Evening Star Newspaper, February 6, 1927, Page 48

I'HE EVENING STAR With Sunday ‘W«rfll!!l Edition. WASHINGTON, D. C. . .February 6, 1927 BUNDAY. THEODORE W. NOYES. .. .Editor The Evening Star Newspaper Company Business Ofice o Forlk Bfieer 110 Eant ew York Office Chicago OMca: Tower Building European Office’ 14 Regent St., Lond England: don. morn- nine Star. with the Sunday morn: i« delivered by carriers Tk Ponth: Gy oniy. Bor dava only. 20 cents v be sent by mail or Collection is made by each month. Rate by Mail- yable in Advance. Marylana and Virginia, nd Sund yr.. $0.00: 1 mo., o Sinday. ...} 7T 84.00: 1 mo 1111 yr.$3.00: 1 mo Ing he e 45 cn er lelerhone varrie ion at’' 60 cents h M at 78 All Other States and Canada. 1 yr. $1200: 1 mo.. S 00 - SL&00¢ 1 mo- $4.00: 1 mo. pats ‘inda: inday Member of the Associated Press. The Associated Press is exciusively entitjed Lo the U for republication of all news ¢ atches credited o\t or mot atherwies sl ihis paner and also the loc vablished hetein. All riehis of publication of epecial dispatches herein are also reserve! - Uncommon Sense. Nebraska struck sometimes Senator Norris of & note of common tacking in the halls of Congress, in his fon of the debt. “a busi- sense, nddress favoring the appli eurplus revenues to the publ | fog enator Norris, ness man were in debt, and found the close of the year that he had made he expected to on hand, he sald more money than make and had a sur would not hesitate for a moment to wpply that surplus upon his indebted- ness, and thus reduce not only the principal but the interest as well In a siz~la sentence the Nebraska Benator stated the whole case of the gurplus which has accrued under the existing tax laws. The Federal Gov- | they One is that had Amer and permitted Germany to win the war, he would have been a good deal harder pressed than he is today. The |other is that, were positions reversed, the British government would follow just about the course the American government is following. The people of France and Italy may not understand the American viewpoint, but it in England. Much less is it obscure in the British dominions. Even in Great britain there is not any unfriendliness which need cause America When husiness picks up and the people get back to again, as they are bound to do, there will be heard little of the pres- ent grouching about American pros- perity. Tt is only natural that the British should be a little envious, but know well that the continued prosperity of this country is the hest possible that prosperity will return to their own Radio Bill Delayed. A week ago passage of legislation to clear up the present chaotic radio is not obscure concern. assurance THE SUNDAY STAR, WASHINGTON, EVERYDAY RELIGION BY THE RIGHT REV. JAMES B. FREEMAN, D. D, LL. D, Bishop of Washington. hacking of trees belonging to t trict that a bus company has been made the defendant in a suit because an overhanging tree limb injured’ a passenger on the upper deck of one of its vehicles. In its defense the transit corporation charges the District with responsibility for the accident and that when two-story busses were authorized for Washington trees should have been properly trimmed to allow their operation. If it has come to a question of! whether the District shall cut its trees away to make room for privately own- ed bus companies to utilize double- deckers on the streets there is but one answer. The order allowing the double- deckers to run should be immediately rescinded and they should be barred from the streets. Not the trees but the busses must go. The time has not ar- rived when any company or employes of any company can take the matter into their hands and destroy trees that it has taken years to culti- vate. The person or persons responsi- ble for this act of vandalism should be severely punished. claims own B broadcasting situation appeared cer tain. The White blll, providing for control of radio by the Department of Commerce, had been passed by the House, and the DIill bill, putting con- trol under a separate commission, had been passed by the Senate. Conferees were appointed from the two bodies iron out the differences between the measures. After several meetings the conferees made their report, which was promptly approved by the House, and it was confidently expected that the harmonized measure would speedily become a law. Now it appears, through objection by Senators when the conference re- port was brought to the floor of the Senate vesterday, that radio legisla- tion has struck another temporary snag. Less than a month remains of the present session of Congress and to ernment has reduced the war debt of the Nation by several billions of dol- Jars since the armistice was signed. Rut there are many billions more to pay. The suggestion is sarcastically made in some quarters that the regular Re- publicans put forward Senator Norris, the progressive, to pull the chestnuts out of the fire for them when Senator Harrison of Mississippi launched his demand for immediate tax reduction. This is unfair to Senator Norris. The progressive group in the Senate, of which Senator Norris is one of the leaders, has been consistently in favor of paving the public debt while there 18 money to pay it, and in favor of go- ing slow with drastic tax cuts when the country is well able to meet the tax levie: The Senate took the Harrison resolu- tion yesterday, expressing it as the gense of the Senate there should be immediate tax reduction to absorb the $400,000,000 Treasury surplus, and turned it into a Norris resolution fa- voring the application of the surplus to the debt. Charges and. counter charges of underlying political mo- tives flowed freely from both sides of the chamber. Senator Gillett of Massa- chusgtts sald that the Democrats, and particularly Senator Harrison, were merely trying to steal some of the Re- publican thunder which has come to the G. O. P. because of its tax reduc- tion and economy policies. To this charge the Democrats re- plied the Republicans were merely holding up tax reduction until next year, when the national elections are to be staged, so they could go to the voters pointing with pride to a new easing of the tax burden. The vote in the Senate was along party lines, with a single exception. Benator Cole Blease, South Carolina, Democrat, cast his vote for the Norris emendment to the Harrison resolu- tion. So another act of the political drama, Is concluded. It will be followed, of course, with still another in the next Congress. Nothing is more natural in this countfy, where party government maintains and party advantage is Bought on almost all occasions. Sena- tor Norris may have been right, but he was scarcely practical when he said: “I have no sympathy with the politi- tal party that will try to make politi- cal capital out of this matter, either how or in the future. I think we ought to consider this as a business man would consider the ordinary affairs of Many wise Republicans fully expect that President Coolidge will remain in the White House a sufficient number of years to repay him fully for any in- ronvenience he may suffer while the historic mansfon undergoes repairs, = ——— America and England. B. Houghton, Great ® “hatred Alangon Ambas parent pver British Rbout which o much is heard from Yeturning travelers, who get them- delves worked into terrible stews be ra our lack of popularity Europe. Mr. Houghton thinks the American people and the British people will continue to be friends, be- cause our friendship is based upon something more fundamental than passing financial or commercial con siderations. “When we speak seri ously of the relations between Britain and America,” he said Friday night in an address at Plymouth, “we have other minds than of business. We are thinking rather that, just as we have the same language, have the s life out- look, the same ultimate standards.” The f that have the same outlook and the same standards is a sufficient guarantee that questions of debt payment and commercial rivalry pre not going to destroy the friend- ghip hetween the two peoples. Just now the British good deal yeeved at Americans. They are des perately hard up, with factories idle, workingmen living on the dole, taxes high, and hard scratchiog to raise the cash to mes. stated pa American Britain, ap- tly perturbed of America, to not of £ something matter: on our we e me we are a necessary radio legislation must be passed or the more than six million listeners will be forced to go through another Spring, Summer and Fall of heterodyning whistles and jumbled programs, while pirating svations usurp their law-gov- erned rignt to the air, lacking the guiding hand of Government author- ity to keep ¥hem in place. The objectsin which arose vesterday from Senatof Howell of Nebraska is fundamental. dut practically means little. Senater Howell insisted that an affirmation #e included in the bill to the effect tfiat the United States owns the ether. The issue has been con- siderably broadened, in the abstract, by the Nebraska Senator’s contention. But its meaning to the radio listeners is more or less obscure. Even how, with no parental control of the air by Government or any other agency, the United States is well pro- tected. There has been no attempt of broadcasting stations to drop below the 200-meter mark or to go ahove the 600-meter deadline established in the radio law of 1913. Chiefly, perhaps, because radio receiving sets are built to perform between these two limits. But in any event a broadcasting sta- tion that went above or below: these limits would find few listeners. Senator Howell's proviso is undoubt- edly made to preclude legal claims to vested rights in the ether, and legal action to protect the right of stations to specific wave lengths, even under Government control. Against the claim of the Nebraska Semator, proponents of the bill insist that it fully protects the public interest as it stands. Sec- retary Hoover insists that no broad- caster has a vested right to a specific wave length. There are today 712 broadcasting stations using the air whenever and wherever they please, without possi- bility of legal or governmental inter- ference as the law now stands. Eighty-nine available full-time wave lengths, spaced ten kilocycles apart, awalt their consistent useful purposes. Closer spacing is impracticable, for radio sets are not constructed with the hair-line division of stations that will bring in signals crowded much closer than ten kilocycles separation. Unless Congress passes radio legisla- tion at this session, objections as to who shall own the air notwithstand- ing, there is certain fo be the same chaos that Secretary Hoover predicted last Summer and which has been fully borne out by the present jumbled sit uation. Meanwhile, anxious to get in under the wire and beat the time when Government control of the air will again become a fact, broadcasters are crowding to the limit to have license applications acted on, adding to the ether chaos. Primarily the radio listeners are not interested in whether the Government owns or does not own the air. Broad- casting programs, generally, are satis- factory, and, under the present bill, su- pervision over them would become the duty of the new radio commission, with public convenience and necessity the governing factor as to the life of broadcasters. The radio bill will be brought up in the Senate again by Senator Dill. It is hoped that even if Senator Howell insists on his pro- viso, it will quickly become a law. PR e There are disappointing activities among a rather large number ‘of na- tions which apparently have not learned to take any interest whatever in peace conferences. oo A film comedian who has to pay back taxes to the amount of a million or so naturally feels that he can scarcely afford alimony. N Vandalism, An extraordinary act of vandalism is charged against employes of the Washington Rapid Transit Co. Fifty of the finest Norway maples lining Thirteenth street between Harvard street and Park road have been hacked ind butchered in the night and District officlals accuse transit employes of trimming the trees for the freer pas- sage of the double-decked busses of the company. Although officials of the organization assert that the operation was without their knowledge there i indication that District authorities in- meits on the American debt. But ¢he intelligent Briton, when he is bonest with himself, is not nearly so indignant at America as he pretends to be. This is because of two things yvhich he knows in his heart are frue. tend to hold the company responsible for the act of its employes and Telephone Short-Cut. A plan which may improve tele- phone service is being tried in vari- ous cities. The scheme is that when the young woman with the smiling voice plainly hears the number she will not repeat it to the customer, but will merely say “Thank you,” and connect with the number asked When she doubts that she has caught the number aright, then and only then will she repeat it. The custom is: “Number, please Hve me Jas- mine Plains 80408 asmine Plains 80408?" “Right-0.” “Thank you!” Under the proposed plan the tele- phone operator if she has no doubt that it is Jasmine Plains 80408 will say “Thank you,” and get that num- ber for the waiting man or woman. The plan sounds well, and Washing- ton will watch with interest while the plan is tested. It is said that officers of the Chesapeake and Potomac Tele- phone Ca. have a similar system un- der consideration for this district.. If it speeds up the ntaking of telephone connections it will meet with general approval. — e Confiding persons continue to cash bad checks for large amounts. There is, as Barnum said, a joy in being humbugged. Warnings againat over- doing the pastime are widely pub- lished, but even in this enlightened age there are evidently people who do not read the papers. - — The ruling against boxing exhibi- tions in the District of Columbia will compel a large number of leading citl- zens who admire the sport to proceed as usual and add the cost of railway tickets to the price of seats at the ringside. ————— Judges are beginning to protest against the kind of evidence they are compelled to hear. There should also be some consideration for the feelings of the weary court reporters. ————— Managers in New York have an or- ganization to clean up the stage. Each manager knows of several other man- agers whose products should have im- mediate and drastic attention. o Should Henry Ford's fortune go on increasing as it has done in recent years, nobody will know exactly how rich he is; not even Mr. Ford himself. —— SHOOTING STARS. BY PHILANDER JOHNSON. Restless One-cent Piece. Of wealth we have a vast amount, Accountants all declare, And yet we are required to count The coppers everywhere. Upon the street car, in the shop, ‘Wherever people mingle, We're suddenly compelled to stop And hear the “brownies” jingle. By billions gayly we increase Our items of expense, Yet we observe a one-cent piece ‘With caution most intense. How much ourselves we might amuse Could we employ more gayly The precious moments that e lose In counting coppers daily! The Extinguished Torch. “Why don't we get out and hold torchlight parades like people did in the old days?"” “I hope my friends will never at- tempt such a demonstration,” pro- tested Senator Sorghum. “I sheuldn't want to be held responsible even in so slight a degree for additional demands that might boost the price of oil or gasoline.” Self-sacrificing Service. The prohibition agent sighed: ““This occupation hurts my pride. I cannot join convivial cheer And sing ‘Hail, Hall, the Gang's All Her When of ‘good fellows’ people sing, I'm not supposed to say a thing. So dull and lonely is my way, 1 surely ought to draw more pay!” Jud Tunkins says an anclent Bgyp- tian tomb looks less like an ancestral shrine than like a leoted jewelry stdre. ““The tombs of our ancestors,” sald Hi Ho, the sage of Chinatown, “if hon- ored forever, would turn the whole world into a graveyard.” More Civilized. “Crimson Gulch is becoming one of the great centers of civilization.” “It is,” cheerfully agreed Cactus Joe. “Our lovely village used to get notori- ous by hanging a hoss thief now and then. Now we have humane ideals that let motor robbers and hi-jackers go unpunished in the hope that they will see the error of their ways and repent.” Incompatibility. The dollar has some sudden tricks, Which spoil a statesman’s chances; So, It you play in politics, Quit fooling in finances. “Some people,”’ said Uncle Eben, “appears to imagine dat in order to be happy dey has got to act foolish.” oo the case threatens to become one of extreme seriousness. It may or may not be significant in connection with the unauthorized Sometimes. From the Rutland Herald. aeid You can make almost any man feel at home by starting an. ’snm’-, A HOLY ALLIANCE. St. Matthew, v other brethren James and John, his brother, in a ship. with Zebedee, their father. ‘mending their nets. St. Matthew. xx.:20—"Then came to Him' the mother of Zebedea's children, with her sons. These two passages are descriptive of a commonplace scens in a common- place household. The first is quite illustrative of the father's part, which is largely concerned with matters of education and industry. He conceives of his parental responsibility in terms of his children’s materfal wel-being, It is a laudable and praiseworthy con- ception. The second passage is de- scriptive of the mother's sense of ob- ligation. She thinks of her children in terms of thelr moral and spiritual development. Hers is the responsibil- ity, as she highly conceives it, of bringing those whom God has given her to the knowledge of the life and teachings of the perfect Man. These assumed responsibilities fn a normal home constitute a determining factor in the development of its youth. We cannot but believe that this division of responsibility Is broadly character- istic of our life today. The pertinent question is whether the welghty re- sponsibilities and obligations for the moral and spiritual development of our youth should devolve largely upon the mother. There Is doubtless that about mother love and influence that Is altogether incomparable, and it 13 clearly evident there is no sub- stitute for it. It was sald of old con- cerning a household and its mother, “Her children rise up and call her blessed.” There is little evidence that any such encomium is given to the father. No one would attempt, cer- tainly not in this age, to derogate from the mother's high and hely re- sponsibility. A natural inquiry sug- gests itself, namely, why should this responsibility for moral and spiritual culture and development he almost wholly a mother’s? In all our experi- ence in dealing with the intimate con- cernt of domestic life, we can hardly recall an incident where a father was the conspicuous leader in bringing his sons or daughters to their deeper re- ligious convictions. ‘Like Zebedee of old, he thinks of his responsibility in terms of education and industry. He is the provider; he is the guarantor of efficlency: he is the guardian of the material well-being of his household. All this is to the good, and indispen- sable. On the other hand, in a home that takes seriously its responsibili- tles with reference ‘to the whole life of its children, the father must, if re- sponsibility is jointly shared, be as much the exemplar of life's spiritual values as the mother. This obligation is deepened when it comes to his re- 21—"He saw two D. C., FEBRUARY. 6, companion and pal of his boys, he comes to be to them the supreme ex- emplar of thelr highest ideals. His concern for things material is not weakened in any sense because he takes seriously those things that have to do with a finer spiritual culture and development. The man in the boat with his sons, as was Zebedee, must be also the strong support of the woman bringing her sons to the feet of the Master. God gives to every father the supreme and sovereign place of priest in his household. Upon him. as upon the mother, he lays the weighty responsibility of pa:®ntal eon- trol and direction. Righty cem- imived, his office in this respect is not extdled by any office given to wen, however high and holy it may he. If he fs daily the exemplar and exponent of Chrigtian principles and virtues, he comes at 1eAgth to occupy a posi- tion of Influence and compelling power that makes him a joint partner and an equal one with the mother of his household. In .the home in Nazareth where Jesus was reared, there is every ev dence that e was scrupulously trained both in the things of oceu- pation and in those that develop in every strong, robust lad the finer things of character. We commonly designate this household the “holy family.” It presents to the world the type of a perfect household. With reverence we say It. ideally concelved, every household is a holy family. The marital relation Is a holy alliance; it is life's supremest partnership. Tt carries with it responsibilities that transcend those of any other alliance we may make in life. In Robert Burns' “Cotter's Saturday Night, describes a homely situation v of universal emulation. He portrays the sweetness and appealing love of the mother, but with compelling power he_describes the strength and spirifual vigor of the father. The lat- ter is to his household mot only its provider and its guardian, but_the strong champlon of those qualities and virtues that make for strength of character. We are seeking today for that which will secure to us larger efficiency, greater prosperity -and a sense of permanence. We demand the best that education has to give; we throw about our youth everything that will make for physical strength. We spare no pains to give them every advantage and opportunity, but dare we stop here? If religlon is not guar- anteed within the sacred circle of the home, it will hardly prove appealing when presented through the channels of the chureh. A deep religious con- viction shared by father and mother, issuing in & joint service for the moral and spiritual enrichment of the children of the household, continues lations with his sons. If, as every father should be, he is the intimate to be the mightiest character-making force of which we have knowledge. FIRST AID FOR GAS VICTIMS BY FREDERIC J. HASKIN. In a recent arficle on carbon monoxide poisoning the statement was made that in case of an accident of that nature the thing to do was to summon a physician at ence and then make an effort to secure from the most readily available source one of the machines that are used to resus- citate persons overcome by gas or other poisonous fumes’ That there is something else to be done in the way of first aid that is exceedingly important is asserted by Alexander Forward, managing di- rector of the American Gas Associa- tion, and he ought to know what he is talking about since his organ- ization - created a committee on re- suscitation from gas asphyxiation, eomposed of some of the most emi- nent authorities in the United States, and has given wide circulation to the recommendations of the experts. Mr. Forward and his company are inter- ested ‘because they control a large number of gas companies through- out the country and it is a matter of great importance that every man identified with their organization should know what to do in such emergencles. Dr. Cecil K. Drinker, associate pro- fessor of applied physiology of the Medical School of Harvard Universi- ty, was the chairman of the commit- tee that made an exhaustive study of the subject, His associates were Dr. Walter B. Cannon, professor of physi- ology of .the same school; Dr. David L. Edsall, the dean of that school; Dr. Howard W. Haggard and Dr. Yan- dell Henderson, hoth of Yale Univer- sity and both consulting physiologists to the United States Bureau of Mines; Dr. Lawrence J. Henderson and Dr. Francis W. Peabody, both of the Har- vard Medical School; Dr. Royd R. Sayers, chief surgeon of the United States Bureau of Mines and a surgeon of the Public Health Service, and Charles B. Scott of the accident pre- vention committee of “the American Gas Assoclation. The conclusfons reached by a group of such- recognized leaders of their professions are accepted without ques- tlon by physicians everywhere. Tay- men will do well to read and learn. The Prone Pressure Method. The report explains that the reason that automobile exhaust gas, the gases from coal heating furnaces; the smoke from fires, producer gas, coke oven gas, blast furnace gas, carbureted water gas, coal gas and other manu factured gases ave poisonous If uc tually breathed is thut they all con tain carbon monoxide. -When earbon monoxide is breathed it combines with the blood and the victim becomes asphyxiated just as if he were being gradually choked to death. As low as one-tenth of L per cent of carbon monoxide, or even less, will kil a man in time; 1 per cent will kill in a few minutes. : When a man is overcome by gas, it-1s stated, the first thing to do 18 to | get him into fresh air quickly. Fresh alr does not mean out of doors in cold weather. Many men have walked from 4 warm room containing gas only to collapse In The cold air ! outside. Take the patlent to a room free from gas and comfortably warm. Be quick, but don't be unnecessarily TOLE e patient is not breathing o his breathing stops, start artificial respiration at once by the prone pressure method. And here Is the point “that Mr. Forward stresses— don’t walit for a physician or any ap- paratus or any one or anything else. Get to work with your own hands! A delay of even a minute may be fatal. "The prone pressure method—known as the Schafer method—Is urged as the best method for artificial respira- tion—better than any method using a mechanical devi If the victim is breathing, an artificlal respiration apparatus may Injure him. If he is not breathing, he may die while you are getting the apparatus or getting ready to use it. It Is the opinion of the committee that such apparatus has led to the deaths of more people than It has saved. Now, here is how you go about prone pressure resuscitation: As soon as the victim is clear of the gas feel with your finger in his mouth and throat and remove any foreign. body, such as chewing gum, tobacco, false teeth and the like. Do mot stop to loosen his clothing. Lay him on his tummy, one arm extended directly over his head, the other hent at the elbow and with face to one side, res ing.on the hand .or forearm, sp that, the nose and. moul with your knees just below his hip bones, and place the palms of your hands on the small of the back with fingers over the ribs, the little fin- ger just touching the lowest rib and the thumb alongside of the fingers. Keep It Up for Hours. Then, while counting one, two, and with arms held straight, swing for- ward: slowly 8o that the weight of your body is gradually, but’ mot vio- lently, brought to bear upon the .pa- tienf. While counting three, swing backward so-as to remove the pres- sure, and rest while counting four, five. Repeat these operations deliber- ately, and continue this artificial res- piration without interruption -until- natural breathing is restored- essary for four hours or ‘longer, or until a physician declares rigor mortis has set In. If natural breathing stops after being restored, used resuscita- tion again. As soon as artificial respiration has been started, and while it is being contained, an assistant should loosen any tight clothing about the patient's neck, chest or walst, and the patient should be kept warm, as for him to become chilled means a strain on his already weakened vitality, and may kill him or help to cause pneumonia. Never give an umnconscious man an: thing to drink. It may choke him. Never administer whisky, for it acts on a man in much the same way as gas and makes a gassed man worse; Hot black. coffee is excellent if the patient is conscious emough to drink it. And the patient must be kept quiet. Any exertion may be fraught with serious consequences, YOUR CHILD IN SCHOOL By Dr. Frank W. Ballou, Superintenident of Schools, Washington, How to Study. It is impossible to overestimate the importance of proper methods of study to . educational ‘success. - They are vital In the whole scheme of ed: cation and_ without them the- process of mind and character-training: be- comes Virtually an ineffective routine that may have glittering aspirations with no assurance of accomplishmen he content of the body of know edge presented In the classroom fs of ‘minor’ consequence compared with the influence which it has upon the child and the extent of retention on the pupil’s part. Many a man has sighed vainly for wider and. deeper knowledge on many, many subject often without reclizing that the ab- sence of it went back divectly to his lack of some definite and workable study plan in his earlier vears. There {s, obviously, greater need for organjzed and systematized study as the child advances along the educa- tional road. first, the small hoy or girl who attends the kindergarten must be given the rudiments of hu- man knowledge and conduct by meth- ods which are well adapted to the mind and body that are progressing | through early stages of development. In the early grades little can be ex- pected in the way of a' rigid study plan, but the foundation for it must be laid very early if it is to be laid well. i It does not pay to wait for moods in study. System imperatively is neces- sary, whether it be the boy or girl who aims to master a difficult geogra- phy lesson, the high school student intent upon a subject more advanced or the college man or woman. No one should trust to a haphazard inclina- tion. . If a study plan is so essential; what are its chief characteristics? Fortunately, these characteristics may be catalogued rather definitelv because of our present-day knowledge of the way in which children learn. First and foremost, a genuine and active Interest on the part of the stu- dent | essential. Without this atti: tude of mind there can be little prog- ress. It would be as foolish for a- mariner to attéempt to ‘sail the seas without a gulding compass as for a student to expect to explore the-fields of sclence, literature, history and the imany divisions of Kknowledge unless guided by real interest and desire to learn, Not only. must one have a genuine interest Rywfim ll:'a ia doing: b\:;\:: must ap) self with. viger if . is to profit. most fxom his study. O | may - not. loiter. over his mfi Af ] L 1927—PART 2. Capital Sidelights ‘ Ahe Lifrary?of Congress, second onfly to*tffe British Museum and the Bibliotheque in Parls, is constantly be ing humiliated by having original and extremely rare collections of Amerl cana, that would be of incalculable value to students of history and broadly edu- cative offered for purchase, but with the library having entirely inadequate funds for this purpose. - Herbert Putnam, the librarian, had a heart-to-heart talk on the subject with members of the House appropria- tions committee. The only hope seems to be for wealthy Americans interest- ed in preservation of such papers and volumes and in making the Library, of Congress unequaled anywhere in the world to purchase these offerings and present them to the National Library, ‘They include autograph lettsrs of Washington, Adams, Jefferson and their cotemporaries and guch historie collectfons like the papers of Livings- ton; the collection of Blathwayt, Secre- tary of State and commissioner of trade and plantations in the last quar- ter of the eighteenth century: the pa- pers of Lord Shelbourne, the best friend the colonies had in the cabinets of England from the time of the stamp act through the Revolution; papers of Gen. Nathaniel (ireepe, Sir Henry Clinton, ~ commander-in-chief of the British forces during the Revolution. Librarian Putnam emphasizes that, being the law Hbrary of the Supreme Court of the Unfted States; the ' bi- brary of Congress should have the pre- eminent collection of the original ses- sion laws .of -the United States. Re- cently he had to pass on g Yale Uni- Versity, In" mortification, S offer of some 1,800 volumes of French litera- ture that would have been of great value to scholarship—seventeenth and eighteenth century literature. Since the beginning of the library in the year 1800, the Government has spent in acquisition of material or collections about $3,000,000, while be- tween $8.000,000 and’ $8°000.000 lias been put into the building; so that the connoisseur occasionally com- ments -that ‘your frame has cost more than your picture.” * * kow The greatest: dome .in the world--[ that on the I/nited. States Capitol—is Koing to get its new coat of preserva- tive metallic paint. A total of 62,766 square vards I8 to receive two coats, at an estimated cost of 3% cents per square vard, or a total cost of :$23,223.42. For the time being at least the proposition to build-out- the east front of the Capitol as originally designed by Thomas Hugh Walter, facing .it with marble and taking down the iron dome and reproducing it in masonry, has been abandoned. This is a reminder that-the dome: was originally constructed of wood, covered with copper. This was re- placed in 1856, and the weight of the fron used was 809,200 pounds. The dome is crowned by a bronze statue of Freedom, which is 19 feet § inches high and weighs 12,985 ‘pounds. * KK K Thustrating the very effective old laws which are being researched jn compilation of ‘the code of laws for the District of Columbia, Harry A. Hegarty, who is. in. charge of the codification under Chairman Fitzger- ald of the House commiftee, gave the House appropriations ¢bmmittee the -1t nec- | following specific example: A case arose In the District of Columbia where a-man:-had married the second time and had died. He had a set of children by his first wife, and the children by "the first wife wanted to put that widow out imme- diately, and if it had not been for an "act “passed ‘Wway hack in Charles IT's timie, théy would havé succeeded. They gave the widow’ the right to stay in the house 40 days. So a great many of those old acts wre just as benaficial s they are detrimental, but ndither Congress nor anybody else has ever legislated on” the'subject.” YRR BN Two | very” great conveniences for members of Congress have been in- vented by J. Martin McKee, for 44 vears an employe at the Capitol, fore- man” of the House folding room, the' importance of which is.emphasized by the fact that more than 25,000 bags of thail’ matter—niostly books and 8ocu- ments—are shipped annually from the House . of Representatives : alone. These inventions are a new style of mailing tag and staunch cardboard ltners for the mail bags. For years previous to 1890 mail bags were not equipped with iron slots to hold the tag on which the address is written, nor had they strips attached by which to close the bags. The mem- bers of Congress had to find their own Atrings. A wooden tag 1% by 7 inches was furnished for the address to be written on. In the early’ 80s a slot' to hold a folded strip of paper on ‘which the address was written was attached to the bags. also ‘cords with ‘a patent fastener. Slips of paper were fur- nished by the Post Office Department, about 4 by 4 inches, to -be folded and slipped. Into the slot after‘the address had been written. It required congid- erable time to fold these ‘so that they would slip Ioto the metal holdef. Within a few months. Mr. McKee devised.a tag 1 by 3% Inches, made of light cardboard, flexible and.‘éndur- able, which fits” snugly into the slot, easy to address, which resulted in-the saving of much tirhe and labor " It was 8o practical that it has since been o dally and gerieral use. As_members bf* Congress send-out many sacks of books; “Soie’ of ‘thep, specially” bound for them’ at:the Goy- ernment ‘printing offfcd; a ethod, of safely packing them in bags was zm— portant. * Mr. .McKee ' “during 191 made a pattérn and. put into use a heavy cardboard contaiter ‘thit -Just fits_ the inside of the niail sack.: It does not break of burst open, ik ‘a)- mast. as_staunch as a Jéather trunk and protects the conténts from water and dampness, 18 easy to -pack snd handle and adds very litfle to the welght. These are furnished: at cost to. members of Congress and-are be- ing nsed now largely .Inktead -of the old style wooden packing cases. one” has: an “hour's. work to dp he should plan to do-it within the hour. He should work at.a good jate of speed. & i giE o An effective plan of study should make provision for utilizing. as many of the senses as possibl: He should use the ‘eyes to read, the ears to. hear. the tongue to speak,-the nose to ameil 'and the: muscles. to.act. ro all of these .we acquire a ‘knoywledge of our surroundings.. When we study ‘we deal with .impressions that have been made-on the mind through thme vasi- ous tools of educatign. Some informa- tion comes to us mere satisfactorily documents and early editions | There s perhaps no greater indoor sport in all the world than listening to the talkers on a transcontinental train. Warld problems simply melt away be- fore their master intellect. Aphror- isms slip from their tongue as if by magic. Man, woman, child, they chat from one end of the journey to the other. “Well, I wish the train would start, don’t you? I always get impati~n.s when I have to wait. I wonder what they are waiting for? “Lady, T guess they are waiting till it's the right time to go." “Maybds #0, but 1 always get impa- tient when you nave to wait. Still, 1 guéss T was early. It would not be right to go off and leave other folks.” “Well, here we are on the hig choo choo. What does baby wan “I wanna dink." “All right, just a minute, lovey. Yeés, you'll have a dink in just a min ute: “Yes, just a minute.” T've been away from months.” “Is that so?" “Yen." “Two months §s a long time.” “Yes, It 13- when you havebéen a from home. I have been away months." “Yes. months. “You know, T simply don’t see how vou walters handle all that stuff on a up and down the afsles, with the traih going like this.” home two 1y two It is a long time. Two 0: there's . a8 the fellow said.” . indeed.” “I wanna dink." “All right, baby, in just a minate.” I want man's dink.” ““Oh, no, baby, that wouldn't be good for baby.” T want man's dink ““I said, no, baby. RTOW up. . “Yes, he was a funny fellow, old (éorge. Got a great kick outta sing- Ing in the cholr. Yep, old George was funny, wasn't he> Never did like prohibition, . though. Still he got a kick outta singing in the cholr.” . ““Well, T don't care, conductor, I've got lower-six.and I'm going to ha it even If that man does say it b Jongs to him. “I know, lady, but your train left at 12:40 today. This is the 6:50." S‘Well, I missed the 1 snow."" o “I know. lady, but I couldn't help that.” “But, T've:got lower 6. on my ticket.” #Yes, lady, but your train left at 12140, ° This fa thé 6:50." “But I couldn’t make it. connections.” “Well, for this train thing for thig train.” “1 don't care, they should . have | kriown I missed the other train and reserved lower 6 for me." “For the Lord's sake, she can have lower 12. a.day coach. “All right, I'll take it, ticket calls for lower 6. “Good morning, your babies cer- tainly are good.” “Well, I gave them some paregoric tast night. They generally wake up about'2 o'clock, but I wanted them to sleep through so I gave them some paregoric. = ;Ahl yes, mothérs know how, don’t Fifty Years Ago - In The Star On the 1st of February, 1877, Con- &ress met in joint session to canva. the Vote' for Presi- In Defense of dent and Vice Presi. i lent. Under an act th! Po]lce' of Congress, an elec- toral commission had been named to decide disputed ‘cases. The eity was in @ state of excitement. Many strangers had come, mot the hundred thousand Democrats called for by Henry Wat- terson. but a sufficient number to con- gest the Capital. Thé Star of Feb ruary 1, 1877, apropos of the excite- .ment, discusses the subject of the ef- ficlency and integrity of the Washing- tan police force: * “In the debate in- the Senite on Tuesday on the reselution authorizing the employment of 50 additional po- licemen to serve at-the Capitol during - the eleatoral canvass, it was stated by Senator Hamlin: that the police of the city-are in a-demoralized eondition and that there lg virtually no police force here uow to . look after the light- fingered gentry and other desperate characters who - come here " to ply their trade on occasions of this kind. Yesterday in the House, on the same resolution, Representative Wilson of Towa also characterized the police as titerly demoralized and useless for the preservation of.order ‘and- the protec- tion of property. % . "This is putting the ease rather trongly. Our police force is not ut- terly demoralized and useless. At the same time.. it may be conceded that (hrough the suspension. of the veteran chief of police and several of the lead ing detectivew, the police force s meas- uvably crippled at a - time - when it should be up to its most effective mark for the preservation of public order und the detestion of the visiting swell mob, Probably; tog, the police machiner has been further thrown out of gea \?- the attempt. of those now running it to concentrate ull dts force upon the Kambling houses. The suppression, or, it that 18 not possible, the repr slon,’ of gambling in & community is a proper portion, of the duties of the Police force, but it is by no means their sole, or_even their most impor- [tant, duty. In_ the,case of our metro- politan police, they have devolying ‘upon them the care of the lives and property of 150,000 people, scattered over a jarge extent of territory, in ad- diflon to their duties as the custodians of ‘vast Government property inter- ‘eats and in the preservation of order "the Natfonal Capital. It certainly never was intended, in the organiza- fon of this police force, maintained @t so' much cost by the people of fi"’n and the General Govern- ment, that it should be concentrated cordon 20-deep about three or four” miserablé policy shops in ‘Rum Réw." to maintain nightly vigils there for the detectlon of any gleam of gas- icks to Wait till you The, It says so I missed his man's ticket is ou haven't got any- conductor, T'll sleep in but my through one sense rather- than an. other. he greater the ‘fiumber of senses used the, stronger, is the {m- pression. H One - must think . djligent what he Is trying to master, “A ‘rea student does ngt undertake 10 master a difficult. lesson. and at the same time [allows his- mind to travel ifi virious other directi - After qie. had. ac- quired - som formation’ lie sHould undertake to use. {tas s “a¥ pob: sible. This may. be done by 'taking ‘notes- as. one reads, It i§ mast ‘o monly done. in_the recitation in the classroom as a . result 'of Glestins’ asked by the feacher. ' " lay The student also can do 4, grefit deal| in_the utllization calling -upon _that. swer questions which, may in_his mind, not only in school, but putside of. ufil}mL To. ln? A merely to-be able IMMQ‘ ¥ ot in ifself, worth. wh ing 18 very readlly and R, fy “about ALY 1ight from an- upper window, and to 'be- victimized by the practical jokers of “Newspaper Row' into making night- Iy ralds upon imaginary sqiads of ‘gamblers up many flights of stafi's, We hava ngt felt like saying auglit it would seemn to discourage the cu reft attempt to suppress the gambling houses, though doubting the wisdom of the methods employed to that end, byt it 1s now apparent that this hobby s beer ridden so pertinaciously that the generul efficiency and usefulness of the police force has been impaired, ‘lfi’d'flu#ulfll‘: interests are in danger of suffering ‘In the same proportion. It ay be added that the suspension from duty of the officers In question at this pular. juncture, and for thé reasons stated, has not met the public approval. We do not propose to enter upon any thick-and-thin de. fanse O; Maj. Rlc?‘&dl and the detec ves. In we have had occasion, mmm ih the past, to eriticize | | MEN AND AFFAIRS BY ROBERT T. SMALL. “Yes, you know: I'm their grand. mother, though. Ha, ha.” “But you look young enoush tg be their mother.” “Yes, lots of people tell me that® “Yes, taxes are too —— high.” “ertainly they are, they gottg come down " “Well. you know there's nothing sure but death and taxes” “Ha, ha. that's good.” “Yes, but death gets you only once; taxes get you all the time,” “Ha, ha, that's good." 1 just knew we were 2 in Yes, sir, Texas is a great “T don't ke ft& “You don't What's with Texas?' “I don’t llke no State wherg wvoi, £0 to hed in it on a train two Rights in succession. You don't feel you're getting anywhere.” “By the way, what's the sityation in Mexico? “Well, v wayvs have with you, “Yes, that's right, never thought of hut guess it's true.” “Yes, that's Mexico “How long since yon been in Fort Worth?” “Two years, say you wouldn't know, the place. Fine land around here. “Yes, land’s the basts of all values, especially when vou got ofl on it “You said it, b “So this is ( 100k like the |1t get any {to me | “Just wait. This is desert, what makes California so fine. get a little bit of everything.” “That's what I've heard.” “Yes. there's the real sand 'desert jover there. That's where the movie sheiks do their stuff.” “Yep. I recognize some of it now. € just like the sand in ‘Blood and “Well, it's change when there's water. lotta difference. irrigation invented they?"" “Yes, it's wonderful when you get to water. Makes the desert bloom like the rose.” “Say, guess you're right about thatg I never thought of it hefore.” ’ "'Oh, oh, an orange tree, mothér! “Yes, there's another. Heaps of them, and real oranges too. Look just like the oranges in the stores in New York, don’t they “Say, It s pretty, isn't it “What's that. a vineyard? “Say, that ‘is' a vineyard. My goodniess, ain't it ever going to end” Biggest vineyard in the world? Guess vou're right, I never saw none t compare to it. Run by Itallans? Say didn’t they use to make the Dag Red? “Yep.” “Wonder what they do now?" “It's every man for himself. “Thought they said prohibitic ing to Kkill the grape husiness “‘Naw, they get bigger money than ever now."” “So this is Los Angeles, well, what do you know about that? Wonder If Aimee’'s home yet” Is that Charlie Chaplin over. ther . “No, maybe jts Tom Mix." ‘Gee, 1 wonder.” that's the mattey like u know, the poor yeu al it, the way with Well, it don't Not vet. Does Looks like desert That's You funny, fsn't ‘it, what you come to whera Water ' must make a Whoever invented something, didn't & the baggage transfer A merciful taxicab slambs and at last the chatter ses. (Coyright. 192 This and That By Charles E. Tracewell. The temperature’ was down to § degrees above zero when Littla Nip-} per sought the refuge of a grassy hank, after having his left hind leg crushed. e It here that we found him. scarcely able to rise, faintly meowing to those who passed, as if calling o them to help him in his distress, It was Jack Spratt’s visitor. of last Sunday! After giving him a good breakfast on that historic morning, we had turn- ed him out, in the belief that he was a pet kitten on his way home, Evidently we had been mistaken, for here was Little Nipper. again, tiger stripes and all, looking up with recognition in his yvellow eyes. It wa not until we got home tha we realized was hurt. He would try fall over on his .side, each fall with a faint cry Little Nipper squeaks. This is his usual form of greeting. The sound can scarcely be called a meow, in the best sense of the word. Have you ever heard the small mon- kevs at the Zoo squeak? . Then you will know how Nipper. volces his re quest for dinner. - * % % * He is called Nipper becausie of his habit of nipping fingers when patted on the head. He is such a small fel low that the term “Little” seems 1o fit, just it did Nell in Dickens' “Old Curlosity Shop.* Nipper's chief characteristic during the first few days of his residence | old Jack Spratt his abilit to he was placed, there he stayed. Tt did Dot seem so- muich bécause o his game leg as hecause of a gentle disposition, A pasteboard - box. filled with rags was placed on & vug in the basement.and there-Little Nipper re posed, purring every time. any « came near. Juck Spratt from the first has had no use for Nipper. As the days go by he has even less, His -express e shows jealousy in every line, every whiske As plainly as’a can say anything., he has declared time and again that Little Nipper must be taken away. Nipper liked best a bed close to the radiator in the kitchen. With his ears almost touching it, he lay loo around him, as if perfectly cont now with his position in life, His appetite was enormous. Al Jthough about onefourth as large as Jack Spratt, Little Nipper was willing t6 eal just as much.. His first.dinner consisted of two sorts of meat and milk. His breakfast was composed of an egg malted milk and meat. It did not take Nipper but one meal to get on to the fact- that folded newspaper was a . platt and that he was not to drag his, food {| off it. In all respects Nipper is a gentle man. And what more’ than. that can Be said of man or cat? * X x % Jack Spratt, he of the gooseber:y green eyes; s getting madder and madder as the days go by. Nipper must go, Jack has sald It, in unmistakable language, and there is nothing for us to do but agree with him. Hurt and aggrieved, Jack Spratt spits and growls at Nipper, who growls back at him. -Jack looks at us-as if to say: “Mister, this is Jack's house, Beward of that shrimp! He is not trust- worthy. He bites. He nips.. You know all ‘my ways, but waat' €o zeil know about him?" . Nipper that his leg to walk, then companying er ‘Then Jack delivers his er, who ¥o!