Evening Star Newspaper, January 10, 1927, Page 8

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The Associated Press ia exclusively entitled tn the e for republication of all news dis- | Patches credited to it or not otherwise cred. | ttad in this paper and also the local news rnblished hersn: Al righta of publication ©f #pecial disnatches herein are aleo reserv o $1.00! 78e | 88¢ Make the Exits Safe! Every time a panic occurs in a place .mblage and people are fire or the conse- | of public Killed, cither from quences of crowding and falling, the ¢ry arises for the adoption of meas- es to prevent such disasters in the future. The Montreal horror, in Which accounts were led, mostly children, is a repeated | demonstration of the fact that this Jesson of public safety has not been arned. At Mont the fire itself was of no moment, being quickly ex- tinguished, and if a panic had not oc- cnrred, if the exit facilities had been the entire audience would ped without the least injury. of life were due to sud- on one of the stair- short distance of the | latest seventy-s al adequate, have es All the 1o den congestion ways within a street. WAt the Iroguois Theater in Chicago, destroyed by fire in December, 1803, the heaviest loss of life out of a total o six hundred and two- killed oc- curred within a few feet of the street In consequence of a step at the lobby entrance. When the fear-maddened any is in con- t a people rushed for safety some of them fell at that step, and others piling on them scoves were suffocated. Yester-| day at Montreal the same thing hap- pened in a narrower space as the members of the audience, mainly chil- were moving downstairs from the balcony. The scene beggars de- seription. It is one of the most ghastly chapters in the history of disasters on this continent Precautions against fire have been taken in practically all places of pub- le assemblage. Here and there old buildings transformed into theaters, mostly for motion picture entertain- ments, still constitute a serious fire risk. Many. of these buildings were erected before the lessons taught by repeated disasters were written into statutes and regulations insuring pgainst the maintenance of death traps. Yet there are modern struc- tures in which the first laws of safety have been, if not ignored, at least temporized with in order to im\ren.v-i the auditorium space at the expense | of the exit facilities. No exit passage, especially from an upper story, should be permitted with turns. The practice of establishing exit aisles with steps and turns is a deliberate invitation to disaster. Broad ramps should be substituted, without twists. Even though buildings have heen passed through officlal scrutiny and have gone into use, the existence of such a condition should, in the light of yesterday's catastrophe at“Mont- veal, lead to“correction. Panic starts from small causes. A sudden cry of alarm, a wisp of smoke, « spasmodic movement by a few peo- ple and the spirit of fear spreads quickly. Sometimes it is possible to stem such a tide, but the chances are that there will be a continuous move- ment for the doors. That fact compels the adoption of methods of egress that are smooth and continuous stralght. It is impossible to drill a theater audience as in the case of a school. In this city the other day «everal hundred children were marched out of a building upon the alarm of fire in perfect order in a very short perfod. The assemblage at a place of public entertainment, however, is be- vond the range of discipline. The place itself must be made safe. Let this warning from Montreal be heeded in every eity on this continent. —_——— It fs firmly believed that the pres ence of ‘American forces in Nicaragua will make recognition easy in one re- apect—they will be recognized at sight and their attitude will be promptly understood. dren, ——— Semper, Fidelis. In the death of Sergeant Major Jiges, the Marine Corps loses a mas- cot greatly beloved by every member of that corps and esteemed by the public as a symbol of that splendid wervice. The sentiment for this wrin- iled-visaged bulldog, a perfect spec men of his breed, has become a tradi- | tfon. The dog himself had no ex-| traordinary qualities, save those ‘that are common to his kind, He had the protruding jaw, the receding nose, the furrowed brow, the parenthetic legs, the solld body, the crumpled tail, the wmiable disposition and the tremen- dous reserve power for emergenc possessed by all of his species. Thi: particular dog, cight years of age, hat 11ad a wonderful career. He had trav- <led over 100,000 in with the Marine serving as ticlal mascot id drills. an offici and wore the semblance of the uniform of the corps. He was an institution. He was news item” on all occasions. He was linown by name to millions of people. During the Great War the members i the Marine Corps became known in France as “devil dogs.” They rejoiced 111 this title, unpleasant as it sounded, lwcause it was an expression of thefr miles journeys of- Tore a { American railroad management and and |v He | earned on the fleld of battle—a reputa- tion that had, in fact, existed long be fore the Furopean conflict and had been justified by many deeds of valor. | So fat as known Jiggs hever fought {2 battle. But he was capable of hold- ing his own if occasion should ever arise. In that he typified the Marine Corps. Always ready, always efficient, missioners of peace, but capable of ’me mgst effective combat, the most self-sacrificing steadfastness in condition regardless of danges, these men have wonderfully maintained a | standard of which the whole country (is proud. The motto of the Marine Corps is| “Semper Fidelis.” In Jiggs, the em- bodiment of trustworthiness and loyalty, of devotion to duty, it has had a fitting exemplar. Those words will doubtless be graven on the stone that marks the grave of this humble, home- ly creature that is today mourned b; not only every Marine, but ever American admirer of that branch of the defense service of the country. ————r e The Human Error Again. Just to emphasize the fact that delay is dangerous, in the installa- tion of automatic safety devices on the railroads as in all other matters affecting public security, it order to note the collision between two sections of a “flyer express” on the New York Central line near Syracuse, N. Y., yesterday morning, in which one engineer was killed and several passengers suffered In- juries. " The fourth section of the train ran into the third section in fog. An immediate investigation indicates that the flagman of the third .section had given the proper | warning signals and that the eng neer of the fourth section had falled to obey them as well as the “caution” and “stop” indications of the anto- matic signal system This again proves the fallibility of the v signal method of trolling trains. Nothing short of an automatic stop, which cuts off the|" steam and applies the hrakes of a train intruding upon an occupied block, will surely prevent collisions. The visual signals may be obscured by fog as in this instance. They may be misunderstood. In a fog lights show in different colors than in clear weather. Engineers are sometimes inattentive to them. It | is usually the case that the engineer | in error is an old and experienced operative. Rarely does a green hand figure in an accident. This very ex- perience and long habit of train con- trol lead to catastrophe. The human error in railroading has cost many thousands of lives. It has destroyed immense values in prop- erty. The way to check it, to elimi- nate it from the transportation equation, has been available for some years and has not been adopted. The railroads have been reluctant to change their methods. Slowly they are coming to that point, and mean- while they are paying the price of their tardiness—a heavy price in which the public shares. Every one of these rear-end collisions, no mat- | ter what the cause, is a reproach to it should be a means of hastening the final equipmerit of all lines with a system that eliminates the human | error and guarantees the traveling | public security against incompetence or finattention or misunderstanding and, death. e Frank L. Stanton. After two-thirds of a century of singing. for the sake of song and with little apparent thought of self-advan- tage, the late Frank L. Stanton leaves behind him a multitude of gentle mem- orles. Always unostentatious when first placed in print as a part usually of the days’ work, he will long be re- called, if not always by name, by his word and thought, wherever rhythms both in speech and music are beloved. His name belongs to a group asso- clated with the South and especlally with Georgia. The quaint moods of negro life he wove into verse which had almost as wide an appeal as the | delightful fables of Joel Chandler Har- | ris. He affected no scholarship which might assume rivalry with the pol- ished expression of a Sidney Lanier. Nor had he the gift of human analysis that so drolly distinguishes the swing- ing stanzas of Irwin Russell, his pred- | ecéssor, who won warm compliment from Joel Chandler Harrls. Among men who cherished gifts of rhetoric eloquence he won his way to universal affection and admiration simply by be- ing himself and singing from the heart. o The “corn-borer” is the latest insect enemy to attack humanity’s food sup- ply. Theories that insects may even- tually dominate the earth are interest- ing, but must be considered with the fact in view that when they create a dangerous food shortage the insects themselves will be compelled to starve along with the rest of animal life. — e The Bigger, the Harder, Etc. Interest has been widely manifested in the seventeen-foot sea elephant, or elephant seal, which is now in captiv- | ity in London and which, in return for four hundred pounds of fish daily, performs numerous pleasing tricks. Inasmuch as he is the largest seal in captivity and his species runs the largest of all the seals, even longer and bulkler than a sea lion, he has been appropriately named ‘“Jumbo.” He has been much photographed for the press. Jumbo's kin live along the Pacific, some of them as Pata- gonia and certain Antaretic islands. Yet his family is said to be yapidly nearing extinction, the explanation is that in spite of their awenspiring size these animals are rather gentle and tractable These sea elephants are said to pale into comparative insignificance, how ever, if contrasted with a representa tive of a semiaquatic animal only re cently exterminated—Steller's sea cow, christened after the naturalist accompanying Bering on his second voyage, whose name is also borne by as far away barren and of ginia and Maryland swamps as Chap- Some has seen of coast sometimes than have seen the Everglades, which there are about 35,000 acrés of marsh. made into usable nundred wrote M Steam and trolle their subject day. Commerce and weport on reclamati no appropriation. Inigh, dry land, THE EVENING STAR, WASHINGTON D: C.. MONDAY, avoirdupois than does Jumbo, was first seen by white men in 1741. By 1768 it was practically extinct, slain for its meat. Like certain well known laws, “Rhy- tina,” for that was his sclentific title, | had no teeth. In addition to his help- | lessness, he was among the most in- | nocent and trusting of animals. There seems to nothing wo large, and | not much that is too small, for man to tame, from fleas to elephants, and it is recorded that one of Bering's sea- men, a rather tender-hearted youth, | actually succeeded in making such a et of one of these enormous m; of flesh, bone and muscle that it would come lunging ahd wriggling toward | him when he hove into view, would fol low him all the time he spent on shore nd appeared heart-hroken when duty called him back to his vessel. Pos: bly some day some enterprising sailor or coastal dweller will tame a whale. Rhytina, to sum up, was gentle, was rather innocent and, above | all, he had no teeth. Js not there a lesson to be horne in mind from his unhappy history by pacifists and by parsimonious ssional voters reasonable number of bat- tle cruisers? be vast, was consr against a ——— et A Jersey Swamp. A plan'is under way for reclaiming 1 noted W swamp. Swamp reclamation projects are often heard from Florida and Louisiana and there has been talk that such Vir. Jersey pawamsic and claimed— Zakinh might be re- hat drained or filled. will marvel that New Jersey swamp problem. Many have the changes made at and near Atlantic City pumping sand and | making the northwest side Island and along the of Atlantic County. have seen the marshes, called “meadows,” that lie | and City | i<, a by lots on Absecom marshes More traveler: between Jersey his Jersey sw embles in Sum Around Newark Bay and along and Hackensack np res mer. the Passaic Rivers of this is within the Port of York district. The marsh if land would be val-| nable, but whether its value would | ‘qual the cost of making ix a ques- | tion, More Part New than v of lows. fifty- it spoke perhaps ago men filling the Some filling has been done. | roads have built up! way and for | have been over The was Hackensack | rights of traflic meadows,"" is again a question A year ago the New Legislature authorized the B and Navigation to study n, but made Efforts are making to obtain public funds to carry out | the inquiry. The National Govern- ment, two States, several counties and municipalities have interests in | the matter and the swamp is n\\'nrll“ by citizens and public service panies. For turning this swamp into | friends of the plan | are using many of the arguments | ‘Washington people used when they were seeking to have filled and deep- ened the marshes of the Potomac and | the Eastern Branch. roads built reclamation | of the Jersey | a of | genel the com- | Burglars who carried a safe three miles from Frederick, Md., when they broke it open obtained only $126 for their work. When split up it may be doubted whether each burglar could not have earned as much as his share almost as fast and with less labor. e While there may be little differences of opinion on money matters, the tele- phone and the radio demonstrate that America. is on cordial speaking terms with Europe. 3 r——— A special brand of absolutely pure | alcohol should be manufactured. in | quantity sufficient to provide for men legally employed in securing evidence, e SHOOTING STARS. - BL PHILANDER JOHNSON The Bootleg Blues. The latest song has neither rhyme Nor tune to set the pace, Yet you may hear it any time And almost every place. You get it from the motor horn And read it in the new At noon, at night, at early morn, You meet those “Bootleg Blues." It is a wild, discordant blare That cannot be forgot. ollision crashes flll the alr— Sometimes there sounds a shot. Though strait and narrow be the path A ‘eitizen pursues, He can’t escape the hymn of wrath ing by the “Bootleg Blues.” No Idle Gosslp. “Do you belleve that George Wash- ington was invariably truthful? “I do.” replied Senator Sorghum. “He was a discreet man, however, and knew when to keep his mouth shut.” Pre-War Stuff. Around the festive board men bluff, Convivially defying fate, They say the drinks are stuff— The stories are, at any rate. “pre-war" Jud Tunkins says a man needs luck s well as skill. Nobody goes broke uster than an expert poker player trying to do business with bad hands. Indoor. “What kind « shine?” “There’s no such thing,” answered Uncle Bill Bottletop. “Illicit alcohol used to be made in the woods under thé starry skies. Now it's put together in a cellar by electric light.” whisky is moon Vanished Compliments of the Season That happy little New Year day, It’s passing people must deplore. A month has not yet slipped away, But life’s old game grows rough once more. “De Ten Commandments,” said of sea lion. This monster, tenacity of purpose and courage and tiefr fidelity. The bulldog became \heir emblem. When later Jiggs ap- averaged from twenty to e feet in length and which mure proportionate twenty wven TUncle Eben, supposed to direct de- i rumble over Capitol Hill for { amendment |e | with_some JANUARY 10; 1927. THIS AND THAT BY CHARLES Mercedes but she was She also had what is known in the vernacular as “the i o This helped her a great deal. Tt got her a good job when she couldn't spell and made men turn around the street to look at her when they had no business to The vogue for thin short skirts found no devotee than this same Her general costume dress with a collar that \d high at the neck. & wrap-around cloth cloak of harmonizing hue and a small black hat. Mercedes’ folks had lived in America ever since the Revolution, but girl had a. distinctly for used in part by her large d ind white skin. Those who guessed at tion usually put it down as French or Spanish, she had such an exotic air, so much dash and verve, such a piquant smile, so trim an ensemble, In justice to the younsg lady, it ought to bo stated that she seldom smiled. She was as solemn as an owl most of the time. As a matter of fact, she had never been known to smile at any gentleman more than twice. Flirty young men who fondly fmag ined themselves “sheiks” came to let Mercedes strictly alone after one or ances from those sceming tie, cool eyes 18 with her knife, v nice girl stockings and more Mercede: wis a B black fittod ai rk eyes her extrac unroms %k # The joke of it was, however, that Mercedes was intensely romantic The sad part of it was that she had no ‘“feller."” To find one's self pretty, attractive and a -good dresser at the very age when these things count the most, and still not be able to draw to one’s pretty self a suitable suitor of some means and standardized habits What is more intolerable than this? Me downtown, where she ate her hreak. fast just 10 minutes before she was due to report for duty. Strange girl, type martyr to harsh’ business. depth of her elusive soul she had a sort of instinet that she was a failu as a woman, and not much of a suc- cess as a business man, but what could a girl do? All the eligible young herself, : married he rest didn't count But Jately things had been picking up. Every morning, when Mercedc ate breakfast, she had noticed a young n looking rather intently at her. ome way or other she liked him rom the start. Mercedes imagined she could grow very fond of him, She wondered why she hadn't no ticed him before. Not that she was in the habit of noticing voung gentlemen in restaurants—oh, ne, but of kind, n In the her men, she told He<was such a nice-looking youn min, too—at least that was the w he struck Mercedes, who, like he type, got struck pretty hard when the striking was good He ate two slices of toast, n bhaked apple, two poached eggs and a cup of on | ardent | the | edes had her favorite restaurant | WELL. | coffee for his breakfast, whereas Mer- | cedes consumed the same fare, with the exception of the baked apple. | Apples, in any form, were anathema | to Merce, as her mother used to call | her, but 16 called her any She worked for an oculist, who was very formal | 1t was always now. Mercedes | her fur: “Miss Mercedes, she draped over the back of sat down, that to like baked thought, collared oo | her chair, and deftly she coyld even come wples, if_necessary. Certainly no baked apple world should stand between happiness This morn “A man's dedes, for she w the street car , and knew what Tom Mix hout it. If the dashing Mix favored tea, sure. Iy her new friend might. be allowed to imbibe it. Still she rather hoped he would go back to coffee. Mercedes noticed, too, that he smoked a pipe. “Pick a_pipe-smoking man every time,” Gilda Gray had said. Mercedes thouzht she had never seen a_nicer looking pipe Should she—ah, would she? Should she drop her handkerchief, as she went out? Now Mercedes was %ot in the habit | of doing such things, so the idea tem porarily shocked her. Yet something evidently had to be dond, because all he did was to sit and I Mercedes thought a little handker- chief dropping, under the eircum- stances, might he forgiven, especially if it worked The trouble was Mer { to spring kerchief, picked He just in the her and s drinking tea! recalled Mer- ader of Just g he w drink,"” as an avid it didn’t s gave him plenty of time up and pick up her hand but he neither sprang nor work sat The next morning Mer upon a bolder campaign There was no doubt in that he wes interested in her, else why did he look so much? Oh, not rude, or anything like that, but—well er—a_girl couldn’t mistake those eyes. Mo had blue eyes and light curly hair, just the sort she liked. Yes, he was drinking tea this morn- Mercedes saw it was 10 be no campaign. When he drank tea | he didn’t seem to pay as much atten- tion to her as when he consumed cof- She liked the coffee mornings the best Her frayed black leather handbag almost fell to the floor, and as she caught it she caught an idea, too. ‘The big idea was this big: She would leave her handbag behind her on the able, and he couldn’t help secing it It only had a handkerchief in it, so she left it behind without a qualm, and walked out the restaurant door. She slowed her pace—then started— Ho walked "past her without a glance. ‘Poor thing, he's near-s cave Mercedes, walking | restaurant for her hand les decided her mind in shte back into the WASHINGTON OBSERVATIONS BY FREDERIC WILLIAM WILE. Echoes of the recent in the House of Rep naval tle sentatives will many a day. Its thunders are more than like- Iy to reverberate throughout ghe poli tics of the country, too. Andlysis of the vote by which the Tilson thre cruiser amendment was sunk disclos a number of diverting possibilitie: First and foremost, of course, is the desertion of President Coolidge by rock-ribbed Republicans of the dox caliber of Speaker Longworth Representatives Tilson, Snell and Begg—the four horsemen of adminis tration power in the House. Had Representative Finis Garrett of Ten nessee, Democratic minority leader, been content with their unfaithful ness without rubbing it in during ment would almost been adopted. The paramount polit- ical aspect of the House naval gagement lies in the apparent convic tion of Republican leaders that Cool- idgo economy, when applied to na- tional defense, has its limitations. It was a group of seasoned, shrewd G O. P. strategists who led: the figh against the President. they thought their oppc only the part of patriotism, g00d Republican politics. certainly have but of arty lines went on the rocks as the “big Navy” advocates were ship- wrecked. Quite evidently partisan- ship ends at the water's edge when Navy bills are before a branch of Congress. For the three cruisers on January 7, 76 Republicans were re corded on the final vote, and 117 Re- publicans were_opposed. In favor of the cruisers 85 Democrats went record, and 62 registered themselves against them. Sectional line: e broken, too, although, broadly speak- ing, the Middle West, with nostrils unaccustomed to the odor of salt water, plumped pretty solidly for the President’s no-cruiser program. Paci fists derive immense support from women's organizations throughout the country. It’s interesting to note that the three Congresswomen now in office | —Mrs. Kahn (California) and M Rogers (Massachusetts), both Republi- | cans, and Mrs. Norton (New Jersey), Democrat—all voted for the,cru ¥k ® By general consent it was the 18-inch shell fired from the oratorical locker of the noble Roman of the House, Representative Theodore I Burton of Ohio, that sent the cruiser to the bottom. Burton vas 75 years’old only a week or two ago. It must be a deep satisfaction to the veteran Congressman to realize that eloquence from his septuagena- rian throat riddled and nullified the fervent pleas of opponents young enough to be his sons. Burton first came to Congress in 1888, a8 a mem- ber of the House. ) he was a Senator from Ohio. Then he was re-elected to the House—one of the first, if not the very first, in- stances to mark the return to the lower branch of Congress of just previously a member of the upper house. Burton's triumph on the ruiser issue is gratifying from one standpoint—it revealed _that the power to sway votes by dint of per suasive argument is not a lost art heneath the Capitol dome. ¥ % x grandiose plan for re architectural and land- 1l Rome are to Mussolini's creating the scape glories of Impe be unfolded in a series of illustrated lectures throughout the United States by Prof. Henry Burchell of Columbia University. The opening lecture w delivered at the Italian embas night before a distinguished interna- tional audience. Mussolinl's “capital magnificent” scheme, as depicted by Prof. Burchell, thrilled in particula the Washingtonians present. . They wished Congress might be privileged to make its acquaintance and be fired of the practical that inspircs the plan. Prof. Burchell made the surprising announcement that Rome's modern system of munic- ijpal government is patterned largely after Washington's commission form. But the Romans are blessed with dictator of vision, who has neither whole world. ain't as long ter ANl put together, dey a plain ev'yday mat regulations, like de traftic Cramtons nor Blantons to hamper and harass him. Mussolini, Dr. Burchell pointed out. has stirred the whole Italian nation into enthuslasm for Unmistakably jon was not on | Trom 1909 to 1915 | a man | idealism | !(hu | making Rome the most beautiful cap. | ital in the world. Voteless Washing- | ton has cause for envy on that score, too. * % If Uncle Sam and John Bull | to do diplomatic business by | phone, they'll quite evidently have to | hook ‘up Tondon and Washington | from New York, and not from here— at present, anyhow. Here's what happened when this observer tried to | talk to London during the week end | “Give me long distance.” “This is long distance.” “I want London.” “London, where | “London, England.” “We can’t ve you * want London from | the cruiser debate, the Tilson amend- | \Washington. Youw'll have to try New | York.” That “London. where | that there are no fewer | Londons in the United cach in Alabama, Arkansas, Ken- tucky, Indiana, Minnesota, Ohio, | Texas, West Virginia and Wisconsin. | So_anyhody that wants to Hello!” | to London and exp ply, “Are you there? to'ada “England. * | W. H. Black, mayor of Wooster, | Ohio,” recently sentenced a local of- {fender to a choice between jail and en- {listment in the United States Army. | The culprit chose the Army, sought to | enlist, and was, of course, rejected. JLI'H( Col. Alfred Ballin, recruiting |officer at Columbus, Ohio, wrote his | honor of Wooster the following loud speaker: Your attention is invited to the fact that the ranks of the Regular Army are composed of honorable and upright men, whose standards of morals preclude acceptance in their midst of an individual con- victed of an offense involving moral turpitude, whose proper place of abode is a jall, peniten- tlary or other like institution.” * ok ok David I. Walsh, Democrat, ) Massachusetts, recently had a. call from a young man whom he had ap- pointed, two or three years ago, to a cadetship- at West Point. The lad came to say that he had “flunked” in mathematics nd left the Military Academy after six months there. “But I want to tell you, Senator,” the boy explained, “that T learned more at West Point in half a year than in my whole previous school life alto- gether, 1 learned to concentrate.” Walsh is using the episode in his pub- lic addresses before schools and col- leges. “I tell young men that story,” he says. “I ask them If they concen- trate in everything they do—when in prayer, when at play, when at stud when at games—concentrate with a their might and main on whatever l\|\!"\ do when they're doing it. If lus my yvoung friend says it taught {him, it is inculcating a stan | worthy of emulation in every act of the Nation life. Lack of concen- | tration is responsible for much that's | wrong in the world.” * Kk ok developed than nine States—one would do well Senator | 1t is planned to organize in Wash- [ington this week “The Friends of alestine,” an informal _committee charged with the task of shepherding |the interests of the Jewish National Home. Dr. Chaim Weizmann, presi- | dant of the World Zionist Organization, and Comdr. J. M. Kenworthy, a Labor |member of the British Hous Com- |mons, Who_is_co-operating with_Dr. Weizmann, hope to enlist the support of prominent public men friendly |the Zionist cause. Congr { resolution in its favor four (Covyright. 1927.) ot i e f The Only Explanation. | From the Charleston Evening Post. The mayor of New Bedford, Mass has been clected 23 times. Perhaps he | does not have anything to do with giv | ing out the jobs. | o ed a S ago. Other Times. | From the Pittsburgh Gazette-Times It was when murder was esteemed really serious crime that the idea “murder will out” gained cre dernee E Lausanne Pact Scored. l more. | tele- | 't some one to re- | t Point is teaching concentration, | {Rcsen‘almns Before Ratification 1 By U. S. Are Urged. To the Editor of The Star: As i constant reader of The Star, 1 | have learned to appreciate the valu- {able and interesting contributions of | your distinguished correspondent, Paul V. Collins. Will you permit me, |in the interest of fairness, to take issue with him on a few points in his artiel on the Lausanne treaty in vour issue of January 67 1 have | spent my entire life in the Near East, jand can’ speak with first-hand knowl edge. Among other things, Mr. Collins s, On reliable witnesses it i stated that when the Greeks first | landed in Smyrna they killed about 0 Turks: when the Turks triumphed they killed 500 Greeks in Smyr | Now, this is an act of retribution { which “must appeal strongly to all | fair-minded men. If the Greeks had | killed 501 Turks, the latter would have | dispatched 501 Greeks. But they | didn't—they only killed 500. | But isn't this a rather trivial | method of disposing of one of the most | fearful tragedies in history? I ar. {rived in Smyrna immediately after | the Greek landing and found perfect | order reigning. From careful investi- { wation T substantiated that 76 Turks j had been killed, partly by Greek sol- { diers and partly by the mob. | The ringleaders were immediately | punished by the Greek authorities. | Three, including a Greek soldier, were executed. 1 was present and saw the sxecution. Seventy-four sentences in lall were passed and carried out. | The burning of Smyrna by the Turk- | ish army of Mustapha Kemal was one the most frightful tragedies in the { history of the world. The islands of | the Mediterranean were filled with widows and orphans and with chil- | dren and babies suffering with gun and stab wounds. The N last Relief and other sim- lar organizations have spent more han $100,000,000 for relief of widows and orphans, victims' of Moslem at- tacks on Christian populations. These tigures can be verificd. Now as to the missionaries” and business interests that favor the Lau- sanne treaty. There are no longer {any missionaries in Turkey. The | schools over there are running with the distinct understanding that they must not attempt to convert Moham- {medans. T, have nothing to say against missionaries — those great, splendid, brave men and women who | glve their lives, sacrifice them even, j in the service of the Master. But the | worthy gentlemen now operating in | Turkey are pedagogues. Tt is good | work, of course, but it must be clearly { understood. ’ There are many church people, how- ever, who believe that the hauling { down of the Master’s standard for the { saving of a few buildings has heen a | zreat blow to missionary work in gen- | €val, and has created a doubt among | Mussulmans as to our sincerity as | Christians. i I will pass over the business inter- {ests, as I do nct wish to go into a { zeneral discussion of the subject here. | But there are many people in America | | ] now i t | | | | | | i i | who believe that there are things more important than a certain amount of business, which would probably go on any way with a small and wretched country. Nobody is opposed to the treaty, buf the great and glorious United States stands for something more than a few buildings and a little business. The treaty should be passed—with reservations. Al American citizens should be recompensed by the Turks | for the losses which they have suf- fered, and othe The Armenians should be allotted a { home and_suitable territory and safe- {zuards taken against further attacks i upon them. t All Christian girls held as slaves should be given up by the Turks. No | cynical denial on the part of the | Turks should be accepted, but full facilities should be given to an un- | biased committee to investigate. A ciety | ready” been doing effective work to- | ward rescuing large numbers of such | zirls, unearthed in the territories that | have passed from Turkish rule. | There are other reservations, but | these are thé most important. It should also be remembered that the | Turkish massacres, in which more than a million people perished, are of | comparatively recent date, and that | the Turks with whom we are deal- ng are mostly the same people whose | hands are wet with all this blood. | They should show. some signs of re- pentance. | And fn closing T resent indignantly, as an American and American Revolution, dubbing tapha Kemal the “George Washing- ton” of Turkey. He is an arch-mur- derer and_ his republic a _sham, founded in blood and sustained by the hanging of more than a thousand of his compatriots. GEORGE HORTON. e s Would Include Taxis In Traffic Campaign | To the Editor of The Star: 1 have followed with much inferest | the articles and editorfals pertaining {to the reckless driving of delivery wagons in our city. 1 am botiwa pedestrian and driver of an automobile and am naturally Interested in safety for both classes of our citizens. May I inquire why the taxicab re- mains immune and why this class of commereial vehicles should not receive your attention just as much as the delivery trucks? My personal experi- ence has been that the taxicab is just as much a menace to the safety of the driver and the pedestrian as is the | delivery truck. The taxis ure appar- >ntly more numerous and are certainly increasing at a more rapid rate than the delivery wagons. ever one drives at the legal rate one is passed by more cabs exceeding the speed limit than by trucks or delivery wagons. Whero the light signal is jumped,” it is more likely to be the taxl than the delivery wagon. Where the right of way is usurped, where the timid driver is crowded, again 1 find the taxl the more frequent offender. | Why is the taxl allowed to pursue | :his charmed existence? H. E. HOWE. - i Sees Parking Ruling As Business Hardship the Editor of The Star. It seems to me that if Mr. Eldridge has the authority through the crea- tion of his office as traffic director and his appointment to that office to regulate traflic on Sixteenth street and other arterfal avenues by pro- hibiting the use of such arteries to solid-tived and horse-drawn vehicles, then he certainly has the right to designate no parking space to mer- chants for shipping purposes. It scems to me that we have as many opinions as we have judges: that we are always in a state of turmoil. Business, absolutely necessary to the well being of any community, should Ihe as little hampered as possible. , too, for that matter. | founded in England has al-| a/son of thel Mus- | Q. How will the new Convention Hall In Atlantic City rank when com pleted?>—A. O. B. A. It will be the largest world. The frontage is 350 feet, depth 650 feet. The seating capacity will be 30.000 on the floor and stage, with 10,000 additional in the balcony The building will probably be com pleted this year. the the in Q. Do children of Japanese parents grow taller in this countr: R. A. Authorities on the subject of diet have observed that such children are larger at all ages than are Jap. anese children born and reared in Japan. This is because of the su perior food supply in this country. Q. What Jackass M. F. A. This i is rope” 7 the term which tives of the Island of Jamaica apply to the fsland-grown tobacco. They probably do this because this tobacco is strong and tough. Q. Has the value of Edison's ventions ever been estimated?—T. J A. Edison has given mankind in ventions which, in their present devel opment, are valued at $15,000,000,000. the na in Q. To whose leg was a ted on the battlefield -H. G. L. The Marquis of Anglesea, com mander of the British cavalry, under. went the amputation of his leg imme diately after the battle of Waterloo. A few paces north of the church near the fleld of battle 13 a monument to the leg of the British officer. monument of Water Q. What is the origin of pression “Nothing succeeds cess"?—E. R. A. These words weer used in ref- erence to the first operation under ether performed by Dr. John € Warren at the Massachusetts (i Hospital on October 16, 1846 the ex- like suc- Q. How many people are engaged fur raising In this country’—W. M. in According to Government statis there are mnow approximately 00 fur farmers in the United States, bout 1,500 in Canada. The total ment in the business is about $30,000,000 in the United States and Alaska, and about $11,000,000 in Can ada. Q. Are Blanche Sweet and Claire Windsor the actresses' real names?— E 8 T. Before Miss Blanche entered the movies her name was Blanche Alex- ander. Claire Windsor's name was Ola Cronk. Q. Please explain about the number of jewels in watches.—A. W. A. Watches do not have even num- bers of jewels. If o watch has 23 jewels, then the going band or cen- ter wheel and third wheel, the fourth wheel, the escape wheel, the lever and | the balance have a whole jewel at each {end of each arbor, which make 14. i The balance, the lever and the escape wheel have end stones as well, which make 6 more. Then there are 3 jewels in the escapement, which make 23. If the movement has 21 jewels, then the hole jewels of the going bar- rel have been omitted. If 19, the end stones of the escapement wheel have been omitted also. lonly 7 jewels, they usvally consist of the 3 escapement jewels, 2 hole jewels and 2 end stones for the balance arbor, Q. What does “hidalgo” literally mean?—H. T. S. A. The term comes from two Span- h words, “hijo,” meaning “son,” and “d’alguno,” ‘meaning “‘somebody."” Hence the term literally means “son of somebody.” Q. Do the waters of the Pacific and the Atlantic Oceans meet in Panama Canal?—M. F A. Experts have decided that the waters of the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans mingle with the fresh water in Miraflores Lake in the Panama Canal. The progressive rise of a cer- tain amount of sea water to this lake and in a lesser amount to Gatun Lake began with the first ship to pass through the canal and will probably continue indefinitely with the opera- lins | If the watch has | the | ANSWERS TO QUESTIONS i BY FREDERIC J. HASKI: |tion of the locks of the canal und: | traffic. A rise also takes place whe the ships are locked dewnwaze. | Q. In auction bridge. when th persons have played, may the four player ask that each player fndicat the card he played? —H. E. R. A. This may be done and the pl | ers must respond. Q. Tn which of our States are mo. tain lions still found?—W. J A. The Burcau of Biologteal Surve s that the 167 mountain lons stroyed during the year were ¢ tributed as follows: Arizona, 8%: Ca fornia, 6; Colorado, 6; Montana, 1 | Nevada, 1: New Mexico, 44; Oregor Utah, 7. Washington, 4 did his Q. How on_ wine D. D A. T. E. Watson in his blograph |of Jefferson says that he and hi suests drank $10,855 worth of wine while Jefferson was in office much during Jefferson spen presidency? QOfw F.H A. The average composition of goat’s milk is 85.7 per cent water, 4 per cent protein (casen and albumin .7 per cent fat, 4.4 per cent milk sugar and about .§ per cent minera matter at is goat's milk composed Q Johann Faust?J. D A. F tus (. Johann Faust) was a person born at Kundling, Wurtten b or at Roda, near Wei H is said to have died in 1535. He w a magician, soothsayer and astrole and boasted of having performed th miracles of Christ. It was belleve that the magician was carried off 1 the devil, who had lived with him i the form of a black dog. Legend say that this event occurred on the | night between the 23d and 24th « October, 1538. Goethe's tragedy (ps | lished 18081 based the Fav legends Who was ! Q. Must a tax be paid on postas | stamps bought from people overseas —R. M. O. | A The Treasury Department say that, according to the custom law “all _canceled or uncanceled stamp~ are free of duty Q. Who is the greatest chimes pla; L. R. A. The American Library Associa tion is quoted as referring to “th: | greatest of living carilloneurs, Josepi Denyn of Mechlin.” Q. Where was Edgar Guest born” I3 A, | A He was | England. 1 Q. What is the kind of Chinese o | Japanese chicken that has the lon: | tail feather?—M. C. W, A. It is the apanese Yokoham: It has heen sald that the long tail feather of this bird has reached fron 7 to 8 feet. | Q. Why is Christmas | written “Xmas"?—J. & L. What appears to be the letter “X" in the form “Xmas" is in reality the Greek symbol which forms the first letters of Christ's name when | written in Greek born in Birminghan sometimes died durin Q. How many people in 1918 and | the influenza epidemic 19197—T. H. S. A. An estimate of the deaths caused by the influenza epidemic, 1918 and 1919, was made by Laumonier in the Gazette des Hopitaux, September 5u and October 2, 1919, He says that | for the total of 11 months, allowing for analogous mortalities in Central | Asia and the Far East, the world | mortality could easily have exceeded 25,000,000, The resources of our free Inform tion Bureau are at your service. You | are invited to call upon it as often as you please. It is being maintained by | The Evening Star solely to serve you | What question can we answer for you? There is no charge at all excep! cents in stamps for return post- lage. Address your letter to Th: Evening Star Informatton Bureau | Frederic J. Haskin, director, Wasi | ington, D. C. Financial Worl Prosperity and the romance of steel are the themes of those who comment on the recent declaration of a stock dividend of 40 per cent on the common stock of the United States Steel Cor- poration. The old saying that steel shares, from time to time, would repre- sent either prince or pauper in the corporate world is quoted once mors and the “melon” of nearly a quarter of a billlon dollars is taken as evi- dence of generally favorable condi- tions in the industrial world. “The 40 per cent dividend which the finance committee of the corporation indicated will be declared,” says the Pittsburgh Gazette-Time: is con- sistent with the policy of conservatism the directors have always followed under the guidance of Chairman E. H. Gary. to do so would not be in keeping with its managers’ conception of what fs for the best interests of the company amM its stockholders. It is no longer true, as Andrew Carnegie once sald, that ‘steel is elther prince or pauper.’ Since the organization of the corpora- tion the industry has been stabilized.” This corporation, according to the New Orleans Times-Picayune, “has been a marvel of Industrial capacity since its foundation,” and referring to long-continued efforts to have a por- tlon of the reserve assets distributed, the Times-Picayune remarks: “This has now come, and is of such a spec- tacular size that the financial world stands dazzled by its magnificence.” Of the significance of the action the Springfleld Illinois State Journal sug- gests that ‘“the directors would not have made this distribution unless they were convinced that business for their corporation and for all interests is going to be good in 1927.” “With Elhert H. Gary at the helm as chairman,” observes the Rochester Times-Union, “the big corporation has been conservatively managed, with re- investment in the business of a con- siderable share of profits, so that sub- | stantial values stand behind the in- ctreased stock.” The Minneapolis Jour nal points out that “the predominat- ing trend of finished steel quotations for over a year has been downward, and in former times such an appar- ently unfavorable development would have meant the unusually recurrent, | sad change from prince to pauper. | This has not happened this year,” the Journal adds, “for the reason that profits have been saved, and even fur- ther increased, by intensive applica- | tion to operating economies, labor-sav- | ing devjces and by speeding up pro duction schedules, especially on order: for immediate delivery.” xEx* Those in business know the great struggle to conduct a successful busi- ness against all its enemies. Not the least are these judicial decislons. It is absolutely necessary for the merchants to have shipping facilities. They must get their goods in and out. The whole burden of government is {on the business man. He must pay | taxes, serve jury duty, be subject to countless annggances of traffic regu- lations and fin€s, constantly be impor- tuned donations to charitable ob- jects, and should be treated fal; 3 J. W. HUNT. / “There has been hesitancy on the part of big business interests to ex- press definitely an expectation of any thing like an industrial boom,” re- marks the Charleston Esening Post, “but the action of the Steel Corpora- tion's directors would appear to be a release from this restraint. The Chicago Daily News has a feel- ing, however, that “‘there are persons Steel could capitalize a much | larger proportion of its stupendous | surplus without feeling hampered, but | jon a billion and d Is Dazzled By 40 Per Cent Steel Melon provide dividends, the giant concer by reducing the prices of fron an steel products, would serve to bette: purpose humanity in this industria! age.” “We are mnot inclined to regari Judge Gary as the Rollo boy of the steel business that Miss Ida Tarbel made him out in her official biogr. phy,” declares the Cincinnati Timc Star. “His attitude toward immigrs tion has not been enlightened, and 1! | great prosperity of the Steel Corpor: tion was achieved after its abando ment of the 12-hour day and despii- Judge Gary's doleful predictions. B in many ways his administration hi- been wise and, above all, it has be« honest. In a strictly industrial sens: his business policies have triumphar 1y _been vindicated, The Providence Journal says: “Ho | far the action in respect to the stoc dividend may have been influenced I the threat contained in the revenu act of 1926 to confiscate 50 per cent o the surplus of a corporation wheneve the Government decides that too muc of the net earnings are diverted to th surplus account is difficult to det: mine.” That paper, however, credit the directors with “fith that the i1 mediate future prospects of the dustry justify their action A5 xix “Of all sad words of tongue or pel the saddest are ‘it might have been,’ quotes the Lansing :3tate Journal, wit the statement that fhe poet “wa probably remembering when he could have bought Steel common under 50 The Louisville Courier-Journal gives these statistics: here are 86,000 stockholders and 60,000 emploves o the Steel Corporation. It is reported in_Wall Street that employes owr .000 shares of Steel comn will get $22,000,000 of the worth of new stock. The their original purchase is increase: 40 per cent. The additional dividend will help materially in paying for it The Topeka Capital thinks “the Stee Corporation is rather hard-featured but concedes to its credit that i started employe ownership man years ago and has encouraged ar promoted it by liberal ald to the er ploye in his payments.” _ “The story of this gigantic organ tion from its beginnings to its pre is more like fiction than fact,” the Portland Oregon Journal. tale of how the organization, wit $400,000,000 worth of property a1 3600,000,000 of fiction, paid its profit made its fiction @ good as actual property you have : view of the American corporatior The Journal, however, s impressed by the fact that “the small me-chant the farmer or mechas is unable to do it. The farmer's land, live stock and fmplements are his plant. e cannot overcapitalize them. The mer chant’s store cannot ke overcapital ized. There can be no fiction in the mechanic’s shop and tools and ma chinery. These groups are at a di advantage.” The Nev. York Times also directs attention to the fact that who belleve that the corporation's enormous surplus represents undue profits, and that instead of issuing more stock, for which the public must “the action of the United States Steel directors is too spectacular to fall of emphasizing the contrasts on which the farm constituency insists.” ’ ) ' i