Evening Star Newspaper, February 25, 1927, Page 8

THE EVENING STAR With Sunday Morning Edition. WASHINGTON, D. C. FRIDAY...... February 25 1927 THEODORE W. NOYES. . .. Editor The Evening Star Newspaper Company Business Offce and Pennavivania Ave New Yok Offce: 110 Eaat 42nd St Chicagn Office” Tower Building European Office: 14 Regant S(.. London. ngland with the Sundar morn red by carriars within e Stv at 60 cants per month . Awly onlx 4B centa per month: Sundara only. 20 cents per _month_ Orders may be sent by mail or talephone Main 5000 Collection 18 made by earrier at end of each month 11th St The Evenine St € edition. is del Rate by Mail—Payable in Advance. Maryland and Virginia. and Sundar <a.00: 1 mo {r anlx €800 1 m. nday onls £300. 1 m 1er 1wr i¥r 1 i All Other States and Canada. ailr and Sundar .1 vr. $1200 1 mo. $1.00 Al Bnix 1y TeRan imel Bundar only ¥ $40000 mo. A3 Member of the Associated Pr The Associated Press is axclusivels te the use for repuhlication af all n tehes credited o 11 or not ntherwise cred paper and also the local new published herein. ATl rights of ublication 1 special dispatches herein are alao reserved The Navy Victory. The decision of the House shead with the immediate tion of three new scout cruisers is a vietory for those who helieve in the maintenance of an adequate American Navy. In some s there will be a disposition to see in the eruiser vietory vesterday merely a political move, a siap at President Coolidge, who has opposed an appropriation for the construction of at this time. But the issue goes far deeper. Speaker Longworth, who took the floor in support of the cruiser appro. priation. epitomized the situation. so far as the United States and the Navy are concerned, when he said ‘We have heen eminently | we have heen more than just ta all the other nations of the world; let us he Just with ourselves.” At the close of the World War the United States had begun a building program that in a few would have placed the United tes far ahead of any other power in naval atrength With a gesture which was magnificent in its generosity. even though It may have heen unwise, the United States at the Washington con ference announced it would forego this advantage: that it would scrap millions of dollars’ worth of superb ships which it was already constructing: that would limit its Navy in strength that of Great RBritain and to a 53 ratip with that of Japan. Because of the unwillingness of France at that time to enter into any agreemen’ relative auxiliary craft—the eruisers, destroyers and submarines- the Washington treaty deals only with capital ships, While the United States has cur- tailed its Navy building to a minimum to g0 construe qua eruisers st vears to i) THE EVENING well deserved. The recommendation !anmo one, usually far helow Jones in of the Government and the actfon of the judge should be praised. It is the duty of the court officials to protect residents of the city from such criminals while they are awalt ing sentence. and by setting high bonds it is practically impossible for | the criminal to return to his unlawful pursuits, i R— the Postal Rate Bill. | s a pointed, if trite, Greek | fahle that deals with a country man | and a goose and some golden eggs. The Star recommends to the post of fice authoritles that they glance hack | through the few simple sentences of | the little story, and then, with the {moral that is therein pointed out fresh | in their minds, hurry 10 a committee { room on Capitol Hill. For the postal vate bill is in conference, The postal rates on second class mail. which s the classification of the | newspapers, nave heen increased on a | {graduated scale. going into effect in 1 and running upward through i The increases have heen retain- | jed. although between 1920 and 1925 | {there was & net loss of newspaper mail poundage of 21,000.000 pounds. This | despite the fact that in the same period the newspapers gained 33 13 | perwent in page volume. A bill designed to relieve, in purt at least, the inequalities and injustice in the postal rate structure as it affects second-class mail, and to regain for the postal service newspaper revenue which it has lost, is today in confer ence hetween the Senate and the House. The House passed five sep- arate bills dealing with postal rates, ! hut did not reach the seat of the trou | ble in the second.class mail rate struc | ture in any one of them. The Senate whipped the five bills into one, and | added important provisions dealing with second-class mail, as well as other Classes, The Post Office Department has been hostile to the Senate meas- | | ure, holding that the cuta in revenue will be too severe, It does not require a diagram to { prove that there is something radically | wrong with a system of which the fol- i lowing example is typical: Three dol- | 1ars are charged for sending a bundle { of newspapers from Washington to Ma- nassas, Va., by mail. The same bundle can be sent by baggage express for 50 cents. The bundle of newspapers is carried in the same train. On week- days the train stops at Manassas and the bundle is delivered as baggage. On Sundays the train does not stop, and the bundle. as mall, is tossed off into a field as the train speeds by. 1f the railway can make a profit carry- | ing bundles for 50 cents, the postal | service makes an exorbitant charge when it demands six times this sum for an identical service. High postal authorities have been astounded when informed that it costs The Star $24 a vear on paper and postage over and above the subscrip- tion price merely to send by mall & { ning ball of the duffer may strl Zolfing akill, hés holed an ace. In- deed, xome have been lucky enough to reach this golfing Utopia twice or more in a season and history records that at least two players Jone maker neve terday. Golf has not reached the degree of exactitude thut #ny man, even the admitted master that Jomes is. can tell within inches where his iron shots 1 is frankly and without the world's most admittedly the Rreatest of the present generation, had holed his tee shot until yes- will stop. attempt at evasion tantalizing game. One day the game i* there. ‘The next day it is not There is apparantly no anawer to the query, “Wh Yet day after day Rohby Jones has gone along, scoring lower more consistently than any man. He leads the renowned Hagen, winner of four national champion- by something more than tweniy-five shots in the American open over a atretch of meven vears. And not until yesterday did he have the satisfaction of watching his firat shot nestle into the cup. Yet it ix not unusual for a star golfer to go on for vears hefore he scores an ace. Chick Evans, one of the grest iron players of the game, the master of midiron and mashie. ships, | piayed for nearly a decade and a haif Lefore he holed one from the tee. Perhaps 1t is the very exactitude of the masters which withholds from them the coveted ace. They know just how much backspin they can put on the ball and frequently it is the backspin which holds the ball just short of the cup, where the free-zun- ce th flag and drop in. When all is said, an ace in golf 4 happy combination of skill and luck. Skill in directing the ball straight for the pin, with approxi- mately the correct distance, and luck in having the sphere run true and straight to the cup without being deviated by inequalities of surface and contour. Now that Jones has broken the ice he may run into a streak of acex. And he may never get another. It is one of the vagaries of a most tantalizing game Another diamond rush is scheduled for the Transvaal, in spite of intima- tions that there are already more dia- monds avallable than dealers care to throw on the market. There is pic- turesque excitement in the quest, but, after all. a diamond mine is leas satis- good ofl well. factory than & 2 o Pessibly the richest man in the world is Henry Ford. Poasibly he is John D. Rockefeller. The difference in not imporfant, invelving only the dis- tinction between a good flivver joke and a philanthropic silver dime. et = Congressional interchanges of speech are short and snappy. The old-time have acored | twin aces in a single round. Yet Bobby | shot | STAR. WASHINGTON. BY CHARLES Precisely those 18 chapters of Henry Fielding's ““Tom Jones" which {most " readers skip, the introductory {chapters to the 18 hooks, constitute |the most interesting part, of this| | masterpiece to some. i | 1f those preliminary chapters were { collected into a volume of their own, {the result would constitute an un- paralieled exposition of the art of inovel writing by one who has been {called, although not well, “the father | |of the Knglish novel. | Byron better called Fielding “the | prose Homer of hurman nature” It| is astonishing to discover the great | sale which “The History of Tom Jones, | A Foundling.” still has throughout | | the world, despite the fact that its| *aw human nature often proves shocking to a modern reader. | The reason for this is that | | Jones is life, and_avery one {ested in that. Edmund Gosse sald of Fielding: “He had warmed hoth hands before the fire of life, and he gave back to the world in his hooks what he received from it in his own rough-and-tumble youth.” All of Fielding's humor, satire and irony is summed up in his 18 intro ductory chapters, which perhaps not {one out of a hundred readers takes the trouble (o vead. WHat they are after is the story, and the story {be got complete by skipping every “Chapter 1" in the hook. | Those who are interested in the j novelist as el as his novel (and most readers reully ave. in the final analysis) will do well 10 read these preliminary chaplers, even if the only way they can do 1L I8 10 g0 back afterwards and read them consecutively. very novelist has a certain amount of egotism. It ix more subtle in the noveligis of today, but none the less persistent! different In form only Flelding, in addition to writing one of the greatest stories in the world, at the same time set forth his ewn deas as to conatruction. “The chapters that contain these di- gressions are as well worth reading today as they were when written. * X% oK “Fom inter- | | | Gibbon. the great historian, called | elding’s atory “that exquisite pic- ture of human manners.” Fielding, in his opening chapter to “Rook I states that “Human Natur is his theme. The chapter is headed - duction to the Work, or Bill of Fare to ihe Feast.” The very title carries some of the irony which is o abun- dant throughout the picturesque story. Right here let me say that this book. although rather rough in apots, es pecially in some of the language used, cannot possibly hurt young peo- ple. As a matter of fact, they will probably find it too dull to finish. It takes maturity to appreciate ‘“Tom Jones. “An author ought to consider him- self. not as a gentleman who gives private treat. but rather as one who Keeps a public ordinary, at which a persons begins Fielding. Such is the first sentence in a great novel. Imagine any atoryteller tr Ing 1t nowadays! Today we must “g the characters in” during the first chapter, we must ““begin with a bang.” | The leisurelx methods of olden times are too slow for us. Yet there in & lesson even-here tor some of our mod- ern_sophlisticated authors, who affect to despise the common likes and di “The In THIS AND THAT | may | things before his huni I l | and though this should be! TRACEWELL. pleases: very indifferent and utterly dlu:ree-‘ able to the taste of his company. they | must not find any fault: nay, on the | contrary, good breeding forces them | outwardly to approve and to com- | mend what is set before them. | “Now the contrary of this happena to the master of an ordinary (inn). | Men who pay for what they eat will | insist on gratifying their palates; how- ever nice and even whimsical these prove; and, if everything is not agreeable to their taste, will challenge a right to censure, to abuse and to d-—n their dinner without control “To prevent, therefore, giving of fense (o their customers by any such disappointment, It hath been usual with the honest and well-meaning host | to provide a bill of fare which all per- | BON8 may peruse at their first entrance Into the house: and having thence ac- quainted themselves with the enter tainment which they may expect. ma either atay and regale with what is provided for them. or may depart to some other ordinary better accommo- | dated to their taste.’ ook % Fielding says that he wiii not only | prefix a general bill of fare 1o his| whole entertainment. but will likewise give the reader particular bills of fare (o every course served up. “The provision, then. which we have here made Is no other than Human Nature,” declares he. The learned reader cannot he ignorant, he affirms, that there is such & prodigious variety In human nature that a cook will have sooner gone through all the sev- eval species of animal and vegetable food in the world than an author will { he able to exhaust %o extensive a sub Ject. 1U can be seen, then, plainly in these | few lines, that “Tom Jones” is to bhe | a substantial dish. smacking of ma-| terial things, fixed firmiy in the soil. the reader chooses to read on, he does | 50 at his own risk. Kven the hearty Fielding hended this objection, for he immedi- ately declares: “An objection may pe haps be apprehended from the mor delicate, that this dish is too common and vulgar; for what eise Is the sub- ject of all the romances, novels, plavs and poems with which the stalls abound?” | Here. Indeed, our author rvather overahoots the mark, for he practicallv | admits that his own concoction s} practically the same as all other read ing dishes. But to continue: “Many exquisite viands might he rejecied by the eplcure, if it was a sufficient cause for hig contemning of them as common and vulgar that something was to be found in the most paltry alleys under the same name. “In reality, true nature is as dif- ficult to be met with in authors a the Bayonne ham, or Bologna sausage. | is to be found In the sho He feels, but does not say: “True; human nature, however, s to be met| with in my writings. You have come | to the right shop. thix time, good reader!” Such is the natural egotism of the real writer. 1 Fielding instances a great cook who, hegan hin feasts by first setting plain | guests, ris- quintes- | appre-| { | { { | Ing afterwards to the sence of sauce and spice In like manner, he declares, shall represent human nature at first | to the keen appetite of our reader. in that more plain and simple manner | in which it is found ¥n the country, jarea 425 milea long and 20 miles wide i | | s i | | think of scientists | workrooms Giants’ Race Fighting To Offset Extinction From the Pasadena Star-News. A race of giants, threatened with extinction, Is making its last stand here along the Pacific Coast. In an ! tre last noble specimens of redwoods are standing. facing God and man with stout hearts, “ready for any fate.” An epic of the woodlands is| being written: a tragedy of the trees| I8 being played. The greed and cave | lessness of man on the one hand and the vagaries of climate on the other, hand are threatening this race of for ¢st giants. Oregon and Asia once hore such forest giants as these, as| fossil remains show. Rut climatic | changes drove the redwoods to extine: | tion” over wide areas, | And now, forced hy fate to make their last stand here in galifornia. | these majestic monarchs have appeal A8 atrong as though they were human, “Help to save us from the ravages of g&reed, fire and every threatening c ditlon which. man may contr hese trees hear the message of cen- turies of existence. It is an epitome of world history to visit and to con template them thoughtfully. They apeak the language of poetry—they are great poems. They speak the lan guage of art—they are great land scape paintings. They speak the lan guage of wisdom—they embody th wisdom of ages. They speak the tongne of philosophy—the greatest of human philosophers may learn from them. They speak the language of patience, of sevenity, of strength. of inspitation, of uplift. They the existence of God and the verity of immortality more eloguently than able divines. Ralph W Chaney, lecturer and rch associate of the Carnegie In- | itution, at Washington. is making gorous appeals in hehalf of the red woods in lectures. California always should do its part to preserve these | without much pretense to delicacy. 1| hohia forests of giant trees. Scientists Produce Synthetic Sea Life From the Cleveland Plain Dealer. Once more the secret of life has heen discovered. Two savants of the University of Californfa have, after 26 years of endeavor, produced a number of synthetic sea urchins. The echinoderms manufactured by the California method are said to be quite lively as those brought into exist- ence by the orthodox and old-fashioned operations of nature herseif. Of course | no sea urchin ix ever very lively or inteiligent. ~At best it is not a master- plece. But sea urchins made to order which live and move and take nourish- ment are sufficiently weird and ade- quately outlandish. We are in no danger of an over- population of sea urchins, neither is there any likelihood that one of these children "of the laboratory will ever develop malevolence and intelligence to maich the fiendishness of the mon ster which the unhappy Frankenstein manufactured from the leavings of the dissecting room and scraps from the charnel house. Naturally things are not menaced, for no echino derm i8 going on a rampage. Never theless it is not altogether pleasant to going into their and making animals. There is no telling what may happen when our men do this. A business which starts with sea urchins may preach | created | ANSWERS TO QUESTI BY FREDERI Q. Is it true that thera is a town {in the United States which has a pop- ulation of more than 25,006 and has no movie house?—H. C. A. The town of Brookline. Mass., widely known as “the richest town in the United State: has population of 47.000 and there is no movie theater within the town limits. Q. How many of the automobiles that are stolen are recovered?—A! H. H. A In 19 tolen was the total number of cars . not recovered, 10, recovered. 14 per cent: not re- overed, 86 per cent. Statistics for are not yet available. Q. What is a calory?—&. K. A. A calory is the amount of heat equired to raise the temperature of ne gram of water one degrea centi grade. In dietetics a ealory ix a unit to indicate- heat or energy producing vaiue of food. Q. Do the Chinege corresponding to A. R. A rest. have a holiday our Sunday?—A. The Chinese observe no day of Q. Where are the Aeolian Islands jand are they cultivated?—J. L. A. This is a group of seven large and numerous small islands, north of Sieily, in the Mediterranean. The larger {slands comprise Lipari, Salina, Vuleano, Fillcuri, Stromboli, Panaria and Alicuri. Though of volcanic origin, the islands as a whole are well jcultivated. The chief productions are curranta, ollves, figs, tropical fruits and salt. Wine also is produced. Q. Why is it necessary to be quiet hen fishing? Can fish hear? The Bureau of Fisherien says 1 ave no sense of hearing. They |have a sense of feeling. however, | which warns them of an unusual motion of the water. | fixh b Q. 1 would like to know what there i\.; l:|) popcorn that makes it pop.—M. A. The expansive medium causing generated within Between a wide moisture conten the starch grain. nge of extremes the is immaterial. Out- side of this range popcorn will not pop. If the popcorn is too wet or too dry it will not pop. Q. Why is it that sometimes when there is ‘a‘new moon the outline of | the whole moon s faintly visible?— A. This reflection is earthshine. On | clear nights, at the time of the new {moon, the light cast on it by the jearth’ makes the whole surface to- | ward s visible. Q. How long have postage stamps l'wn(r'| made in perforated sheets?—H. | Postage stamps before being per- forated, which was first practiced in 1851, in Great Britain, were cut apart | by scissors or knife. The British gov- ernment bought the patent for per- foration of stamps from a man named reher in 1853 for £4,000. | Q. During the funeral of Stonewall ackson was his body wrapped in the “onfederate flag?—D. I. K. A. In Hallock's life of the famous general, the following statement ap. { pears: “It (the body) was enveloped In | the new flag of the Confederacy and the first use that was ever made of it A | | popcorn to pop is steam which is | ONS C J. HASKI i heat, but care must be used, as it catches fire at a temperature but little ahove that of holling water. Q. What are the penaities for fail ure to file a return under the 1926 internal revenue law?—F. W. B, A. For willful failure to make and file a return on time not more than | $10.000 or imprisonment for not more than one year, or hoth, and in addl- tion 25 per cent of the amount of the tax. For willfully making a false or fraudulent return, not more than $10.000 or imprisonment for not more than five vears, or both, and in addi- {tion 50 per cent of the amount of the tax. Q. Hom many emher days are there lina year? A, AT A. There are 12 annually. Q. Who contrihy | the Woodraw prizes’—N. G. | A. The $50.000 was given by B. M. Baruch, W. Rok. R. B. Fosdick Cyrus MeCormick, Henry G. W. Norrls, Miss Caroline Kuntz-Rees and Mrs. L. | Tiffany. ' Q. Dia an_states in Rasoline tax?—A. R. T A. No such tax was levied In 11 nols. Massachusetts, New Jersey and New York. ed the money far Wilsen Foundatian 1925 assess a Q. What value Is attached to the art | collection left to the Corcoran Gallery | by the late Mr. Clark?—A. T. 1 | A Under the will of Willlam A. | Clark of New York City and Montana the Corcoran Gallery received his art collection, valued at bhetween thres and five million dollars. Q. Please supply me with addresses | of communistic societies in tha United | States—J. O, A. Two of the principal communistic ties of the United States are the Amana Soclety, organized in 1714 in Germany, headquarters, Amana lowa. and the Shakers, or true ha. lievers, fournded in England, 1770, headquarters, Mount Lebanon, N. Y.; the Oneida Community, headquarters, Oneida, N. Y. | Q. Please tell me something about petit point needlework.—G. E. C. A. Peiit point embroidery becama popular during the fourteenth and fif- teenth centuries. It was much prac- ticed in France, where it was known | as “au petit point." Q. What is a “martello tower” and where did it get its name”—W. 0. §. A. A martello tower is a circular fort of masonry, generally erected on the seacoast, which has guns mounted on the top in such a ¥ an to be able to fire in any direction. The word is probably derived from the Italian “‘martello.” hammer, and from ‘‘mor- tella,” taken from Cape Mortella in Corsica, where such a tower resisted the English fleet in 1794. Q. When will the new Shrine of 8t. Anne de Beaupre be finished?—A. C. L. A. It is hoped to have it completed in the Summer of 1928. The Winters are so severe in Quebec that the work is retarded. When done this will he one of the finest churches on the con. tinent of North America. It will seat 2,000, with room for 5,000 to stand in ambulatories, Q. How long had the Iroquols The- ater in Chicago been open to the pub- | lic before the disastrous fire occurred? —H. J. demonstrations of studied oratory | develop through generations and ce since the negotiation of the Washing- limited, whatever might be the streas ton treaty. thiz has not heen true of | likes of humanity at large. “In the form cases,” continues | was thus to enwrap the remains of the and shall hereafter hash and ragoo it jes 1o a systematic manufacture | departed chieftain atior | A. The theater was opened on No- with all the high French and ltalian | ¢ poenas or horned toads or human «ingle daily newspaper to a subscriber vember 23, 1903. It was one of the in California. Only 2 per cent of the other four powers signatory fo that agreement. Since the signini of the treaty the United States has laid down or appropriated for sixteen ships for the Navy with a total tonnage of 120,909, What have the others don Great Britain has lald down or a propriated for thirty-seven ships with a total tonnage of 28 ; Japan, one hundred and one ships with a total tonnage of 339.201: France, ninety-five ships with a total tonnage of 221828, | and Ttaly, forty-six, with a total ton- nage of 102.20 In the case of the sixteen ships of the United States six are small river boats designed for river use and five are light cruisers. In the case of Great Britain fourteen of the new shipe are light cruisers and nine more cruisers are to be built under the present five-vear program tends through 1929. Japan has un. dertaken the construction of thirty- five destroyers, thirty submarines, many of which are of the cruising type, and twelve light cruisers. With such building programs under way it requires no searchlight to show that the United States is rapidly drop- ping behind in naval strength, al though it was the understanding of the country when the Washington treaty was entered into this country should he second to none. The argument is put forward that the United States does not require as large or ax strong a navy as Great Britain: that war with Great Britain is unthinkable. No one wants war with Great Britain. The friendship between the two great English-spenk ing nations is a boon to the world generally. Rut when the United States seeks to elevate the guns on some of its battleships so that thev shall equal in xtrength to those of tireat Britain, there a snarl from uecross the ocean. If the navy of Great Britain is no threat to the United States, why should the Navy of the United States be a threat Britain? The President's opposition the construction of additional cruisers at this time has been based on the fuct that thix Governmant is seeking a further naval limitation agreement a' Geneva. Rut this comes to Great argument that ew plained the construction of the three eruisers- aye, and many mere cruisers— would not hring the | United States Navy up to the proper | ratio with Great Rritain and Japan. | As Bpeaker Longworth has said, “Let us be just with nurselves.’ — ) i “Business s husiness” up the | point where business encounters the danger of being classified as “graft.” | to - High Bonds. Recently in Police, Court the assist ant United States attorney requested & high bond to hold a criminal for the | astion of the grand jury. The prison er before the court hud,pleaded guilty | to two Fousebreaking charges and to | shooting a policeman through the hand while attempting to escape. In addition, the prosecutor stated that thirty housebreaking charges would preferred against | the defendant. and that the defendant had already served three terms in the penitentiary on similar charges. other bhe that ex- | falls | largely 10 the ground when it is ex. | {any golfer in the world. [ terday | deem it an honor to wrest a trifling The Star’s circulation goes through the mail to subscribers throughout | the United States, vet the loss 1o The Star ie approximately $5.000 a vear on subscriptions to the Pacific Coast {alone. These are the facts—the type | of facts that must be weighed In de- termining the fate of the postal rate bill The dissemination of information through the public press is of infinite value to the people. The present pol- of the Government is hampering the free movement of newspapers from one part of the country to an- other. It is causing the big metropoli- tan daily newspapers to seek other means than the mail for' tranxporting their products. That they will find such a means; and patronize it exclu- sively when they do, unless relief from existing conditions is afforded them, may be confidently anticipated. The Government has complained in the past that the postal service loses millions of dollars in its maintenance of the rural free delivery routes and that a very large proportion of the mail delivered by these routes is sec- ond class. There has never been any suggestion. however, that the rural free delivery routes would be discon- tinued If every newspapersuddenly ceased to use the mails for delivery. The rural free delivery routes are ex- persive to maintain. They might be termed a luxury If the justice and necessity of their maintenance were not admitted. To seek to piace upon the newspaper publishers a xreatly fisproportionate part of the heavy ex pense of maintaining these mail roites 18 inequitable and unjust. The conferces of House and Senate should promptly hon out the differ ences between the two houses and re- port an agreement upon the bill before them. With only & week intervening before the final adjournment of this ‘ongress, speed ix an Impornt fac tor in dealing with this legislation. 1t ngress adjourns without amending the postal Fate law, it will continue an injustice upon the newwpapers and thelr subscribers for another year at least, and it will continue to lose to the Government a business which thers are finding profitable, —.e There s a great deal of “fighting language” in Congress. Gene Tunney begins to look like a pacifist, . Bobby Gets His Ace. Twenty vears of asslduous hom- bardment of far-away golf pins came to a satisfactory end yesterday for Robhert Tyre Jones, jr. student, | father, world medal play champion and outstanding amateur golfer of the world. Bobhy Jones of Atlanta, of the of the contem soraneous world of sport, registered his fitst hole in one. For nearly two decades Jones, the reigning open champion of the two great golfing nations of the world— the United States and Greut Britain —has been laving iron shots up close to the pins about as conxistently as Until ves- he had never holed one shot from the tee. Meanwhile the golfing nobodies—men would one marvels in who lttle mug of silver from a mediocre field of fournament entrants—have &one along holing aces from the tes of opinion, by courteous formality were preferable. e mo—————— In Florida Ponce de Leon was sup- posed to discover the fountain of youth. He undoubtedly located a land of peculiar charm for immature and inexperienced investors. oo Nicaragua, in the midst of warlike possibilities, gradually relapses into the situation of the innocent by- tander. 2 —oe—s There would be more sporting en- counters if prize fighters were as willing to meet In the ring as states- men are in the forum. Tt might facilitate the work of the sergeant-at-arme if a filibuster, instead of presenting dull readings, could em- ploy some good soloists and & chorus. e SHOOTING STARS. e BY PHILANDER JOHNSON, Size Does Not Count. February's kind of queer— Shortest month in all the year; But the birthdays it contains Mean a lot in strength and brains. February, there you are, Smallest in the calendar; Yet in every loval town, Still the greatest in renown! February' Good old Feb! Fates mysterions weave their web. Days that we account but small Prove the greates after all. Getting Into Politics, “What induced you to go into poli- tiea?” “I was not in a position to do any inducing,” anawered Senator Rorghum. “I had to induce the bosses to admit me.” Old Jim Jimson's back once more From a bright an’ distant shore; Shakin’ hands an’ glad to greet Same old friends he used to meet. Old Jim Jimson's traveled heaps. Yet, If an account he keeps 'Bout the joys of those who roam-— Might as well have stayed right home! Jud Tunkins says a scandal, if suf- fciently financed, may turn into profitable publicity. Wild Waves. “What are the wild waves saving, Sister, the whole day long?” The prices for hoard you are paying Grow every year more strong. Costumes hecome more daring. Real estate, my child, May wreck you bevond repairing: And that's why the waves are wild! A hermit,” sald Hi Ho, the sage of Chinatown, ‘‘poses ax a philosopher. He could no longer remain & hermit it he produced anything to sell.” Gunmen. “Who s the sheriff of Crimson Guleh?” 1 am,” declared Cactus Joe, “Well, I want you to make an ar- rest. “Can’t attend to it this minute, 1 might miss my cue at the movie lot.” “De oldest man,” said Uncle Ehan, A bond of $30,000 was fixed by the in nonchalant fashinn. All over the “was Methuselah. But in all dem vears he didn't do nufin’ dat caused cOurt,. Ab-Axtremaly- high- bond -and ' land, every day of the golfing season, ' people to celebrate his birthday.” Fielding, “it Is Well known that the entertainer provides what fare he WASHINGTON OBSERVATIONS BY FREDERIC WILLIAM WILE. seasoning of affectation nd vice which courts and cities afford.” i " Washburn, Boston scribe and this a sho-nuf dwellin’ place?” Dur- | “accredited hiographer™ of Calvin Cool-| ing the round of the mansion, the old idge, is authority for the prediction | colored servant was shown the heads that it will be June, 1928, before the | of animals which flank the main stair {18 no President gives sign of his intentions | anent another term. Based upon a| past performance under somewhat similar circumstances. . Washburn writes thus of Mr. Coolidge: “He will not define his attitude toward a longer tenure of the White House much before the close of the firat session of the Seven- tieth Congress, toward the Summer of 1928. What he was slow to do jn 1915 and at all times, make a statement, he will be slow to do now. He was importuned by his then political chiet of staff; repeat- edly, to toss his hat into the ring. Thiz announcement Mr. Coolldge resolutely and continuously de- clined to make, not by express statement, but by that eloguent silence of which he is an established master. It was only on the ad- Journment of the Legislature that, with a fine solicitude for his vocal muscles, he laid hands on pape and a fragment of paper at that, and wrote thereon the laconic but eloquent message: ‘I am a candl- date for lleutenant governor.' " g * ok k% The House of Representatives, as befits the popular branch of Congres in a vastly jollier place on “big day than the Senate, which takes itself more seriously. Members of the lower branch are ne afrald to let the selves go. Their enthusiasms are spontaneous, They are generous to political friend and foe alike. During yesterday's debate on the cruiser bil although tension ran high and battle lines were tightly drawn, the House was in festive mood. cheering and ap- plauding merrily. The fact that they were ranged on opposite sides of the naval controversy did not prevent membe from giv. both Speaker Longworth and Chafrman Madden of the appropriations committee rousing receptions. The Ohjoan and the Il noisan are unmistakably the pets of | the House. ey were acclaimed to the echo when th arose to speak and after they'd finished. Mr. Long- worth, who ought 10 know. pronounced | the name of hix distinguished father- in-law, the late R.”, Roze-veit, and not Roza-vell, as most people do. The Speaker was recalling, with visible pride, how President Roosevelt bluffed the Kaiser 25 vears ago by threaten- ing to send Dewey to Venesuelan waters to meet a bill-collecting and naval-base-seeking German squadron. *x %o 'wo women—both Californiuns—are heroines of the recent all-night 30-hour session of the Senate on the Boulder Dam bill. One of them is Mrs. Hiram W. Johnson, wife of the senior Sena- tor from the Golden State, and the other is Miss Ruth Finney, San Fran- cisco newspaper woman. At one time during the long nocturnal vigil, Mrs. Johnson was the sole occupant of the galleries, Her presence th forti- fled her Senator-husband in his grim resolve to hold the chamber In continu- pus session. Miss Finney, a brilliant and popular denizen of the press lery, was the only scribe of her to weather the Senate's long-distance orgy. She had no trouble in keeping awake because she happens to be an authority on Boulder Dam, the Im- perial Valley, hydro-electric power, { lood control, lrrigation, reclamation and all the other things that consti- tute high politics in California, * kR X 3 A typical Vi'ginia negro mammy, long in the service of a Washington family, was recently given the privi- lege of accompanying her mistress through No. 15 Dupont Circle, the marble pile which the Preaident and Mrs. Coolidge will inhabit after Mareh 4. As they were about completing the inspection, the mammy exc] s way on either side—trophies of Mrs. Elmer Schiesinger's hunting expedi- tions. “Lawd o mercy, ah wouldn't want that lady shootin' at me! * kX% Before the vear is over the Govern-| ment Printing Office will issue one of | the most pretentious volumes that' ever left its busy presses. It is to bhe entitled “Art and Artists of the Cap- itol of the United States of Ameri The author, s Charles K. Fairman, art curator of the Capitol, a Vermont er, who long has adorned that post. Congress, in April, 1926, appropriated | $2,500 for the work, which is to be handsomely illustrated with repro-| ductions of the principal architectural, sculptural and canvas gems beneath the dome. Mr. Fairman says that lhe! hitectural joy of the national cita- | del is the pediment of the Houwe wing. because of the perfect perapective it permits (rom all sides. The curator considers Sargent’s portrait of Thomas kett Reed in the Speaker's lobby the House the unquestionably finest painting in the Capitol. the bronze figure of C' R. Livingston of New York, designed by Erastus Dow Palmer, standing in Statuary Hall, Fairman hangs the laurels of distinction in the fleld of ‘apitol sculpture. * ko ox Visitors to Vice President Dawes’ of- fice, just off the floor of the Senate, and the doors of which are already wide ajar, seldom fail to ask the why and wherefore of a mirror “skyed near the ceiling and away beyond the gaze of anybody who'd try to look into it. 1t is the most famous looking- glass in the United States. John Adams bought it soon after he became Vice President in 1789. There was an economy program even in those an- clent days, and the $76 or $80 the mirror cost becime the subject of a hot and historic hullabaloo. Because of its traditions, the gluss—an object about feet long and two feet wide, framed in gilt—hus been re tained in the offices of all the Vice Presidents. It ia hung above the tall grandfather’s clock that stands 4gainst one of the walls. Charles W. Fairbanks of Indiana, who, it may be recalled, was once Vice Preaident, had the reputation of being the only one in_modern times tall enough to put John Adams’ mirror into practical use. *xox o “Jim” Resd's political foes, Demo- eratic and Republican alike, seem to have singled out his well known vanity—hie eternal youthfulneas -as the spot where the Missourian can most easily he touched upon the raw Senator Robinson, Republican, of In. diana, in vesterday's brush with Sen- ator Reed on the Senate floor, was the second man within a few days to refer to the Democratic presidential asplrant as “that venerable, white- haired old gentleman,” or words to that irreverent effact. Reed, of course, is advanced in vedrs—he would be in his sixty-ninth vear when (and i) in- augurated President in 1929 byt in aspect and temperament few men of 50 are his peers. The approach of Spring discovers “Jim” in sartorigl bloom worthy of a campus sheik., In his greenish-blue slouch hat, with suit and tie to-match, no more deb- onalr and rakish figure bestrides the acene on Capitol Hill, { R PSRBT The Matter of Relief. From the Philadelphia Public Ledger. ‘The farmers want relief from Con- ss, while the people would like to S.nl.hud of cn.& ino person or party which can repre hoodlums. But we scarcely think it will. For, at best, the life of sea urchins first class. Their careers are mechanical, their reactions . scarcely less mystifying or irregular than the action of inorganic chemical reagents. There is no more terror in a synthetic echinoderm than there is in an in- cubated chicken. Student Gives View 3 on Chinese Treaties To the Editor of The Star: Granting that we want to abrogate the unequal treaties, many American friends of China would say, “With whom shall we open negotiations®” For even part of official Washington has made it known that there is sent the whole of China, and that as long as such a condition continues the United States Government will prob- ably refrain from taking the initia- tive in making new treaties with China on an equal and reciprocal basis. Whom shall we deal with in China? If the question is asked in good faith, a satisfactory answer can easily be found. On the other hand, if the question 1s Intended to be an evasion, the interrogator faces two Strong horns of a dilemma. In the first place, there exists at Peking & de jure gov- ernment of China, still legally recog- nized by the nations of the world as the government of all China. In the second place, there is at Wuhan the Natlonalist government, which has the moral support of at least the major- ity, if not the whole, of the Chinese people, and which is the de facto gov- ernment of the Chinese people and at the same time the de facto gover: ment of more than one-half of China proper. One’fact which even the most casual observer has grasped in the present situation in China is that both the Peking government and the Na- tionalist government are for the abro- gation of the unequal treaties. It has to be so, because the Chinese people e one in demanding that the sov- rights of their nation be re It the quesiion is asked in good faith, the answer is: Deal with the party that has the support of the Chi- nese people. If this principle is recog- nized and adhered to, the modus ope andi can be easily worked out. tiations can be opened with Chinese government de ] Chinese government de facto, o since the Chinese people are one in de- manding that the powers make new treaties with China on an equal and ciprocal basis. 2 PAUT . MENG, General Secretary of the Chinese Studenta’ Christian Association in North Americ: o Belf nst.éonsiders Business Manager Dublin has made such a success of ita experiment in municipal busines management that Belfast is now d! cusging the possibility of imitating i Dublin's corporation used to consist | of 80 aldermen and councillors ad- ministering a revenue of nearly $7.500,- 000 annually. Three voung men ap- pointed by the Irish Free State gov- ernment displaced the corporation and run the whole ity themaelves, As a result there is Increased effi- clency and w large reduction in the rates, Belfast with its corporation of #0 members, controlling great munici- pal enterprises, including the lighting and the street cars, is thinking of fol- lowing Dublin's lead. The example of the city manager aystem came from the United States and has certainly worked well in Dub- lin. There was more room for economy here than in Belfast, where the rates have been much lower than in Dublin. ()lll; I\idfrn Night Life. From the Jeweth (Kans.) Republican. Q. How much did the Building in Washington A. This structure was erected at a cost of $600,000. Q. Is there any temple in the world devoted to a snake god?—H. F. A. On Penang, an island off the east coast of the Maylay Peninsula, there a temple in honor of the snake god worshiped under the name of Chor | Su Kong. Inside the temple is crowd- ed with snakes, ranging from 5 inches long to monsters as large as sea ser- pents. They are said never to harm the worshipers. Methodist cost?’—E. Q. I have a celluloid doll, whose face is full of dents. Can vou tell me how to open the seam to get it apart, and what to do to soften it so I can get {the dents out?>—N. A. B. A. The Bureau of Standards save that you may use glacial acetic acid to open the seams of the celluloid doll face. The celluloid will soften under finest in the country at that time. The fire occurred December 30 of the same year. Q. What battle was known ““Thy Battle Above the Clouda"?‘M?.P. G»' A. This name was given to that portion of the battle of Chattancoga fought on Lookout Mountain, Tenn., November 24, 1863. Gen. Robert Lee said: “The thorough education of people “is th most efficacious means of promotin, the prosperity of the Natiom” These words of the distinguished Southern general are none the leas true now than when he spoke them. Our Washington Information Rureau, is one of the greatest agencies for the distribution of free information and educational data in the world. .Ita aervices are free to readers of thix paper. All you need to do ia to send in your query together with two cents in stampe for return postage. Address The Evening Star Information Bu- reau, Frederic J. Haskin, director, Washington, D. €. Notwithstanding sharp differences of opinion over branch-bank provi- sions, public approval of the McFad- den bill, passed by Congress, is gen- eral, because it assures continuation of the Federal Reserve system. Under the original law the charters would have expired at the end of a fixed veriod. ““The measure has been heralded as says the Wall Journal, “whereas, in effect, it re stricta branch banking, Senator Wheeler to the contrary notwithstand ing. Beyond confining branches to citien of 25,000 or over, the bill really gives national or member banks littie more in this respect than is available to them now. An inherent weakness is In not allowing the matter of branch banking 1o be governed by local State laws. This will be apparent later on with further defections of national banks as a result of competition States with more liberal branch bank ing laws. the new banking legislation will be undoubtedly benefictal to the banks and the public. The measure contains several desirable features. National bank and Federal Reserve chariers will be made indeterminate, adding sta bility to our banking structure. Per- haps the most important provision is the extension of loaning powers of national banks. Here the bill might he regarded of inflation, with the fa. nity the principal beneficiaries. Another provision would allow na- tional banks to lend 50 per cent of their savings deposits on real estate for periods up to five vears. This makes about three biilion® dollars | available. The measure is expansion, ing commu “ .. described by the Philadelphia Public lLedger as “the most important financial legislation this country has framed in more than 2 years,” and that paper adds: “The Kederal Reserve was a great instru-| ment in war and is an even greate implement in peace. The act creating | it was a national achievement of the first rank. It is one of the monu- ments of the Wilson administrations — perhaps the great The fears felt for its future have been dissolved and | it is in the way of being perpetuated | &iving national banks opportunity for | Street | in{ In other respects, however, | possessing a measure | | can, MecFadden Bill Widely Backed As Aid to Nation’s Banking national banking laws has come from & number of sources. Some of the most _distinguished economista and financiers have joined In it, fearing that with the issiue of charter exten: sion disposed of it will be difficult, if not impossible, to secure needed im- provements and safeguards in the law.” The Sun. however, recognizes | that “the new law would put national banks in hetter position to compete with State banks, withdrawals of which from the Federal Reserve sys. |tem have caused fear for its perma- | nency and stability Admitting that “‘the discrimination against national hanks in the matter of operating branches has hean one of the principal obstacles to the avst . expansion and consolidation,” the (*hi cago Daily News, nevertheless. sava: “There is a distinct need of independ- ent banks, managed by persons fa- miliar with local conditions and re- quirements. If the new measure in operation shall have the effact of sup- ting such banks with branc banks controlled from a distance, the results are not likely to be happy. The Lincoln State Journal states that “‘the opposition to the bill came from the fact that the door to branch {banking in the national system is put | slightly ajar, even though it he nat widely opened. The branch bank fae { ture is of importance mainly in States | like Wisconsin and California, whei State banks are permitted to maintain branches. As for a general branch banking system, the opposition to_ it seems to be as strenuous as @ In the country at large.” * ok ok X 1 i ““The present sources of hostility,"” according to the Springfleld Republi- “are in the Western areas of agricultural production, which wuf. fered mo severely from the great credit deflation following the recent war. The Federal Reserve banks wers finally forced by broad national inter- eats to check the inflation that had been so widely extengded, but the groups that suffered the most from the deflation have identified the bank- ing system with the causes of their economic misfortunes.” ‘There has been bitter objection, says the Dayton Daily News, “even to The Portland Oregon Journal takes a similar position, and the Louisville Courier-Journal declares: *“The Fed- eral Reserve system Ix one drastic form which justified itself so quickly in the eyes of the Nation that both par cause. The ab- sence of opposition accounts for the appearance of so important a legisia. tive matter as an unmarked Incident in a_ controversy that attracted na- tlonal attention. * x ¥ ¥ a 1t is pointed out by the Baltimore It is about @b diffioult to drag an old flmwg: fht a8 1t 18 to Keep & Congress In l"m.hnm Sun .that “‘criticism of the action of 3 thesa cha i %0 much branch banking as the Mc- Fadden bill authorizes. The issue ha been before Congress for several vears. Now of a gudden it is settled. Is it a beginning ‘at ‘chain banking'? Per- haps. That can only be determined after a few years' experience with the short step In that direction which the McFadden bill takes.” The St. Louls Post-Dispatch adds that “the law of the survival of the biggest may be as unwise as it is ruth- les#, but it is here and functioning, and there is nothing to indicate that the small banker will ascape lg decree of extifiction.any mors 88Y.. the corner grocer."