Evening Star Newspaper, August 13, 1927, Page 6

] {THE EVENING STAR With Sunday Morning Editio. . WASHINGTON, D. C. SATURDAY August 13, 1927 THEODORE W. NOYES. .. .Editor The Evening Star Newspaper Company Business Office: 11th St. and Pennsylvania A New York Gffice: 110 East 4 St *hicago Oftice. Tower Buildl spean Ot 14 Regent St.. London, Gmce an:pesa England ‘The Evening ing edition telenhone Main 5000, Collestion is made by carrier at end of each month. il—Payable in Advance. Jand and Virginia. 1yr. $900: 1 mo. 1yr $300: 1 mo. 1 yr.. $3.00: 1 mo.. Star with the Sunday morn delivered carniers within daily only. e only 780 50c only 25¢ All Other States and Canada. v and Sund 1 vr.. €12.00: 1 mo.. $1.00 Sundav only......1¥ $4.00:1 mo.. 35c Member of the Associated Press. od Press 18 exclusively entitled republication of all news dis- not otherwise The Asso to the use for patches credited to 1t ar Red in this paver and La Follette Scents a Mouse. Pleasing insurgent Republicans of the La Follette type seems an impos- sibility. When it was generally sup- posed that President Coolidge would be a candidate to succeed himself they frothed at the mouth in verbal rage. Now that the President has de- clared he does not choose to run for President in 1928 th continue to froth. Senator Robert M. La Follette, jr., of Wisconsin, in a signed article in la Follette's Magazine, complains that the President's statement is a mere trick to avoid a “frontal” attack upon the President’s renomination. Senator La Follette does not credit the President with sincerity in his an- nouncement that he will not run for | office next year. He sees a political subterfuge, designed to give the Presi- dent the nomination while apparently he shrinks from any infringement of the so-called third-term tradition. Per- haps the Wisconsin Senator is merely engaging in a show of bad temper. | He was the author of a resolution in- | troduced at the last session of Con- gress expressing it as the sense of the Senate that no man should serve in the White House more than two terms, or more than eight years. It was his purpose to reintroduce the resolution at the next session, in his “frontal” attack upon the President. But with Coolidge out of the race, what becomes of his resolution? Will it not be considered a mere idle ges- ture, aimed at a shadow? Perhaps this is where the shoe pinches. But doubtless the resolution will be rein- troduced in any case, since the Wis- consin Senator apparently believes that the plans have all been laid to renominate the President notwith- standing his announced determination not to run. The article in La Follette's Maga- zine makes it clear that the insurgent group is to fight on, seeking to ham- string the administration’s legislative program during the coming session of Congress. Never, it appears, will these progressives permit the President the satisfaction of obtaining legislation from Congress which will ameliorate the condition of the farmer or solve any other problem. That, in their code, would be playing into the hands of the President and might strengthen the demand for his return to office. In the next Congress, with the Senate almost evenly divided politically, a few insurgent Republicans, voting with the Democrats, can effectually defeat any administration measure they desire. The outlook for effective action by Congress under such condi- tions is not hopeful. For weeks Senator La Follette and others have clamored for a special session of Congress. They have felt themselves deprived of a forum in which to conduct their “frontal” at- tack upon Mr. Coolidge. The futility of a special session is clearly apparent now. The country may be sick of windjamming political discussions in the Senate and prefer the quiet of a Washington Summer without Con- gress. But this probably would be the last thing to occur to the insurgents. ————————— Some of the doubt regarding politi- cal possibilifies may be eliminated if Tex Rickard can be persuaded to post odds. —_— e A private yacht is used by H. H. Rogers as a ferryboat to business. It is, of course, an oil burner. ———— More Police, Stricter Laws Needed. At a meeting of the board of direc- tors of the Washington Chamber of Commerce held the other night the suggestion was advanced that an ef- fort be made to secure the enactment tor the District of Columbia of stat- utes similar to the so-called Baumes laws of New York. This proposal was Inspired by numerous robberies that have occurred in the District recently. It is believed that most of these crimes have been committed by a gang of bandits who have been run out of New York by the new statutes and are now operating in other cities, The Baumes laws in New York have undoubtedly operated for the public protection. Crime has diminished in New York State and notably in New York City under the influence of these enactments, which apply successively more severe penalties to repeated of- fenses, and which reduce the chances of the criminal to escape conviction and punishment. Second and third offenders are put away for long terms, the latter class for life, on the theory of their incorrigibility and the certainty of their continued preying upon so- clety if left at large. The prospect of long “stretches” in the penitentiary, with lessened chances for reprieve, pardon or parole, has deterred many & professional crook from persisting In criminal operations in that jurisdic- tion. Stringent laws in one State have undoubtedly the effect of driving out a certain percentage of the criminal class to operate elsewhere. It is pain- fully evident that other cities than New York have suffered from this exodus from the metropolis, Wash- skill, indicative of experience. In the aggregate a very large sum has been taken by them in cash and in goods. There is plainly a “fence” for mer- chandise thus taken. These gangs are operating on a system. The local police force is not large enough to cover all the ground effectively on the twenty-four-hour basis. The thieves study the police schedules and time their operations accordingly, thue gaining opportunity to work without molestation. Whether or not the laws are made more severe, there should be an addition to the local police force fo permit the organization of a “flying squadron,” charged with the duty of scouring the business district nightly without schedule. That cannot be done at present owing to the lack of men. An addition to the force suffi- cient to form this anti-burglary squad should be made through an emergency appropriation at the next session of Congress. With a special squad for the patrol of the business area, which would doubtless result in catching more of the maurauders, and with stiffer pen- alties provided by the law, Washing- ton would become an unprofitable field for the bandtt gangs instead of being, as now, “easy pickings” for the yegg- men and cracksmen who have been scared away from New York and are plying their trade in comparatively safe territory. Stock Market Spasms. When the stock market is “on the boom,” with prices rising steadily, sometimes spasmodically, as a result of general prosperity, there is always danger of a sudden downward turn due to some untoward happening, usually arising from overextension of credtt, sikough often the result of some disaster or unfavorable turn in the tide of affairs. During the past two days Wall Street has witnessed such a phenomenon, which has swept away large “paper profits” and has caused some real and substantial losses. This latest spasm of recession, however, is due to a particular financial cause and not to any general condition affecting the actual values of securities. The first influence that sent the market off was the discovery of an artificial or technical corner in a cer- tain stock that had been sent sky- rocketing in a rise of more than a hundred per cent. Naturally there had been much speculating in that se- curity. When the technical corner was discovered the officials of the Ex- change acted to prevent further ad- vances, which would have dislocated the entire structure of stock values. This action shook the market list, and many recessions were recorded in stocks that were not even remotely connected with that which was being manipulated. Readjustment, however, followed soon, but on the next day, yesterday, it was disclosed that one of the firms of brokers had been dealing extensively in “puts” on the stock in question, and its suspension followed, with the result of another break in the market. A “put” Is a contract for future de- livery. It is a speculative transaction. In simple terms, it is an option, or in still simpler terms it is a bet that the market will change favorably to the one who makes it. It has its legiti- mate uses, but in practice it is a risk that, if carried out on a large scale, may mean disaster to the maker. Despite the immediate results of these spasmodic movements, they have their value in effecting readjust- ments of prices. They make for equalization in the long run. Real values are not destroyed, though speculators may suffer severely in the process. The occasional “bear” raids are factors for the checking of im- moderate price advances. They must be expected to occur occasionally, and they are to be welcomed by those who are “in the market” as investors rather than as gamblers on the fluc- tuations of the price list. ‘When President Coolidge a few days ago announced that he did *‘not choose to run for President in 1928” there was a brief downward movement in the stock market. Recovery was im- mediate, however. When later the Sacco-Vanzettl decision was rendered by Gov. Fuller and there was an out- break of bombing attributed to radi- cals, the market fluttered briefly, but quickly recovered poise. Neither of these happenings shook the securities list as severely as did the discovery of the corner in the unduly boomed stock or the subsequent fallure of a firm of brokers. Their recovery from this latest break is likely, inasmuch as nothing has happened to affect the fundamental prosperity of the coun- try, upon which stock prices are based. ————————— Lindbergh needs a rest. There is a limit to the amount of chicken salad and adulation that the human system can endure, Ship-Plane Mail Service. A plan has been arranged on the strength of the successful flight of Clarence Chamberlin from the outgo- ing steamer Leviathan to shore, to deliver mail to the same ship on her neéxt eastward voyage from New York. It is proposed that nine hours after the departure of the glant liner a pavy seaplane will take off from Squantum, Mass., with mail sent by rail from New York to that point. For this experiment two sacks will be carried, being suspended from the plane by long lines. When the plane is over the ship these lines will be cut and the sacks dropped. Tests are now being made to determine the ac- curacy with which the sacks can be deposited. The purpose of this experiment is to lengthen the time of mail deliveries to outgoing ships. When the liner leaves port she carrles all the mail that has accumulated on shore for that voyage. If the plane service can be established it will be possible to deposit with the ship a quantity of mail that has been received after her departure, thus saving delays in wait- ing for another malil liner, or, to put the matter conversely, the time for “steamer mail” is extended by several hours, Eventually it s possible—perhaps, indeed, probable—that mails will be carried overseas by planes. The Lind- ington has lost heavily in the past year from the visitations of thiéves, whose work has been performed with - .. THE EVENING STAR, WASHINGTON, D. €., SATURDAY, 'AUGUST 13, 1927.' THIS AND THAT BY CHARLES E. TRACEWELL. pected -that regular aerial service will be maintained. If so, the traneit of letters will doubtless be the first ob- jective rather than the carriage of passengers. A two-day mail service between New York and London is thus to be regarded as feasible. In that event the practice of catching liners with belated mail or of sending planes from ship to shore upon approach to port with mail will be obsolete. Still, it is worth while trying meanwhile to shorten the mail time by combinations of ship and plane, and the experiment that is soon to be tried will be watched Ath interest as one of the steps in the development of aviation for prac- tical purposes. o Automobile Tags. ‘Wade H. Coombs, superintendent of licenses, has suggested to the Com- missioners a return to the old system of numbering automobile tags and has thereby provoked an interesting dis- cussion as to the merits of the let- tered tags against those with straight numerals. Mr. Coombs characterizes the letters of the alphabet now on the tags as “anything but a success,” but gives no reason for believing so. The entire matter will be carefully investigated by the Commissioners be- fore they act, and it is likely that they will be governed by reports from the Police Department as to the ease of identification on the various kinds of tags. At first glance it would appear that a small set of numbers with a letter would be easier to retain in the mem- ory than a tag of perhaps six nu- merals. In other words, the police- man who had only a fleeting glance at a car number would be surer of ac- curacy if the tag was A4876 than if it was 943659. But this is where the rub comes. There are certain letters which can easily be confused with others, such as B and R, O and Q, and C and O. In the case of the District, however, it is not necessary to retain these letters on the tags. They could be dropped and there would still be enough to furnish identitying licenses for the more than one hun- dred thousand local motorists on a four-numeral basis. It is not probable that those who drive cars here will become wildly excited over the issue. The sole con- cern of District motorists regarding their 1928 tags is that they arrive on time and in good condition. The pres- ent tags were delayed in the making and apparently are not of high-grade construction. Smears and illegibility are the distinguishing marks of many of them. Perhaps that is what Mr. Coombs meant when he said that they were “anything but a success.” ————— A New York editor insists on print- ing only what he likes, and his ““col- umnist” insists on .writing what he chooses. A “columnist” is supposed to be light of mood and genial in expres- sfon. It is a misfortune for him to be taken too seriously. ———— Vanzett! is said to be disappointed because his name is not headlined as frequently as that of Sacco. The in- fluence of the spotlight in the criminal world has often been the subject of erudite psythological comment. ——— It is but natural for an aviator to regard a controversy about relative strength of seagoing battlecraft in a large degree as “‘old stuff.” — e Present modes of publicity would in- dicate that a candidate’s availability depends largely on the kind of a photo- graph he takes. SHOOTING STARS. BY PHILANDER JOHNSON. The Swift Pace. Traveling down the highway! Rolling with the rest! ‘Wishing for the byway Of. loitering and rest! Life’s no longer lazy As the crowds rush by. Fogs are often hazy Here—or in the sky. Traveling as you're waiting ‘What's beyond the curve. Courage ne'er abating, Steer; and keep your nerve. Revisions. “Do you think the Senate rules ought to be revised?” “Of course,” answered Sgnator Sorghum. “All the other laws of human conduct are regarded as in need of revision. Why should the Senate rules be an exception?” The Object of Solicitude. ‘When a hero arrives at a city ‘The welcoming throng does its best. The reception committee Is not due for pity. The hero's the one who needs rest. Jud Tunkins says Philadelphia s the city of brotherly love. Pennsyl- vania politics cannot guarantee the good old town against a family quarrel. Making No Claims. “Did you ever dance with the Prince of Wales?" “No,” answered Miss Cayenne. prefer to be unique.” e Maud and the Judge. Maud Muller on & Summer day Raked the meadow, sweet with hay. The judge who passed, exclalmed “What fun! Think what that hay is worth per ton!"” “p “Children who disregard their par- ents,” sald Hi Ho, the sage of China- town, “find retribution when they have children.” = A Challenge. “I haye nothing to wear!” said the exacting woman. ““All right,” answered the brute of a man. “Get yourself a bathing suit and win a prize In a beauty contest.” “De man who sald, ‘Wealth don’t bring happiness,’” sald Uncle Eben, “never enjoyed de sensation of a big winnin' streak in a crap game.” ————————— Naval Athletes. From the Los Angcles Times. Uncle Sam and John Bull may not be able to walk on their hands, but bergh-Chamberlin-Byrd flights proved the feasibility of transatlantic flying within two days. It i confidently ex- they eertainly can take a #rm stand on thelf ems, i i Uncertainty is a great curse. To be happy one must feel certain he is right, then go ahead. He cannot do the latter if there is much doubt about the former. This is the excuse, if any is needed, for the man who offends Lecause of his positiveness. From the standpoint of others he 18 conceited, self-centered, a “know-it- all,” but from his own viewpoint he is simply and beautifully right. If one is able to look at him thus, he ceases to be an annoyance and be- comes an object lesson, for, with his cocksureness mitigated by the aware- ness of it, his happine: remains un- touched. * oK oK % This, it would seem, is the greatest benefit to be gained from the present free-and-easy methods of bringing up children. Children are being ‘“let run” more nowadays than formerly. They are not repressed very much. They are brought up to regard themselves as integral members of the family. The extremes, of course, show up as boys with consummate ‘‘gall,” plenty of brass and an insufferable conceit. The majority, however, are simply good kids who do not have to spend half their time fighting themselves. They are free, in the best sense, to deal with life as they find it. EE The fact that they are sure about everything is one of their greatest blessings, although they may never know it. They do not have to—they have it! Having a thing often is much bet- ter than knowing about it. Knowl- edge is not always power. Sometimes it is a set of four-wheel hrakes. Uncertainty, in its ordinary forms, is merely an old-fashioned two-wheel set of brakes, which some declare does not hold, vet creates enough disturb- ance to cause trouble. There is uncertainty aris'ng from others, for instance. Take the tribe of touchy persons who must be handled with gloves. One is never certain about them— cannot ever be sure about them. One day they speak to you; the next day they do not. This is the uncertainty which Is thrust upon one, which arises from others and goes out like a cloud of vapor, dimming the clear road of life. Relations are foggy with these per- sons. Perhaps the only certalnty one can arrive at with them is that they are easily upset, and therefore must be regarded from a humorous stand- point. One can be certain, at the least, that they are tough customers to manage; therefore nothing that they sav or do shall upset one. This is being certain to good pur- pose! * ok k¥ Uncertainties that arise from others, however, are as nothing to those that come from one's self. To be forever in doubt as to one's actions, thoughts and choosings is to be perpetually unhappy. ‘There is a mild sort of chronic un- happiness which countless thousands suffer from, which is not named in the medical works, and which doctors long ago agreed to scout, yet which has a sure place in the list of those one thousand and one ills mankind is supposed to suffer from. Not to be able to hold the head up and look at the world with a “Well, who are you?” air, is to be apatheti- cally unhappy The dflution of pure happiness is small, buit it exists, nevertheless, and takes its toll. Ask any person who recognizes his own uncertainty. * ok ok ok Petty affairs of life, such as choos- ing between two pies, form a fertile fleld for the working of such germs of discontent. If the President had said “I will not run” there would have been no lin- gering doubt in our minds as to what he meant. He knows words too well to be ambiguous. Read his collected speeches since coming to the White House. The use of the now famous word ‘“‘choose”—does this not place him in the great category of all us older folk, who were repressed and held down, and told to mind our Ps and Qs, and not to take a second piece of cake, even if it were offered? If an uncertain-minded man is faced, at a restaurant, with a choice between two pies, one lemon and one peach, for instance, he will not be able to reach instantly for one or the other. He will be in the classical dilemma of the beast of burden with the three- lettered name, placed between two bales of hay equally attractive, He won't know which to choose! ‘This is sure of such a man, although one may well doubt the story of the beast and the hay. This interesting creature has a positive sort of charac- ter, and probably would unhesitating- ly choose the larger bale, The hesitating gentleman confronted with the perplexing problem of choos- ing between lemon or peach pie. has no such guide. He reaches out his hand for the peach, then is tempted by the charms of the lemon. Visions of peach pie as they once were float before his mind. He rescinds his opinion in favor of lemon, and reaches out for the peach, only to think of lemonade and lemon ice. “Aw, shucks, gimme chawklut!” he says, in despair, congratulating him- self on his choice, when all the time he has run away from the problem. His choice is not a choice at all. e Happy is the man, confronted by two motor cars and two salesmen, both claiming that they do not knock other cars, who can keep his head and unerringly select one or the other. Let him do it instantly, without so much as a consideration of the size of the timing chain, and he will be a happy man. This is something bigger than the selection of a car. This is the biggest thing in the world—happiness. BACKGROUND OF EVENTS BY PAUL V. COLLINS. In these days of communistic and anarchistic excitement, does the United States Constitution guarantee to all men the absolute right of free speech? The Supreme Court deci- sions indicate that there is a limit even to the scope of the first amend- ment of the original Constitution. ‘When a man was arrested for strik- ing another upon the nose, heindig- nantly asked if he did not have a right to swing his arms as he saw fit in a “free country,” and the court re- plied that his right to swing his arms ended just where the other man’s nose began. In plain language, there is no freedom beyond the equal rights of others, * ok ok ok The first amendment stipulates: “Congress shall make no law respect- ing an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press,” etc. Many laymen, and some lawyers, believe that that is a guaranteed license of speech, however slanderous, libelous or seditios equally appli- cable at all times and under all con- ditions of public excitement or danger. The Supreme Court has construed it otherwise, and it is important that the leaders of mobs and strikes at present be informed as to the scope of their license. E The first amendment to the Consti- tution does not create any right to free speech, or anything else which did not exist before; it simply forbids Congress from interfering with such right. It leaves such control to the States—not the Federal Government— and it does not undertake to limit the States in that matter, one way or the other. In the same sense, the fact that Congress is forbidden to make any laws regarding the establishment of a religion does not prevent the States doing so, nor does it either for- bid religion or guarantee a religious population. It simply says to Con- gress: “Hands off; it's none of your affalr. * ok K K Justice Holmes of the United States Supreme Court, in the decision sus- taining the lower court in Schenk va. United States (249 U. 8., 47), said: “We admit that in many places and in ordinary times the defendants, in saying all that was sald in the cir- cumstances, would have been within their constitutional rights. But the character of every act depends upon the circumstances in which it is done. (Aikens vs. Wisconsin, 195 U. S., 194, 205, 206.) The most stringent protec- tion of free speech would not protect a man in falsely shouting ‘Fire! in a theater, and causing a panic. It docs not even protect a man from an injunction against uttering ~words which may have all effect of force. The question, in every case, Is whether the words used are used in such cir- cumstances and are of such a nature as to create a clear and present da ger that they will bring about sub- stantive evils that Congress has a right to prevent.” * * ok K K The exact definition of language used by an agitator of violent re- sistance of law and of Government is immaterfal—it is a question of the reasonable effect of such language under the circumstances. Antony oratlon over Caesar’s body protested agalnst vlolence, even while it was heaping incentives to violence which the orator knew would incite the mob. No first amendment to the American Constitution would have saved Antony from arrest and prosecution under our laws or undef the common law against sedition. Every man is responsible for the normal influence of his words, according to circumstances. Some years ago there was a chronic state of lawlessness in Cincinnatl. There had been from one to three murders each week. The present writer was then a cub reporter doing “police news” there, with the gruesome duty of describing the crimes. There had been no hangings in Hamilton County (Cincinnati) for more than 20 years; it was common gossip that a certain lawyer controlled the courts, 80 that no jury could convict. Then there were three double murders Within two weeks, 80 atrocious that the public indignation pass nd the b g “leading citizens” called a mass meet- ing to be held in Music Hall to pro- test against the failure of the courts. The hall had a capacity of 10,000, and it was crowded to over- flowing. The most prominent pub- lic and business men denounced the corrupt courts and demanded drastic reforms. Excitement ran high. A company of militia, pending this protest meeting, was held under arms near the jall as a precaution, but none of the speakers advocated a mob attack. The meeting adjourned with- out definite action, but when the crowd poured out and flooded the ts, some would-be wags cried: e left!” and led the thousands to- ward the jail. ‘Within 10 minutes the jail was sur- rounded by 26,000 people, leaderless but dangerous. The militia had been telephoned before the crowd arrived, and had marched into the jail, so that when, a few minutes later, a detach- ment of the mob pouring through a tunnel from the courthouse into the jail office, it was met by a volley from the soldiers, and the first man klled in that tunnel was a respectable workingman, bearing his lunch bucket —he had been drawn by curiosity di- rectly from his honest toil, to the meeting and had been aroused by the respectable citizens” into joining the leaderless mob. The great Cinclnnatl riot followed, the Court House was burned, scores of ‘respectable citizens” were Kkilled on the streets, but the court-corrupt- ing lawyer was not apprehended. There were at that time 56 murderers in that jail, not one of whom was reached by the mob. The speeches of those “leading citizens” were re- sponsible for that bloody riot. The application of that incident to the present situation is found in a discussion of indigect responsibility for the effect of words, as set down by Herbert Spencer: “The utterance of thought being one species of action, there arises the proposition that every man is free within specified bounds to do what he wills; the self-evident corollary that, with the like qualifications, he is free to say what he wills; or, in other words, as the rights of his fellow men form the only legitimate restraint upon his deeds, so, likewise, do they form the only legitimate restraint upon his words. “There are two modes in which speech may exceed the ordained limits. It may be used for the propa-, gation of slander, which we have seen in a foregoing chapter tnvolves a dis- regard of moral obligation; or it may be used in inciting and directing an- other to injure a third party. In this last case, the instigator, although not personally concerned in the tres- pass proposed by him, must be consid- ered as having virtually committed it.” * % X X 3 In Abrams et al. vs. the United States, Justice Clarke, writing the opinion of the Supreme Court sustain- ing the conviction by the lower court, Eaias This is not an attempt (of Abrams et al.) to bring about a change of ad- ministration by candid discussion, for no matter what may have incited the outbreak on the part of the defend- ant anarchists, the manifest purpose of such a publication was to create an attempt to defeat the war plans of the Government of the United States, by bringing upon the country the paralysis of a general strike.” It will be contended by anarchists, today, that the war laws have no ap- plication to “peace” conditions, but hundreds of thousands of workers zo on strike in one city, and many thousands in other cities, all over the country and all over the world. They rally upon the pretense of sympathy with radical murderers condemned under due process of law; they could not possibly know what is justice in the case of Sacco and Vanzetti, as do the convicting jury and court and the reviewing governor and his eminent advisers, yet the mobs from Europe to Japan, from Canada to Argentina, rally as anarchists and denounce “Capitalism”; rally under the call for revolution against or- ganized government in behalf of no government but of anarchy, commit violence against citizens who have had no part whatever in the case of the murderers. How much does the present worldwide emergency differ from conditions which in 1917 and '18 THE LIBRARY TABLE By the Booklover. The life apart from the normal world led in the sanitariums for the tuberculous at Davos-Platz has been described by the Warlous biographers of Robert Louis Stevenson and even more Intimately in “Skin for Skin,” by Liewelyn Powys, who spent some time in a sanitarinm there. But probably nowhere has such an exhaustive study been made of the spellbound life of Davos-Platz, with all its mental re- sultants, as in the two-volume novel of the German novelist, Thomas Mann, “The Maglc Mountain,” in German “Der Zauberberg.” The chief charac- ter of “The Magic Mountain,” Hans Castorp, goes to the International San- itarium ' Berghof at Davos-Platz for a three weeks' visit to his cousin, Joachim Ziemssen, a patient there, but seven years elapse before he leaves, at the outbreak of the World War. Like s0 many before him, he slips with al- most no resistance into the invalid life prescribed. The daily routine is 80 easy to follow. No effort is de- manded. “All the days are nothing but the same day repeating itself—or rather, since it is always the same day it is incorrect to speak of repetition, a continuous present, an identity, an everlastingness—such words as thesc would better convey the idea.” * % ok % To begin the day the bathing mas- ter thumps on each door and enters to give the patient within his alcohol rub. Then follows, for all except “the bedridden and moribund,” a careful morning toilet, after which comes a hearty first breakfast of fruits, ce- reals, cold meats, eggs, Gruyere cheese, marmalades, honey and hot drinks. The doctors make rounds during this meal and ask casually how their pa- tients have slept. Immediately after, the first preseribed walk takes place, up the valley path to a bench against the steep wall of the mountain and back again. Then, after measuring their own temperatures (this is done four times a day) and entering the re- sults on their curves, the patients take the first rest cure, in reclining chairs in little loggias outside their rooms. The ceremony of wrapping themselves in two camel’s hair rugs is done with precision, “first lengthwise, on both sldes, up to the shoulders, and then from the feet up,” first one blanket, then the other in the same way. A linen shade fastened to the arm of the chair protects from the glare of the Summer sun and a fur-lined sleeping sack keeps out the Winter cold. At 11 a bell rings for the second break- fast, another hearty meal similar to the first, accompanied by a half liter of milk all around. The walk follow- ing this meal is down to the village Platz and back, and is in turn follow- ed by another rest of an hour in the loggias. The chief meal of the day is the 1 o'clock dinner, consisting of a large supply of thick soup, then fish, meat, vegetables and fowl courses, completed by a rich pudding, cheese and fruit. “Each dish was handed twice and not in vain. At all seven tables they filled their plates and ate; they ate like wolves.” Then, until tea-time, the rest cure again, during which the assistant phy- siclan makes rounds through the log- glas. After the tea, with all sorts of beverages and thick slices of raisin cake with butter, there is a brief walk either up or down the valley, for there are only two possible walks. Supper at 7, the last meal of the day, is al- most as varfed and bountiful as the midday meal. A few brief moments of social intercourse in the big hall and adjoining salons, assisted by the stereo- scope, gramophone, Kkaleidoscope or cinema, and then the long evening rest cure in the loggias, with night lights and tall glasses of milk on the little tables. Each day is like every other day except that on Sundays the menu is more elegant; once in two weeks there is a lecture on psycho-analysis, upon “free | th once in two weeks a concert and on festival days special celebrations, * K ok Few are able, in this speclalized form of life, to retain the psychology Rf the life from which they have come ‘down below.” All kinds of peculiar mental characteristics develop. Like the lotus-eaters, the dwellers here soon forget their former existence, or at least remember it only as a dream of the distant past. The acquire a feel- ing of “freedom”—a freedom confer- red by their illness, which makes their standards different from those of ordi- nary human beings and causes thenf to savor each experience to the full, because time may be short. Yet time in its usual sense has no meaning here. The month is the shortest unit of time and the shortest sentences are for six months. The late Springs, short Summers, early Autumns and long Winters succeed each other mo- hotpnously. “What we spend up here fsn’t time at all, and the new ‘Winter, Wwhen it comes, isn't new, but the same old Winter all the time.” “There Wwas no time up here to speak of, either long or short.” Of course there is a morbid interest on the part of évery one in the illnesses of the others, There is a rule of the sanitorium against discussion of “curves,” condi- tions and symptoms and the manage- ment handles all deaths in a discreet and- secret manner, but nothing can stop the interchange of questions and confidences in the dining room, in the salons and on the paths where the daily walks are taken. Amorous emo- tions are easily aroused and as easily become morbid, so that persons whose diseased conditions would repel the normal are attracted to each other. Hysterla is frequent and takes two forms. Sometimes wild, hysterical laughter greets news of a comrade’s serious relapse or death. At other times outbursts of anger occir from the slightest cause, or no cause at all, and tend to become contagious, “What 'was this, then, that was in the air? A rising temper. Acute irritability, A nameless rancour. A universal ten- dency to envenomed exchange of ‘words to outbursts of rage—yes, even to fisti- cuffs.” Altogether, the Berghof is a place to leave as soon as is possible With safety, if & man wish to preserve his personality. Joachim realizes this When, leaving without the permission of the physicians, he says earnestly to his cousin: “Hans, come down soon.” * ok kX Only 10 days after the United Sf entered the World War the Emergteax:ce}s' Fleet Corporation opened its offices in three small rented rooms, with six employes. In six months there wore 1,000 employes and 16 offices in differ- ent parts of the country. The story of the war work of the corporation is told in “The Bridge to France,” by Edward N. Hurley, war-time chair- man of the United States Shipping Board. The importance of the work of the board can be realized only when it is known that “our War Depart- ment would have refused to send them (our armies) to France unless the Shipping Board would guarantee suffi. cient cargo ships to keep them sur- plied with food and munitions of war.” After Fleld Marshal Haig’s “back-to- the-wall” dispatch and Lloyd George's dppeal to the United States Govern. ment for haste in sending men and ships, Mr. Hurley promised Gen. March, chief of staff, transport for 125,000 men a month, with necessary 'food, equipment and munitions. This was not enough. The Shipping Board speeded up and combed every resource, with the result that in six months 1,500,000 Americans soldlers arrived in France. * ok k% “Black April,” the first novel of Mrs, Julia Peterkin, is a study of life and character on a lonely part of the Q. Has a change been made in the Canada’—M. M. A. The American Automobile As- sociation says that, heginning on Au gust 1, 1927, a tourist is allowed 60 days without charge. Members of bona fide automobile clubs who pre- sent letters to thg Canadian Automo- bile Assoclation or its branches are permitted an additional 30 days* stay. Those desiring to stay longer than 90 days must take out regular months’ bond, which generally costs about $10. Q. used A. 8. Why are schoolhouses so often for community activities?— School bujldings erected at a heavy cost which are in idleness dur- ing six-sevenths of the hours of the year means waste of inv are contrary to the principle of full utilization of plant. Thirty-two States have definitely provided by law for use of schoolhouses for so reational and community pury Q. Which railroad takes i money for freight and passeng: Pennsylvania Railroad or the New York Central?—C. V. According to 1926 reports, the ania_Railroad revenue ton $49, passenger miles, $6, ,033. York _ Central revenue ton miles, $23,634,238,824; pas: senger miles, §3,279,968,062. persons have been . How many i in the killed_in fireworks accidents last 25 or 30 years?—L. C. W. A. The National Museum of Safety says that 4,500 persons have been killed in the last 32 years in fireworks accidents. This Js more than the total list of those killed in the Revo- lutionary War. Q. How long could whisky lie in wooden barrels under water without leaking?—E. M. A. The Forest Products Laboratory says: “We have no information of any kind which would enable us to give you an estimate. The pressure of the water upon the barrels would tend to prevent the whisky from leak- ing out, but it would not prevent an interchange between the alcohol in- side the barrel and the water on the outside.” Q. Who chose the name of Mary Pickford for the actress of that name?—C. E. M. A. The name Mary Pickford was chosen for Gladys Smith by David Belasco. Q. Which nation was first to pay oft its war debt to this country?— H. A. O. A. Cuba. Liberia is the second. Q. What was the Colossus of Rhodes?—W. O. B. A. The Colossus of Rhodes was « huge statue of Apollo, the Sun God, erected by TCharles of Lindus, a dis- ciple of Lysippus, 290 or 288 B.C. It was destroyed by an earthquake in 224 B.C. The statue is said to have been over 100 feet high. The statue lay in ruins until 653 A.D. When the Arabs captured the city they sold the metal to a Jewish merchant. It was carried away by 900 camels. Q. Was canned horse meat eaten in Germany during the war?—C. F. A. Horse meat was an article of food in Germany during the war. It Tardieu Denial Criticism of Andre Tardieu’s repudiation of an in- terview published in Nation’s Business which attributed to him an interpreta- tion of French feeling in the war debt controversy and critical remarks about the American character. has not checked comment on the incident. In fact, the distinguished Frenchman’s de- nial apparently is regarded rather gen- erally as a technical disclaimer of something which didn’t please a con- siderable section of the public on this side of the water. “The newspapers are becoming hard- ened veterans at playing the goat for timorous public men who absent-mind- edly express a sincere opinion, which later turns out to have been indis- creet,” observes the St. Paul Dispatch. Calling attention to the fact that the interview was printed “in no less con- servative and responsible a periodical than the organ of the United States Chamber of Commerce,” and that, fol- lowing M. Tardleu's denial “in toto,” the editor, Merle Thorpe, stated, “I had an interview with M. Tardieu in Paris late in June, with the under- standing that it was for publication,” the Dayton Daily News says: “So now we guess we know what happened. In the warmth of conver- sation, M. Tardieu said it. In print, it looked terrible. * * * Now he exer- cises the Brivilege mentioned by Mr. Thorpe of disclaiming one day what he said on a previous day. Meanwhile America has had an illuminating and not very encouraging look-in on one South Carolima coast, where dwell the “blue-gum n¢ s” who work on rice plantations. Black April, the foreman of a plantation, is a man of heroic traits, whose life is tragically The novel is a story of primitive religion, elemental emotion French heart.” * Kk ok The Richmond News - Leader re- marks: “If he says he did not say it, that is the end of it. But those who know the distinguished former high commissioner to the United States probably will agree that if he did not say it, he thinks it.” As the Illinois Statd Journal views the matter, “If he has been misquoted and made to say the things charged to him, irreparable damage has been done, not alone him, but the French people and govern- ment, and the cause of harmony be- tween them and us has been so badly injured, years will be required to re- pair it.” . “The purported declaration of M. Tardieu attracted a great deal of at- tention in the United States,” says the Fort Worth Star-Telegram, which quotes the French authority as having been ‘“reported to have said that no French Parliament would ever bind the French people to the schedule of payments provided in the Mellon-Be- renger agreement, and that the French people ‘would not understand’ if their Parliament did so.” On this point the Texas paper remarks: “The fact is that whether or not the French Par- liament ratifies the agreement makes little difference so long as the French government continues to make the payments provided in that agreement.” * Ok kK As to the reported comments of M. Tardleu on the qualities that make Americans unloved by Europeans, the Youngstown Dally Vindicator takes a sympathetic view, saying: “It is never pleasant to admit our faults, yet we may have to confess that Mr. Tardieu is right. Americans do think that they know just what Europe needs R S .. ANSWERS TO QUESTIONS BY FREDERIC J. HASKIN. | Was not canned, but frequently pre regulations about taking cars into| served. Many_butchers had horse meat for sale, but owing to the gen- eral aversion to it as food, it was not subject to government restrictions as were other meats. Q. How long do adult mosquitoes live?— C. A. Mosquitoes 1live but a few weeks in adult form, Q. What is the Book of Kells?— J.A. L. A. The Book of Kells {s a beauti- | fully executed manuscript copy of the Gospels dating from the sixth or sev enth century. It is preserved in Trin- ity College, Dublin. Q. Ts Cher Ami, the pigeon that won the war medal, still living?—F. C. A. Cher Ami was shot through the breast and killed on June 30, 1919, at Fort Monmouth, It has been stuffed and is no n the new Natfonal Museum at Washington, D. C. Q. How long o been laid?—E. C. F. A. The laving of a corner stone of a building with ceremony is an ancient custom, The corner stone, as being the most important in consol a building, has a peculiar significance. It commonly has a cavity into which documents of historic interest or cur- rent coins are deposited. A reference to the subject is to be found in the Bible in Job. Q. How long heen with the Molokai?—M. L. A. He has been there for 40 years, He is now 84 years old, corner stones s Brother leper Dutton colony At Q. Is there any animal or fish that has only one eye?—C. T. A. The only one-eyed animal in ex istence is the cyclops, a genus of small fresh-water crustacean. They are popularly included under the wide title of “water fleas.” Various spe- cies are common as active swimmers in fresh-water pools or slow-flowing brooks and a few forms have been recorded from the sea. A very marked feature to which the name refers is the single radium eye, usually bright crimson and sparkling like a gem. Q. How much land in Alaska is in national forests?—W. B. D. A. The national forests of Alaska contain 20,000,000 acres. In them are 75,000,000,000 feet of lumber suitable for general consumption. Q. What was the name of the first Puliman car?—R. W. A. In 1859 George Pullman rebuilt an Alton day coach, No. 9. But the first all-Pullman-built car was called the Pioneer and it was first used to bear the widow and children of Pres!- dent Lincoln to his last resting place in Illinois in 1865. Stop a minute and think about this fact: You can ask The Evening Star Information Bureaw any question of fact and get the answer back i1 & personal letter. It is a great educa- tional idea introduced into the lives of the most intelligent people in the world—American newspaper readers. It is a part of that best purpose of & newspaper—service. There is no charge except 2 cents in stamps for return postage. Get the habit of ask- ing questions. Address your letter to The Evening Star Information Bu- reau, Frederic J. Haskin, director, Washington, D. Fails to Halt Debt Interview Discussing the statement attributed to Tardieu that it is inconceivable to him that any French government would “even undertake to bind France for a period of 62 years” in payment of the debt, the Lexington Leader voices the opinion that “all this should have been thought of before author- izing the duly accredited and special envoy of France to sign an undertak- ing which calls for the payment of only one-half of the debt to America— only that part of it, in fact, which was contracted after the armistice, and is based upon the admitted ca- pacity of France to pa It is the belief of the Loulsville Courler-Journal that, “with greater economic recovery, France will no doubt regard the question of its debt to the United States in much the same light that America does. Explaining the obligation away only increases the misunderstanding between the two nations,” avers this paper. * ok ok % “The French may very properly ratify, for the terms M. Berenger got are more than likely the best terms of Coolidge, Mellon & Co.” says the Davenport Democrat - Leader, however, sees the “for 62 years” sim- ply as a phrase “for home consump- tion, as is Tardieu's talk about what the French people will not stand for.” The Bangor Daily Commercial, while it states editorially, “We have little doubt that there will be a final adjustment that bear less heavily upon the French,” still thinks that “such unfair criticism as that of M. Tardieu will not serve to hasten such adjustment. Americans can be per- suaded, but they are very difficult to drive.” The Springfleld Republican, declar- ing that the American people, having been so long lambasted by such writ- ers as Sinclair Lewis and H. L. Menck- en that the criticism supposedly voiced by M. Tardieu will find them shockproof, remarks, “If a European wishes to make an impression by his criticlsm of America, he must join division and strike “The gist of the situation, in short, as viewed through French eyes,” ac- cording to the Chicago Tribune “'seems to be that we are an uncom- monly disagreeable people, who are asking for repayment of a loan which ought to be canceled, or, at worst, reduced to terms which the French will find it agreeable to pay in a con- venient space of time.” The Nashville Banner characterizes the interview “not creditable to either its auth or to the French people. It was rather insulting,” concludes the Banner, “cer- tainly in bad form, lacking in tact and assertive of national dishonor.” UNITED STATES IN WORLD WAR Ten Years Ago Today Lone German airplane, evidently engaged in long-distance reconnais- sance work, flies high over American front line training camp. * * * Volunteers continue to rush to the colors despite the fact that Regular to do to be saved, and they don’t . 8 it should be and will be welcomed in this country, and we believe its frank recognition of differences and difficul- ties will help in dealing with them. In its elucidation of the French atti- tude Ithaca Journal-News ob- serves: 'hey simply maintain that it is impossible to foresee the future |emer; Army quota is filled. * * * Maps of our coast defenses found on Ger- man arrested in Seattle. * * ¢ War Department orders consclentious objectors sent to mobilization camps, but will assign them to non-combatant branches of the service. * * Gov- ernment officials and steel com, lock horns” in attempt to fix pric on steel that satisfies both sid s First draft appeals are quickly dis- missed on the ground that the Na- tion’s interests are paramount in an ney, * The food admin- with sufficient accuracy to make up a |istration indicates that sugar and dairy schedule that can be lived up to for|products will be placed under Federal more than half a century. are reluctant to pledge the faith of their country to an agreement which |control. * * And they | Supervision to prevent profiteering as soon as the wheat situation is under * Japanese mission to may or may not be practicable. 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