Evening Star Newspaper, July 25, 1927, Page 8

fTHE EVENING STAR With_Sunday Morning Edition. ! WASHINGTON, D. C. MONDAY.........July 25, 1927 THEODORE W. NOYES. ...Editor o . The Evening Star Newspaper Company Business Office: and Pennavivania Ave. e ok Sfibe. L0 Bt 3ohd 8t Chicago Office Tower Building. European Office; 14, Rexent St. London. ngland The Evening Star with the Sunday morn- Ing edition by h at iers within ne Mam 5000 at end of each m: h carrier Rate by Mail—Payable in Advance. Maryland and Virginia. aile and Sundav. ...l vr. §200: 1 mo, Daily E Tor 560001 mo 1vr. $300: 1 mo Daily onlv Sunday only . Member of the Associated Press. The Assaciated Press 18 exclusively entitled for republication of all news dis @ cred published of snecial = The District’s Narrow Margin. Perhaps the plight of the District of Columbia in the matler of street ex- tensions and improvements, due to the discovery that the law, as now in- terpreted by the courts, will not per- mit procedure in condemnation be- caus the projected works, will draw con- gressional attention to the lamentable fnadequacy of provisions for the ad- ministrative work of the mutticipal government. There is not a sufficient- 1y large force in the office of the sur- veyor of the District to prepare the necessary maps in season. There are no funds for use in the emergency to meet the requirements as defined by the court. The District is helpless be- cause of the meagerness of the ap- propriations for personnel at the Dis- trict Buildin; This condition is not peculiar to the surveyor’s office. 3t obtains in prac. tically all other branches of the Dis- trict government, The fact is that the Capital municipality has been operat- ing for many years wita a force too small to care for the routine of all the different lines of coramunity serv- ee. A few years ago a shocking tragedy #ctuired in this city in the collapse of a building used for public enter- @inment. Investigation showed con- Wlusively that cne of the contributing wauses was the lack of an adequate $uilding inspection force and, further- more, the lack of a proper pay scale for the inspectors. It had been known for a long time before that the in- spection service was not large enough and that it had not been adequately paid. Efforts to obtain more men and to get larger appropriations for sal- aries had been fruitless. The trag- edy brought about a revision of the scale and an enlargement of the force. But too late to save the lives that - .were sacrificed. Now the District must wait for an definite period while the maps are ng prepared for the street improve- ment scheme, which is held up by court decision. Probably at the next session there will be an emergency provision for this purpose, and per- haps out of this will come a proper annual scale of provision for the work of the office that now faces an im- possible task. It has been thus for many years, the District getting its advances in money provision for municipal organ- ization and service by fits and starts, as unusual occurrences have com- pelled action. It will continue to be so in the future unless the Congress adopts a more liberal policy ‘with re- gard to District maintenance and re- turns at the same time to the prin- ciple of proportionate contribution of Federal dollars to the Capital main- tenance funds. The most urgent need at this time is a fair survey of the equities and needs of the District, and the present hope is that out of this particular case will come such an ef- fort, sincere and considerate, on the part of Congress to do justice to the Capital community. ——— s The word “aviatrix” has been es- tablished in usage by Fraulein Rasch. ¥ame has tended to disregard dis- tinction as to sex. The word “author- ess” may yet be revived in literature. oo ' New York's Strike Threat. Tomorrow night a meeting of the employes of the rapid transit com- panies of New York City will be held, &t which, it is expected, an order for a gensral strike will be adopted, to go into effect immediately. In an- ticipation of such action, which has been viewed as likely, inasmuch as efforts to secure concessions from the companies have failed, the corpora- tions have prepared for a strike that will affect between 25,000 and 28,000 men. Strikebreakers have been se- cured in numbers from other citles and are being held in readiness lor. the emergency. Provisions have been made for the care of these men dur- ing the strike. Officers of the Amal- gamated Assoclation of Street and Electric Rallway Employes, clalming that its membership virtually covers the personnel of the Interborough and Brooklyn-Manhattan companies, de- clare that the walkout will take all but fitty of the workers from the lines. The company offi s, on the other hand, assert that there are enough of the operatives who belong to another organization, the Drother- hood of Interborough Rapid Transit Employes, to keep the lines in opera- tion, with the aid of additionzl men. A strike of the rapid transit work- ‘ers last year kept the big city in stress for a fortnight and was marked by much disorder. This present strike 18 believed to be actually an effort on the part of the Amalgamated to force the recognition of that organization end to compel the adoption of arbi- tration methods for the settlement of wage disputes. Specifically, the cause of the present break is a demand for a revision of the pay scales. The Amalgamated contends that the broth- erhood is a fictitious organization, maintained by the Interborough com- yany. It would seem that the real cause ‘ot this trouble is the maint~ e of Ywe saparate ¢, @ em 5 of " S and in loss of business because the | ments ar ki of the lack of detailed maps of [ MCNts are reckoned, ployes, a not unfamiliar phenomenon in labor disputes. The public is not directly concerned in the quarrel, save as its convenlence and safety are af- fected. A rapid transit strike in New York, as elsewhere, always inflicts a heavy damage upon the community. It takes heavy toll in loss of time, in loss of business and in disorder. The employment of strikebreakers involves serious risk of accidents, due to the unfamiliarity of the new force with the operating conditions. Mayor Walker, who is about to safl for Europe on a vacation, has endeav- ored to adjust the trouble, but with- out effect. He has offered mediation, trying to get the two sides together for an amicable discussion and settle- ment. At the meeting tomorrow night the result of his effort, a negative one, it would seem, will be reported, and the order to strike will probably be adopted with enthu: m by the operatives, whose representatives de- re that they are well prepared protracted struggle. ar riders of the city are wondering just why they should be muicted in del and disorders two factors of the rapid transit equa- tion, the managers and the workers, cannot ree upon a formula of re- lationship that will insure continuous service, A strike of the kind that i{s now brewing will probably cost New York millions of dollars when all the ele- A peaceful ad- justment would cost far less. But, unfortunately, there is no way to bring about such an adjustment, es- pecially as long as there is rivalry between organizations. The public will pay the bill and pr: that the strike will not lead to rioting, which may cost heavily in lives. oo The Altitude Flight. In a death-defying flight early to- lay, Lieut. Carlton C. Champion, jr., of the United States Navy, projected himself through space at a height which may prove to have broken every existing record: for altitude flying. When the barograph is offi- cially calibrated by the Bureau of Standards it may show that this dar- ing flyer soared more than 47,000 feet in the sky, exceeding by 7,000 feet the record held by Lieut. Calizo of France, of 40,820 feet, If this new record is verified, Lieut. Champion is the undisputed premier altitude flyer of the world. On July 4 last, with the same type of plane and the same motor, but equipped with pontoons, he broke the seaplane altitude record by approximately one mile and a half. The flight today, however, ex- ceeded in thrills any of the previous trips into the sky of the Navy flyer. Due to faulty lubrication his motor, the pride of the world in engine de- sign, tore itself to pleces, causing the ship to catch on fire. The oxygen tark tube slipped out of his mouth due to the excessive vibration and for a time he almost lost con- sciousness. When he landed on the edge of Bolling Field he found that one barograph was demolished and the other was so damaged that the record may be inconclusive, that pieces of the engine had torn holes through the ship, that he had lost seven cylinder heads, and the other two were cracked, ‘that his oxygen tube was on the floor of the cock- pit and what was left of his motor hung by a thread to the plane. There are four major airplane rec- ords which nations strive to attain. They are speed, altitude, endurance and distance. If today’s flight is offi- clally established at the expected height, America now holds all of them, except speed, and this record is divided between France and Italy, France for land planes and Italy for seaplanes. The most satisfying part of the records created by Lieut. Champion is that they have been made with a strictly standard ship and engine, while stunt planes, especially built, were used in other cases. The Wright-Apache plane and the Pratt and Whitney air-cooled motor are products of Amerlcan ingenuity and are standard with the Navy. In other words, it was an everyday, all- around airplane that Lieut. Cham- pion piloted to new records. As a matter of fact, both plane and engine have been developed under Navy supervision, and it is a source of satisfaction to all Amer- icans that the persistence and skill of service engineers and flyers have made such a triumph possible. America is proud of its daring avi- ators and equally proud of those who have labored in silence to give them the ships in which to thrill the world with new records. —— e Objection is offered to public de- scriptions of sanguinary detalls of prize fights. A case of harmless nose- bleed, however induced, should per- haps not be regarded as a matter of national solicitude. - Smart-Aleck Flying. In sharp contrast to the glorious flight of Lieut. Champion is the smart-aleck exhibition given yester- day in Northwest Washington by an unidentified aviator who violated all rules of the air in descending close to the street in a series of crazy maneuvers. Whether this flyer wished to give Washingtonians a thrill or he had some trouble with his machine is undetermined, but from all appearances it was simply a case of “showing off” and he suc- ceeded amply In providing a thrill, but it was a thrill of disgust and contempt. ivery city has regulations for the ititude of airplanes. It is a regu- lation based on safety, both for the fiyer and for those below. Fre- quently this fundamental rule is vio- lated by those who have the same complex as the roadhog motorist. Policemen of the air are not yet on duty and these violations are difficult to check, but residents of any city, | on being affronted by such actions, can provide the necessary rem -dy by wring the license number of the ftending machine. i In yesterday's affair the police were | called by frightened residents of the neighborhood, but before they zould arrive to ald in identifying the machine the flyer had zoomed off into the sky. Today a check-up is being THE EVENING STAR, WASHINGTON, D. €, MONDAY, JULY 25 1927.° ISR ALK ke S TR ol N L OO but because no one succeeded in reading the numbers on the plane it may be a futile inquiry. Smart- aleck flying has no place in the glorious chapters that are being written in the book of aviation. And avlators of this type should be com- pelled to efface themselves from public attention, as there are few who care to see or read about their exhibi- tions in the air. -t — One of the achievements of aviation is to revive Tennyson to attention as a prophetic poet. With all his vision he could scarcely foresee that some of the costly bales dropping down through the purple twilight might contain ruddy liquids, whose prohibi- tion was foreign to the calculation of his time. A great seer is forced to generalize, and he invariably dis- closes unfamiliarity with complexities of minor detail. oo Aviation theorists insist that if there must be a “next war,” it will be fought in the air. If this is true, dis- cussions as to earth facilities amount to little more than disclosures of po- litical purposes and temperamental tendencies. e It is an axiom of history that big boys arise to meet big emergencies. Mussolini has met an emergency, which he enlarges from time to time until it may possibly become too large for a one-man. job. - ———— Limitation should be placed on the use of titles of nobility in Italy, ac- cording to Mussolini. A number of rich American fathers will be inclined to agree that the Duce has some fine ideas. ———————————— Motion pictures have been called in to assist in determining whether Mr. Dempsey fouled Mr. Sharkey. The cinema may yet enable every fight fan to be his own referee. S — Rumania affords another example of the difficulties which may arise when strictly family matters may as- sert themselves in connection with world statesmanship, e Comparisons of Alaska and Florida reveal the fact that popular imagina- tion discovers possibilities of wealth at both ends of the thermometer. —————————————— President Coolidge has evidently re- sponded to a genial discipline which reveals an engaging smile every time a cameraman draws near. —_——.—— The Japanese beetle is unwelcome, The Department of Agriculture ex- tends no hope that he will grow home- sick and depart. ———————— Geneva will be admired as the scene of great work so long as it can keep nations arguing instead of fighting. ——————— Osteopathy has its uses, but it will never bring relief to two statesmen who have a political “bone to pick.” ———.—— The really big evening of radio en- tertainment was given by Tex Rickard “and his gang.” SHOOTING STARS. BY PHILANDER JOHNSON, Glimpse of the Future, One o’ these days we'll be flyin' high, Forgettin' the earth, while we love the sky; And we'll sail away from the anclent fuss ‘Bout the trolley car an’ the motor bus. One o’ these days, near a cloud we'll stop, All free from the fear of a motor cop. We'll hurry, regardless of blame or praise, To the end we have chosen—one o' these days. Discretion. “Don’t you think it desirable to in- troduce a little touch of humor into your speeches?” “No,” answered Senator Sorghum. “A statesman had better let the joke stuff alone for the present. There's too much professional competition.” Jud Tunkins says it's less dangerous to be hated by an honest enemy than to be envied by a wavering friend. ‘Nuther Accident. ‘We've put the flivver in the shop Because we are compelled to stop By reckless demonstrations, ‘Which call for nurses and police To solve the problems that increase 'Mongst traffic regulations. Pride of Authorship. “Did you sign that apology volun- tarily?” “Of course I did,” said Mr. Dustin Stax. “And I'll say that as a contri- bution to modern literature it is one of the best apologies ever written.” Something to Talk About. This game of pugilism gay That agitates a Nation Is only just another way Of making conversation. Historical Haircut. “People do not appreciate the im- portance of my profession,” remarked the barber in confidential tones. “You surely have a great deal to do with the appearance of society in gen- eral,” agreed the man who for the moment hesitated to defy opinion backed by a razor and a palr of scis- sors, “I do not speak modernly. The his- tory of the human race would be dif- ferent if Samson had said to Delilah, ‘I refuse to have my hair cut. You go ahead if you like and get a boyish bob of your own.'” Another Angle to George's Fame, “Who built that?” asked the out- of-town newspaperist as he gazed on the Washington Monument. “George Washington inspired it and many contributors alded in its com- pletion.” “Humph! Some ‘columnist'!” Fancy Bait. As Jonah sat inside the whale, Said he: “I will affirm, When I go fishin’, without fail, Next time I'll use a worm!" “Is as got a “No man,” said Uncle Eben, | wise as he sounds wl he' made to ascertain what machines wcers in the alr over this locality, voice big enough to satlofy’ THIS AND THAT BY CHARLES E. TRACEWELL. You can't “get blood out of a tur nip,” as the old saying had it; you can’t get tall, fine spikes of gladioll without proper fertilization. ‘We learned this latter to our sorrow this season after a_ most successful Summer in 1926, when our * grew as tall as 5 feet 10 inches, in some cases, with none of them less than 415 feet high. There is just as much difference be- tween a gladiolus 3 or 315 feet tall and one 415 to 6 feet, as there is between a sweet alyssum and a gorgeous rose, say a full-blown specimen of Claudius Pernet’'s Souvenir. Those who have never seen big thick spikes, with grand flowers, have never seen the gladiolus, that is all. The gladiolus is one of the few flow- ers that manage to keep their exqui- siteness with. size. The same thing holds true of human beings. Have you ever seen an over- grown child, a pretty girl, who vet through very quantity has lost some of the daintiness which is an integral part of childhood? Most flowers, with huge size, take on a certain coarseness, but this is not true of the gladiolus. The larger it grows, the finer it becomes, so that it may be truly said that no one knows this flower who has not seen it grow to its perfection. * Kk ok ok ‘The writer here can say this whole- y, since he has bad both pleas- ure and disappointment in his own back yard in this respect. As the gladioli come into flower, as they have been doing for the past 3 weeks, each spike is about half the size of last year, Few of the tips come higher than the fence, which is the average mod- ern low fence of wire on wooden posts and two-by-fours, The result is that, in comparison with Jast year, the spikes look ‘*‘chinchy.” The individual flowers are but a tithe of the size of last year's varie- ties, and where there were 14 to 20 flowers on a spike, this year there are but 6 to a dozen, all told. Reports of similar conditions come to us from other amateur growers, all using the bulbs which they harvested last Autumn. * ok kK The question was brought vividly to mind by seeing some fine specimens of the old commercial variety America and discovering that the grower had used bone meal and plenty of it. We didn't! Last year we used bone meal with the results stated, but this season we thought we could do without_it. No doubt the grower of the fine spikes had new bulbs, fresh from lands highly fertilized, full of “pep,” able to give fine spikes, even had no bone meal been used. The question of fertilization goes tarther back than any one season. Not only must the ground be fertile for a bulb or seed to do its best, but the seed and bulb themselves must be overflowing with energy. It becomes a question whether the average amateur grower can pack his own harvest of bulbs with the divine vim and vigor which they must have to live up to their kind. O He cannot do it, certainly, unless he realizes to the full the prime im- portance of fertilization. It has taken us four Springs and Summers of back-yard gardening to even begin to realize the necessity for adequate fertilization. his, like water, evidently can scarcely be overdone—that is, the amateur is hardly likely to ever water too much or to fertilize too much. Too many human factors, such as laziness, lack of money and indiffer- ence, are liable to interfere with a theoretical program of proper fertili- zation. Men who grow crops of various kinds for a living have been forced to heavy fertilization, -but those who garden, whether v table or flower, merely for the pleasure of it, have no such heavy hand hanging over them. they will grow all and go about our constant and rich fertilization, we believe, is one of the hardest things for the average back- rd gardener to learn. He tries to get something for noth- ing, in a sense, and it can't be done. A tanned gentleman in a large wagon hailed us the other evening from the alley. ‘'ve got half a wagon load of rich dirt here,” he said, “and I want to get l’it! of it. Tl let you have it ven't any place to store it, and don’t want to put it on the borders now,” hollered we, us and company. “But come around in the Fall with a wagon load of well rotted manure.” To which he agreed. Now we wish we had made our or- der two wagon loads. Next Spring ought to sce our garden fairly groan- ing with fertilizers. ‘We expect to have a magnificent share of ants, and weeds and toad- stools, but these can be taken care of with a little work. We are particularly anxious to try out the new glass jars with “ant food” inside. There is a “ladder” of excel- sior, so that the ants can climb in easily, and cllmb out with the “food.” This they take to the lair, where sits the queen ant, and this they feed to her, and partake of themselves, with death to the whole outfit, since the “food” is poisoned. * K kK Fertility is the first requisite of the soil able fertility, of course. If the food elements are locked up, as it were, they might as well not be there. Manure, bone meal and the commer- cial “garden fertilizers,” with their various formulae, are the hope of all of us who are growing the same flow- ers year after year on the same ground. snsive gardening is what we are and we must go in for intensive fertilization, too. It has taken us four years to learn this lesson, and we state it here in order that others may read and profit by it without going through the same experience. WASHINGTON OBSERVATIONS The “stand-pat” attitude of the ad- ministration with reference to the naval disarmament parleys at Geneva is becoming increasingly evident. The American position was revealed frank- ly and fully at the outset, and subse- quent events have evoked no comment in official quarters on this side of the water. All sorts of stories on all sorts of subjects—taxes, flood relief, extra sessions, presidential booms, fishing rods and rodeos—are coming out of Rapid City, but hardly a line about Geneva. Here in Washington, Secre- tary Kellogg meets the newspaper cor- respondents almost every day and un- dergoes a bombardment of questions regarding the conference, but with small tangible result, from i news. paper standpoint. Mr. Coolidge 1s like- ly to have plenty to say when the time to talk arrives, but that time will be after the conference concludes, and that, according to the latest dis- patches from Geneva, is still two weeks or more hence. What the Presi- dent says then will hinge on the out- come. * K Ok X ‘The recent mention of former Sena- tor James W. Wadsworth of New York as a possible successor to Leon- ard Wood as Governor General of the Philippines has elicited from Wads- worth's friends strong intimations that he could not possibly be prevailed upon to accept the island post. They dis- count also talk of Wadsworth’s run- ning again for the Senate. They sug- gest rather that his eye is on the gov- ernorship of the Empire State as the best vantage spot, if he can attain it, from which to step forward as New York's candidate for the Republican presidential nomination in 1932. This is all very fine, but it leaves out of the reckoning another prominent son of the Empire State who has his eye on 1932, namely, Col. Theodore Roose- velt. When the talk gets around to “p, R.’s” presidential aspirations, ‘Washington gossips are fond of pro- pounding the unanswerable question— “When the time arrives, which one will Alice Roosevelt Longworth be boosting, her husband, the popular Speaker of the House, or her ambi- tious brother?” * ok kK The Willlams College Institute of Politics, which _convenes annually during August at Willlamstown, Mass., blazed the trail, and now comes the announcement of the organization of the Institute of Public Affairs, under the auspices of the University of Vir- ginia. The two institutes are pat- terned after the same plan. The first annual sesslons of the Institute of Public Affairs will be held at beautiful Charlottesville, Va., from August 8 to 20. The speaking program includes such notables as Gov. Ritchie of Maryland and Undersecretary of the Treasury Ogden L. Mills, while Gov. “Al” Smith, Frank Lowden, Col. Roosevelt and many others are listed as ‘“prospective speakers.” The ad- visory board comprises such diverse personalities as C. Bascom Slemp, Vis- countess Astor, Glen Frank and Mrs. Medill McCormick. * kX K The sparsely settled but widely sold town site of Muscle Shoals, Ala., has put in a brave bid to the War Depart ment for a share of Uncle Sam's Muscle Shoals power. Although the town boasts only 156 dwellings, many of them vacant; has but 14 business establishments, of which & are gas filling stations, and cast but 31 votes at its last municipal election, it mus- tered a delegation of 50 persons who recently journeyed from Alabama and called_en masse upon Secretary of War Davis and other officials to press their petition for a contract to pur- chase_electricity for their municipal- ity. They recefved scant encourage- ment from Secretary Davis, who indi- cated his disinclination to fetter the Muscle Shoals project with new com- mitments, however small, at a time when Congress was wrestling with the nroblem of its permanent disposition. The town site’s offer would net Uncl Sam about $300 a year. 3 the War Department is more than a million dollars a year from the Alalama Power Co. fc Muscle Shoals power delivered und a temporary contract terminable at will. * kKR In refreshing contrast to the talk of the plight of the Western farme de conver-: which has permeated Washington for the past two years is & bulletin issued by the South Dakota Immigration Department, designed to encourage new settlers to this now famous State. The bulletin concludes with this op- timistic note: “South Dakota offers you prosperity and an assured future. It s a young State, whose greatest development is yet to come, Land prices are correspondingly low and will advance.” * ok kK Emile Berliner, a Washingtonian, whose scientific achievements have brought him world-wide recognition, is sailing for Germany early in Au- gust for another pilgrimage to his native heath, Hanover, He will demonstrate at the famous Hanover- ian Technical College—which cor- responds to Boston's Institute of Technology—his latest invention, acoustic tiles, designed to improve the audition of public halls and theaters. His present trip recalls a similar visit which he made to Germany two decades ago, following his invention of the telephone transmitter and the microphone in the early eighties. He went to Hanover then, and the demon- stration of his inventions paved the way for the introduction of the tele- phone into Germany. In an effort to keep the crooks out of the probibition enforcement serv- ice the Civil Service Commission, which is now engaged in examining 19,000 applicants for approximately 2,500 positions in the prohibition unit, has decided to fingerprint every eligi- ble candidate and then compare the prints with what the commission characterizes as he appropriate fingerprint records.” Even the as- sistant prohibition commissioner—a $6,000 job—must qualify under civil service and be fingerprinted along with the rest of the force. (Copyright. 1927.) o Articles Show Need of Medical Regulation To the Editor of The Star: The admirable articles of Mr. Me- Kelway in The Star on quack doctors are indeed timely, It is to be regretted that Congress has not enacted into law the bill in- dorsed by the responsible members of all schools of medicine for the practice gf medicine in the District of Colum- ia. There also should be a more strin- gent law regulating the sale of stocks and bonds in the District; and one that would put the educational diploma mills out of business in the District. Here in the Capital City of the Na- tion, the faker can, with impunity, practice the arts of curing the sick, making the poor rich, and the ignorant educated. Not only can these three arts be practiced without let or hin- drance, but the fortune tellers, of which there are legion, may deal in ‘[‘Iulure!" under the protection of the aw, The fortune teller was brought to my attention only recently by a retired chief of police of a Western city comparable to Washington in size. He was astonished by the number of gypsies in the fortune-telling business on the main streets of Washington. He sald he saw four or five fortune- telling joints on Pennsylvania avenue not far from the Capitol Building. And he wanted to know if those joints were there for the especial use of Con- E since he felt assured the average citizen had too much_sense to waste time on the fakers. His last remark was that fakers could not get away with that kind of stuff in his home town, ‘When T told him what a_haven this “itv is for all kinds of medical, finan- cial and educational fakers, he was completely flabbergasted, GROVER W. AYERS. ———— A Solution. Fom the Arkansas Democrat. i, One way to “tri-sect” a domestic “triangle” is to put all three of them in jail. S — Not Spelling Reform. ! From the Wall Street Journal, Trouble with present-day marriage crops is that they are too divorcified. ———t—— A Persistent Echo. Fom the Buffalo News. Only fundamenta! things survive and the only war siogan that remains alive is “When do we eat?” PHILOSOPHIES BY GLENN FRANK The poet captures the soul of an era in an epic. The composer makes the inarticu- late heart of a people sing a folk- song or opera. And now and then some one snares a whole civilization in one short phrase. W. R. Hotchkin. associate director of Amos Parrish & Co., of New York. caught the distilled essence of a one major aspect of American civiliza- tion in a phrase when he contributed to a recent issue of Advertising and Selling an_article on “Volume Mad- ness, the Profit Waster. Volume madness is American bus American civili smitten by this sinister di 3 “The siogan of commerce during the present generation,” says Mr. Hotchkin, “Is expressed in three crisp words: Smash that record! “Business progress is today regis- tered by beating quotas, and any busi- ness that falls short of making its |* quota of 10 to 50 per cent increase on its past highest record of sales or output reports that it has had a bad iave you, Mr. Manufacturer, and r. Retailer. ever had a shock of surprise—after chuckling most of the year over your marvelous gains in Volume—to " discover that your net profits had shrunk to distressingly small dimensions? If you have not, you ave indeed lucky. “The greatest wasters of the age are not the profligates who squander money on mad efforts to give surcease to a dull life. The greatest money wasters are those manufacturers and retailers who fail to make a fair profit on the golden market that they | exhaust, because in their mad scram- ble for abnormal volume they waste much of their deserved profit in ham- mering down the wall that should pro- tect them from diminishing returns. “There Is & dine of volume sales in every businets where abnormal sales ance begins, * * * In some in- stances it may cost as much to force ast 10 per cent of its volume as to secure the earlier 90 per I commend this business man's preachment to volume-mad businesses to still other sections of our social order: To the church that prizes the size of its membership above the still small voice of a prophetic pulpit. To the college that thinks more of putting magnificent buildings over its students’ heads than of putting mag- nificent inspirations into its students’ heads. To the political party that thinks more of the size of its majority than of the sincerity of its measures. Volume madness! This is a phrase freighted with meaning for modern America, (Copyright. 1927.) Osteopathy Practiced By Many Incompetents To the Editor of The Star: Mr. Ben McKelway's interesting and widely read articles on his varied ex- periences with local drugless practi- tioners vy do much good or harm, according to the conclusions drawn by various readers not from what Mr. McKelway says, but from what he leaves unsaid. In kindly spirit and for the information of your readers I would like to call attention to a few facts, pro and con. The mistaken, inadequate or incom- plete diagnosis is not a thing peculiar to the drugless practitioner. A com- plete diagnosis calls for expensive equipment and the services of nearly a score of highly trained specialists and laboratory technicians and costs from $250 up. Then the post-mortem table reveals that approximately one- half die of a disease different from the one for which they were treated. Physicians, being human, differ ac- cording to their lights. The writer is a believer in absolute medical freedom for the patient, at least until such time as there is a nearly infallible system of diagnosis and treatment, which is yet afar off. It one would live or die with the services of a drug doctor, an osteo- path, a Christian Scientist or a voodoo doctor, it is his business alone, and that is the only viewpoint consistent with American ideals of liberty. But let not the Christian Scientist call him- self a medical man or the voodoo doc- tor pretend that he is an osteopath. That is committing a fraud upon the public and should be regulated by law. Speaking only of the osteopath situa. tion, with which I am more familiar, the public should know that there is no legal regulation in the District of Columbia. This is due to two reasons; there has been no popular demand, because our citizens are not informed of the chaotic conditions here, and be- cause attempts to get adequate legisla- tion have always met with powerful opposition from sources economically interested. There is probably no city in the country where there are so many so- called osteopaths practicing under fraudulent diplomas as in Washington. Most of these pretend to be practicing osteopathy in conjunction with some other drugless system. Diploma mills in New Jersey, the District of Colum- bia and Illinois have each contributed to this fraud upon the public. How- ever, be it remembered that even diplo- ma-mill credentials are not required to practice osteopathy in Washington. Bellboy or baker may turn doctor over- night here. Osteopathic schools, nearly all of which are non-profit institutions owned by the profession, have a course re- quiring the same time and about the same subject matter -as medical schools, but the mechanical causation of disease is stressed more than in the medical schools. Many local osteo- paths were graduated in six days by a New Jersey-District of Columbia com- bine of millers. Telephone listings have revealed approximately one-third of the osteopaths here as pretenders. Mr. McKelway's description of osteo- pathic experience bears internal evi- dence of his calling upon a graduate of a local diploma-mill whom he calls an osteopath. I call attention to this, as 1 am jealous of the good name of osteopathy, which has already suffered much through these miscalled osteo- paths, One more thought and I am through. Mr. McKelway is evidently skeptical about the existence of spinal subluxa- tions. I am not speaking of his own in particular. I belleve that with a clear understanding of what the term implies I can convince him of the ex- istence, importance and frequency of spinal subluxations, the only require- ments being a little time, a friendly interest, an open mind and an ele- mentary knowledge of mechanics. RILEY D. MOORE. Dog Assists Judge To Decide Owner From the Anniston Star. A judge in Georgia. puzzled over conflicting testimony of mearly 50 witnesses in a case involving the own- ership of a dog, finally decided to let the dog settle the controversy and based his decision partly on the proof furnished by the animal. One man claimed ownership of the dog and was seeking to recover it from a neighbor, who sought to prove that he was the rightful possessor of the animal which was the innocent cause of the trouble. The man who brought the suit to gain possession of the dog insisted that its name was “Louder,” e the other man called it “Rock.” The judge had a specta tor call to the dog by each nam 0 response was made when “Rock™ wis spoken, but the call “Louder” brought ANSWERS TO QUESTIONS BY FREDERIC J. HASKIN. . How many newspapers are there printed in English in the United States’—W. F. A. The Editor and Publisher says that there are 419 morning papers, 1,533 evening papers and 531 Sunday papers printed in English in this The total number of daily Vs pers of general circulation in English is 1,952, Q. Was Louis Sherry an Ameri- can?—E. 8. D. A. He was born in Vermont about 55. His first employment at the age of 14 was in a hotel in Montreal. He oon went to New York, and started a_bus boy. In two years he had saved enough money to open his first restaurant. He went out of the res- (l.uxmnh business in 1919, and died in 926, Q. What does “pizzicato” mean?— . BE. M. It indicates the playing of nged instruments by plucking the ngs with the finger instead of us- ing the bow. Q. How much platinum is produced in this country?—L. E. T. A. In 1925, there were 343 ounces produced. It brought about $115 an ounce, Most of it came from Cali- fornia. Q. Where did crocheting originate? -W. C. H. A. Crocheting, as well as knitting, is belicved to have developed from the ancient art of netting. The word “crochet” first appeared in the Eng- lish language in the year 1848, Q. Ts the Capitol in Washington be- ing repainted or is it being cleaned with acid?—A. V A, A. The Capitol dome and central portion are being repainted. Q. How did grammar begin? When was a grammar first compiled?— J. H. B. A. The earliest grammar known to the modern world is the Sanskrit grammar of Panini, who flourished about 300 B.C. This gives the rules for classical Sanskrit. The author re- fers to 64 predecessors. One cannot say definitely where and how grammar originated. It has been evolved from the necessity of systematizing the use of words, Q. When year?—E. D. N. A. Astronomically Autumn begins in the north temperate zonme at the autumnal equinox—that is, when the sun crosses the Equator from north to south. The exact date varies from vear to year and is generally about ptember 22, For the year 1927, Eastern standard time, the autumnal equinox has been calculated at Sep- tember 23, 8:17 p.m. Q. Upon the ruins of what city \xfifis lll"h'c:('nlx,b:riqu built that it should have been given t! name? —J. A. W. n A. Jack Swilling, with an outfit of about two dozen men and an eight- mule team and a wagon loaded with provisions and tools, in 1867 started to construct a ditch from the river about opposite a point where Tempe now stands. This work failed because of the rocky formation and the out- fit moved down river to a point 1 mile below where Joint Head is now situated, and close by were the well defined ruins of an ancient pueblo. Many Disagree it anes Autumn begin this A statement by Dr. Nicholas Mur- ray Butler that the world in 2,000 years has not had such a shortage of truly great figures as at present is not accepted by the American press. Many observers hold the president of Columbia University to bs ‘wrong in assuming that great persons of his- tory were so recognized until their work had stood the test of time. Furthermore, it is suggested that under present-day conditions success is much less spectacular than in tha days of great heroes of the past. “Let us all be patient, doctor,” ad- vises the New York Times, which speaks of the “group works of genius,” and predicts that “a couple of gener- ations hence certain names will emerge to command these groups, and then they will take rank as the dwarfers of our fellows. As cotemporary con- fusion recedes,” adds the Times, “the mountain peaks rise above the fogs, and posterity can plainly see the heighty obscured before.” The Kala- mazoo Gazette also declares that “grea’ scientists, llke great philoso- phers, great poets and great mu- sicians, usually must forego the pleas- ures of personal praiss and depend upon the fame with which history will crown them. We cannot fix the value of scientific and artistic endeavors until they have stood the test of time.” “The acclaim of his cotemporaries, however worthily earned,” says the Dallas Journal, “has made no man great in his lifetime. It is only when he h-- passed from the stage of ac- tion, and long afterward as a rule, th.t appraisement of the service he has given to his time has warranted th classification of greatness. As the perspective has lengthened, men have been able to see in clearer outline the man who was.” An added factor in the dog to its feet and toward the man giving the call, The decision of the judge in favor the failure to concede greatness in tko present, as observed by the Pasa- dena Star-News, is that “the qualities of greatness do not stand out in such bold relief as formerly, when men in the mass were not so broadly intelli- gent and when the leader was both the brains and the spirit of the cause he led.” * K Ex “Wa doubt that there is a poverty of leadership, the world considered, which will be conspicuous in other generations,” says the Chicago Trib- une. “*: may be quite the contrary. Possibly we cannot completely see.fig- ures for the smoke. Mussolini may lack durability of idea, just as we are certain Lenin did, but for effectiveness of personality in what they set them. selves to do, with whole peoples us material, their phenomena are not dwarfed in the hall of their predeces- sors. We also think that Hindenburg will grow in stature for future gener- ations, a3 a leader produced by war. He was great in the time his nation was victorlous and greater when it| was in defeat.” “What, after all, {s a really great man?” asks the Christian Science Monitor, which refers to those from the days of Herod the Great “to; whom this resounding title has been applied,” and asserts that “facile as- sumption of greatness in a man as being necessarily an adjunct to power, however obtained, has been abandoned.” The Monitor concludes: “Nowhere in the catalogue (of the world's great) is there the name of one who has contributed as much to human comfort or to the moral ad- vancement of mankind as Edison, Marconi, Wilbur Wright, or perhaps even Henry Ford. The fact of the matter is that nowadays mankind has come to look for greatness in fields of human_endeavor, which in the past were either non-existent or but little | | of the complainant proved popular with the people in the erowded court- room, as all had been impressed by the dog’s silent testimony. The court evidently reasoned that human. witnesses might give false tes- timony or be deceived in regard to the facts, but that the dog could not Darrell Duppa, a scholar who with the Swilling outflt, satd, “Ae8 o call it Phoenix, for here upon the sl a new city will rise,” and he told « the bird which rose from its ashe as set down in mythology. . Silver wings are given to me enlisted in the United States Arr t . No woman can enlist in 1 service., Q. Who was the first man to 1, electrocuted? Who devised the e! tric chair?—J. E . A. New York was the first Stat to electrocute a man. The first crin inal to be executed by electricity w William Kemmler, August 6, 1590, Auburn Prison. The “death cha with its adjustable headrest, bindix straps and adjustable electrode: devised by E. F. Davis, the Sta trician of New York. I Q- Do the men that rids in ti- ) e races at Madison Square (in, de six days without any rest Tha six-day bicycls races u ridden by relay teams, two men iy team. e carrled th "1“;“14 n proportion to popula The Los-Angeles-Salt Tk route led in a selected month. " | carried 16.7 pounds of mail per 1. persons. Pu(’hlt)-(lh(;\'r nne wius se with 8.57 pounds per 1.000 populatior For all air mail routes, the averas: was 3.49 pounds per 1,000, i Q. How does the In"the United States the cost of such luxurie and ice cream, theater: ing gum, jewelry, toba and cosmetics?—. V. A. These luxuries were estimater $6,000.000.000 1n 1525, wwie n et year the Nation expended $2.000,000,000 for elementary and secondary public schools and $2,500.000,000 for edu tion in all types of schools and col. leges, both private and publio, Q. When was Princess _Elizabeth, daughter of the Duke and Duc . e A.'She was born April 20, 1925, Q. When does the Christmas shop- ping season open’—A. F. Al. With the mail-earl early campaigns, many gifts are pu chased months ahead of time, hutpllhre m‘.lansl'\'e (;,’hl‘lstmas shopping may be ¢ sal 0 begin the Monday afte Thanksgiving day, e (T Q. When did _the Brownsville ! take place?—8, R, B. e Hot A. The Brownsville riot in Tex: took place on August 13, 1906. e Letters are going every minute fro our free Information Bureau in W!aal;’: ington telling readers whatever they want to know. They are in answer to all kinds of querics, on all kinds of subjects, from all kinds of people, Make use of this free service which The Evening Star is maintaining for you. Its only purpose is to help you, and we want you to benefit from Get the habit of writing to The Eve- ning Star Information Bureau, Fred- gicfll. Haskin, director, Washington, i 4 st of educ compare as soft d vy and buy. With Buatler, Who Sees Lack of Great Men cultlvated. Indeed, the great men of the twentleth century are likely ?fl ;?:::’el;:'dair thamcl;‘u!lflgauen of that 'se which used to all the school readers: - “ ‘Great not 1 Freat not ke Caesar. stained with blood, * % &reat as I am . * ¥ So also the Houston Chronicle sug- gests that “the present age probably doesn’t exalt men to fame as former ages have done. It very evidently isn't given so much to hero ‘worship- § ing. ~ As education becomes more general, the world learns that a great deal of ‘greatness’ of old was largely a matter of myth. “®* * * Perhaps the reason we don't acclaim so many is because we are shifting from the old custom of acclaiming the master and ruler or the man with ‘front’ and appearance, and trying to find true greatness before we bow down to it. If so, we certainly have ad- vanced far in the development of in- telligence.” Yet the Albany Evening News feels that “the general level of intelligence has not risen so high that the great do not stand out. Dr. But- ler's_perspective is not good,” avers the Evening News. “Have we not Einstein,” asks the Providence Journal, “and has he not proved himself another Newton, transforming man’s conception of the® universe as completely by relativity as Newton transformed it two cen- turies ago by gravitation to the Waterloo Tribune, Dr. Butler “is talking in the past,” and that paper affirms: “A mere warrior is not the idol he was. A ruler -of the peo- Dple is not countenanced at all.” Asthe Syracuse Herald views the matter, “‘advanced popular education has crea ed more exacting tests for gauging personal greatness,” and the Des Moines Tribune-Capital states, “There may be a philosopher, there may be an artist in brass or stone or words, there may be a scientific thinker, who, almost unknown and little r garded by his generation, will be as- tounding, long after his death, ge eration after generatlon by his bril- liance.” “After all, a race of men of normal { size {s preferable to one in which a multitude of Lilliputians make a 6- footer look like a giant,” savs the Portsmouth Daily Times, while the Bloomington Pantagraph believes that ‘“the American people can fu nish thousands of citizens who are above the world average in tho qualities which make for progre: and the Akron Beacon-Journal holds that *“an age whose science and in- vention have produced the marvels of which Dr. Butler speaks can manage to get along without the ministration of supermen.” UNITED STATES IN WORLD WAR Ten Years Ago Today Pershing’s forces busy “digging in” over in France. Trenches being con- structed at camp and Marines are busy building barbed-wire entangle- ments. * * One hundred and fifty thousand more militia answer Federal call. All National Guard ex- cept those of California and Sout western States now in service. ® # Two thousand two hundred and ninety- four voluntary enlistments in Regular Army today. * * * American offi- cers back from France are confi- dent that Allies can break through the German lines. * * * Five killed in explosion on board American sub- marine at Cavite, on Manila Bay. ® * * Gen. Pershing, at French front, reviews famous battalion of the Chasseurs. * * * U-boats sink 24 British steamers during past week Weather and daylight conditions wil soon become less favorable to suh marine activity. * * * Gévernmen be wrong in his choice of names and would not attempt to practice any de- ception. Domestic animals, when given prop- er treatment, under normal conditions can be ceunted upon always to play square with human beings, People cannot always be trusted, ’ plans corporation to control joint use of Wright and Curtiss airplane patents and will pay owners big royal ties. ; LRl Senal:o‘rll favor bond is- sues for new war budget and oppose further taxation. Senator Smo:tp esti. mates first year's war bill at $17,000, 000,000, including loans to Allies.