Evening Star Newspaper, January 9, 1927, Page 46

~g - THE EVENING With Sunday Morning Editios WASHINGTON, D. C. SUNDAY........January 9, 1927 THEODORE W. NOYES s Yoy The Evening Star Newspaper Company Office 11t s N R e ania Av cago Ofce: Towe Buropean Offica: 14 Rogent St London, ‘England. The Evenine Star. with the Sunday morn- F edition. is deliverad by carriers within £Re eity 21’60 centa mer month: dajly on cenis per month: Sundase only 20 cents r month Orders may he sent by mail or hone Main 8000, Collaction 18 made by SArrier al end of <ach monih. Rate by Mail—Payable in Advance. Maryland and Virginia. Iy and Sund £0.00:1m F’lv only i8R0 I m funday only 157.$3.00: 1 m All Other States and Canada. Sl 5.1 yr.. $12 o !4 hd Sunda..] 5. $12.00: 1 o v 88 100: 1 mo dpy only .Il1yrl $4.00:1m ” Member of the Associated Press. — Washington's Petition. The civilian Commissioffers must by law be threeyear Washingtonians. The wise policy of the Presidents and the War Department to utilize Wash- ington experience, acquaintance and Interest in the selection of an Engineer Commissioner often results in making of that officer as real and as enthus astic a Washingtonian as if he were stich By compulsion of law. When Col. Bell came to Washington Engineer Commissioner he was no stranger to the Capital. Twice before in the course of engineer assignment he had been with us. And from the moment of his arrival he threw him- self with {nterest and enthusiasm into the inspiring labor of Capital building. Our thoroughly democratic Army Commissioner has placed himself in fullest sympathetic touch with the thoughts, the wishes, the needs and the hopes of the local community. For example, he has been sponsor and guardian of our Citizens' Advisory Councll, and at the same time has been a conspicuous proponent of the national idea concerning the Nation's City as a member of the Parking Commission. We often hear one Washingtonian eriticizing another for alleged lack of vision. One Washingtonian is accused of seeing in his vision of the future Capital only the magnificent inani- mate material Capital of the perfected L’'Enfant plans. Another is accused of commercialized vision, of seeing with interest only the development of business Washington on money-mak- ing lines of individual profit. The only ‘Washingtonian of full vision is he who can pleture in his mind's eye and fight enthusiastically to make real both of the Greater Washingtons—the Na- tional Capital, with its material at- tractions in external aspect, and the ‘Washington of a halt million people, the men, who, as the poet declares, constitute the real state, the real city. Col. Bell has this full vision. He sees from the viewpoint of the Wash- ingtonian as well as from that of the mhost enthusiastic nationalist. Col. Bell's assignment terminates here normally next July. But we of Washington petition urgently that, if it be possible, his term of service here may be extended, in the interest of both Nation and Capital community. In view of existing conditions in the great movement now under way for the development of Washington's parks and public buldings, &n exten- sion of Col. Bell's term might be justi- fiéd, as giving him the opportunity (4nd the Capital City the benefit) of completing an unfinished task of im- portant public service. Nicaragua has launched one of the most interesting of all guessing con- tests in connection with the question of who is tha actual president at the immediate moment. - Why Not? The Bureau of Animal Industry of the Department 6f Agriculture has is- sued a report calling attention to the unusual prevalence of rables in the vicinity of Washington for the fiscal year ending June 30 last, during which period the record for the preceding decade was broken. Officials of this valuable bureau continue, as hereto- fore, to emphasize the importance of muzzling dogs, and point out the fact that “it is regrettable that a general, effective muzzling of all dogs that are permitted to run at large cannot be enforced.” The District of Columbia has a part- veAr ordinance for such muzzling, but the weak spot in this is that, con- trary to the common idea, there are more dogs actually mad in December than in the Summer “dog days.” In Loulsville, Ky., for the week ending Dacember 20 last, fifteen families were registered with the Public Health De- partment as having one or more mem- bers taking the Pasteur treatment, which & the only known preventive for this most dreadful of diseases, which, once it has developed, is im- possible of a cure, whether dog, rabbit, cow or human heing. Private physicians were known to be treating & number of others. The secretary of the State Board of Health at- tributed the Louieville situation to the two things to which such is always attributable, namely, unmuzzled dogs, owned or ownerless, or failure to im- munize pet canines. In 1002 England, alarmed and aroused over a series of rabies epi- demics, ordered the muzzling of all dogs at all times until all signs of rables should disappear from a speci- fled district. Science had always claimed that this would do the trick, and science was correct. England had not one single case of rables from the time of.that clean-up on until the ‘World War, when aviators carried their pets above and over quarantine. All the sympathy ever expended on all the dogs wearing muzzles since such equipment was first devised eould not balance the scale against in the feelings of one mother watching a Even the loved child dying of rabie: STAR treatment are dificult enough to bear. To claim or to admit that a general and effective muzzling of all dogs can- not be enforced here, or in any other leivilized community, is so foolish as |t excite combined feelings of ridicile, | indignation and pity. Such a move jcan and should be enforced. Public apathy is a hard foe, but it can ba conquered. The dog lover whose crav- ing for canine companionship s such hat he or she simply must keep a dog in an urban community—which, by the way, dog experts will readily ad- mit 1s no place to keep one, either from the dog’s standpoint or that of the public—can and should be taught that to let the pet go unmuzzled is an offense against the public welfare which cannot be condoned. Stray dogs can and should be put out of the way. In connection with such a simple and efficacious ordinance there should be such word as ‘“cannot” in the bright lexicon of public health and police officials. no A Farm Relief Hope. In the Curtis-Crisp bill, introduced in the two houses of (‘ongress last week by Senator Curtis of Kansag, the Republican leader, and Representa- tive Crisp, Democrat of Georgla, there {apparently is better hope of effective and sound legislation for the relief of agriculture than has hitherto ap- peared upon the horizon. Students of jthe problem who have made an analy- sis of the measure are convinced that it would be at least as effective as either of the McNary-Haugen pro grams in caring for crop surpluses, and it does not embody the fundamen- tal objection of putting the Govern. ment into the business either of buy- ing and selling farm commodities or of fixing the prices thereof. Briefly,. the Curtis-Crisp bills pro- vide for a Federal Farm Board and a $250,000,000 revolving fund to be furnished from the United States Treasury. Whenever in the judgment of the board there was a surplus of any given agricultural commodity be. yond world requirements, Joans would be made to farm co-operatives or cor- porations organized by them to buy up the surplus and hold it until it could be marketed at prices which would not be below the cost of pro. duction. The Government would not be represented on the boarde of these co-operatives or their corporations, and the Government, therefore, would not engage directly either in buying and selling or in price fixing. The pub- lic is protected by a provision that a co-operative or a corporation obtain- ing loans from the fund must not hold back commodities to a point where prices would be unduly” enhanced to American consumers. Loans so made would bear interest at a rate 1 per cent above that paid by the Govern- ment in its last previous borrowing. The so-called ‘“equalization fee, which has been objected to on the grounds that it would be unconsti- tutional and unworkable, is eliminated from the Curtis-Crisp bill. Instead, it is provided that in years of profit a reserve fund shall be created against years of loss and that in the ahsence of a sufficient reserve any losses in one operating period would be carried over to the next operating period, and in the face of such losses immediate repayment of Government loans would not be required. Another objection to the McNary- Haugen program has been that its operation would be a constant stim- ulus to continued overproduction and the piling of surplus upon surplus, the same way by all announcers { throughout Great Britain. Whether said announcers are making progress in destroying sach dialects as the burring Yorkshire, the broad Devo- nian that Lancashire Fnglish Which travelers think must he Welsh and which Welshmen are convinced is Gaelic, was not stated. Britain is a small fsland, but its linguistic vari- ations are as stubbornly ineradicable as they are ancient. Persons all over the United States are pretty well able to understand one another, and while it might be well to get a hundred million people to saying certain words in a certain manner, it is by no means generally admitted that to bring the speech of the residents of the different sectiona to a dead level of bookish correctness and accuracy is desirable. No man who has ever kept company with a Southern girl would wish the young ladies of Dixie to talk otherwise than as they do. Imagine a Baitimorean actually saying “Baltimore!” The funny stories pertaining to New Eng- or :land to “Pennsylvania Germany" or |to the high | more than a great part of thbir savor. Appalachians would lose Literature, sometimes would suffer greatly decadence of dialect. Discriminating listeners who can spot an acquaint- ance's origin hy means of a rolled r,” or a silent “r,” or the same let- ter tacked on the end of a word eng- ing in “a," would be placed at a great disadvantage. The sprightly hotel clerk, with carefully attuned ear, would lose half of his glad-handigg stock fn trade. Think of a “N'Yawk- er” saying ‘“world” and ‘“burglar” and “shirt” as they are spelled! Opportunities of the radio to do good seem almost limitless, To get the whole country to accenting tHe first syllable of “garage” may be a fine thing. But to get the whole country to galking as Bostonlans talk. or rather as they think they talk, would be a little too much of a good thing. Long live the sing-xong sen- tences, with misplaced stress, of the Philadelphian: the drawl of the resi. dent of the great Southwest; the twang of the Vermont hills, the “Uhiah" of the Ohioan—even the soft “Washn'n” of the District of Co- lumbia cave-dwellers! ——os A town in Ireland has forbidden young people to “sit out” dances. It would be a wholesome move if Ire- land could revise her old-fashioned dances and substitute brisk reels or jigs for the insidious languor of mod- ern paces. of the best, through the et Communication by radio is expected by some enthusiastic scientists to be established with the planets. Having succeeded in covering the civilized map by long-distance messages, radio now imitates Alexander and seceks new worlds to conquer. e ‘Whenever any kind of neighborly complication threatens Uncle Sam, Paris editors exercise ingenuity in an effort to connect it with his book- keeping and collection department. e The Nation was never so prosperous and some of the Senators are no doubt warranted in assuming that the taxpayers can afford any number of colossal investigations. S It is Senator Borah's frankly ex- pressed theory that deference to the United States Constitution must ex- tend to the entire document and not The Curtis-Crisp bill guards against this by a provision that loans shall not be made from the revolving fund it ensuing production of such com- modity shows an Increase in planting or breeding, estimates of the Depart- ment of Agriculture on such planting or breeding to be accepted as au- thoritative. With such a nucleus to work upon it would seem that it ought not to be dificult for all who are sincerely de- sirous of obtaining relief for agricul- ture to agree upon a measure which could be enacted into law at the pres- ent session of Congress. That some- thing should be done to put agricul- ture upon a sound and enduring basis 18 not alone a corn-belt problem or a cotton-belt problem or even solely an agriculture problem, It is a press- ing Nation-wide problem of the first magnitude. Lincoln sald the Nation could not endure half slave and half free, and it is equally true that the Nation cannot endure half prosperous and half bankrupt. Either agriculture must he enabled to partake of the general prosperity or the entire structure of prosperity will come tumbling down. The Curtis-Crisp bill 18 not a parti- san measure, for it is fathered by the Republican leader of the Senate and a prominent Democratic member of the House. It i8 not a sectional measure, for one of its authors is from the West and the other from the S8outh. Partisan political ad- vantage is not to be gotten out of it. Now it is needful that hopes of per- gonal political advantage should be surrendered and the subject ap- proached solely from the viewpoint of what is good for the farmer and for all the people. If this can he done the problem will he solved, and solved right, and the Congreas in its closing days will win an esteem that will Jargely make up for the many short- comings which have been charged against it. ———— e The latest admonition may exert some influence, although Mexico has for a long time gpecialized in unheeded warnings. i e “Mike” and Our Common Speech. Variances in American speech may be ended by means of the radio. In an address before the National Asso- ciation of Teachers of Speech in Chi- cago, the other day, an Evanston in- structor, lately residing in London, advanced the idea that “mike” can be made to exert a unifying influence which will rid the American language of provincial pronunciations and dialects. Bhe declared that English had received beneficial results through the appointment of a committee to standardize pronunciation . through the co-operation of radio announcers. The lady sgave & list of certain be limited to certain parts of it. > English grooms are still looking for a horse sufficiently intelligent to rec- ognize a prince when he sees one and conduct himself accordingly. SHOOTING STARS. BY PHILANDER JOHNSON. Back to Eden. When Adam was from Eden sent No more to dream and shirk. He found, with direst discontent, He had to go to work. And Eve must learn more clothes to wear | Than when she gamboled free. Through ages long of weary care ‘Tis thus our fate must be. But now the explation seems Almost complete at last. Perhaps we'll realize the dreams Of blisees long since past. Man only tolls a five-day week With each day’s task but small. The garments that the girls will seek Are nearly none at all, Nursing a Job. “You think grave perils confront our republie?” “It has always been part of the business of every statesman to think that way. If it were not for the perils, there would be no,need of statesmen.” Terror Times. While reading communistic news, As teachings curious are spread, I hear a tune they call the “Blues 1 hope they never play the “Reds.” Jud Tunkins says he may love his fellow man, but his business compels him to hide his feelings. Optimism Defeated. “If you can't say something pleas- ant, keep qulet.” “Impoasible. I'm a weather fore- caster.” i Mechanical Musle. When Sister Susie used to play The tunes she practiced daily, We listened in a patient way And praised her very gayly. We long for Sister Busie's songs. Her melodies grow weaker. She dances now the whole day long And hands us a loud speaker. “De world was made in seven days, said Uncle Eben. ‘“We're lucky none of it had to be left out because of a five-day week. "o The Seasonal Alibi. From the Columbus Dispateh. Use the ice.on-the-windshield alibi freely now; it will not be worth a whoop next Summer. aity Fr e Competitive Uplift. From the Pittsburgh Chronicle-Telegram. When New. York gets its 110-sto; building, Chicago may begin to thini hardships of the preventive Pasteur trick wordssvhich-naw ere uftered in of higher things. A 9, EVERYDAY RELIGION BY THE RIGHT REV. JAMES E. FREEMAN, D. D., LL. D., Bishop of Washington. PLACES OF REFUGE. “Appoint out for you cittes of refuge.”—Joshua, rr.3. The ahove word was spoken to a people who in the course of their migration were preparing to enter A new and permanent place of resi- dence. Their leader was admonishing them that once they entered this new land in which they were to dwell they should immediately set about creating at strategic points centers so well secured from Invasion that they might prove to them to be places of ‘sanctuary. “They shall be unto you citles of refuge.” In them they should find protection until such time as their cause might be adjudieated. They were to be not only places of refuge for the cltizen of the country who sought them, but ‘“for the stranger and for the sojourner.” A more modern example of such a place of refuge or sanctuary is to he tound in the great massive Durham Cathedral that stands on its splendid eminence ahove the River Weir, in England. On one of the great doors of thie shrine hangs a grotesque brass knocker that has heen there for long centuries. Ona morning as we en- tered this portal we noticed the huge knocker and asked its significance. We were promptly told that it was placed there for those whn in other Aays, flesing from persecutors, sought the cathedral as a place of refuge and sanctuary. No matter what the cfr- cumstances might be that ' brought one to this shrine, whether from a sense of guilt or {nnocence, onge fie lifted the knocker and tHe great doors were thrown open to him no one might touch him until a competent tribunal had given its jndgment - concerning him. It was a temple of refuge and repose. With the story vividly in mind we enterad the great Norman building, and it seemed to interpret to us an aspect of the church that we had never before fully sensed. It was mot only a place for worship; it was a place for repose, in which one might see more clearly the meaning of iife’s problems and. dificulties and in which one might securg that sense of quiet and assurance' that alone proceeds from a buflding that stands for strength and permanence and se curdty. The need of certain well defined and fixed places to which we may repair from time to time and find surcease from life's cares and trials Is indispensable. To live forever in THE LIGHTHOUSE SERVICE BY FREDERIC J. HASKIN. Two hundred and ten years ago the first lighthouse on this continent was bullt by the Province of Massa- chusetts on little Brewster Island, at the entrance to Boston Harbor. To- day the Lighthouse Service of the United States maintains more than 18,000 ailds to navigation along sea and lake coasts and rivers that ag- gregate 40,635 miles in length. In 1746, 30 years after the estah- tishment of the Boston lighthouse. a second was erected on Brant Point, Nantucket Harbor. arragansett Bay wag next lighted in 1749 with a hea con at Beavertall, on Conanicut Island, and the other colonial light- houses in the order of their estab- lishment were New London, Conn.: fandy Hook, N. J., the entrance to New York Bay: Cape Henlopen, the entrance fo Delaware Bay: Morris Island, Charleston, S. C.; Plymouth| Light, on Gurnet Point, Masasa- chusetts, entrance to Portsmouth Harbor; Cape Ann Lights, Thatchers Tsland, Massachnsetts; Great Point, Nantucket Island, and the Newbury port, Mass,, Harbor Lights. In ‘1789 the Congress of the new United States of America passed an act providing for the maintenance of lighthouses and other aids to navi- gation by the Federal Government and the 12 colonial lights then in op- eration were ceded to the Federal Government by the States. Four other lighthouses undertaken by the colonies, but nmot in operation at_the time of the organization of the Fed- sral Government, were likewise ceded. They were at Portland Head, Me.; Tybee, at the entrance to the Sa- vannah River; Cape Henry, Va., and Bald Head, at the entrance to Cape Fear River, N. C. All of these stations are still in op- eration, but the original structures at moat of them have heen replaced or added to. At Sandy Hook, however, the old masonry tower erected in 1764 is still in use, and that at Cape Henlopen, erected in 1785, was used untfl 1924, Then, bacause of the ex- pense of protection and diminished importance, it was replaced by an automatic light, and, as if it could not survive uselessness, it crumbled into the sea on April 13 of this year. Different Kinds of Aids. to navigation are of three lighted alds, fog signals and Of the first the im- portant lights on June 30 last num- bered 2,089, and there were 46 light ships, 464 gas buoys, 287 gas buoy with whistles and bells, 3,377 minor lights and 197 float lights. Fog sig- nals, including radio beacons, subma- rine signals, whistling buoys, bell buoys and the like numbered 1,239 while the unlighted alds were 7,533 buoys and 3,185 day beacons, the grand total heing 18,130, This represents a net increase of 268 aids during the year, although 694 were discontinued, while .there was a net reduction of 81 in per- sonnel, the total number of employes in the Lighthouse Service at the close of the fiscal year being 5.880. As Commissioner Putnam points out, the United States Light House Service is the largest organization of ite kind in the world, since it lights and marks the coasts and inland navi- gable waters of the United States and of all ita outlylng possessions, except the Philippines an the Panama Canal Zone. Tts organization was the earliest public work of the Govern- ment, having heen provided for at the firat sesafon of Congress. “The establishment. has grown with increase of territory and commerce.” says the commissioner, “and In its operations the developments of sclence and engineering are continually ap- plied, particularly in the fields of physics, optics, acoustics, and elec- tricity, and of civil, mechanical, elec- trical and marine engineering and naval architecture. The most rapid advances have been made in recent years, including, for example, the in- troduction of quick-revolving lenses throwing powerful light beams, ofl- vapor lights, automatic acetylene lights, lighted buo: more powerful mound. signals, radio fog signals, auto- matic,gas fof signals, submarine sig. nals, improved light vessels and tenders equipped with radio and con-, crete construction.” The Sesquicentennial Exhibit. ‘The development of the service was graphically shown during the past Summer and Autumn at the Sesqui- centennial Exposition in Philadeiphia by an exhibit which emphasized the historie features of lighthouse work in contrast with new and improved apparatus. For instance, the firat fog signal used in this country, a can non which was fired in 1719 to answer signals from shipe in thick weather. Alds types unlighted aids. was shown alongside a modern inter; nal combustion engine and air com- pressor, operating a _six-inch auto- matic siren by means of a control the great open epaces of life, to feel constantly that we are carried along In its swift currents, to think of it alone in terms of unbroken action and consecutive movement, means not only to lose our sense of poise but to give no place to periods of quiet reflection and thus to destroy our sense of deliberate action. Gals- worthy says concerning our present trend: “If I were to put our civili tion in one word, I should call i feverish, and I think that some sort of a revolution in our standards of tastes and demands would be far more important to us than any revolution of a political nature.” To his mind there 1is little, if any, opportunity for quiet and repose, for clear thinking, or, indeed, for effective living. Fven in’ our reiigious hahits and practices the speeding-up process is evident. After all, there is some wisdom In the Quaker method that calls for silent meeting houses. There is vir-j tue in a kind of intercourse that is inarticulate. Emerson and Carlyle witnessed to this in the long avening they spent together in silence, with only a sense of soul kinship. 1If our churches witnessed more largely to the things of a quiet, reverent wor. ship, and if the pulplt messages deait more fully and completely with those vital themes about which we are all thinking—in fine, if praver and song and sermon were all designed to give to a tired and perplexed man or wom- an a greater sense of repose and a deeper understanding of life's mean ing, we doubt not there would be fewar: empty pews and more people A&rln!(h.nfld and equipped to meat |the harassing and confusing prob. lems of daily life. We have often wondered what justification there fs for keeping the doors of churches closed six days in the week. To per- mit them to stand open for the casual visitor were far better. Our city life growa more tense and the drain upon our physical résources increases day by day. We may not have much tfme for qufet or reflection. On the other hand, it s becoming Increasingly clear that we all need places of refuge, the saanctuary of some silent and reposefiil buil®ng that im itself witnesses to the eternal verities. That is a fine passage In Frank Crane's “Actor's Prayer,” in which he save: “May I touch the infinite and share the divine current that thrille all high souls!" “To touch the infinite” we need the quiet and seclusion which some house of refuge affords that wit- nesses to the things that are eternal. | mechanism sounding powerful blasts at regular intervals. Another interesting exhibit was a large gas and bell buoy, weighing 12 tons, which carries an automatic flashing light 16 feet above the sea. which burns for thres months with: out attention, and a 1,800-pound bell that is rung ~onstantly by the action of the sea. The body of this massive buoy is 9 feet in diameter, and it is 182 feet in length. Contrasting with it i8 a_small cone buoy, not as large as a barrel, which can be handled by one man. It is designed for shoal- water uae. The first lighthouse lens Fresnel system used in the United States alto was shown. It was made in France and installed In this coun. try in 1841.° Many types of modern lenses and fog signals and buoys were exhibited, together with models of lighthouses nd lightships and about 100 photographs showing typical structures and vessels. YOUR CHILD of the 1927—PART 2 Capital Sidelights ! “Lest we forget There were 74,383 of our American | soldlers who died overseas in the World War - 36,604 of whom were killed In action. 13,681 who died from wounds and 23,998 who died from pneu- | monia, Influenza and other diseases. These statistics havg just heen pre- sented to Congress in connection with | appropriations for carrying forward the work of the American Battle Monu- | ments Commlission to erect chapels in | the eight cemeteries where the Ameri- can dead sleep. In addition to the 40 now burled in our cemeteries overseas, 46,214 were brought back to this country. | The first of thess chapels is to be the Thiaucourt, on the St. Mihiel bat tlefleld—America’s first big operation in the war. The consulting architect for these chapels is Dr. Paul P. Cret | of Philadelphia, who designed the Pan- | ; American Building here. | The eight cemeteries are; At Wae- | reghem, in Belgium, thera are 365 | graves, and the cost of the chapel is | $50,000. At Bony there are 1,826 graves, and the cost of the chapel is $90.000. At Suresnes there are 1,506 graves, and $100,000 is allotted. At Fere.en-Tardenois there are 5046 | graves, and $140.000 ja allotted. At | Relleau there are 2212 graves. and | $110,000 has been allotted. At Thiau- | court there are 4.141 graves, and $140, 000 has been allotted, and at Romagne there are 14107 graves almost half | the number of graves we have in Eu- rope—and $200,000 has heen allotted. ok ow | In Washington we have only about | one-ninth of all the Government em. | ployes under civil service. The num- ber here, according to a report just made to Corgress, is 60,811, while the | total army of civillan workers all over the United States is 560,705, In Wash ington we have a larger number of women employed in Uncle Sam's work- shop than men. 35,805 as against 2 008 male workers. Throughout the Statea the record is far different, for there the women are only about one ninth of the whole number, or 54,752 out of 499,894, | Tn Washington by far the largest | number of employes is in the Treas- | ury Department, which has 14,762, | while the agencies ranking next in | number of emploves are the Navy De- partment with 5,044, the Department of Agriculture with 4,792, the War De- | partment with and'the Veterans' | Rurean with 4.567. The Commission | of Fine Arts has the smallest nimber of employes, with only 2 on the pay | roll. in the field service—that is. through out the States—firat place as whole- | male employver is taken hy the Post | Office Department with 302,067 on the | pay roll, while next in line comes the War Department with 44,193, the Navy with 38,396, the Treasury with | 36,837 and the Veterans’ Bureau with 19.830. The smallest number em ployed by any agency In the field is | & with the Railroad Administration, and 14 with the Tariff Commission. oo % The design of the bird house in the | Zoo has caused the Commission of | Fine Arts considerable trouble. This | $150,000 brick structure was the sub- | ject of three meetings and the de- | sign was changed considerably in conformity with the commission's suggestions—and all this was ex-| plained to the House appropriations | committee the other day when Repre- sentative Will R. Wood of Indiana could not see why a Fine Arts Com- | mission was needed to build a bird | house. | | * X X x One of the important humanitarfan works that are being carried out in connection with the economy-efficiency program of the Government is to give prisoners in our penal Institutions work to do which will prevent their developing vices in idleness and which will help the Government to save ex penses. For example, Congress ap- propriates half a million dollars for twine for the Post Office Department. and it i& now planned to have this| twine made in various prisons, as is IN SCHOOL By Dr. Frank W. Ballou, Superintendent olnlr,!nnll. ‘Washington. Linking Home and School. A spirit of sympathy and close co- operation must exist between the par- ent and the teacher if an intelligent understanding and proper procedure i& to be established in the education of our boys and girls. Parent and teacher together are vitally interested in child training as a whole. The interest of one cannot be viewed as existing apart from the interest of the other. Neither has a sphere which Is separate and distinct It should be apparent to the thoughtful observer that the parent and the teacher are seeking the same objective, namely, the proper training of the child. The parent is exerting an influence over the child in the home and at other times outside of 8c¢hool hours, while the teacher is un- dertaking to provide systenfatic edu cation and training for the child within the school, and, in some re- spects, outside of actual school hours. If parents take the view that the education of the child is exclusively the responsibility of the teacher, and render the teacher no stance in her work, the classroom instruction s going to be immeasurably less ef- fective than it should be. If, on the other hand, teachers proceed on the assumption that they do not need the advice, counsel and sympathetic un- derstanding of parents, the success of the school will fall far short of those high standards of accomplish- ment at which educators aim. Fortunately, successful teachers do not take such a narrow view of their place in the educative plan. They know that they can succeed with their share of the great task of train- ing the Nation's youth only by a thorough understanding of the chil- dren confided to their care. They know that their success, and the suc- cess of the children, depends on an intimate knowledge of the problems of the individual child obtained through a broad conception of the child, not enly in school, but in his environment in the home, on the playground and wherever else ha may be found. When the teacher hscomes per- sonally acquainted with the child's parents, has learned of thelr ambi- tlons for him, and knows soniething of his problems and capacities, the teacher is in a better position to pro- vide proper instruction for that ehild. Such personal acquaintanceship be- tween teacher and parent usually brings about mutual confidence, the parent knowing what the teacher is trying to do for the child, and the teacher realizing that the effort of the classroom 18 receiving proper parental support at home. Meetings of parent-teacher associa- tions provide opportunities for parents and teachers to become acquainted, and furnish occasions for the discus. slon of educational matters of mutual concern, Both teachers and parents should take advanufe of the oppor- tunity thus offered of becoming mem- hers of parent-teacher organizations and show thelr interest by regularly attending meetings. In addition to parent-teacher meet- ings, most schools set aside certain times for the recelving and enter- taining of parents. Speclal assem- hlies and school entertainments of varfous kinds furnish parents ‘with opportunities to visit the school and hecome acquainted with the institu- tion in which their boys and girls spend so much of their daily lives. Moreover, in every progressive school system parents are encour- aged to visit the public scheqls st dona in Minnesota for the farmers, with a very substantial saving. Also, all tags for automobiles in tre Na tional Capital are hereafter to be made at Occoouan, as the State of Maryland has theirs made at the peni tentiary in Baltimore. The present cost is 12 cents per pair and the es- timated cost of Occoquan manufac- ture is 8 cents, which would mean a saving of $5,000 or $6,000 a year. The Bureau of Efficiency at the request of the Department of Justice is planning to enlarge the plant at Leavenworth to make more and better discharge sults for prisoners. LR Salvaged out of the old models of patentg which were recently sold by the Patent Office to eave storage “harges, the Bureau of Efficiency has installed an exhibit of labor-saving devices. This iz an interesting col- leetion of old original typewriters and adding machines, paper cutters, let ter openers and whatnot, The Bureau of Efficlency, on sug- gestion of the House Mppropriations committes, {8 going to make a !Yud,\"v of what patent papers ar “activ or in daily demand and which others are called for very infrequently, with a view to maving probably two-thirds of the space in the Patent Office racks. ok ok The Government Hotels, soon to dis- appear from the park area between the Capitol and Unlon Station, have, without general knowledge on the part of the public, or even of Congress, heen furnishing ice to the Capitol and doing a big laundry job for practically all the Qovernment establishments— with a considerable reduction in cost. During five months the ice plant at the Government Hotels sent out 418, 350 pounds of ice, at a cost of $836.70, to the Capitol and a small patronage of Government agencies. The laundry at the Government Ho- tels has done towels for 43> Govern- ment departments and bureaus, to a total of 2,500,000 towels last vear. In addition to this they have laundered about 54,000 miscellaneous pieces, in- cluding uniforms and other articles for. the Hyglenic Laboratory. This laun- dry has just taken on the National Guard as & new patron. EEE Uncle Sam expects soon to resume laundering his “fiithy lucre.” Before the World War ited States cur- rency was successfuily laundered, but at that time the chemistry of the prob- lem was not carefully studied, with the result that, put back in circula- tlon, the washed currency soon became goft and flabby. Then when the dyes used at the Bureau of Engraving and Printing were not as good as they had been, the money laundry was closed. Now the Bureau of Efficlency and the Bureau of Standards are co-operating to determine the life of a dollar bill, with specfal reference to the chem- istry involved, and the tests indicate the possibllity of a very great saving through coating the paper to make it more resistant of grease and dirt. * ok x X The recent acquisition of the Roeb- ling and Canfleld collections of min- erals by the Smithson'an Institution and their importance have just been explained to a committee of Congress. Emphasis was placed on the fact that the mineral collection of the National Museum is now considered to be the best in the world, the only cagparable collection being in the British Museum in London. Most of this material has been recelved in the National Museum within_the last couple of weeks. any time and see the work which goes on therein. Through these means teachers and parents establish real bonds of friendeflip and co-opera- tion, whigh inevitably must promote the educational welfare of the boye and girls) whom the parents lnmn\l so largel. the care of teachers. gfl-unswu s, .firmed, and the whole civil and mili- MEN AND From the faraw comes a new Philippines | interpretation of the | American flag. The significance of the national emblem has been & sub ject of oratory ever since the hirth of the Republic, but it has remained for Rear Admiral Sumner E. W. Kittelle | of the Navy, commanding the Philip- | pines naval district. a God-fearing, sea. | faring man, to pay a tribute of which | the ablest speakers of the ages might well be proud. That the Filipinos might know more of the hanner which | floats over tham, and which Admiral Kittelle believes is destined to re main, the naval officer dellvered a message which applies “back home™ | s well as In the Paclfic islands. “Unquestionably,” he sald, “from an artistic standpoint it is the most beautiful of any of the national flags. Our national flag not only embodies our highest asplrations, but it also symbolizes the highest attalnment and | ultimate perfection of our people. The | flag of the United States symbolize: and foreshadows the greatest possi bilities of any flag ever designed Many flags have the same colors, but | none combined in the same manner. The colors of a flag are very much like the letters apelling a word or the notes of music that go to make up a | melody. Therefore, the flag of each | nation proclaims that nation's ‘word’ and sounds its keynote, thua rallying | to it all the unseen forces harmoniaing | with its colors and symbols. n our flag the red symhalizes the e force, the martial force; its clear, right shade representing all the ighest possihilities of conrage, energy and power. It is the maseculine force of the Nation as well as the Intensity. of unselfish love that will fight for a principle. ! “The red alternates in equal inter- vals with the white of purity, sanity righteousnaess, just and _brother- hood. This proclaims to the world that we will fight if we have to, ndt hecause we seek to spill our brother's blood, or for aggrandizement, hut for righteousness, fustice, freedom and liberty—sane and righteous freedom and liberty without license—for these must be maintained by force if nec sary, and hence the number of red | stripes is one greater than the white, thus symbolizing the fact that we chall never allow ourselves to hecome s0 weak that we cannot fight for the right. Therefore, war is not our gov erning spirit, but rather an ever.pres. ent desire for peace honorably won and honorably maintained. “Now we come to the blue. Blue is | said to be the color of the great mother force in life, the power that brings forth and cherishes all that is lovable. “No other flag has the arrangement | of these colors as in our flag. Others have the blue, but not in one great mass like a gea of color on which the five-pointed stars are arranged side by side in harmonious order. “From time immemorial the five pointed star symbolizes man; the white stars in our flag symbolize the puri- fled men and women of America gath- ered together and living in peace and order, not only among themselves but Fifty Years Ago In The Star A move against gambling in Wash- ington was started half a centiry 460} : s and in The Star of Anti-Gambling january 1, 1877, is ¥ the following com- Movement. ;.00 on a meeting held for its promotion: “There was » large and earnest meeting at Lincoln Hall yvesterdag in behalf of the movement to suppress gambling. Rev. Dr. Wills, among the speakers. perhaps gave the best prac- tieal suggestions for the cure. The first remady was industry, absorbing industry. Indolence was the parent of all vice. The second was home in- struction; make the home attractive; diffuse sunshine over the family cir- cle. Third, abolish gambling at church fairs; there was where yvoung men were first attracted by gambling. Let the churches put their foot on it and declare that there shall be no more rafing in the churches of ‘Washington. Fourth, charity to gam- blers: they are not the worst sinners in the world. Let gamblers know that they are mot beyond reform. | Fifth, good reading rooms and good libraries for our young men. will have some stimulant. Let them have good. wholesome stimulant. Sixth, the Gospel of Jesus Christ is the sovereign, infallibla remedy for all vice. Bring the young men into the Sunday schools, churches, temperance socleties, and throw a ‘moral breast work about them that would resist every surge of vice. “All of which is very good and sen- sible, and to the purpose.” * * % As the- New Year dawned half a century ago the presidential situation . remained undetarmined. Presidential Congrees had not reach: i i ed the point of counting Situation. {i"eoforar votes and there was disquieting uncertainty as to the outcome. The Star of January 2, 1877, says: “Under the head ‘The Latest Phase of the Situation’ the New York Herald discusses the situation in view of all the events of the past week, and comes to the conclusion that political sentimant is settling back into the condition which immediately followed the meeting of the electoral colleges on tha fth of December. By the face of these certificates Mr. Hayes had 185 votes and Mr. Tilden 184, making a majority for Hayes and electing him, unless the prima facie result can be overthrown. ‘On the face of the returns,’ that paper says, ‘Mr. Hayes | is elected, and the burden of proof rests with the Democrats when a claim is made that certificates are invalidated by fraud. Flectoral votes cannot be rejected on mere doubts or suspicions, but only on conclusive evi- dence. If full investigation leaves the result in any State doubtful, the ar- raigned canvassing board is entitled to the benefit of the doubt.’ “On the assumption that Mr. Hayes will be declared elected and inducted into office the Herald proceeds to ar- gue that any attempt to inaugurate Mr. Tilden in opposition to him will be futile; that in case Mr. Tilden was sworn in it would be an idle form; that the Senate would not receive, much less confirm, any nominations for cab- inet or other officers he might send in: that no officer, civil or military, would give any heed to the commands 6f Mr. Tilden, whereas all Mr. Hayes' appointments will be promptly con- They tary service would yvield him ready obedlence. Any attempt of the House to stop the supplies would. in the opinion of that paper, be suicidal for the Democratic party. The House alone cannot repeal the tariff and tax laws. Money would continue to flow into the Treasury, though it could not be taken out of it, and the effect upon the country of blocking up the money in the public vaults at the rate of $300,000,000 per annum would be so disastrous that it would not be long before the whole business community would be In rebellion. Further, the wants of the Government are provided for up to the 1st of July, which affords sufficient time for Mr. Hayes to et his administration in successful oper atlon. ““The speculations of the Herald are chiefly noteworthy as indicating the business view of the situation in Mr. Tdden’s own parish.” } | o glorious a AFFAIRS T. SMALL. also as a living example to the world, “The red and white being coequal, our victorfes must_be won as much by the forces of th@white as the red, If the field were Il white, it would avmholize peace at any price, but the white is held in balance by the red, which means peace attained and mal; tained, if necessary, by righteous war. fare “In its emblem America thus pro: claims to the world that it has con ceived and set hefore its children the high ideal and glorious oppertunity of hecoming the leader In liberty and freedom. sanely concelved and guardad, How proud we should he to live under symbol! How great 13 our responsibility " Now that Christmas is well over, there is renewed discussion of the move to do away with make-believa Santa Clauses hoth before and aftsr the festival of the hirth of the Christ. There was a marked advance this past eason over all previous vears. Thers were fewer of the strest Santas seek- ing contributions for the poor. The contributions were sought and re. cefved, but the organizations charge discarded the dress of Kriss Kringle, thereby saving many anxious and ordinarily truthful mothers from thousands of embarrassing questions. Pseudo-Santas seam still to ba the style in many stores and alss at Sun. day scheol celebrations. To explain these to inquisitive and knowing voungsters, many mothers have in vented the story that the disguised persons are merely agents of the real Santa Cla Tt is taxing the cradulity of children a little too far to have scores of Santa Clauses hanging around for a month hefore Christmas and then to have a school celebration a week after with Santa still in evi At one of thesa latter celebrations in Washington Santa was so poorly made up as to deceive no one. Still he insisted upon playing the part, and, approaching the children In the front row, he demanded: “What's my name There was no reply. Again Santa repegted his query, Still no answer, A third time the searching question was asked. And then a little girl at the very and of the row almost broke up the party hy piping: “Applesarice.” This should be an object lesson to those who insist upon clothing Santa Claus in the raiment of the earth- earthy. . Here i3 a sad blow for the pride of a certain section of the old South. Ophelia Peterkins, colored maid of all work in a Washington household, re- marked shortly after the New Year | hat_she was ‘going back to her old {home in South Carolina. “Well. Ophelia,” sald the head of the house, who 11 be namelees, “you know that I also am from the South? T am from Georgia. “Yas, sir.” said Ophelia, “that's in 8outh Ca'lina, too.” (Covyright. 1927.) This and That By Charles E. Tracewell. _ Jack Spratt recently had two vis- itors, Fluff and Puff, Persian cats, who like to ride in an automobile, Since Fluff and Puff remained in their car, and Jack Spratt in his house, we have no more to tell of their visit than to instance it as & case of friend- 1y relations in Catdom. Jack Spratt's two trips in an auto- mobile were enough for him. The first he made in a black box with wire-coverad air holes in the tep. His second was completed in a bright- Iy _hued taxicab with closed windows. The happiest cat in the world was Jack after the door of his house closed upon him, following the end of that second trip. Wide-eyed and meowing continu- ously, Jack had rubbed his white nose against the taxi windows, first one side and then another, trying to get out. The motion of the cab, of course, gave him the impression that houses, trees and everything were moving, just as the first train ride gives chil- dren the same feeling. So it comes about that Jack Spratt has no envy in his soul, we are sure, for the pretty Persians, who are fond of riding around Washington. * k% % Nor has Jack any similarity of eat- ing habits. These cats are fond of candy, whereas Jack would not eat a choco- late for anything. A good veal cutlet, half a pound of veal or round steak, preferably the former, is what appeals to Jack. Through the feline intelligence sys- tem Jack has heard of fellow cats even going to the extent of consuming orange juice, but he feels sure that such cats are not true to their tribe. Fach cat, of course, is a law unte itself in this matter. ~ Milk, the popular idea of cat tood, is genuinely liked by some cats, whereas others will only touch it in lleu of failure of the meat supply. We were told recently of a cat which scorns a saucer of milk placed before it, but which will, as soon as every one has left the room, drink up the entire saucerful. Now, that is a true cat. Those who dislike these interestin, creatures may d undoubtedly flfl call such action “sneaking,” but it is sneaking with a difference, if you aal us. It is simply cat common sense. The cat knows that if it drinks the milk, it will get no more food, so it pretends to dislike the stuff, in order to get meat or fish. Since it is a creature of sense im- pressions almost wholly, believes, when the folks go out of tI room, that it is undetected fn consum- ing the present supply of food, to wit, the milk. * ok ok % Jack Spratt, tiger cat, indulges in & similar procedure in relation to going to the second floor. One Summer, being affiicted with a bad case of fleas, Jack was forbid the upper floor. Although the ban was later he has not forgotten it to this day, Whenever any one {s watching him, u]nd he dnl:« to seek a soft place to sleep upstairs, he pretends guneap in. difference. b Seating himself at the foot stairs, he will wash his face, & ply sit staring up, but net From time to time he turns his then, when he sees no one lool his direction, he will softly st the steps. in ug A Woman’s Lot. From the Chattancogs New The best way to improve & woman's lot is to build a house on it and in- stall a good man in.the house as sort of assistant manager. Skepticism a Trait. From the Kansas City Star. A good many Americans seem to be a8 skeptical about “dry territory” as they are about “wet paint.” o Unindorsed. From the Los Angeles Evening Express. The movement to change the name of Rye, N. Y, to Clearwater hasn't re- ceived the indorsement of Gov. Al Bmith.