages. The tiny arterles of the retina of the eve are often ruptured, causing loss of sight. Q. Has M. H the ® Hawalian swimmer, the screen?—C. M. E. A. He is appearing in “The Eagle of the Sea,” in which Florence Vidor and Ricardo Cortez are also featured. Q. What is the oldest organ in ex- istence and where is 1t?—M. P. A. The oldest organ now in exist- ence of which we have been able to trace any record is one dating back to the time of Bach (1721) and un- doubtedly played on by him. It is kept in the picturesque church of St. Gedrge, buflt before A.D. 1100, in the little village of Rotha, near Lelpzig. Q. What country was referred: to as the “Key to the European Edi- fice”?—P. M. A. Poland was so called by Na- poleon I Q. Have the Philippine Islands a national flag?—C. C. R. A. They have a flag. It is red, white and blue. The upper half is blue, the lower red, with a white triangle extending through the center from top to bottom. In the center of this triangle s a yellow sun and in each cormer is a vellow star. Q. What is the comparative value on | | known Duke Kahanamoku. ever played on | ANSWERS TO QUESTIONS 'C J. HASKIN. jments A. In 19 $11,486,439 of farm buildin machinery were Q. south are Northern A. There and tima presented the Iaplements How north and how fields in Med. the far ther the Hen e v nile t fleld: from | Zone. Q. Wier issued A. Originally 1 much more i ne insuran flure of nt the suc depended wher: then erils o dang of the insu [ " e in o When Iy the nal q the master of the ship, the ship and would selves not i the deep of | master ance on the life voyage. T1 e i policies were writt {long before life insurance me into existence. The policy of which anything definite issued in London in 1383 life of ene William €vi months. This was undes 13 pe acting_individ pr was A policy 1ge cargo sure ainst the death bt throt VMso a ch o the is, they loss took out master life i by N { Insuring tl bons for 1: written by | ually; the thousand n nitm similar 10 L. W A. Wild boars chiefly in 1 and German and cen Although nd, they are ave distributed ove Spain, Austric and in norther ind rther prevalent extinet now Q. Where is the deepest hols has_ever been dug in the earth’ J.F. 8 A. What is believed to be the deep st hole in the world fs a well bein: drilled in Orange 3 Its depth now has p: The well, in the Rosecrans was started on March 13, 19 Q. What is meant by “genre pa ings"?>—T. E A. Pictures dealing with everyda life are known as ‘“genre,” as distit guished from historic, heroic. romantic or ideal themes. Q. Has there ever been a pan American conference of public healt] leader: B. D. A. The first pan-American confer ence of national directors of public health took place in Washington, | D. C., from September 27 to 29, 1926 | This was In compliance with a resolu tion adopted by the fifth international | conterence of American states, held in Santiago, Chile, in 1923. Q. Who will be selected as clviliaif guards for the mail service?—M. E. ¢* A. The Post Office Department say« that at the present time thev ar breaking in as postal guards employes already in the service. Despite ru mors to the contrary, they have no definite plans for taking on a spe civillan guard. Q. How much income tax does Otis Skinner pay?—W. W. A. It was reported recently that the actor’s tax was $12,000. Stop a minute and think about this fact. You can ask The Evening Star Information Bureau any question of fact and get the answer back in a personal letter. It is a great educa- tional idea, introduced into the lives of the most intelligent people in the world—American newspaper readers. It is a part of that best purpose of a_newspaper—service. There s no charge, except 2 cents in stamps for return postage. Get the habit of ask- ing questions. Address your letter to The Evening Star Information Bu- reau, Frederfc J. Haskin, director In respect to the establishment of | A few incomplete bill of the play to be en-|Honig, chairman of the Pacific Coast | Power Development of farm bulldings and farm imple- | Washington, D. C. thres vears ago, which in Novem- ber, 1923, had reached such a momen- tum that a conference was held at French Lick Springs, Ind., between the late Charles Murphy, George Brennan and Thomas Taggart for the purpose of finding somebody to head off the favorite son of Tennessee, New York and finally California. The ques- tion arises whether by next November the Smith boom will have reached the same point, calling for a conference | for the purpose of finding somebody | 10 head that off in season for the June convention. There is danger as well as advantage in bird delegate | hunting. | ear] ———- Bankers are mentioned in connec-! tion with Nicaraguan complications. A war without finances somewhere in the demonstration would be no war at | all, The most terrible of all games is seldom played without a tangible stake. R Fiction, Fact and the Law. Melville Da n Post, a leader!| among America’s writers of fiction, once penned a short story which car- rled the title of “The Corpus Delicti” —a strange tale of a man who, after committing o murder, destroyed the vietim of the crlme with quicklime. \ murderer can only be indicted and Iwought to trial when, proof is de- veloped that a crime has been com- | mitted—that is, the fact that the crime really occurred must be proved Ly evidence which, in murder cases, is produced by means of the corpse of the victim. The primary step in the prosecution is the production of such evidence, usually at a coroner's inquest, as will prove hevond & ques- tion of doubt that the erfme of mur- der was actually committed. Mr. Post, in the short story which lias become one of the hest known of crime narratives, uses that twist of | the law as the foundation of his yarn. | The man who committed the murder | could not be prosecuted, although it | was known that he had killed a man, hecause the forces of the law were un- | able to produce the first necessary evidence, the body of the victim. The Washington police, at the pres- ent time, are delving into a mystery | which may, or may not, parallel “The | Corpus Delicti.” A man, supposedly insane, is being held, but there is lit- tle evidence that he has committed a | crime. His wife has been missing | since the night left Washington. | Jle was found some days later in New | York State, placed under arrest and Iwought back to the Capital. No trace of the missing woman has been found. AMurder theories have been advanced, lacked by slight clues, bt there can I no such charge placed against the prisoner until the first necessary evi- dence In such a case s produced, the absolute proof of crime. The law is. in most i | | instances, the the arboretum there is, it would seem, no opposition in Congress. A mis- understanding as to its true char- acter and purposes has caused the i writing of the Senate bill in terms that are calculated to be mischievous in their later interpretation. House should in its own prompt ac- tion remedy this fault and ask for concurrence by the Senate in its amendments so that the measurée when passed will be unmistakably a provision for the creation of truly national botanical laboratory, which the Department of Agriculture urgently needs. B China does not take kindly to peace suggestions from other governments. When people are genuinely bent on fighting they lose sight of practical considerations and resent any inter- ruption. N A Saturday New Year day gives op- portunity for rest and recovery, also opportunity for prolonging the cele- bration. It is the individual, after all, who must decide his own fate, re- gardless of safeguards and restraints. - Putting polson in bootleg liquor is going from bad to worse. Whisky by was necessary to ruin a man’s consti- tution. ———————— Life Terms as Crime Deterrents. An advance summary of the annual report of Police Commissioner Mo- Laughlin of New York, soon to be is- sued, shows that major crimes com- mitted in that city during 1926 were sixty per cent fewer than in 1925, and also fewer than in any year since 1922. The decrease, which shows in every month of the year, has been particularly noticeable since July, when the Baumes law, with its heavy penalty for old offenders, went into effect. The records for the Autumn and holiday months, when crime ac- tiv usually greatest, are re- garded as demonstrating the effective ness of that law as a deterrent. The commissioner in his report, it is stated, will ‘attribute o part of the de- crease of criminal activity to the su cess of the department in breaking up a number of gangs, includ{ng the Whittemore, the Amberg and the so- called “cry baby” bandits. The efficacy of the Baumes law as a crime deterrent is not to be ques- tioned. It confronts the professional criminal with life imprisonment. He cannot escape this penalty after three convictions. Recently a man with such a record was given a light sen- tence by a trial judge, and upon the later discovery of his past perform- ances another court ordered his re- arraignment and the imposition of the maximum penalty. That case has just been decided against the inltial trial court and the defendant by the ap fes are application of solid conunon sense, but court ate, thus estab pelate The | itself was once regarded as all that | earthquake shocks were | among the New Year experlences in | California. Th&seismograph proved a | fallure so far as the “compliments of the season” were concerned. | et | Paris has granted numerous divorces | | to unhappy Americans. The fact that waiters refuse tips does not prevent | more eminent personages from accept- ing fees. [ ———— | In a number of portions of the map |1t has been shown that the fighting as. | pirations of a country are in inverse | ratio to its size, i SRR | | Numerous fans regard Judge Landis | as the cop who threatens to intrude himself into the game in order to dis. cuss ethical questions, ! SHOOTING STARS. | BY PHILANDER JOH. Birthday Candles. Old Father Time has banqueted On flelds and towns, as years have sped. Winter, gleamed, The world a birthday cake has seemed. Old Father Time looked at the sky And viewed the glittering stars on high. Said he, “Like candles glowing clear, | There should be one for every vear."” And that, perhaps, we'll find is why So many stars are in the sky. Danger in Melody. you sing any Christmas 0N ‘While with its frosting, “Did carols?” “I didn’t take a chance,” answered Senator Sorghum. “I have no ear for music, and every time I used to try 1o sing 1 found T was losing votes Wrong Container. We should not be so sadly thrilled, It bootlegs were what people filled | insteaa of pouring it so free { In stomachs, where it should not be. Jud Tunkins s 's glad come- dians use custard pie. It would be a | fearful extravagance to throw mince meat around in that manner. No Spare Time. “What does Bliggins do with pare time?” “He hasn't any. Golf takes up every minute when he is not at his desk his “Advice,” said Hi Ho, the sage of hinatown, “however carnest, is usual- 1y a was of time unless you are some kind of a salesman.” e Warming Up. A dog. in Summer, fleas will catch | The plan would seem more wise {If Lie in Winter had to scratch, He needs the exercise. led de chillun to de Prom- said Uncle Eben. “De aat style o' leadin’ ome kind o realtor.’ “Moses ised Land,” man who now ‘pea does to ivb | acted on Capitol Hill 'twixt now and | Chapter of the American Association | The ad- | From the Birmingham News. the assocla- | tion's dinner in Washington on_Octo- the ides of March: Cruisers and air-| ships for the Navy: larger personnel and more equipment for the Army:| the fate of Senator-designate Frank | L. Smith of Ilinois: dispo Muscle Shoal the Lausanne treaty W dio control; tax reduction measures of varying degrees gency. Congress has but 52 days In which to climb this Mount | rest of national business. Unless | King Cloture now and then takes the throne, the outlook for its transaction is mot brilliant. The betting odds | favor a talkfest. | : farm relef h Turkey; rs and other | of ur-| America’s most notable round tabie | of journalism is to hold forth in an-| nual conclave at Washington on Jan- | uary 14 and 15. It is the meeting of | the American Society of Newspaper | Editors. As usual, it will be a stim- | ulating feast of shop talk, with a gal- | Xy of distinguished front-pagers do- | ing their stuff in the flesh before the | men who keep them in the limelight. Nicholas Mur: Butler, Chi | Evans Hughes, William Allen White, | Senator James' A. Reed, Senator Wil- liam E. Borah and Col. Hanford Mac- Nider, Assistant Secretary of War, are among the speakers on the two: program. President Coolidge will, has become his custom, be honor guest and principal speaker at the banquet which will close the pro- | ceedings on the evening of January 15. A paper to which special interest | attaches, entitled “Radio and - the ) will be read to the soclety by H. V. Kaltenborn, assoclate editor of the Brooklyn Daily Eagle and a pio- neer broadcaster of world events. ¥ Prohibition accomplished the miracle of producing a_couple of new stories during the holiday recess at Washing. | ton. A reelected Western Senator, sheepishly hovering o'er a flowing bowl on New Year day, sald he had an alibi—"My State voted for modifica- tion in November!” Nearby, also in- dulging, stood a national notable, who remarked: “The post I occupy is rep- resentative of the whole country. As half the country’s wet and the other half's dry, I drink half the time!” * ok ok K One of the congressional session's distinguished absentees is Representa- tive Daniel R. Anthony, ir., Repub- lican, of Kansas. Mr. Anthony has | been’ serfously ill in a hospital at | Tucson, Ariz., for many weeks. He | suffered a nervous breakdown last Summer and was ordered to the South- west_after a slege in a Kansas City hospital. In private life Antieony is editor and publisher of the ILeaven- worth Times. As ranking member of the House committee on appropria- | i his counsel and co-operation at s juncture are missed by Chairman Madden. The Army claims Repre- sentative Anthony as a friend in need, too. * ok ok % S. Parker Gilbert, brilliant voung American financler, who is agent gen- eral for reparations at' Berlin, has just arrived in Washington for a brief | annual leave of absence. He is mak- ing his headquarters in his old dig gings at the Treasury Department, where he served at Secretary Mellon's elhow as undersecretary in 1921, 192 and 1 Gilbert has enhanced an already high reputation by his admin- istration of the tangled reparations problem in Germany. To date it has | heen satisfactorily “solved along the systematic lines of the Dawes plan, | and Gilbert radlates confidence that, | barring accidents and granted a con tinuance of the German *will to pa; things will work out. The real crisis, from the Germans' -standpoint, has | lite | with Turkey of Advertising Agenc dress was delivered at 28, 1926 ber Printed on specially alien property | lected paper and bound in hand-tooled | | 1evantine | cased in a portfolio of similar mate- The Presi- couple of epigrams working | Which, advertising men say, are des- tined to become part of the language At one point Mr. Cool- | ‘advertising is the Elsewhere he said, | leather, the address is Y dent . lined in white satin. coined a of the tribe. dge observed that de.” nd means mass prod: ss demand is almost tion, and n x k% Mrs. Hamilton Wright, of a one-time United § from Minnesof Washburn, is ratification of now before the who spent many the anti-opium crus her late husband, daugh Sena an ardent advocate enate. le promoted recently he is one of the United States’ sentativ opium traffic commission. for not. reciated in tl coun apl government, hare toward Eastern bloc Occidental plans. Conversely, Wright thinks, ma in frustrating urable lue schemes. v Some authorities are asserting awe-struck accents that the impend- ing contest over confirmation Cyrus E. Woods of Pennsylvania interstate commerge may go far toward deciding President | “Deep Mr. Cool- -d_definitely Coolidge’s renomination fate. stuff” politics Is involved ilge 1s sald to have dec to renominate Frederi New Jersey. k 1. Cox 50 and in, Secretary Mellon: goes — intervened “forced” the The interstate commerce commit! of the Senate, before which the Woods intends going thoroughly into the whys and nomination is now pending, wherefores of the eleventh-hour leged Mellon intrusion. (Copyright, 1027.) . Cannot Keep the Pace. From the New York Sun. Senator Heflin of The man doesn't think anybody gifted enough to make denial does he? - No Time for Snakes. From the Birmingham Age-Herald. A Kentucky man has sent President Coolidge a Christmas gift in the form of a vest made of huge rattler skins. With Congress on his hands, Cal has seeing enough to see snakes also. to without —oe—s the Lausanne treaty, Mrs. Wright, s years in the Orient in returned | tfrom a periodical sojourn in Geneva. ! repre- | s on the League of Nations' Mrs, ation of the reasons v. She believes that if Ameri- | ca turns against Mustapha Kemal's shall be doing our ing Turkey into the forming on the other side of the world with avowed anti- Mrs. American friendship prove of immeas- those An hour or two before the Cox nomination was to be sent the story | virtually nomination of Woods. | Alabama says Secretary Mellon has not denied some- thing or other Heflin sald about him. keep pace with the charges he makes, It is good news from Alabama, and se- | Alabama Power Co. will proceed fm- mediately tc develop the Upper Tal- in- | lassee dam, so it will produce 50,000 is its present limit. It means, first of all, that the available supply of elec- tric power will be increased for in- dustry and other purposes. {means that several millions of dollars will be disbursed for labor and sup- plies, beginning at a period when the inflow of money is usually at its lowest. Over a thousand men will be on the pay roll, and the effect of this expenditure will be most beneficial. In addition, President Martin of the power company announces that in the purchase of supplies every dollar pos- sible will be spent in Alabama. And that will mean an increased market for the farm products of Alabama, as well as cement, stone, lumber, ma- chinery and other supplies. This Upper Tallassee dam was the first hydro construction of conse- quence in Alabama. It was first built in 1896 by Henry C. Jones and other citizens 6f Montgomery to supply Montgomery with light and power, and did so until 1919, when excessive floods of that year washed out the dam. The remalns were acquired by the Alabama Power Co. and restored to operation. Now the full possibilities are to be developed and, incidentally, it means the economic use of water, that being drawn from the storage reservoir at Lake Martin and used three times before its power possibili- tles have been exhausted, and at a time when low water on the Coosa has cut down the amount of electricity possible to produce on the Coosa plants. u, i | ter | tor of by his in i N of 3 = Dynamite. commissioner | From the New Orleans Tribune. The blasting of a drainage ditch 1,860 feet long, 10 feet wide and o feet deep, paralleling the Behrman Highway, recently, was an impres- sive demonstration of the efficlency of dynamite, expertly used, for this pur- pose. About 8,000 pounds were ex- ploded as a single blast—or simul- taneously scattered blast. The ditch was cut cleanly. To dig it by other methods, through the swampy land filled with stumps, timber and roots, would have been a long and cost- lier job. Dynamite is used more and more { frequently for this purpose. It is jalso used for clearing land, and for blasting holes for planting trees. Farmers find the method efficlent and economical, especially when they can do such work co-operatively, buying all necessary dynamite at once and employing an expert to set and ex- plode it. It saves time, labor, and frequently money. of tee al- is Lawyers in Minority. From the Sacramento Bee. Only three lawyers, two senators and a lone assemblyman are among the new members of the Nevada Leg- islature. Both houses are in full con- trol of ranchers and mining men for the first time in many years. The unusual legislative makeup resulted from determined drives of the farmers and miners to elect men representa- tive of the two industries. Too Accommodating. From the Loulsville Herald-Post. Another mistake China made was having rivers big enough to aecommo- date gunboats. ”~ e o 4e The Sophisticates. From the Dayton Daily News. One thifg the modern girl is sure of, and that 18 that a ring on the finger Is worth a @uzen on the phone. in especially central Alabama, that the horsepower, instead of the 8,500 which | It also | Thompson’s Report Received With General Another opportunity for a general expression of views on the question of Philippine _independence has _been given the American public by the re- port of Col. Carmi Thompson, sent by Prgsident Coolidge to investigate con- |ditions in_the islands. Col. Thomp- son's conclusion that the time is not ripe for turning the Filipinos loose to shift for themselves is indorsed by many editors, and his suggestions of new administrative activities and changes in methods also attract favor- able comment. In some quarters, how- ever, the idea of indefinite postpone- ment of complete independence is dis- quieting. The Des Moines Tribune thus expresses its feeling on that point “It is going to be harder and harder hereafter to deify, for purposes of military appropriations and the like, the concept of ‘national honor’ that must not_be permitted to be chal- lenged, while carefully dodging the |fulfillment of a solemn pledge in which the true national honor is definitely staked.” “The temor of the recommenda- tions,” in the opinion of the Sacra- mento Unton, “is just what every one with_the slightest acquaintance with | the Philippine conditions knew honest and non-political judgment would dic- tate. The recommendation that com- plete independence be mnot extended until the islands are sufficiently devel oped to maintain an independent status is equivalent to saying thaht the United States should continue its present role of benevolent and pro | tecting friend until there is more edu { cation and experience in the busines: |of government. This is the policy {which the averge Fillpino, exclusive ! to maintain.” | * * “The time has come,” advises the New York Times, “to place a mora- torlum on politics, both here and in |the islands, and to concentrate our |attention instead on the development |of a decent and effective government | which will hasten the educational, so- cial and economic growth of the Phil ippines. Our duty is, and for years will remain, that of trustee. So lon as the trust obligations are unfulfill- ed we are bound to administer the trust in the best interests of all the beneflciaries. This demands on art a thorough understanding of what we have done in the Philippines and of what still remains to do. ‘Americans are indebted to Col. Thomp- son for having helped greatly to en- lighten them about the true nature of the Philippine problem.” “When Col. Thompson states that politics 1s back of the whole question of independence,” says the Dayton Daily News, “that must be accepted as fact. It is easy to understand why economic conditions are not what they should be. American business hesitates to explore a field in which discontent and turmoll thrive. Amer- can finance insists on being in safe hands. With the natives of the is- lands disagreed among themselves on the question of independence, and distrustful of the ams and purposes of each other, business and financial men in this and every other country are not to be blamed for withholding lof the politiclans, desires this country | our | Favor by Pres native politiclans, and It might als. bring about economic conditions satis factory to American business and finance.” “Mr. Thompson's recommendation regarding extension of the Federal re serve system to the islands, the ex tablishment of one or more land bank= to provide loans to farmers at rea sonable interest rates, and establish ment of experiment stations by the Department of Agriculture,” im presses the Fargo Forum as in line with the administration’s poliey of helping the Filipinos in the develop ment of their industries and as *“ constructive step looking toward the consummatfon of the islands’ grea: dream.” * * Tndorsement of the Bacon bill Congress which would free the Moros from the jurisdiction of the Philip pine Legisiature withbut dismember ing the islands is given by the Salt ret News, which finds that s do not object to American rule, but will not remain subject t: Filipino control.” The San Francisco Bulletin observes, however, that in Col. Thompson's report “division of ands is opposed as involving a further breach of faith on the par of this countr That paper belleves that the report “will not be—welcome by vour military administration in tk islands, but if its recommendations a adopted the tension of the situation may be considerably relieved.” ““The report throughout is tem perate, with many proposals that ap | pear to be constructive,” says the In dianapolis New: The Richmond News-Leader holds that “the most delicate part of the task is to deter mine how soon local autonomy can b |increased, and that can best be ascer |tained by civilian administrators, to whom. as oon as practicable, the Presi dent should direct the War Depart |ment to turn over control of the | island. The N York Evening | Post believes that “with the Bacon ybill, the Thompson report and the le presence of Gen. Wood, Con |gress and the country should have | before them full material for intelli | gent discussion and decision upon the | important national problem. The Post adds that to its mind “Wood is and will be for years the best man for for governorship.” “The fundamental need” of the |islands, as found In the report by the St. Joseph News-Press, “Is a solution of the political problem, an aggravat ing phase of which is the deadlock be- tween Gov. Gen. Wood and the Leg tslature.” That paper advises that ‘“the obvious remedy is for Congress to modify the present right of rejec- tion, making it temporary or merely advisory. The appointive powers of the governor general ought to be en larged, both as a means of asserting American sovereignty and of lifting the Philippine service to a higher level of quality and efficiency.” ‘The St. Paul Pioneer Press gives attention to the “movement in the Philippines to appeal to the League of Nations for recognition and admit tance,” and offers the comment that “the road to independence for the Philippines does not lie through Geneva'; for “as long as the United relations. Col. Thompson's suggestion that civil advisers be sent to replace the military advisers now furnished Gen. Wood might serve to satisfy , States retains the Philippines, it will be the sole judge of the amount of autonomy It is well for them from time to time to receive.”