Evening Star Newspaper, July 2, 1927, Page 3

~ SETBACK IS GIVEN -~ T0C. & 0. MERGER 1. C. C. Fails to Grant Order for Purchase of Pere Marquette Stock. Possibility of emergency action by the Interstate Commerce Commission to further one phase of the Chesa- peake & Ohio merger project was terminated yesterday when the com- mission failed to issue any order touching the purchase of Pere Mar- quette stock. The Chesapeake & Ohio, which is seeking the commission’s permis- sion to buy control of the Pere Mar- quette and Erie tems, holds, as one part of the transaction, an option to purchase approximately 74,000 of Pere Marquette common stock from the Nickel Plate Railroad at $110 a share, but th the Nickel Plate Co., to_extend it. ‘When hearings were concluded 10 days ago on the merger project Ches- apenke & Ohio attorneys commission to take the unus of approving the purchase of the Pere Marquette stock in advance of its de- cision on the entire proposal, and be- fore the expiration date of the option. ‘They were warned at the time that it ‘would be hardly possible for the com- mission to take such action, and their request was opposed by minority stockholders of the Chesapeake & Ohio Co. who are also opposing the merger. The commission in a brief statement given out late yesterday said counsel for the Chesapeake & Ohio had been advised that the commission “did not find it possible to take any official ac- tion on any part of the pending appli- cation prior to the expiration of the option.” The price placed upon Pere Marquette stock by the option is con- siderably below the prevailing mar- ket price. DISTRICT RESIDENTS ENTER WEST POINT Donald RB. Patterson and Robert B. Parkman Are Officially Credited to City. has refused Donald R. Patterson, appointed by the District Commissioners and Rob- ert B. Parkman of the District Na- tional Guard, are the only members of the large class of cadets admitted to the West Point Military Acadmey for the course beginning yesterday, officially accredited to the District of Columbia. There are, however, several resi- dents of this city, among the other successful candidates directly _ap- pointed at large by President Cool- idge, as follows: John Anderson Ber- ry, ir.; Charles H. Bonesteel, 3d; Sid- ney Glenn Brown, jr.; William F. Cas- sidy, William Easton Chandler, Gor- don King Cusack, John Phillips Daly, William W, Dick, jr.; Chester J, Die- stel, Donald Donaldson, Thomas ertson Hannah, Richard Lee Jewett, Charles Frederick McNair, Charles ‘Walker Raymond, Fr Miles Thu- David Davis, John Edward Lea: lando C. Troxel, jr.; Albert F. wvant and Grosvenor F. Powell. Livermore Robber Sentenced. MINEOLA, N. Y., July 2 (#).— Arthur Barry, confessed robber of many homes of wealthy residents of Long Island and Westchester County; has been sentenced by Judge Smith , to 25 years at hard labor in Sing Sing Prison. Barry had pleaded guilty to eharges of burglary and grand larceny growing out of the theft of $97,000 in Jewels from the Long Island home of Jesse L. 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Roofing 110 3rd St. 8.W, Company Phone Main 833 option expired yesterday and | jo; Speaking of “My father was a physician, and my husband. I am a physiclan and surgeon; my son also. We have built two sanitariums and run four. And never in the combined practices of all our family has liquor been pre- scribed. It is a fallacy that it is beneficial. It is always poison.” Thus Dr. Eliza- beth Hamilton Muncie of Brook- n, who has prac- ticed 38 years and s one of the few woman surgeons in the country. Do not get the idea she is a long- faced, crabbed kil® y who, not li a cocktail herself, | aims to deprive others of con- vivial cheer. She is a jolly persom, with i silvery hair bob and a live-and- let-live laugh pleasant to hear. My father,” Dr. Muncie goes on, “was the first doctor in Washington to destroy his cellar of homemade wines in the temperance movement that started nearly 70 years ago. He was convinced, as 1 am, that such beverages are harmful, even when taken at table, and that a drinker reaches the middle-life breakdown be- is past his first pubescent DR. MUNCIE. jcians prescribe brandy or v, says Dr. Muncie, because it is convenient, though strychnia and other drugs are better to increase heart action or raise the body tem- perature. Cites Gray-Snyder Case. “Because some people have enough stamina to resist the action of alcohol longer than others, is no proof it is good for the human system. Alcohol directly destroys the oxygen in the blood. - Without oxygen the chemistry of the system becomes perverted. “Toxins result. These not only in- terfere with the process of nutrition, but prevent mnormal mental adjust- ments. Comes alcoholic psychosis, which may be either of a depressant or exhilarative order. This follows the drinking of pure whisky, as sure- ly as adulterated liquor. “Through the centuries, suicide has been a common aftermath of drink- ing, and depression, nervousness and ‘blues’ invariably follow. You have only to look at crimes such as the Gray-Snyder case to see the false ‘courage’ and revolting passions re- leased by alcohol. Remember the old story of the mouse which drank the tricklings from a wisky barrel in his cellar. Drunk to the eyes, he velled up and cried in his new valor, ow, bring on your cat! " The doctor asserts that figures can be made to do such unreliable stunts that ‘she prefers to get results by looking about her. Redeemed by Dry Law. “0ld acquaintances, old patients, old servants come to me constantly with grateful stories of how the dry law s redeemed them,” says Dr Muncie. ‘hers may be some whom prohibi- tion has hurt—not because the law is bad, but because they themselves are weak enough to be tempted into drink- ing because it is forbidden.” . The *personal liberty” argument in for a measure of the doctor’s " she said, “where yours begins. The non-drinker is con- stantly being victimized by the drinker, just as the non-smoker is for- ever having to forego his own liberty and ' comfort cause some tobacco user compels him to breathe nicotine- laden exhalations.” Dr. Muncie makes another point for prohibition by approving the bitter discussion it has led to. She insists thjs is a good thing. People who never thought about drinking one way or other will now investigate, sample, experiment, overdo, perhaps, and after a bad time or two will put the stuff from them as a hinderer of ‘work, a destroyer of delicate tastes and sensa- tions and an upsetter of life generall “If the few go wrong,” she insists, “the many will profit. Everywhere you look nowadays the drinker is frowned upon by the same class of people who used to regard intoxica- tion with equanimity. Twenty years ago, when a guest slid under the table, the butler and footman toted him quietly out and laid him away upstairs. No one noticed. His weak- ness was forgiven and he was as popular afterward as ever. Drunken Man “Social Mistake.” “Not so any longer. Self-respecting people are disgusted with him. He is never invited ag: He is a social mistake, not to say a bore. No one wants him about. And right here let me make it plain that there is always something psychologically wrong with the person who persists in_drinking even to a moderate extent. He or she most certainly has an inferiority com- plex. t is the wrong way to bolster self- esteem. There are many right wa: 1If perchance more wildness prevails in society today, Dr. Muncie believes it comes from lack of religion. “Take away the inhibiting power of belief in God,” e says, “and the hu- man mind, however. scholastic, falis into the eat-drink-and-be-merry-for-to- morrow-we-die slough of carnality and becomes easy prey to drink, sex, im- morality and crime. Down- goes the mental, moral and spiritual force and the result is the suicide tendency which we read of through tears.” Nevertheless the doctor believes the old pendulum will swing back again and that through prohibition we shall become a temperate and therefore powerful race—that we are this very minute on the upgrade. “If 1 didn’t know at first hand the benefits of total abstinence,” concludes the lady of stethoscope and scalpel, “'I would not preach it. But education and experience will swing us all into line for prohibition within the next 10 years!” BOY HURT BY AIR RIFLE. Howard Gassnage, 8, Accidentally Wounded in Eye. While playing in front of his home at 445 Irving street yesterday after- noon Howard Gassnage, $ years old, was accidentally wounded in the left eve by a small shot from an air rifle. Tony Mastromarino, 14 years old, 3105 Georgia avenue, is reported by the police to have discharged the rifle while the boys were playing Indians. The wounded boy was treated by Dr. Thomas Cooke, 1223 Monroe street. It is not thought the sight of the eye will be destroyed. WOMAN GETS 10 YEARS. Female Bandit, 23, Sentenced for Gas Station Robbery. FORT WORTH, Tex., July 2 (P).— Mrs. Norma_Pierce, 23, first woman in Tarrant County to be convicted of robbery with firearms, was yesterday sentenced to serve 10 years in the penitentiary. She was convicted a few weeks ago of robbing a filling station here. A companion case, charging robbery of a grocery on the night the filling station was robbed, probably will be dismissed. “All § hate is the disgrace of it,” e — THE EVENING STAR, WASHINGTON, D. C, SATURDAY, JULY 2, 1097, Prohibition Prominent Women Discuss the Nation’s Most Debated Topic. . Interviewed by ZOE BECKLEY. (Copyright, 1927, by North American Newspaper Alllance. All rights reserved.) Mrs. Atherton, California’s famous novelist, can be said to have studied human emotions all her life. She looks into minds and hearts as Luther Burbank penetrated the soils of Mother Earth. So one listens to Mrs. Atherton’s quiet words on the pro- hibition law: “I have always said that in its present form it was a psycho- logical mistake. Human nature be- ing what it is, so drastic an em- bargo on alcohol is bound to antago- nize certain traits which are inerad- icable.” “You don't think the country will gradually come to accept the forbid- dance as some- thing inevitable; no use kicking about ®?” Mrs. Atherton shook her head, with its mass of hair whose blondness lingers to frame becomingly a face of classic line. “There will always be some who submit to any command of authority. But meekness is scarcely an American characteristic, and the general result of an order regulating personal con- duct is rebellion.” Other Ways to Curb It. “Doctors and social workers,” we said, having in mind Dr. Muncie, Jane Addams, Judge Barthelme and others, “say they see improvement in the homes of working people as a result of prohibition.” “Every one of us wants to see such improvement,” said Mrs. Atherton, “but a decrease of drinking among the working classes, and the resultant happiness, could have been obtained by closing the saloons and putting a high tax on spirits. “If there is improvement among the people who used to frequent saloons, remember there are many other con- tributions to their prosperity. We are a prosperous Nation, with more work, higher pay and better living condi- tions than anywhere else in the world, “If there is more sobriety among the masses, we must certainly weigh against it the fact that there is also an immense new crop of drunkards due to the combination of perverseness aind bad whisky. One cannot escape seeing this if one looks about. To those who do not look about, figures and facts are available from persons who have made a careful, unbiased and authoritative study of the matter.” Drinking Among the Young. Mrs. Atherton has recently come back to her home in San Francisco from a long motor trip through her native State and its neighboring ones. ‘What, we ask, did she especially see as she looked on life here and there, not only among the generation that has known jthe transition from life that was cheered by the juice of the grape and the soul of the corn to a social order that gets what it gets, it it gets it, by stealth? “I know this,” answers Mrs. Ather- ton, “that before prohibitnon drinking among young men and girls was negligible. To the honest observer there can be no doubt that it is not negligible today. In smart circles drinking is the widely accepted thing. “Is it not to be expected that in- telligent people resent the implication that they do not know how to conduct themselves in ways of drinking, eat- ing and ordering their private lives? Is withholding all liquor from all peo?} ple a sensible way to impose morality upon them? “If so, how shall we account for the shocking increase in penitentiary commifments, which, according to the office of the United States Attorney General at Washington, show an in- crease of 87 per cent in 1925 over 1919. “We See What We See.” “But why quote figures! We know what we know and see what we see— if we only look and are not misled by what we wish to see.” It was said by the president of the National Women’s Christlan Temper- ance Union that an unfavorable im- pression was created because 'Clar- ence Chamberlin and Charles Levine asked for beer upon their memorable landing by plane in <Germany. To criticize the flyers under such circum- stances, we cannot help gathering from Mrs. Atherton’s tone, comes close to the severity of fanaticism. “But so it g she says;” sim- ply a wrong psychology on the part of overzealous reformers. We go on wasting effort and wasting millions to change a human nature that will not change. We cannot sweep back the ocean with a broom, although some drops can be stayed. Likewise, under prohibition we can prevent some peo- ple from drinking, but thousands will be tempted to drink the more, thus adding to the hypocrisy and weakness that should be cured by education.” Gertrude Atherton APPEAL FOR REVIEW OF AWARD TO BOYD District Seeks Reopening of $500 Grant to Police- man. Review of a judgment of the Munic- ipal Court for a little more than $500, in favor of Policeman John Boyd of | the second police precinct, being extra compensation for' service at detective headquarters, 1s sought in the Court of Appeals in a petition filed on behalf of the District of Columbia by F. H. Stephens and Alexander H. Bell, ir., assistant corporation counsels. Unless the higher court allows the writ of error, it was pointed out, the Com- missioners will have to abandon the practice of assigning men to head- quarters for temporary duty for training. The District government was sued by Boyd under a law which became effective July 1, 1924, providing, among other things. that members of the police force detailed to detective headquarters in the preventlon and detection of crime shall receive extra compensation at the rate of $600 per annum. The policeman was trans- ferred from the eighth precinct to detective headquarters on June 16, 1922, and remained there until May 5, 1925, when he was sent to the second precinct. He stated that while at headquarters he received no increase in pay after the above law went into effect. He held, while at headquar- ters the rank of acting sergeant. The Commissioners urged in their petition “that the matters and things set forth are of great importance in the administration of the police af- fairs of the District. That as this cause now stands, the judgment of the Municipal Court if this petition is denied will cause the abandonment of a practice and custom that has long been in vogue in the administration and work of the detective bureau and which has proved invaluable to that branch as well as beneficial to the officers selected for temporary de- tail.” ;am Mrs, Plerce, in accepting the sen- ence. e The Court of Appeals took the pe- Htise wnder advisement. i TEXAS DELEGATES RUESTSINCAPITAL Good-Will Mission Hears of District’s Troubles on * Visit Here. Visiting Washington yesterday to tell the Capital all about Texas, the 125 “good will” tourists of the Lone Star State, headed by Gov. Dan Moody, heard more about the District of Columbia than their spokesmen, in necessarily limited time, were able to impart concerning their own State. It was at a luncheon given in their honor at the City Club by the Wash- ington Chamber of Commerce, shortly after they reached Washington from Baltimore, that the good-will men pur- posed to talk Texas. But because their special train was 25 minutes late and hecause of scheduled meetings at the United States Chamber of Com- merce and at the Department of Com- merce, and because of a ‘“welcome” address by Robert N. Harper, chair- man of the special luncheon commit- tee, their speaking program was cur- tailed. Mr. Harper's address, however, prob- ably was responsible for the failure of the Texans to say as much as they might have intended, for it was not a short speech and it was fraught with the proposals, hopes and grievances of the District in its appeal to an audi- ence of: voting citizens. Called “No Man's Land.” Declaring that he had intended to welcome the visitors to Washington, but that he changed his mind when he reflected that since Washington is the Texans’ city such a welcome would be a ratuity without meaning or ef- fect,” Mr. Harper at once launched into a statement of conditions here by which residents of this city have no voice in the making of their laws. Next the speaker told the Texans of the present scheme of taxation in force in the District, asserting that ‘Washington desires a fixed proportion of Federal Government assistance in the payment of local government ex- penses. So well were these two con- ditions outlined for the visitors that Gov. Moody, when he finally spoke, declared that for its residents “Wash- ington seems to be ‘no man’s land,’” while for the citizens of other sections of the country “it is every man's land.” Mr. Harper's third “point” was a direct appeal to the Texans to erect a permanent State building here, which, he contended, would have far greater value to the State than the temporary buildings_erected at expositions. He concluded with an inclusive outline of the interesting and historic features found in and about the District, with an expression of regret that the Tex- ans were leaving the city so soon, and would therefore be unable to view the Capital as it should be viewed. Judge Cato Sells of Fort Worth spoke immediately after Mr. Harper, and with a nervous glance at his watch announced . the plans for the remainder of the Texans' stay here. He then explained the purpose of the good-will tour as a purely business proposition in which a *‘dignified vis- ualization of Texas" is being at- tempted. Out to Talk Business. “We are, for the most part, business men out to meet business men for the purpose of talking business with them,” he asserted, and added with emphasis, “to talk business and noth- ing else.” Judge Sells’ statement, while it con- tained no mention of the charge, was construed by some local men to be in answer to a New York newspaper which accused the Texans of touring the country in an effort to boost Gov. Moody politically. Gov. Moody himself was then intro- duced by Judge Sells. He, too, re- minded his audience that “time is passing,” and he brushed Mr. Harper's address bricfly. He smilingly charac- terized the District of Columbia as a “no man’s land for its residents” and an ‘“every man’s land” for the States’ citizens represented here in Congress, and he took the opportunity to declare that, notwithstanding this, “Texas re- mains God’s land.” “If you want one vote in 400, the vouthful governor observed smil- ingly, “well, I don’t suppose any par- ticular harm can come out of it; in fact, some good may come from it.” Not Pioneer Country. Gov. Moody declared he wanted to correct the impression that Texas was still a pioneer country. While it holds fast to the spirit of the pioneer and the pioneer's ruggedness of character, the " governor - contended today the State has also the same culture that other 'States possess. He reviewed rather quickly the advantages of liv- ing in Texas and frankly solicited the inyestment of capital there. Following the luncheon the party visited the United States Chamber of Commerce, where Judge Edwin B. Parker, chairman of the board of di- rectors, welcomed the Texans to the “temple dedicated to the service of mankind and placed at the disposal of able, earnest and public-spirited men of all sections of the country as a place in which to examine, to analyze and to solve economic and business problems.” Later the good-will tourists visited the Department of Agriculture, after which a sightseeing tour of the city was made. During the evening the Texans were free to do as each pre- ferred, and at 11:30 o'clock they board- ed their special trains for Pitisburgh. GOVERNMENT WORKERS ARE INCREASED BY 107 Civil Service Commission Makes May Figures Public—War Department Leads Gain. Civilian Government employes in' the District of Columbia increased in number by 107 during the month of May, according to figures made pub- lic today by the Civil Service Com- missfon. The largest gailn was by the War Department, which took on 139 per- sons while losing 63. The Treasury Department led the list of separa- tions, dropping 145 persons during the month, but taking on 130, . The total additions during the month were 906, the total separations 799, making a net gain of 107, to bring the number of civilian employes here at the end of the month to 18,879 o LINDSEY LOSES FIGHT AS SUCCESSOR IS NAMED Robert W. Steele, Denver Attorney, Gets Appointment to Juvenile Court Bench. By the Associated Press. DENVER, July 2.—Robert W. Steele, Denver attorney, yesterday was appointed judge of the Juvenile Court here, succeeding Ben B. Lind- sey, who was ousted from the office Thursday. ‘There were nine applicants, includ- ing Judge Lindsey. Judge Lindsey had held office for 28 years. The new juvenile judge came to Colorado in 1905, following his graduation from the University of Pennsylvania Law School. His fa- ther, Robert W. Steele, sr., was chief justice of the, Colorado Supreme Court at the th;olmdum i o ATRIOTIC citizens are trying to outline an adequate defense and a system of industrial and mili- tary preparedness. Overnight a new method of warfare and a new means of offemse .rd defense has been evolved. Billions of do] have been spent on useless coast de- fenses which do not defend. Aerial torpedoes are being evolved with which cities will be destroyed in.the future. We have at present no means of com- batting this new instrumentality of warfare. Anti-aircraft guns have not developed sufficiently fast to keep up with the strides airplanes have made abroad. Airplanes of tomorrow will fly at 300 miles per hour, 35,000 to 40,000 feet in the air, out of sight, and will turn loose their cargoes of bombs and gases upon entire civilian populations Modern nations are turning to thes light, mobile cruisers of the air, de- mobilizing their great armies which in the next war will not intrench, and scrapping their useless, creeping dread- naughts, which, without a protecting air force, will never go to sea. The exponents of air power need no defense; they have come through the barrage laid down against them, and come through successfully. The gist of their service is this, in substanc: They are trying to arouse nationa consclousness to the point that we, as a nation, will utili%e this .w instru- mentality of peace and warfare; utilize it in peacetime conditions to carry our mail, our express, and thus lay the foundation for its utilization under war conditions and build up a great air reserve which can be availed of in time of emergency. Naval Use of Airplanes. | g was attending a dinner recently &S the guest of Senator Phelan at the THmmonwealth Club in San Francisco. The question raised by Gen. Mitchell as to the adequacy or inadequacy of our national defense was being dis- cussed. The argument advanced by certain Navy advocates was about as follows: First. Airplanes can’t sink battle- ships; they never have done it, and while the naval vessels are to some extent in danger from an attack, ac- cording to the confession of naval offi- cers, yet they claim that the use of aircraft enables them to ward off this danger; consequently they have turned to aircraft as the protecting eyes of a fleet, and want to keep an air force with the fleet for that purpose. In other words, the objective of the is to use an ajr force as a corol- and as a protection to the fleet. Second. That in the maneuvers last- ing over a period of three years off Hampton Roads Gen. Mitchell was not successful in sinking dread- naughts, but merely smaller warcraft. Now let us examine into the facts in the case. What did actually hap- pen in these maneuvers? Gen. Pat- rick recently reminds us that when the Washington was bombarded for days by the fleet in the Atlantic that the Army made no attempt to sink the vessel by bombs from aircraft, because it was not necessary to “pile proof on proof”; that it had been demonstrated conclusively off the Virginia capes in the bombing maneuvers of 1920 and 1923 that aircraft can sink any war- ship, whether cruiser or dreadnaught. These maneuvers included the sink- ing of practically all kinds of vessels, from the destroyer types up to the Ost- friedland, the so-called unsinkable German ship, and the New Jersey. Vessels Can Be Sunk. 1t is easy enough to understand the attitude of the Navy men who say that airplanes can’t sink dreadnaughts, be- cause we remember that Josephus Daniels, when Secretary of the Navy offered to stand on the bridge of a vessel while it was being bombarded! And another amusing incident that oc- curred during the maneuvers. An ad miral was talking to an Army officer on the transport Henderson while one of the vessels was being bombed. and was vehemently denying the abil ity of an airplane to sink a battleship. While he was in the act of speaking a disputing this fact, the battleshiy blown completely out of the water and sank just as he turned around. As early as 1920 Gen. Mitchell an- nounced to the military affairs com- mittee of the House that he could sink any battleship afloat and would dem- onstrate it. In the maneuvers a de- stroyer was first broken in two by small bombs. The alibi makers were on the job, and confidently asserted that this was an accident. The light cruiser Frankfort was then sunk iu seven minutes, followed by the bomb- ing of the Ostfriedland. The attack on this ship was made with oneton bombs. One bomb alone lifted 30,000 tons of water, about half of it falling on the ship's deck form a height of several hundred feet—enough alone to put the ship out of commission. Tn less than eight minutes the Ostfried- land went to the bottom. Bomb Heard Over World. At these maneuvers it was truly sald that a bomb had been fired which was heard around the world. In the 1923 maneuvers a 20 bombers left Norfolk, Va landed that afternoon at Bangor, M: covering a distance of over 700 miles. By carrying twice as much fuel they uld have flown from Maine to Greenland in two jumps, 600 miles further to Iceland and then across to England or Norway, landing in Eu- rope in 35 hours. The bombing of the New Jersey and the Virginia by Army airplanes equipped with 1,100-pound bombs took place in 1923. In less than 48 seconds the smoke cleared sufficiently to show what had been a beautiful battleship, the Virginia, starting its downward plunge. She sank in three minutes. Two minutes later ‘the New Jersey turned bottom side up. Those are irrefutable facts. Plans Before Congress. Out of the discussion over the rela- tive merits of the battleship and air- plane since 1920 it has been hoped that a separate and independent air force would be evolved. Plans have therefore been submitted to Congress as follow: . First. A department of national de- fense. Second. A unified air service. Third. A separate air corps in the Army. Fourth. A bureau of civil aero- nautics in the Department of Com- merce, providing for the development A SUPER-SAFE VAULT with a thirty-ton door. You can rent @ box for as little as $5 a year. Federal-American NATIONAL BANK ABSOLUTE BARGAIN New Building 115 16th St. N.E. Now ready for inspection. High cars. Near Eastern East Capitol st. ants. of 2 School and autiful $37.50 and up Open and Lighted Until 10 P.M. The Joseph Shapiro Co. 1416 Eye St. N.W. Main 8049 AIR POWER VITAL IN WAR Part One. BY W. JEFFERSON DAVIS. of civil and commercial aviation, pas- sage of laws regulating flight and the licensing of pilots and inspection of planes. The separate Air Corps in the Army is now a reality, and under the five- vear building programs, assistant sec- retaries of air have been added both to the Army and Navy Departments. The Department of Commerce also under the air commerce act of 1926 has been given an assistant secretary in charge of aviation, and commercial aviation in the United States is under way. The co-ordination of all air ac- tivities under one department would still be productive of more far-reach- ing results than those yet achieved, and perhaps this objective will be reached in the immediate future. Unified Air Service. Unless one has given special atten- tion to this subject one will naturally i vhat do the words “unified air vi mean, and what do its ex- ponents desire? The case may be briefly stated as follow: First. We must follow the example of other countries and prepare our first line of defense in the air. Second. The air servicg must have its own organization and not be sub- ordinate in control to either the Army or the Navy, because it is essentially different from either of these two services. The airplane is not auxiliary to an Army which will not entrench in the next war, or to a Navy which will not go to sea. Third. The tendency today with na- tions is to demobilize their armies, scrap their useless, creeping dread- naughts, and turn to the lighter and more mobile forces of the air. Fourth. We must either build up a great air force immediately, or the moral force of the Nation must be used to bring about a further limita- tion of armaments, the adoption of rigid rules of warfare; otherwise civil- ization will hang in the balance. Fifth. The next war will come in the air, and without a protecting air lortce. ‘we, as a nation, will be wiped out. The next question naturally arises, what is an adequate protecting air force. Gen. Mitchell has answered this question, and has given us a splendid constructive program, which would comprize 2,400 planes, two-thirds pur- suit planes, one-third bombardment, with a similar force in reserve. Of this number, one brigade of 600 planes would be based in the Iast; another brigade of 600 planes on the Pacific Coast, and one air division of 1,200 planes would be for use wherever needed in this country, or in outlying possessions, Fditor's Note—The second part of Col Davig' discussion of “Air Power Vital in | War.” which 18 part of a series on_America's defense problems, will appear in The Sunday Star tomorrow. It will be the last of the series. MESSENGER HONORED. A. T. Lewis Celebrates 40 Years in City Water Office. Aldridge T. Lewis yesterday cele- brated a service of 40 years as mes- senger in the office of the District water registrar. Clerks i the office presented him with a box of cigars and flowers. Maj. E. H. Grove, in charge of the office, made the presentation and ex- tended congratulations because of the long and faithful service of the mes- senger. Lewis, native of Winchester, Va., entered the District service when the District Building was on old Four and a Half street, now John Mar shall place. William B. Webb and Samuel E. Wheatley were the civi! Commissioners at that time. e o FOR SALE To Close An Estate Apt. 402 The Netherlands (Co-Operative) 5 Rooms, Recp. Hall and Bath $8,500 Apt. 56 Inspection of Above Apartments By Appointment /\MEWCAN SECURIT Real Estite Dept. 15th and Penna. Ave. Main 4815 3846 | Cathedral Inspect is Home Over the “Fourth” In environment, in conven- ience and in refinement of finish and appointments, as well as in dignity of both plan and con- struction, it compels the com- pliment of approval unreserved. &0 out ‘Ave. to Cathe- dral ave., the high- est point fu the ex- clusive Northwest. Ereat " National ation: " Cathedral Owner—Realtor—Builder 924 14th St. N.W. Main 36, 37, 38 MISS DOROTHY EVANS, Prominent feminist leader of London, ingland, and member of the National dvisory Council of the International Woman’s Party, who will address the National Woman’s Party convention at Colorado Springs, July 9. WIFE SEEKS DIVORCE. Asks Court to Restrain Husband From Molesting Her. Mrs. Florence C. Hurley yesterday filed suit in Equity Court for a limited divorce from her husband, Joseph H. Hurley. She asks that her husband be re strained from molesting her and the custody of two children, one 2 years and 9 months old and the other 1 vear and 4 months, be awarded her. she charges cruelty and abuse. The couple were married at Baltimore, Md., August 5, 1923. i § NEW RECORD MADE BY PANAMA CANAL 5,475 Vessels Pass Aoross -Isthmus During Fiscal Year Just Ended. By the Associated Press. PANAMA, July 2.—The Panama Canal established a new high record for commercial transits during the fis- cal year just ended. The waterway was used by 5,475 vessels. The previ- ous record was established during the calendar year of 1926, when the tran- sits totaled 5,420. Total tolls collected for the fiscal year amounted to $24,228,830, falling short of the record tolls collection in 1924 of $24,290,963. Since the opening of the canal in August, 1914, to the close of business, on June 30, 1927, a total of 40,377 commercial ships passed through, pay- ing $166,363,228 in tolls. Commenting _on the past year's busin Gov. Walker declared: “The operating the canal are, of gratified at the spleadid use which the world’s shipping is making of the waterway and the busipess- like return on the investment. I have made a recommendation to the Gov- ernment for prompt beginning of work on an additional reservoir, which will be necessary, possibly within a few vears, in order to have ample water for navigation during the dry season. This need was egplained in my last annual report and sJao before congres- sional committees ** When Lord Magaulay published his “History of Englan8” the demand for it was so great that the vans carrying it from the publishing house blocked the street. 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