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STAR dition, D. C. 30, 1927 THEODORE W. NOYES....Editor _— The Evening Star Newspaper Company Business Offic 11th St. and Pennsylvania Ave. New York Office: 110 East 42nd St. Chicago Offico: Tower Building. European Oflice: 14 Regent St.. London. England. vith the Sunday morn ed by carriers withirt jer month: daily onl ”"’P" nly. 0 oen e sent by mail or | Belennonn Main Collection 15 made by carrier at end of each month. Rate by Mail—Payable in Advance. Maryland and Virgini: nd S vr. £1.00: 1 mo. A e - $00: 1 mox Sandas only " 2 $500: 1 mo, MONDAY.........May The Evening S Ing edition. is d at’ 60 75¢ 0c 25¢ All Other States and Canada. Daily and Sunday..1yr.. $12.00: 1 mo.. $1.00 Daily ouly 13rs $2.00° 1 mon 75e Sunday only $100: 1mo. 35¢ Member of the Associated Press. The Associated Press s exclusively entitled for_republication of all edited 1o 1t or not otherwise cred- is paper and also the local news published heremn. All rizhts of publication of special dispatches herein are also reserved. = s { The Pledge of Memorial Day. In its highest significance Me- morial day is reminder to the Na- fon of the services of the men who | have in times of national ('m(‘!‘:nm‘y! responded to the eall to duty and of- fered their lives in defense of the prin- ciples of American government. The act of laying tributes of flowers upon aves of those who died on duty t of the recognition. That knowledgment. In speech is expressed the appreciation of the Nation of those who represented it in times of str The funda- mental ids are voiced by exponents, including the President of the United States, whose address at Arlington sounds the key- note for the country. Though mnot delivered upon Me- morial day, but at the dedication of‘ the National Cemetery at the battle- field of Gettysburg, the address of Abraham Lincoln on the 15th of No- vember, 1863, most effectively ex- presses the thought underlying the ceremonies of this occasion. He said: The world will little note, nor long remember, what we say here; but it can never forget what they did here. It is for us, the living, rather to be dedicated here to the unfinished work which they who fought here have thus far so nobly advanced. It is rather for us to be here dedicated in the great task remaining before us, that from these honored dead we take increased | devotion to that cause for which they gave their last full measure of devo- tion; that we here highly resolve that these dead shall not have died in vain; that this Nation, under God, shall ! have a new birth of freedom, and that government of the people, by the peo- { ple and for the people, shall not perish from the earth. On whatever field of battle Ameri- can soldiers have fought, whether on ! the home fleld of civil strife or in foreign lands in war against a foreign foe, they are today honored for their devotion to the principles which called them into service. And by the same token they are to be regarded as hostages to the pledge of their com- rades and their successors in citizen- ship to maintain those principles at any sacrifice. The struggle for the maintenance of ; the high ideals of self-government \ shall not have been in vain if every American today resolves to continue the contest in times of peace. There are today forces at work to undermine | this Government. That they are nu- merically small does not make them innocuous. That they are working secretly makes them dangerous. That they represent an alien ideal of gov- ernment, diametrically opposed to that ! which prevails here, makes it impera- | tive that they should be fought per- sistently and unflaggingly, and with- out compromise. Every grave that today is decorated with the emblems of appreciation should be regarded as a breastwork of protection against insidious assault upon the doctrines of liberty and self- government. In that sense Memorial day becomes a renewal of the pledge of the people of America to maintain the ideals of those who founded this Nation. oo Cynical remarks are dropped by Gene Tunney, who predicts that Lind- bergh will be forgotten in a year. The | trip by air is not to be regarded as a sporting event promoted largely for profit. It was an historic event, com- manding a fame not to be measured by the evanescent standards which ap- ply to the vicissitudes of the prize ring. —— e France has from time to time been aroused by the more or less imaginary “man on horseback.” America sends over, with no hint of political purpose, the big hero, the man in the aeroplane. r—or—s : Souvenir Hunters. In one way Capt. Charles Lind-| bergh, conqueror of the Atlantic, de serves his nickname “Lucky.” He is extraordinarily fortunate that his plane has not been ripped to pieces by the souvenir-hunting crowds that have greeted him at every port made by the Spirit of St. Louis. When he landed in Paris after his record- breaking flight the wings of his ship were rent from end to end. The pneu- matic life raft and air cushions were taken and the insatiable lust of the crowd for some memento of the oc- casion resulted in an attempt to tear oft the exhaust pipes of the motor and the instruments in the cockpit. In he escaped with few dam- nuch as the crowds were not and the police protection was order. But in London yester- day it looked for a time as if the Spirit of St. Louis, plece by piece, would decorate the homes of several hundred Englishmen who wers near the ship when it landed. All of these countries, France, Bel- glum and England, have given Lind- bergh an enthusiastic and heart- warming welcome. But with an af- fection for his plane so pronounced that he invariably speaks of it and himself “we,” what can Lind- bergh's feelings be when, immediately that a landing Is made, hundreds of hands tear at the precious plane which has borne him through wind, sleet and rain nearly seven thousand miles? It is a placid and well con- . trolled nature, indeed, that can smile and take with good grace such things as these. The peculiar psychology of the mob spirit is difficult to understand. Every person In every gathering that has greeted Lindbergh has undoubtedly admired him for his heroism and would be glad in any way to show appreciation of his marvelous feat. How is it, then, that these same kind- ly, sympathetic and hero-worshiping people would deliberately set about to place his life in danger by so weaken- ing the plane in a search for souve- nirs that it might collapse the next time he waves a jaunty farewell and “gives her the gun”? It would not make so much differ- ence, in Lindbergh's case, it his plane was not something on which his life depended. But with the whole world concerned for the safety of this youns American, it makes one shiver with apprehension lest a strut be loosened or a screw taken out by the crowd of souvenir hunters. It is great- Iy to Lindbergh’s credit that he has borne these ordeals with such forti- tude. If he was not made of the finest stuff his first instinet would be to aim a blow at the first hand laid on his precious ship, whether he was being greeted in Europe or in Amer- ica. That he has restrained himself so well is additional tribute to the young lad who has written a notable page in the world's history. » e The Anti-Third Term League. An Anti-Third-Term League has been formally launched in New York City, its avowed purpose to prevent the renomination and re-clection of President Coolidge. Indeed, from the letter sent out by the new league, it appears that the anti-third termers would be satisfied with any Repubii- can except Mr. Coolidge. The letter includes a list of eighteen suggestions for the Republican nomination, rang- ing from Senator George W. Norris of Nebraska to Secretary of the Treasury Andrew W. Mellon, with Dr. Nicholas Murray Butler sand- wiched in between. Never was more catholic taste in candidates dis- played. Probably the only reason that the name of Senator Robert M. La Follette, jr, of Wisconsin was not included is because the youthful Senator will not have reached the constitutional age of 35, set for Presi- dents of the United States, when March 4, 1929, rolls round. Strangely the directing heads of the new league were supporters of Theodore Roosevelt in his 1912 effort to capture first the Republican nomi- nation and then the presidential elec- tion on the Bull Moose ticket. Prob- ably no inconsistency is discerned development of aviation in the United | States. “If I have become well known because of this flight,” he says, “noth- ing would glve me so much satisfac- tion as to have it lead to a better un- derstanding of the possibilities of air navigation.” Lindbergh as a public exponent of progress in the air would be a power- ful factor in developing the science in this country. On the lecture plat- form, in the movies or in print he could not fail to stimulate national interest in the possibilities of air transportation. He has just demon- strated in a most dramatic manner, arousing the whole world to a pitch of interest mever before attained, the practicability of individual flight across a wide stretch of ocean to a definito objective. By his skill he has proved that a dependable plane can bo driven single-handed a dis- tance of more than 3,600 miles against hazards of weather. It now remains to capitalize this proof, to ‘utilize it in regular service, not merely as a po- tential war agency, but as a peace facilit; America, the birthplace of the air- plane, has lagged in its practical com- mercial development. Save for the maintenance of regular aerial mail routes, there are practically no regu- lar services maintained in this coun- try. Lindbergh will not have to fly himself in further demonstration. He has done his bit, and the hope of the country is that he will henceforth de- vote himself to propaganda in behalf of a better understanding and a fuller development of the possibilities of aviation for the benefit of the Amer- ican people. e A Dangerous Slayer at Large. A murder which for brutality has seidom been equaled in this region was committed Saturday night at Somerset, Md., where a watchman on a construction work was killed as he slept, evidently by an assailant who reached through a window and crushed his head with a hatchet and who then, after robbing his victim, saturated the premises with oil and set fire to the place in an effort to remove traces of the crime. No clue to the perpetrator of this ghastly deed has yet been found. There is a possi- bility that he may have left his fin- gerprints upon the empty pocketbook of the murdered man. Crime of this description calls for the most thorough efforts for detection and punishment. Its perpetrator is a dangerous public menace as long as he is at large, Doubtless the authori- ties of Montgomery County will do thelr utmost in the search, and they should be given the fullest aid by the District, for the nearness of the crime makes this a matter of concern to all by them when they view their atti- tude toward a so-called “third term” in 1912 and their attitude toward a so-called third term for Mr. Coolidge today. The president of the league is Henry W. Salant, the only State Senator elected on the progressive ticket in 1912 when he supported Roosevelt for President. Mrs. Henry Hersey Andrew is vice president. Mr. Andrew, the husband of the vice president of the league, was a friend of Col. Roosevelt and was appointed a delegate to the Bull Moose conven- tion, it is reported, although he was unable to serve. Under such auspices, the new league starts on its career somewhat precariously. Ten thousand letters have been mailed to Republicans throughout the country, urging that sentiment be crystallized against the renomination of President Coolidge. If the plans of the organizers of the league are carried out, branches will be established in many or all of the States. It is one thing, however, to send out appeals of this character and another thing to obtain a sub- stantial response. In the first place the Anti-Third- Term League begs the question when it asserts that another term for President Coolidge would constitute a “third term.” President Coolidge will, in March, 1929, have completed his first elective term and will have served in addition nineteen months of the Harding term. No constitu- tional question is involved, for there is no limitation on re-eligibility of a President of the United States in the fundamental law of the land. At the time the Constitution was drafted vigorous efforts were made to write into the document.a provision that a President should not be eligible to succeed himeelf, but these failed, and failed with the opposition of George ‘Washington. himself. Republican leaders throughout the country have declared unequivocally their support of President Coolidge for the party nomination next year. fere and there some Republicans who do not like Mr. Coolidge and his ad- ministration have privately voiced their opposition to a renomination, but have failed to announce this op- position publicly. Presumably they are waiting for some such organiza- tion as the new Anti-Third-Term League to screw their courage to the sticking point. oo Inhabitants of the Mississippi flood region are not only ready to ‘keep cool with Cal,” but to go on ‘“hoping with Hoover. e In addition to fighilng the Missis- sippi, it becomes necessary to fight so infinitesimal a thing as a germ. oo Lindbergh’s Future Role. Ever since Lindbergh arrived in Paris he has been showered with offers of employment that, if accepted in full, would make him independently wealthy. He has been invited to go into the movies, to appear upon the dramatic stage and the lecture plat- form, and to write at high rates for the newspaper and periodical press. Thus far he has accepted none of these propositions. In an interview at Brus- sels he said: “T am not going to throw away blindly all the offers made to me last week. That would be neither courteous nor intelligent. But I want to do things which are natural to me. I want to do things that will help along aviation.” In that concluding sentence Lind- bergh speaks in a manner to be defi- nitely understood as to his real aspi- rations. He regards himself as a servant of the airplane. Intensely Washingtonians. High authority, in many quarters, has protested against the alleged im- modesty of modern dress. It may be possible to modify court dress to lines of discretion, but bathing suits will persist. —— China carries on a war as a matter of local temperament. “Communism’ steps in with more or less generosity and undertakes to supply a logical pre- text. —— e It has remained for aviation to pro- duce a sporting event with the result of which everybody in the entire world is absolutely satisfied. e A murder case is studied for an hour a day by a million people. A million hours a day would help some difficult situations if usefully employed. ———————— Russia has enormous undeveloped resources, among the least valuable of which is the superabundant propa- ganda material, e SHOOTING STARS. BY PHILANDER JOHNSON, Inspiration of the Inanimate. How sweet the ice cream sounds today! How great the coffee’'s glory! Cod liver oil attunes a lay Transmitted con amoré, The playing cards, in soft accord, Entrance the listener nightly; And tooth paste will at morn afford Great joy, with rhythm sprightly. The carpets and the furniture Impart melodious measures. Insurance makes us feel secure, In spite of reckless pleasures. ‘We pause in admiration, still, Of classic demonstration, ‘When stick and stone, by Orphean skill, ‘Were brought to animation. Lure of Novelty. “Why do you insist on demanding new investigations?” “So that we can help the public to go along,” answered Senator Sorghum, “and get its mind off the old ones.” Solicitude for a Hero. Here's a dilemma. From the sky An airman drops with courage grim. They say that he no more should fly; So, where's the joy in life for him? Making Provision. “Are you going to make any char- itable bequests?” asked the lawyer. “Yes,” answered Mr. Dustin Stax. “I am going to leave incomes to my titled sons-in-law, who could not pos- sibly get along without them.” Jud Tunkins says people who called Charley Lindbergh the “flyin’ fool” be- long to the same general class as those who used to think Henry Ford was a financial comedian. Simplified Society. “Your al activities great deal of time.” “Not so much as you might think,” answered Miss Cayenne. “You can send out invitations in half an hour, notify the press in 10 minutes and call up the caterer in 30 seconds.” require a “Powe said Hi Ho, the sage of Chinatown, ‘“depends for its dignity on the imagination of the populace.” The Murderous Marriage. A lady met a man by chance. They joined in wedlock lawful, And what at first seemefl a romance Became a crime most awful! “Daylight saving,” said Uncle Eben, “Jeaves a man where he looks at de interested in the promotion of fly- ing, his desire is to play a part in the e clock an’ don’t know whether he kin bellove his eyes.” There are so many gloomy, grouchy faces in the world that an inhabitant of another sphere visiting the world might be forgiven for supposing that men were the unhappiest of creatures. Tigers and lions in their moments of repose show noble, dignified counte nances, faces softened, even, by a cf tain benigni Every one has s dogs and cats with faces which m properly be dubbed sweet. How does it come about, then, that $0 many men and women one meets have mouths drawn down in charac- teristic lines of chronic anger? Are men and women less than lions and tigers t whereas the beasts of the field find much to soothe their avage breasts in this world, men lone of all the creatures must in so many instances discover only misery and woe in the process of daily living? Maybe it is true that the gayn of mankind, reaching an artificlal clim in the hectic wildness of “night life” in the great cities, is only a surface show, a smoke screen set up by hu- manity to glaze over the fear of the hereafte Perhaps, faced by the Great Mys- nds of men and women he divine uncertainty and allow their inner fears to crop out in their faces. Who knows? * k k ok such an answer, interesting though it may be, is too charitable in the case of many persons. These persons poison daily living. No doubt they might be indignant enough if told this, but it would be the truth, just the same. Instead of throwing material poison in wells, they distribute mental contaglon to every one they meet. Those lucky ones with a certain rough resistance to such inimical forces get off scot free, but those with more sensitive minds and hearts must bear the brunt. There arc such things, of course, as sensitivo minds and_ hearts, although it is somewhat the fashion in certain circles to sneer at them. The man whose olfactory sense is not very good cannot understand how another man with a nose like that of a bloodhound can smell what he can- not. He resents it a matter of fact. Thus the gentleman with a keen sense .of scent is forever finding him- self the butt of his companions, who ridicule him for his “finickiness.” ac- cording to them, but for his truth- telling proclivities, according to him. And he is right. Ten minutes after he smells smoke the remainder of the company will smell it. Yet the next time he 1 the prophet they will treat him in the same way, having forgotten his past good performance. Such is the fate of prophets of the every day in the company of their everyday companions Unusual sensitiveness of heart and mind might better be thousht of as sensitiveness of emotions and intelli- gence. It is not the fashion, of cou to use the word veness” in connection with the emotions, and especially with the intellect, but we believe the use good, so we let it stand. To he intelligent is one thing, to be sensitively intelligent is another. An Yet average flyer might have used intelli- gence after he got to Paris; Charles Not a single one of the big cities of the United States was represented in | the National Oratorical Contest just | held at Washington. Birmingham, Ala., with @ 000, was the “only sizable community with spokesman in_the finals. The two| next largest places represented iwere | Salt Lake City (population, 1 and Binghamton, N. Y. (populatic 75,000). It was smaller towns like {k Park, IlL; Georgetown, Del.; Me- Alester, Okla., and Leonardtown, Md., from which the four remaining young orators came. It almost looks Main Street h monopoly of elo- quence and intellectual power, for these seven school children were t) e pick of roundly 2,000,000 boys and girls from regions which included New York, Chicago, Philadelphia, De- troit, Los Angeles, Cleveland and a host’ of other bigleague burgs. In- cidentally, the victory of Dorothy Carlson_of Utah, sole representative of the hobbed-hair sex in the cham- ate that this is Swedish America’ Lindbergh, Miss Carlson i ancestry. of Swedish * kK K Wadsworth, jr., former Senator from New York, an ideal James W, United Stats is being quietly mentioned American delegate-in-chief at the Geneva naval conference. He is a Republican, a soldier, a strong believ- er in national defense, a student of in- ternational problems and well known abroad. Not the least of Wadsworth's qualities as a coframer of any agree- ments that might be sealed at Geneva would be the prestige he has in the United States Senate. As a member of that body for 12 years and for many years chairman o its military affairs committee, Wadsworth would un- doubtedly command unique influence on the Hill wheh the time came to seck Senate ratification of a new naval limitation treaty. * Kk kX Mrs. Edith Nourse Rogers, Repub- lican, representative of the fifth Mas- sachusetts district in the House, will deliver the principal commencement address at Tufts College, Medford, Mass., in June and receive a degree there. As the widow and congression- al successor of John Jacob Rogers of Representative Rogers has chosen as her subject one with which her late husband will always be prom- inently identified—"The Foreign Serv- ice of the United States.” The Rogers law, under which the diplomatic and consular services were reorganized and amalgamated three s ago, was primarily the late congressman creation. ‘Tufts is the alma mater of Attorney General Sargent. One of its proud traditions is that “Gari” Sar- fent, then a 275-pound undergraduate, fell o hard on a foot ball, which he grabbed on a fumble by an opposing team, that the pigskin exploded with a roar. * ok K K There’s a lot of superstitious Amer- jcans who hope that Se Mel- lon's plan to cut down the size of paper money will eventually include the abolition of the hoodoo §2 bill. Millions of people consider it unlucky. Every day, somewhere, it's refu when offered as change. has a jinx about it nobody’ know. = Some folks try to stave misfortune by tearing off one c of every bill that comes into their possession. Counterfeiters often “gplit” $2 bills in order to make $20 Dills out of them. A couple of yea oo the Treasury tried to popularize the $2 bill by including one in each pay envelope of Government employes. But few cared to run unnecess ks by accepting and carrying i d the practice was abandoned. * ok K X Count that day lost whose low de- cending sun views no mew idea for honoring Capt. Lindbersh. William Moore, a New York physician, sug- zests to the Post Office’ Department that it would be “a graceful act to issue an air mail stamp in Lindbergh's honor.” Dr. Moore thinks such a stamp appropriate because Lindbergh “has so glorified the Air Mail Service, which trained him and enabled him to accomplish his wonderful feat.” The New York medie, who is an old ol THIS AND THAT BY CHARLES E. TRACEWELL. Lindbergh displayed a most sensitive intelligence in every act and word, and so won the hearts of the French people. * ok koK The man who, without the excuse of disease, allows his countenance to st friend and foe-alike is something 1 fool, if not just a little bit of a minal. This may seem pretty strong, but science, especially as exemplified in psychology, is more and more coming show the absolute hurt which such a man is doing not only to himself (for he is the worst sufferer), but also to every sensitive person who sees him. Take the office grouch. Some estab- lishments have several of them. Often he Is a man of keen intelligence; often enough—and surprisingly, too—he is a very young man. Yet he is but a surly dog in his treatment of others. When, by the divine grace of his royal will, he con- descends to smile upon men, it is only Dbecause he has for a moment forgotten his pose. Tor surely it is a pose, assumed as an armor against the buffetings of fate and other men. And so we ought not, perhaps, to hlame the fellow too much, for he is wearing his heart on his sleeve and doesn’t know it. Instead of hiding his real nature, he is displaying it for all those who have eves to see. What matter if he speak or not? And yet so long as a singl being s0, the man of heart and mind will find him: easy and long for the golden age when an to man will exemplify all those qualities which the best men of all s have depicted as the true marks of a gentleman. e There is the store mi Too often, alas, t Now, there is more use for a woman. Women have not vet heen able in many cases to adjust them- selves to the wage-earning busin The student of humanity, therefore, will do his best at all times to view such cases with extreme charity in so far as his milk of human kindness can turn the trick. There will be many moments when he, being human, can be none other in offended at the lack of courtesy h which his efforts to purchase de- rticles are receive Yet he will recall the high place of woman in the universe and forget if annot forgive. This is an honest use of words surely. Often forgetting is not so eas The child misanthrope touches the heart. To see one so little, so inex- perienced, already blighted with this fell disease of the mind, heart and epirit is to know the depth of sorrow for others. You cannot teach an old dog new tricks, says the saying. And this is the hope for such a child, for he is a “new dog.,” to revert to the saying, and may be taught to think and act differently and finally to exemplify in some degree the social amenities which men have united to call good. The grouches of this world, are they not reversions to cave types, cropping up through the social strata to d tress men of good will? inthrope. is woman! WASHINGTON OBSERVATIONS BY FREDERIC WILLIAM WILE. stamp collector, puints out that phi- latelists “perpetuate historica in a way unparalleled.” * Xk X X Tatin_ American officials fn Wash- ston long have been interested in the development of Japanese coloniza- tion in brazil. There are already some 50,000 Nipponese in the vast Amazon republic, but it has just been tated by D hi. the new Jap- anese Amba Rio de Janei that the number will be doubled with ‘in the next 10 vears. E apan ship now Paulo brings borers, who obtain immediate work £00d wages on coffee plantations. F the most part, according to the Jap- anese Ambassador, his people come to B to stay and adopt it as their new home." Tn prewar days the south- ern provinces of Brazil were ear- marked and publicly advertised in Berlin as “German colonies.” Ger- mans still inhabit Brazil in large num- bers. e L The busiest man in the United dent Coolidge. Un- is national n Legion The travel director of the Ameri France Convention Committee. b of getting 80,000 Legionnair \dy for the “Second A. F \ is to invade Pa is almost as tough a proposition the War Department had shen it was preparing to ship a couple of million _doughboys “over there. Wicker has put in about three vears on the Legion's forthcoming pilgrim- Hitherto the largest peace-time migration of Americans to urope was the Bar Association’s trip in 192 The Legion caravan will be 10 time the size of the lawyers’ lark. Gen. Frank T. Hines, now director of the Veterans’ Bureau, supervised the ocean movements of American troops during the World War, and has given ‘Wicker the benefit of the Army” experience in 1917 and 1918. Wicker is a Virginian, a lawyer, and had overseas experience in the Air Service. T News of foreign affairs is distributed to the American press through the “Division of Current Information” at the State Department. A new chief of the division has just been appointed by Secretary Kellogg. He is Michael J. McDermott, hitherto holding the rink of a drafting officer and of tant chier of the division. “Ma s the news-gathering fraternity at Washington calls him, is a Massachu- setts lad in the early thirties. During the war he was a clerk in both the War Department and the White House, and wound up by being a_con- fidential clerk to Gen. Tasker H. Bliss on the American Peace Mission in Paris. McDermott has a genius for giving diplomatic news without ever revealing state secrets. (Copsright. 1927.) UNITED STATES IN WORLD WAR Ten Years Ago Today MAY 30, 1917, President Wilson, in stirring Me- morial day addr at Arlington, we must fight out the cause of human liberty and thus prove ou service. * * * Soldiers in khaki divide tribute with Civil War vet- erans and heroic dead in Memorial day parades throughout the entire country, * * * Only 19 British ships sunk during the past week. British officials louf in their praise of the efficiency and zeal of Ameri- can destroyers in nullifying the U-boat menac * * & Attorney General Gregory issues 'sweeping in- structions to Federal agents every- to attend all anti-draft meet- and watch proceedings closely, securing stenographic on speeches. . - Cox rable exo- dus of young men to C nd Mex- ico said to be an attempt to escape y draft, and government officials say it wiil not succeed, g s in September, | PHILOSOPHIES BY GLENN FRANK So much of the sterility and stand- ardization of American life is due to timidity of mind that I hesitate to speak a good word for intellectual caution lest it give aid and comfort to the enemies of a MOre cOUrageous na- tional mind. But in the midst of the widespread rabbit-mindedness of the time there is one exception of recklessness that de- serves analysis. The growing industry of interview- ing rests upon the reckless readiness of public men to generalize on almost any subject under the sun. T do my full share of generalizing, so this is a confession as well as a castigation. I feel a bit ‘traitorous to my first love of journalism in suggesting it, but T suspect that we need a league to enforce caution among public men, My memory goes back tonight to my first editorial experience. 1 had just become editor of the Century Maga- zine. 1 outlined on a scratch pad a plan that seemed to me to give prom- ise of an invigorating series of articles. 1 proposed to ask a half dozen distin- guished educators this question: 1t unlimited funds were placed at vour personal disposal, if an ideal site were provided, if you were given free- dom to begin with an absolutely clean slate, and were asked to create a new university in which you would be un- der no obligation to observe any exist- ing academic tradition either in the content of the curriculum or in the tethods of teaching, what kind of uni- versity would you create? 1t did not occur to me that T would have any difficulty inducing educ thus to play with the alluring riches sibility, unhampered by the in- able concessions and compro- mises that existing institutions im- pose upon the administrator. I now realize that T was very voung then. 1 turned first to President Lowell of Harvard, He may have forgotten the incident, but it sticks in my memory like a burr. I should be glad,” said Dr. Lowell, h the suspicion of a smile, “to te an article for you on almost any ject in the worll—except educa- tion. “But, Dr. Lowell,” I insisted, “edu- cation is your field.” “That's just the reason for my re- Iuctance,” he said. “You see, if I have any valuable ideas about education that are not in effect at Harvard, and should write about them, readers would say: ‘Why doesn’t he practice what he preaches? nd if I have any valuable ideas about education that are in effect at Harvard, they will speak for themselves.” T lost an article, but I found a point of view. There are very few general truths that are universally applicable; most problems must be solved in terms of particular places and particular per- sons, Wo need less sweeping generaliza- tion and more sincere experimenta- tion. (Covyright. 1027.) Simplifying Measures. Process Offered in Which Useless Units Are Dropped. To the Editor of The Star: The process of simplification and unification in the field of weights and measures is to slough off useless, ex- traneous, incongruous, irregular and non-commensurable unit: For this purpose it is proposed that: (1) The cubic foot with its 1,000- ounce measures, each the perfect cube of the tenth of its base dimen- sion, displaces the hectoliter of 6102.2 cubic inches, the decaliter of 610.22 cubic inches, the gallon of 231 cubic inches, the liter of 61.022 cubic inches, rt of 57.75 cubic inches, the 875 cubic inches, the gill of cubic inches, the deciliter of cubie inches, the fluid ounce of cubic inches, the centiliter of cubic inches, and the milliliter 022 cubic inches, as commercial measur itish milk trade is carried in 5, 10, 20 and 40 ounce bottles. The bulkk of the trade- in processed fruits and vegetables in the United States |is carried in 20 and 30 ounce tins, { known to the trade as No. 2 and No. 215 cans. This series may convenient- Iy be extended to include 40, 50 100, 500 and 1,000 ounce containers. The capacity of fluid containers, whether of gla or of tin, should be standard- ized upon the unit of the ounce meas- ure of water. This is the British fluid ounce. (The American fluid ounce is 1 1-24 ounces of water.) This regulation should apply to all fluid containers having capacities up to 1,000 ounces or 1, cubic foot. (2) That the otnce be divided into decimal subunits comparable to the dime, cent and mill of the silver dol- lar, to be called dimo, cento and milo, or doit, coit and moit, and in either case to be denoted do., co., and mo., vhich will displace the pennyweight 4 grains, the scruple of 20 grains, gram of 15.432 grains, the carat 16 grains, the metric carat of 08 grains, the decigram of 1.543 ins, the centigram of .154 grains ind the milligram of .015 grains in the fiell of weights below that of the standard ounce. The cento (co.) will be the dominant unit in this field. None of these petty weights have any aliquot relation to the American ounce, which is all the more reason why we should divide the ounce as we divide the dollar into tenths, hundredths and thousandths. This division offers no impediment whatever to the use of the halves, quarters and eighths of the ounce. The division of the silver dollar is perfectly adapted to the use of halves, quarters and eighths as 50 cents, 25 cents and 125 mills. This af- fords the one way to bring order into a field now confused by these extrane- ous troy and metric weight The American silver dollar has the weight of 95 ounce. The Maria The- a dollar has the weight of .99 ounce. he American silver dollar might well be increased to weigh one ounce of standard or mint silver flat. We would thus revive the ancient relation be- tween coi nd weights. Our stand- ard ounce was the trade ounce of the Romans, The cartons and packages which are now marked 1 pound 4 ounces should be marked 20 ounces; the cartons and packages which are marked 1 pound 14 ounces should be marked 30 ounces; and so on with 40, 50 and 100 ounce -artons and packages, which will cover the whole range of retail package and nce goods which are the outstanding ature of modern Amel n market- Trade trends the world over pre- arks in a single unit de- nomination. This serves comparison of package weights, comparison of prices and direct computation of costs. It is a great convenience to the buying public. (3) That the pole of 10 feet displace the hectometer of 328 feet, the chain of 66 feet, the decameter of 32.8 feet, the rod of 16.5 feet, the fathom of 6 feet, the meter of 3.28 feet, and the yard of 3 feet general measures of length and distance. The engineer's ape today bears a 10-foot interval. The denotation of this interval as pole will serve its use as a unit under that name. There is a real place in the field of engineering for the pole unit. The phrase “10-foot pole” has been current for decades. The conversion factors are: Mile, 528 poles; kilometers, 328 pole: The pole is 10 feet, just meter is 10 decimeters; the cubic foot the cube of the tenth of the pole, just as the liter is the cube of the tenth of the meter; and the ounce is the cube of the temth of the foot of water, just as the'sfam is the cube of the tenth of the decimeter of water. Pole, cubic fo@t, ounce have the same correlation @as have meter, liter, gram. But pole,cubic foot and ounce P ing | each dominant in its proper field. Kilo, ANSWERS TO QUESTIONS BY FREDERIC J. HASKIN. Q. How far up the rivers can the | tide be felt—rivers such as the Mis- sissippi, Delaware and Hudson?—E. F. H. A. The ocean tide may be felt in the Mississippi River as far up as Red River Landing, 307 miles above the mouth; in the Delaware River as far up as Trenton, N. J., 131.5 miles above the mouth, and in the Hudson as far up as Troy Dam, 153 miles above the mouth. | Q. How do Indians make the sign | for peace or friendship?—B. S. A. When used to mean “friend,” the | sign of the pipe or of smoking is made follows: (1) Tips of the two first | fingers of the right hand -placed against or at right angles to the mouth; (2) suddenly elevated upward and outward to imitate smoke pelled. A ceremonial sign for pea or friendship is the extended fingers separated, interlocked in front of the breast, hands horizontal, backs out- ward. When the idea conveyed is peace or friendship with the whites, the handshaking of the latter is adopted. Q, How does the traffic in the Pan- anal compare with that of the anal?—R. B. C. A. The traffic through the Panama Canal for the r ended June 30, ships—24,774,591 net J ough the Suez r 1925 was 5,337 ves- sels of 26,761,935 net tons. Q. What are the duties of the mem- bers of the Marine Band during a battle?—E. L. A. The bandsmen are used chiefly as stretcher bearers during a battle. Q. What is the m “Baraca”?—H. 8. A. It is from the Hebrew *“Be- racah,” meaning “blessing.” It occurs in II Chronicles, xxii.26, and in I Chronicles, xii.3. Q. What writin; ferred to as “‘Pappus’ the Council of Nicae: A. The Libellus Synodicus or Syn- odicum of Pappu notice of 158 councils of the first nine centuries and carries down to the eighth Ecumenical Council. It was brought from the Morea in the si teenth century by Andrea Darinasius, and bought by Pappus, a theologian of Strassburg, and edited by him for the first time with a Latin translation. . What kind of a rinse will give delicate fabrics their original stiff- ness?—H. S. A. In order to make a special finish for delicate fibers, mix 1 ounce of gelatin and 1 ounce of gum Arabic with 2 pints of water, then use 1 part of the solution to about 10 parts of hot water. aning of the word or document is re- Q. Why was Mussolini given the title of “duke’ C. A. The title “duke” has not been given to Mussolini. He is popularly called “I1 Duce,” which really means “The Leader. Q. Why were the Scotch so influ- ential in English history?—I. V. G. A. Because the Scotch people were organized into clans led by notable men, the landed gentry of Scotland wielded a political influence which made the members, as a class, of greater importance than the corre- sponding class in England. There are few classes of people so proud of their history as the Scotch landed gentry. Q. Why does Bacon speak of the alphabet as containing only 24 letters? —R. McA. A. Jisa variant of I; U is a variant of V. In Bacon's day they had not definitely become separate letters of the alphabet. Q. How many of the prisoners who are released on parole make good citi- zens?—M. L. B. A. According to the latest statistics, ynodicum to | —A. C. A. | ontains a brief | Q. What size guns does the air- | plane carrier Lexington carry?—J. J. M. A. The ship carries 8-inch guns. Q. What is considered a _good sale for a popular song?—F. B. U. A. A writer of popular songs re- cently made the statement that if a miilion eopi re =old the song is con- sidered a “wow.” Five hundred thou- sand is a big sale. Some years ago a sale of 2,000,000 copies was not un- heard of. Q. How many cities in the United States have areas of more than 25 square miles?—L. € A. There are 59 American citles of such si The 10 largest in point of L are Los Angeles, New York, Chi. Orleans, Philadelphia, De- troit, San Diego, Baltimore, nnati and Cleveland. Who won the George Bellows ial pri W. E. D. The first award of $100 in this ze was won by a 12-year-old girl— Judith Abels, the daughter of Rabbi Abels of Woodmere, Long Island. She is said to have displayed r kablo talent in a ural competition with 15,000 school children. Q W at was the size of the largest meteor ever found in the United States' a. A. It is 10 feet long, 6% feet high and 4 feet 3 inches thick. It weighs 31,107 pounds. It was found at V lamette, Oreg., in 1902, and is now in the American Museum of Natural History, New York. Q. Was Henry Miller, the actor, an American?—P. B. T. A. He was born in London in 1860, came to Am a at the age of 11 and d in New York in 1926. Although ractically all of his life was spent in he remained a British Q. What gold pieces have been | coinea_lately?—A. O. F. A. For the past few years United States has coined only two zold pieces, double eagles, of $20 gold pieces, and quarter eagles, or $2.50 gold pieces. the Q. How many times was Ellen Terry married>—R. A. M. A. Three. Her first husband was G. F. Watts, a pagjnter. Later she married Charles Kelly, ‘then James Carew, both actors. Q. Do light and sound travel through the same medium?—S. E. A. The Bureau of Standards says that light and sound are transmitted by different media, and the speed of travel is determined by the properties of the transmitting medium. Sound is transmitted through air or some liquid or solid matter, but light will pass through a vacuum. Q. Why did France occupy Rukbr?—D. M. A. It was the result of Germany's failure to deliver to France telegraph poles to the number of 100,000 and of 2,200,000 tons of coal, being about 12 per cent of the total amount due for 1922. The Reparations Commis- sion on January 9, 1923, formally de- clared Germany to be in willful de- fault. This furnished a_technical ground for action, and on January 10 France and Belgium, acting jointly, notified the German government that | they were about to dispatch a mission of control to the Ruhr to take all nec- essary measures for a payment of rep- | arations. the The resources of our free Informa- tion Bureau are at your service. You are invited to call upon it as often as vou please. It is being maintained ty The Evening Star solely to serve you. What question can we answer for you? There is no charge at all, except 2 cents in stamps for return postage. Address your letter to The Evening Star Information Bureau, 94 per cent of all men paroled from prison make good. il‘rl'/l(‘ru‘ Haskin, Director, Wash- Lington, D. €. Lindbergh’s Co Charles Lindbergh is not without honor in his own country. The young aviator who amazed and delighted the world by his lone jump to Paris is an inspiration to the American press. He is placed among the immortals, and is spoken of with pride as a national hero. The boldness of his flight. says the Detroit News, “lifts the heart. Of all men, ‘he rode all unarmed and he rode all alone,’ on the long, long arch of the heavens, with death near in so many forms. Yet that not exact,” continues the News, “for he was armed with the fruits of a long line of adventurous experiments, and there rode with him the urging spirits of the brave men whose efforts and lives have been given ‘In trial and error’ that some day a young Lindbersh might 2dd a new victory to the wings of men.” The dramatic quality is emphasized by the Baltimore Evening Sun in “the loneliness of Lindbergh on that trans atlantic swoop,” for “one man alone in a plane above the illimitable waste of water! One single human organism pitting its skill and its endurance against a thousand uncontrollable and well-nigh irresistible forces! Sma'l wonder the prayers of the whole world went with him.” S Strength to fulfill his mission s credited by the Seattle Daily Times “the thoughts of 115,000,000 people a companying him on that solitary voy- age, ile the Asbury Park Press suggests that “if the good wishes of millions of people could help, then Capt. Lindbergh could have flown around the world as casily as he did to Paris.” any exploit by a single ind completely command the attention of the civilized globe for a day and a half. From the instant Lindbergh’s perilous journey began until it ended, Europe and America watched anxiously for and hoped eager- ‘With a refer- urage Lauded | ence to “the mothering heart of the the Birmingham News finds piration in Lindbergh’s singu- ‘manliness and courage,” and the assaic Daily Herald says “he had the prayers and the good wishes of millions, but he also had their un- bounded confidence in his success.” * oK ok ok The place of popular favorite among all the contenders for the prize” is ven to him by the Charleston F st, and because he was like the at explorers who “cut loose from ir baste of supplies and accepted ng their lives as the zette pro- “takes ‘The Louisville Journal, cbserving that nce “caught the co of America’s enthusiasm,” explains that the French people “are particularly susceptible to audacity. nn Arbor Times at the incident * provided a healthful stimulant for the earth, giving it something refreshing to thinkeabout.” The rekindling of fires in France a result of the flight is recognized bhv the Milwaukee Journal, which adds, “You have to go back to the armistice to find a This also is seen by the Newarl ening News, which notes that “a rapproachement has £prung up over night that all the arts of conscious diplomacy could not have brought into being.” Similar Science Moni- yne News-Sentinel ntitled to go mad ‘The St. Lo the idea of s upon the ret charming, won to the recent hi Post-Dispatch uphold: celebration in its city of smiling, ) Referring v of transatlantic attempts, the ville Banner says of those who had been conspicuo “They faltered, and the crowning achievement, worthy the ambition of any man, s accomplished by the ‘Lone Wolf." who had more nerve and more confidenc ‘The Racine Jour- nal-News praises “an exhibition of rare courage that few would emulate.” 2k ok w have practical unit magnitudes, where- s meter, liter and gram have imprac- ¢ tical magnitudes. Meter, liter and gram are comparable in magnitude to vard, quart and scruple which are unimportant obsolescent units in the ited States. No American would think of building up an exclusive sy tem of weights and measures out of the decimal multiples and submultiples of yard, quart and scruple. Such scheme, i effectuated, would mean nothing less than the mensurational bankruptey of the United States. Pound and inch, and pole, cubic foot and ounce represent the survival of the fittest. In the modern sense these are to be regarded as commensurable but as otherwise independent units, millimeter and liter represent the sur- vival of the least unfit of the metric units. Kilo (2 1.5 pounds), millimeter 127 nch) and liter (35 1-5 ounces of water), may be regarded as having been adopted into our American units of measure for such restricted use as we may find for them. They are merely secondary and subsidiary measures tolerated by law, and defined in terms of the common measures of the country. Progress in standard- ization and unification may be ex- pected to bring about their ultimate elimination as useless non-commen- surable units. VHUEL RUSY America’s proper pride In the In- spiring achievement is emphasized by such as the Fort Worth Star- hattanooga Times, Norfoli « York World, cigh News and Observer, Butte Daily Post, Charlotte Observer, Wil- mington Star and the Jackson Citizen- Patriot “Is it not possible,” Daily News, “that Lindbergh nificent forbears were speakir him across the ages through blood inheritance. guiding his ship of the air right? alt Lake Tribune sees the dare-devil spirit of the old ings,” and offers the prophecy that he destined to oc- cupy a higher niche in the history of the world than Gustavus Adolphus, Charles XIT or any other Swede who ;;;ls“:fll"?d eminence in any walk of o The Atlanta Journal believes “hu- man history is the richer for his deed, humankind the nobler. Our spirits all bow to him as to a_ prophet of shining ages yet to unfold from the plan divine, s to Lindbergh's method, the New York Sun records that “a man properly trained and fit equipped himself with the best avail- able deviees to accomplish his end and ft.” and the Philadelphia evening Bulletin' says, “Having dared to set himself a task, he concentrated on the sks the Dayton Job till he aid it