Evening Star Newspaper, January 28, 1927, Page 8

THE EVENING STAR. WASHINGTC FRIDAY. JANUARY 28, 192 e e e e e T THE With Sunday Morning Edition. WASHINGTON, D. C. January 28. 1927 THEODORE W. NOYES. ... Editor, The Evening Star Newspaper Company | Business Offce is Ate ! Now ¥ s Chicags OMce T wilding BB L e 8 P 1 Rate hv Mail—Payvable in Advance. Maryland and Virginia 000 o0 300 1 me v anil Sunday. 1w 1 mo ANl Other States and Canads. nule 1o $1200 1mn Sal ee00 1me Sanéar oos400.1me amdar Member of the \ssociated Press The Asociaied Prese s evein @ The o fan capuRLeAtian ympathy and Justice for China. etary Kellogs s as the of an “equal” displacing our pres ent the existence of & government for negotiation purposes which can speak suthoritatively for China and which is able to earry out China’s pledzes of protection and im partial justice, which the mew treaty will contain The demand of the Cantonese gov ernment that Amevica and Europe 2ancel at once the unequal treaties. surrender the protection of extraterri toriality and abanden control. direct or indireet. of the tariff rates on im Jporte, is. under present conditions. paradoxical and sardenie: for there has never been a time when foreign- #rs so unmistakably needed the pro- tection of extraterritoriality privileges or when anti-foreign mob violence was #0 feebly controlied by the nominal eentral government. And in respect to the inerease of tariff duties on im- ports, the Cantonese government in the same breath incensistently de- mands the increased tariff duties, and protests against the British offer to put them into immediate operation. Canton confesses that it wants no in- creased revenue from tariff duties un- til it can handle the increased revenue ftself. Tt wants no money to go to Bhanghai to furnish the sinews of war to its enemies. Consequently, it demands and protests against the same thing in the same breath. Decisive victory of the South China army over that of North China in the great battle now impending may meet Secretary Kellogg's requirements con- cerning a representative Chinese gov- ernment with which to negotiate. If there is real prospect of & China uni- fied politically even under a Bolshevik- influenced Cantonese government, and that government shows the power and the purpose to control the mobs and fhe war-lords and the bands of armed mercenaries that infest and dominate China today. Americans will eagerly eo-operate with that government, ask- {hg no special discriminatory conces- sions, privileges and powers, and in hearty sympathy with China's struggie for unity under the inspiration of the spirit of nationalism will exchange with that government and will fully carry out pledges of justice and amity. Such action will be in.accordance with America’s traditional policy of friendly 4nd relatively unselfish helpfuiness to- ward China, which has been repeated- ly and consistently in evidence of Or if the south shall not conquer the north and two governments re- main each effectively controlling its own area the United States will make treaties of justice, equality and friend- ship with both. This thought is elabbrated in edito- wial correspondence printed else- where in The Star today. e Base ball without Ban Johnson will hardly seem the old game to “Con- stant Reader,” although it will go ont wbout as usua! for the boy in the bleachers. —————t——— The Contemptibles. Now it is claimed that his imperial majesty, Kaiser Wilhelm 11 of Ger- inany was not the originator of the famous remark ahout “England’s cen- temptible little army.” A former Brit- ish undersecretary of state for foreign affairs says that the phrase was de- liperately invented by & smart Eng- lish army officer as a piece of propa- Kanda. The regular standing army of the nited Kingdom ecould not, by any etretch of imagination, have been called impreseive as compared to Ger- many's at the outbreak of hostilities. It was not so little, as armies go. numbering a few hundred thousand in all, but when it went up against the war machine of the central powers i was like David advancing on Goliath. 1t was an odd sort of army from many standpoints. It was rather overdressed and in many ways wrong Iy or inadequately equipped. Scarcely two regiments in it were uniformed alike on parade, while almost every one possessed traditions, some of them of great antiquity, to which its mem bers clung with devoted tenaeity, One fusileer regiment still wore a black bow at the back of the neck, remnant of the pig-tail days. The men of a certain guards regiment felt injured if some one tacked on an “s" 1o ite name wheh referring to them in a plural sense, while to add “ers” was quite correct. Corps designaied “roysl” whether English, Irish Scottish, wore special biue facings, and were correspondingly stuck up. But how those boys could fight, and how they did fight! They had no more chance—and they knew it—than did the 300 Spartans at Thermopylae. Tommy Atkins and his monocled “leftenant” and his crimson-fowled general went blithely to their deaths; with their very bodies they made u breastwork behind which the first of Kitehenor's “firat 100,000" could pro an or EVENING STAR |the expeditionary | sulted !those who have the matter | have been have caused the Kaiser, first, mirth. and, later, mortification Whoever said it, it seems to ha been a good thing to say. Its results were almost instantaneous and economic the World will be of matter what the and financial outcome of War may prove value to the world as long as courage devation and are listed among the virtues in United States was. political eventually patriotism A way somewhat similar the to some extent, in expeditic We could nto the et the men in the fivst D them rapidiy to raising an torce for same conflict not Place could not equ enough would he impossible transport hem safely and when they to prove indifferent w frightfulness entral and promptly did get Across they werc against the of powers' war technique. 1o in char from b that never, either sneering see to it s of a enemy or as a needed stimulus to enlistment from American lips. shall this adjective be applicable to our Regniar Avmy, B A Popular Verdict. Ty Cobb and Tris Speaker eran stars of the t ball diamond innocent of Detroit and and have been rein Landis. With two vet declared ing” a game hetween Cleveland in 1918 stated by Commissioner the exoneration of these men base ball h&s cleared the slate of the unsavory mess stirred up by “Duteh” who preceded Swede” Risberg Black Sox fame, in attempting to blacken the character of famous players. In the final Speaker case throws additional light that has mystified the public ard would not face the men he ac- cused, according to the commissioner, and rather than have an empty and one-sided hearing which would result in public condemnation and bring sorrow te their families and to Joe Wood, who was involved with them, Cobb and Speaker decided to retire trom base ball. Soon after this decision was made newspapers in the Middle West got wind of it, and it was necessary for the commissioner to make the whole matter public. When this occurred there was @0 more reason for Cobb and Speaker to remain silent, and they immediately demanded the vindi- cation which they have just received. the Cobh. Landis affair settling of Commissioner on an Leon- Thus ends a case that has stirred | Nation-wide interest, and the verdict of the white-haired arbiter of base ball will be hajled with acclaim. The exoneration has particular significance to the Washington team, inasmuch as President Griffith has an- nounced that determined efforts will be made to induce Speaker to sign on the dotted line for service in center field with the two-time champions of the league. Cleveland has already ap- pointed & new manager to take the place left vacant by Speaker, and will probably be willing to release him to the club with which he can make the best terms. Griffith has wired him an offer, and the chances appear bright for acceptance. But regardless of the Washington angle of the situation, base ball is now “in the clear,” and the stage is set for the beginning of the 1927 sea- son. The “stove league,” as the Win- ter period is known, has had an excit- ing series, a series which threatened for a time to disrupt the national game. The curtain has been drawn on this phase of the game, however, and with renewed public confidence the sixteen major league teams await the umpire’s order to “play ball.” ——— The Charleston on the Campus. University of Chicago students have decided to establish a campus night club. No longer will the grave old senior;, the gay voung sophomore or the beautiful co-ed have to travel way down to the loop district or over miles of macadam to some popular road- house in order to kick up their heels both figuratively and literally. By the establishment of this new campus activity, it is announced, stu- dents may have amusement of a good grade without straining their pocket- books, and when the evening's gayety has ended will not be too far from thelr fraternity houses or dormitories. There is an old college comic song which tells of a patient father, suspi- clously scrutinizing the semester ac counts of his hopeful and_ saving, melodiously, “Four hundred dollars for %0ap and stamps is & little too much, I fear, here is no doubt that in the past many a dollar spent on extra- mural diversion, even when innocent, somehow got listed as having gone for “incidentals,” for ‘“laundry,” for “chemical apparatus,” “text books" and contributions to this, that or the other good cause. Now the stately junior can unblush- ingly list “couvert charge,” “ginger ale” and more substantial refresh- ments when and where they ought to 14 listed. 1Is not the night club a campus activity? Should it not be sup- ported by every loval Chicago man, whether his tastes run to terpsichore or gastronomy or both? The parents may well rejoice that it is so. They will get off much easier financially and will more often know the whereabou: of their dashing sons and beautiful duughters, — e il So far as serious public interest is concerned the “Peaches” crop is def- initely regarded as a failure. CoC e Oratorioal Traffic Control. Inspired, it is stated, by Vice Presi- dent Dawes’ efforts to curb debate in the United States SBenate, the presi- dent of the German Reichstag has in- stalled a system of signal lights which will direct the oratorical traffic in that body. At the president’s hand is a plute with a pair of buttons control- ling different colored lamps on the desk of epch member. Five minutes before the expiration of the time al- lotted to the mpeaker the presiding officer pushes one of the buttons and a yellow cautionary lamp flashes be- tect themselves. For every letter in the weard “contemptible” there sprang into existence anather fresh bat! n bearing the name and num-. ber € some fore the taiking legislator. time is up he pushes another hutton and a red lamp shines forth no ! | hody oing | fighters when put | the | Leonard, | of | When the s peremptory warning; If the red light ? in.talls to stop the-tréfic the president a burden.” e Should the mem- the hand hell |eall to cease talking {ber continue even ther goes on ringing until order is restored. | The device is ingenlons but it lacks perfection re should he an auto mati gag that conld [ he elapped over the month of the tres speaker, off his niterance This procedure cannot the Senate, extinguisher | passing effectually come installed time, That may he in | timit | for there is no of that it When a me the floor some spec the close of a general the end of all should wish 80 to exercise his peroga He may talk all after hour there nher has adopted gets he save | under [ward al rule to debate i we | antil eternity he | | tive \ | night day He was ever and hour ad printed He him by may from any book that to eke out his ewn ideas may | have the reading clerk extrac vers Ny 1‘\\ hile. No vellow light and no red light lcan w | momentum. “apell {reading & from while documents he retains the floor techni though he may rest mean s him when he is under | On the House side, where speech |making time ix doled out by the min ute. a tap of the gavel and the utter ance the Speaker of he gentleman's time has ex auiet debater. He may |Pek A few minutes more from the | keeper of the time on his side of the ! auestion. but he exceeds The forensic traffic is | fectly well regulated in that body by the admoni tion x| | pived,” the never his | stint per- e~ A Normal Washington Winter. Washington is experiencing one of Its normal Winter seasons. It has had little snow and an occasional cold spell, in no case prolongéd. It has had its “January thaw,” with Springlike temperatures. It is now { nipped by a chilly blast from the | Northwest and is shivering, but with } the sun shining and the air clear and {clean and the pavements free from Anow it is not sufféring. The season has reached the stage at which the passing of every day without snowfall is reckoned as a materfal gain. Only a few weeks now lie ahead within which really bad weather can occur, and even if all of them should be marked by the worst that the season can produce the final record will be of a Winter of bearabie mildness. Snow is the worst that is to be dreaded here. For Washington's snows are not as those of more north- erly cities. They are just heavy | enough to. impede traffic and they slush soon enough to cause much sick- ness, through the saturation of the atmosphere with lung-choking damp- ness. Practically every Winter that Washington remembers for its sever- ity has been such by reason of the snowfall, sometimes accompanied by bitter cold that has caused the forma- tion of veritable glaciers and floss in the streets, sometimes by thaws that have brought slush, perhaps quickly to be frozen into long-remaining crusts. Taken altogether, Washington's Winters are not hard to endure. There are many bright days, many warm ones, and motually few that cause suf- fering. If the Capital were equipped for the immediate and complete re- moval of the snow from the streets the season would hold no terrors, That equipment has been partially provided and an organization for its use Has been begun. With more funds at its disposal the District govern- ment could defy the worst the season can bring to the Capita — aeme i A cold wave is comparatively lenient when it lets the thermometer scatter the bad news and does not call for the snow shovel s A seat in the United States Senate in likely to prove far less comfortable than the old office chair out home. et What was once called “‘unpleasant notoriety” is being. occasionally sought as piquant publicity. e The phrase “third term” usually in- volves a certain arithmetic distinction involving a study of fractions, SHOOTING STARS. only BY PHILANDER JOHNSON. Grandpas. Grandpa-in the Charleston step, Tryin’ to show off his pep, Singin’ all the ragtime stuff In a voice that's jest a biuff; Looks to grandma for a face With cosmetics kept in plac Grandpas now, it seems to me, Are not what they used to be. Grandpa used a tale to tell Of the fairy folk who dwell ‘Where the stream of fancy winds — Maybe, mostly in our minds. Like a cannibal he sings Of “Hot Babies” and such thinge! Grandpas, take it, friend, from me, Are not what they used to be! Embarrassment of Riches. “Who are your financial backers?"’ “I haven’t any,” answered Senator Sorghum. “A financial backer used to be an asset in politics. Now he's a liability."” No Need of Importation. I dreamt we mortals, here below, With Mars could talk by radio. Mars tuned us ont and made it known That he had scandals of his own. Jud Tunking says a man who talks about himeelf is usually trying to make a mountain out of a mole hill. “I am opposed to war,” asid Hi Ho, the sage of Chinatown. “So am 1 op- posed to thunderstorms and blizzards. But they happen just the same.’ Deadly Doses. e vou In favor of prohibition?” ertainly,” answered Miss Cay- enne. “Even should we forget the eighteenth amendment we must re- spect the law that makes suicide a Amenities. Diplomatists cannot agree, Politeness still is due; And so we write “R. Upon each “I. 0. U. V. P “Par in two kinds o' music,” said Unele Eben. “One kind makes life a pleasure an' de other kind p it choking | force that seems to|rings a hand bell, which is the final | | BY CHARLES E. TRACE }s B nity of om Takomsa F home k. Md vers we have received | commu- | i the following communication My dear Mr. Tracewell: Your daily ‘ticles wre a source of so much pleas ure to me that I am reluctant to make fmy first communication to you a pro- | | test. This restrained me when, sev-| {#ral weeks—perhaps it was months i vou first advoeated confining the use of the radio to music | But You expressed the same i" inion two or three days ago in The Star, 1 am driven hy apprehension lest ition on your part should have the practical effect of cutting off one | of the greatest recreations of my life vadio talks, readings write (o you “You mention | one of the and plays— o having hesid two out of & hundred” who like the music programs varied with | talks, You are now hearing from the other ¢ Only. in fact, I am writing for my whole family, who deplore as I do the fact that you are trying to t the talks cut out of the broad casting. “We are a family of music lovers, | but we also enjoyv the use of our other faculties of appreciation “We are unable to comprehend why |anybody should prefer unbroken hours of music every evening to a program which in addition to music includes | I upeakers who are specialisie in thelr | subjects, such ax the President and | Vice President of the United States, | leading astronomers and other scien th Mr. K. W. Wile. Miss Julia Mar lowe. Donald MacMillan, Byrd, Will Rogers and many another expert and specialist. We find the majority of our guests share our preference for a diversified program ‘I serfously beg of vou not to u vour great gifta and wide influence to the end of depriving the rest of us of this valued interest in our lives, “Some of us even like barn owls, and Republicans and Democrats proving each other's unworthiness to run the country (though I'll own up to enjoying a hearty laugh when I reached that remark in your article) At least your sense of justice will let us keep 2 per cent of talks, and on some evenings we don't get even that much, “With thanks for the enjoyment we have in your daily feature Sincerely yours, (Mra) A. F. M.” * oKk ok from In the first place, let us assure our valued correspondent that we have neither the power nor the intention of :Aldn( the speeches out of broadcast ng. Although we have made many sug- gestlons looking toward what we have fondly believed would be to the bet- terment of that art and science, we have never received so much as a single acknowledgment from a broad- caster, It is true that several of the sug- gestions made in this column have been carrled into effect, and we have a pleasing suspicion that what we have sald might have had something to do with it. “'The truth is mighty, and will pre- vail,” some one has said; and this applies to broadcasting, too. If any one, anywhere, makes a really good suggestion, and it can be sccommo- dated to crass material factors and to the pleasing of several -million per- no doubt in the end it will come In 8o far, then, that anything this column may have suggested was good, it has been put into effect, just as. to the contrary, anything advocated There's just a little of the irony of fate in the fact that Nationalist China, now in grim revolt against ‘foreign devils,” is, to a very large extent, cap- tained by yqung Chinese educated in the West, Many of them imbibed the spirit of militant democracy through their experiences at American colleges and universities. In hundreds of cases they got this training at the expense of the United Statee. Our country was the first of the great powers to return to China the $12,000,000-0dd of Boxer indemnities extorted from the old Peking government 25 or 26 years ago. In gratitude for that act of American magnanimity, the Chinese announced their purpose of utilizing the first installment of-'the money to send selected young men to the United States for education. Today, all over distracted China, especially in the sonth, whence the Nationalist drive derives its power, American-bred sons of Cathay are in the forefront of the movement to shake off the shackles which have so long manacled the sleeping giant of the East. w0k It is erroneousiy announced that Iceland, the Arctio island of which the King of Denmark is the ruler, has just gone “wet.” She “gol that way” four years ago. The circumstances may well give pause to optimists, who think that foreign pressure can never, never drag Uncle Sam off the water wagon. It appears that Tceland has now established its first brewery. But it also develops that the island was compelled to choose between wetness and impoverishment as long ago as 1922. Spain seems to bhe Iceland's best customer for the island’s prin- cipal product, dried fish. So the Span- ish, who export enormous quantities of their wine, submitted an ultimatum to the little government at Reykjavik to the effect that the Icelanders had to drink Spanish wine or the Spanish would buy no more of Iceland’s fish. ok K ¥ M Mary T. Nerton, Democrat, Congresswoman from New Jersey, was the speaker of the evening at the Jackson day dinner of Philadel- phia Democrats last night. Her theme was “Woman in Politics.” The lady from the Mosquito State said there would be ‘Newberrys, Vares and Smiths” just as long as women re- frain from wading into public life in full strength. Mrs. Norton frankly deplored the fact that her sex ix slacking in its suffrage obligations and opportunities, and particularly is vieing with man voters in prefe convenience to duty on election days. Mrs. Norton struck & practical blow for American home industries the other day. When she and her sister- Congresswomen inspected their new cloakroom in the House wing of the Capitol, the Jersey woman discovered that the floor was carpeted with & iurid Orfental rug. She protested that premises destined to become so his- toric ought to be upholstered on the 100 per cent American plan. So the Smyrna plece was discarded, and a rug “‘made in U. 8. A.” substituted, * ok ok x Secretary Hoover has submitted to the Senate a more than ordinarily interesting communication on the sub- ject of muitiplex telegraphy and teleph- ony. It is a reply to u resolutipn presented by Senator Walsh, Demo- crat, of Montana, The resolution called for information about the discovery and extent of use of the system by which nation-wide radio hook-ups are made and simultaneous transmission of many telephone conversations and telegraph mesnages is possible on the same line. The inventar of multiplex telegraphy and telephony, or ‘‘wired wireless,"” as he calls it, is Maj. Ge George O. Squler of Washington, f merly chief signal. officer of the United States n G ia | eated, | auired in lste | & possessed by only | frock-tatled coat THIS AND THAT Wwas not worthy into effect. Several vears ago, for instance, this writer wrote a personal letter to Roxi in New York, at the time there wi controversy hetween broadcasters and certaln publishers of popular music. n this letter we suggested that the old light operas on which copyrighte had run out were filled with beautiful catchy music, and thut listeners would be but henefited by the broadeasting of such melodies. It was not long after thix that a selectlon from one of the oldest of Victor Herbert's opecas was included in the popular Sunday night concert and after that other old comic operas were used. Today the hroadcasting of the beautiful old light opera music written by composers of all nations, i 0 vegular feature from WIAF The number of talks over radio has been notlceably lessened in the past vear, not hecause we have so advo. but simply because many per Aonk have so requested. Speakers who were formerly allowed half an hour have been cut to 15 minutes and others to 10 minutes In making this change the broad casters simply have recognized that the power of sustained attention re ng to a radio speach A comparatively few in the vast radio audience Thir comer about because the audi ence is deprived of the sight of the speaker. There are no gestures, no no flowing hair, no ice-water pitcher, “no nothing” te ta the tension off the poor “listener in. In the second place, an Vice Presi dent Dawes once pointed out in a radio speech, broadcasting is bringing in a new type of oratory, one in which a direct appeal I8 made to the inteliact. The “blah-blah” and “flag waving” of old-time speech-making falla flat over the afr. H Principally because of these two rea- sons—one in defense of the listener, the other in defense of the speaker- radio speaking is losing its place on the programs. S ko We are not convinced, personally (ex strange as it may seem), that the abolition of radio talka will be a good thing, however. 2 Letters such as that quoted are con- vincing us that there are many who do llke them. In addition, there in brought to the fore the whole ques- tion of the limitations of radio. Music and talk—these two consti- tute the entire repertoire. The phono- graph long ago practically eliminated speech from the records. For every “talking record” struck off there are literally milllons of song and dance discs, although in the beginning of the business the “talking” was the most interesting feature. Nothing is more uninteresting than a talking record after one has heard it a few times. Now, this is where radio shines, for eyery speedh it puts out may be and usually is an entirely new one, fresh from the mind and mouth of the talker. Radio should, then, in our opinion, think twice before it abolishes the talk, the play, the convention, the oration, the et speech, the current events, the book talk, as these are fea- tures which the phonographs cannot give, but which radio can. Attention should be turned to select- ing speakers who have pleasant voices and pleasant manneriams, plays that are clean, and 8o on. From the speak- er who epits into the microphons, good Lord deliver us! We honestly believe he is the fellow who soured, us on radio talks. it has not heen put - WASHINGTON OBSERVATIONS BY FREDERIC WILLIAM WILE, over the use of his patents by the American Telephone and Telegraph Co. The Hoover letter to the Senate, just issued as a public document, contain: a dramatic account by Gen. Squier of the history of the electrical “carrier art.” The Secretary of Commerce expresses no opinion on the merits of Gen. Squier's claims. Mr. Hoover informs the Senate that he can only submit statements filed with him by the high contesting parties. * K ok % Events of the current session of Congress are reviving an oft-mentioned plan for some form of cabinet repre- sentation on the floors of the House and the Senate. Such a modified scheme of ‘‘parliamentary govern ment” was a pet project of the late ¥ranklin K. Lane. An administra- tion leader remarks to this observer that President Coolidge might have fared quite differently on such ocea- slons as the Mexican-Nicaraguan mud- dle, the Lausanne treaty fight and the Woods confirmation controversy if authorized spokesmen of the White House could have had their p al say. At times when national defense is under discussion, the same authority explains, the Secretaries of War and Navy could function as potent de- fenders of departmental demands. The Coolldge cabinet contains any number of men accustomed to hold their own in rough-and-tumble debate. Secretary Kellogg and Postmaster General New are both former Senators. Secretaries Mellon and Hoover would not shine in forensic combat. But each of them has a brass-tacks method of speech which carries more conviction than the oratorical excesses to which Con- gress is frequently subjected by ite own members, * ok kK Hugh Gibson. American Minister to Switzerland and our permanent un- official observer at the League of Na- tions, is earmarked for higher diplo- matic honors. Had the Lausanne treaty with Turkey been ratified, many insiders think, Gibson would have beon appointed the first Ameri- can Ambessedor to the autocratic re- public which Mustapha Kemal rules. A Californian, Gibson has spent nearly 20 of his own 46 years in the foreign service of the United States. He won world-wide fame as Brand Whitlock's courageous right-hand man at Brussels during the German occupation preced- ing our entry Into the war. His “Journal From Our Legation in Bel- glum” ranks high among World War books. Mr. Gibson fs now on leave in ‘Washington. He is putting in most of his time conferring with the State, War and Navy departments in co nection with the forthcoming renewed sessfons of the preliminary disarma- ment conference at Geneva. ok ok ¥ Louis Ludlow, Hoosier sage and ‘Washington newspaper man, has taken his courage in both hands and issued a burlesque insugural message apropos his recent election to the vice presidency of the tional Press Club. In approved White House style “ad- vance copies” of the address are labeled: “Caution—Not to be released, in whole or in part, untli the Vice President begins to speak.” Ludlow's dissertation ranges all the way from Press Club politics to his campaign expenses, our international relations— Mexico and Nicaragua in particular— Tacna Arice and prohibition. “I re- pudiate all T sald in my platform against entangling alliances, con- cludes Ludlow’'s discussion of the state of the Union. “I am in favor of entangling alliances. If I can have ‘my way the golden strand of love will regch out and entangle me with all of you. 1 repeat that I repudiate my whole platform and 1 insert in if place a single plank of one sentence, ‘Let us help one another.’ " .| and South American Peril Seen If Mexico Wins| To the Editor of The Star | There is a feature of the Mexican iissue that has not been brought as vet. b which is of jimportance and should be |conaideration by the American peoy Practically every nation in Central puth America s walting the out of the Mexican situation In of these countries there are already groups of radicals who {the same views asx President Calles [of Mexico. His policy |of the property of foreigners is to which these radicals all heartily subscribe mericans and other for |eigners have large investments in |these countries also. These groups {of radicals find it*easy to gain the | support of & substantial part of the people when (hey set forth their policy of driving out all;the foreigners whom Ithey claim control the industrial life of their nations. The cry of “home rule” has always bes a popular one. { It through the subterfuge of a { paeudo-constitution President Calles is able to deprive these foreigners of property rights in Mexico, these adicals in Central and South Amer- ica will immediately follow hix lead and they Il be able to gain control of the situation in their respective countries, “Thus by arbitration t aken into come every a policy of indecision or of this question with Mexico the United States is actually aswisting every radical group in Cen tral and South America to build up their organizations and is making it more dificult for the honest and con sorvative members of the govern- ments of thexe countries to keep con trol of the situation. If President Callex can “gei away’” with this confiscation of the property of foreigners in Mexico, there will be wholesale confiscation by many of these countries, which will result in chaos and a business depression of world-wide magnitude. These radi- cals are all watching Calles and are backing him up with the false cry of “imperialism.” e situation Is terribly serious. The only pelicy the United States should pursue in Mexico is one of forceful determination to protect the rights of its citizens owning prop- erty there, as well as the rights of all other foreigners, because it must do so in accordance with the spirit of the Monroe Doctrine. If Calles is able to “hefog” this isnue 80 as to throw the case into the Mexican courts, he will have won a great vigtory. Hix next step will be to repudiate the entire Mexican debt owed for- eigners to the exteni of over $750, 000,000, CHARLES J. DEITZ. Favors Arbitration In Mexican Dispute To thé Editor of The Sta ‘What price glory now? For once people are not ashamed to say they are sick and tired of war and eager for peaceful methods of settling an international argument. A few thou- sand dollars’ worth of arbitration looks like a much better investment than a billion dollars’ worth of war. Individual dueling is long since out of fashion, and the people can see no more reason why the United States and Mexico should fight than for two men to atand vp, count three and then try to ventilate each other with bullet holes. Duels prove that one man is a bet- er marksman or swordsman than anoth They do not prove which is the righteous cause. They settle ques tions of relative skill with sword or pistol, not matters of honor. They bardly even decide which man has the more courage, for the one who looks braver may he moved by deathly fear of seeming the coward. War between the United States and Mexico would not be even a good sporting event. It is no fun to see a big ‘man beat up a game little man. The President’s own feeling, appar- ently, is that when Mexico takes away property of American citizens without even paying for it the injustice Is one that can be settled only by use of force. But if honor is not enough Justification for a duel, shall property be %0 considered? There is no backed by an force to compel her land laws. But, at the worst, arbitration by a mutually acceptable tribunal would clear away the present indecision and it _would he in line with American principles frequently declared. WALLACE C. KIMBALL. e eae— Praises Modern Girl *For Resourcefulness To the Editor of The Star: The word flapper. which originally signified a2 young bird that could not fiv but only flap its wings, has come to be sarcastically applied to the young woman of today. And now, when the term Is used, the mind im- mediatelv conjures up a picture of an immature female who wears her dresses above her knees, rouges her cheeks, smears something sticky on her eyelashes, plucks her eyebrows, indulges in petting parties and smokes cigarettes. ‘While this letter is not intended exactly as a defense of the flapper (to defend her would be superfluous, as she is entirely capable of fighting her own battles), vet it may not be amiss to suggest that she has a few redeem- ing qualities; although her more puritanical elders would not concede even this much. She may shock her dear old grandmother, worry her mother, and force her father to pace the floor those nights when 2 and 3 o'clock strike before her kev is heard in the latch; but she is likely to know how to take care of herself in any emergency. She resorts to none of the sly deceit, one of the by-products of ignorance. 80 often practiced by the girls of 30 and 40 years ago. She is dubbed ‘‘bold,” and the possessor of more than her share of “‘nerve,” because she dis- cusses sex with the utmost frank- ness. However, matrimony and the steps leading thereto do not consti- tute her only interest: nor does she g0 into a decline when some admirer proves false—the common practice in her mother's youth. She is keen for all kinds of sports, is a good student and an excellent judge of human natud In short, the young woman of the present generation is healthier, hap- pier and, withal, her knowledge more wholesome than those who have pre- ceded her. It is a well known fact that she settles down, often at an early age, to a useful career as wife and mother. Perhaps her frivolous years lead her 1o appreciate the more worth-while thinge when they finally come to her. Out of the diversity of her life she apparently developa a philogophy, an ability to analyze and discriminate, that may prove helpful in rearing her own children. CLARA MANDERSCHIED, c——— Hard Guessing. From the Wall Street Journal. “Cherchez la femme" becomes diffi- cult with these mannish bobs. r———— That Right of Way. From the Boston Herald. Remember that the loaded truck's momentum be more decisive than your right #f way. ———or—s Wrong Move. From the Sdn Antonio Evening News. “Formerflexan, denied clemency by Why did he eave the Sgiite to commit international law international police Mexico to abandon out | the greaiest | hold | of confiscation | one | Q. What was the 1 in husiness last The total which passed | houses Tast 634.865,000. Q value of cheeks | vear? BN value of the checks through the clearing vear amounted to $607 Has the city of Danzig a Hselt? W AP, A. The free city of Danzig has its |own quota of 28% per annum. quota | by Q. How far above sea level is Gat Lake?—M. C. 0. AL It is 85 feet above, un | Q. Where is the largest co-opera tive store association in the United States? T, H A. The {wo largest co store societies in the [nited 1926 seem 1o be the New Co-operative Co.. composed of miners in the neigh- borhood of Dillonvaie, Ohio, and the 800 Cooperative tion. Sault Ste. Marie, Mich., i a general consumers taking all membership. operative ates in which co-operative, kinds of people into its Q. Where in this country is mercury 1(\",!:"1, and for what is it used? H A. Mercury times found native. but mostly de tived from cinnabar. Normally, by far the greater part of the world's production of mercury is used in ex- tracting gold and silver from their ores. In 1914 and 1916, owing to the Européan war, it was used mainly In the manufacture of fulminate.for explosive caps. . It {s also used in the manufacture of drugs, of electric appliances and of scientific apparatus, thermometers, barometers and for making vermilion. Mercury is found In California and Colorado. Q. Will hens lay better when lime. stone is included in their feed?—F. P. A. In feeding tests for egg produc- tion it was found that omitting lime- stone, a shell-forming ingredient, from the ration reduced egg production 50 per cent. i= an element some Q. Who "took the part of Stephen Decatur in the play “Old Ironsides™? Please give a sketch of his life.—A. L. A. Johnnie Walker took this part. He was born in New York City, is 5 feet 11 inches tall, has black hair and brown eyes. that Mr. Walker is a great-grandson of David Walker, who was a midship- man on the Constitution during the Tripolitan campaign. Q. How many disputes did the con- ciliation service of the United States Department of Labor settie last vear? A. The conciliation service of the Department of Labor used its good of- fices in 551 industrial disputes—strikes, threatened strikes and lockouts. Com- missioners of conciliation were suc- ceasful in securing settlements in 377 cases. In 78 cases they aided State and local agencies and civic commit- tees in clearing up, or were present in the locality of dispute, but did not par- ticipate in the local trade disputes. In adjustment, but even in a few of the latter settlements were eventually reached along lines suggested by the department’s representatives, At the end of the flacal year there were 43 pending cases. In addition to the record of cases submitted and adjusted during the fiscal year, 35 of the cases carried as pending at the close of the last fiscal year were also satisfacto- rily adjusted. Total adjustments dur- ing the period covered by this report number 412, Q. What Is the highest rank of an officer in the Coast and Geodetic Sur- vey?—T. 8. D. A. The highest rank which may be attained in this service is that of cap- tain. This is also true of the Coast Guard Service. Q. How much does college foot ball cost the public?—C. 8. B. A. It has been said that intercol- legiate foot ball costs $30,000,000 a year. This estimate is based on the returns of about 30 of the best known universities. Q. What is the figure on the tip of the Capitol? 1Is it true that ft is identical with the one (statue) in the Old National Museum?- E.W. Mercantile Associa- | It is interesting to note | 61 cases they were unable to secure A. Crawford. the sc figure on top of the Liberty.” but the ofcfal nam figure is “Fresdom.” I the statue is in the Old Nationai Museum. calied the Armec of the odel of rotonda of the “apitol Q. How long ix the largest snake in captivity and where is it%—J. 1. \ A. The largest snake in captivity of Which we know is a Rezal typhon, in the Washington Zoological Park It is between 26 and 30 feet inng and 7 | inches in diameter During the so-called t season. how many £0 to Kurope>—J, P. I, A. It is estimated that 3 per cent of the total persons obtaining paas ports travel to Europe. The taral number of passports {ssued in the year ended November 30, 1926, was 167,602 Q Summer Americans Q. What was the first government office opened in Washington afrer i became the Capitai?—C. E. W A. The first was the Post Office e partment, which was opened on June 11, 1800, Q. Has the number of people using | elevators in New York City daily o heen estimated’—R. E. G A. The Bulletin. a publication of the National Association of Building Own ers and Managers. In the January issue states that there are a: present in the borough of Manhattan 14,296 passenger elevators, exclusive of passenger elevators in private dwell ings. Of this number 13,800 are prob ably in daily use. The estimated num ber of passengers carried daily by these elevators 9.650,000 and the estimated number of miles traveled daily by the cars is 67,700 miles. Q. Did Wallace Beery play in “The Four Horsemen of the Apocalvpse —P. 0. 8. A. Yes. He played German officer. v Q. ‘;\"h;n was the Reign of Terror? A. The Reign of Terror was the period in France beginning eout March, 1793, when the Revelutionary Tribunal was appointed, and ending in July, 1794, with the overthraw of Robespierre and his associates. Dur ing this time a great number of per- | sons, principally of the aristocracy, were executed. Q. How can I clean my overstuffed velour living room suite>—B. H A. It is advisable to use only bon tetrachloride or other ‘“dry" liquids to clean such fabries. since water might shrink it, leave rings or streaks, and disfigure the dye color- ing. What many women do not know is that modern commercial cleaning pjants are equipped with huge tanks 'here large pieces of furniture are completely immersed and put under pressure sufficient to force the clean- ing fluld into every fiber of the | upholstering. The great advantage of this process is that it is instant death to all moth life, and dissolved mothproofiing compounds in the fluid cleaner protect the furniture againat | tuture infestation. The furniture is the deodorized, the color brightened and the nap restored. Q. Who sald, “Millions for defense, but not a cent for tribute,” and why? —1. J.. 8. A. The expression, “Millions for de- fense, but not one cent for tribut: was used by Charles Pinckney, American statesman, who was Minis- ter to France in 1796. The occasion for this utterance was the request for a gift of money on the part of the French. Gen. Robert E. Lee aaid: “The thor- ough education of people is the most eficacious means of promoting the prosperity of the Nation.” These words of the distinguished Southern general are mone the less true mow than when he spoke them. Our Wash- ington Information Bureau is one of the greatest agencies for the distribu- tion of free information and educa- tonal data in the world. Its services are free to readers of this paper. Al you meed to do is ‘to send in yous query together with 2 cenla in stamps for return postage. Address the Washington Star information Bureeu, Frederic J. Haskin, Director, Waash- ington, D. C. car- Charlotte’s Position in “Crazy Quilt of History” Recalled The death in Belgium of Chariotte, the “mad empress” who for a brief period ruled with Maximilian over Mexico, recalls to the public one of the moat tragic and romantic inci- dents of history. 5 “What a crazy quilt of history, says the St. Louis Post Dispatch, “is the shroud of ‘Poor Carlotta,’ dead at last, after 60 vears in the shadowy exile of melancholi Ghostly figures stride or totter out from royal and princely graves to be seen a moment in the gray cortege. Firat of all, her beloved consort, Maximilian, whose brief, imperial canter in Mexico ended before a firing squad. Carlotta’s fu- tile importunities in the cou Europe will ever remain among the haunting tragedies of that silken,! blundering, amorous.episode, the Sec- ond Empire. “The feeble Napoleon, sponsor of the fatal adventure, appears in his perfume and perfidy. brutally ovdering the helpless woman out of France. Franz Josef, it shame has tound him in the tomb, hides his treacherous face he scorns the pleading wife of the brother who was a burden to his penurious soul. What part Eugenie may have had in the folly and the betrayal was expiated in the penitence that followed the thunders of Sedan. And Bismarck, glaring at the puppets he thrust aside, may find fn the spirit of Carlotta a companion to laugh at the ashes of the Hohenzollerns and HapSburgs. Requiescat.” “It was the tragedy of the Empress Carlotta not only to survive her gen- eration, but also to outlive her name,” declares the Richmond News Leads which points out that she was “one of the few royal women of her day to have a marriage of love,” and that paper recalls that when she wi “raised by fortune and French ba: nets to the uncertain throne of Mexico, it pleased her to be styled Carlotta, in rhythmie syllables. rather than Char- lotte. It was as Carlotta,” continues the News Leader, “that she hurried back to Europe. the eyes of all the world following her. to plead with Na- poleon IIT for assistance in support- ing the throne his ambition had set up. It was as Carlotta that sympa- thizing women saw her turned awa: by that strange conspirater. It was as Carlotta that she went under the cloud from which she never emerged with full mentality. . But now, when Napoleon III is only # misty name and the Empress Eugenie is dead. and men have almost forgotten there ever was an empire in Mexico, the cables click off her name as Charlotte once again In the brief announcement of her death. ERE O “The world had forgotten her pres- ence and whereabouts, almost her existence,” remarked the Hartford Times, ‘“‘until the news came of th end of her tragedy, ¥For pathos, heart- thrill, grandeur of .historic pageant, living mentary upon the apirit of Mexico and the nature of des- tiny, what more dramatic theme than the lives and deaths of %’ 7" Thd % Capital ‘one of the unforgettahle tragic ro maneces of high-placed world figures, and with a stage setting that even 2 Dumas or Oppenheim would not ven ture to employ.” That paper afMirms that “an em press she was, and the oniy empress in America since the era of the Incas or Aztecs, but only for a matter of monthi The Capital also refers to the fact that “the Civil War was the opportunity of what survived in con- tinental Europe of the Old Holy Alli- ance to challenge America's Monroe Doctrine,” but refers to the abandon- ment by Furopean governments “of Maximliian to his fate with a treach ery and cowardice that are hardly matched even in Old World diplo- macy. The Buffalo Evening News recalls that “‘Appomattox untied the hands of the United States, and the Monrne Doctrine again began to have a mean- ing. The French troops were with- drawn, and the deluded Maximilian left to maintain himself alone nst the insurgents of Juarez. who had abandoned the field.” The News also remarks that she was 'im- mured in a Belgian castle” for the period since that time: that “even the iate war passed her by with respect for her tragedy,” and that “the Ger- gave orders that the hoL he lived should not be dis * ok o X “That this wonderful woman sur- vived her grief so many years’ ac- ording to the Charlotte Observer, ‘must be regarded as one of the most remarkable of human circum- stances, but live she did, and through all the years since that fragic day in 1867 whe had lived where time stopped for her. With her it was a case of life coming with death. Perhaps the faith of many might prove strong enough to picture her reunited at last with her one lTove The Fort Wayne News Sentinel also pictures her as going “to join the dashing Emperor whom she lovad passionately and from whom she was separated by the hungry ambitions of the freedom-scorning royalists of an earlier da; The News Sentinel finds signifi ce in the fact “that Carlotta should have pas: from the earthly stage at a time when Mexico once more is the focal point of political storm and strife, and ‘when the nations of the Old World are observing the clash between Calles and Coolidge with the prob- able determination to protect the rights of their nations—Monroe Doe- trine or no Monroe Doctrine—if the United States fails to establish order below the Rio Grande.’ “Her real life had been brief; her world died with the loss of her reason in the last beautiful gestu: she made to save the man ved, states the Canton Daily News. And the Davenport Democrat records that ‘once an emprese, she was al loyal ta the tall. blond veung man ‘who was the victim of a mad pranik in the politica! .c: which threw him up on our shores and then faft the part m" ’ .