Evening Star Newspaper, August 15, 1927, Page 8

THE EVENING STAR With Sundsy Morning Editio. . WASHINGTON, D. C. IMONDAY August 15, 1027 THEQDORE W. NOYES. . . . Editor = e The Evening Star Newspaper Company Busincss Office 11th St. and Pennsylvania Ave. New York Offic: 110 East 4:nd St. Chicazo Office: Tower Buildinz. European Office: 14 Resent St., London. gland 3 The Evening Star with the Suaday Ing edition 19 delivered by ca ¢ er month Sundavs only. 20 cenis Onders may ho sent by meil or Ailotion s made by er at eud of each mon Rate by Mail—Payable in Maryland and Virg! day. Advance. pailv and San Uaily oni Suaday onlv All Other States and Canada. . $12.00: 1 mo.. £200° 1 mo.. 34.00: 1mo. Ude Datly and_Sun Datly only sundav only Mgmhor T the Associated Press. v Assooated B ivaly entit ah 1 new « 18 excl he use for 5 Jardine's Farm-Aid Plan. tary Jardine of the Department | ture believes in the estab lishment of a VFederal farm board 1o aid the farmer in dealing with surplus But in his opinion this will be little value unless | zes to help himself. | Writing in the Farm Journal, Mr. Jardine sayvs that plan for a Fed-, eral farm board does not contemplate | which has been charged rgainst the Mc Haugen bill, but | that it does contemplate facilities which will enable the farmers them- selves to prevent the bottom from fall- ing out of the market for farm products. Surplyses would be so han- dled as to prevent glutting the mar- liet seasonally. When occasion de- manded surpluses could be carried over until the following year. The Jardine plan would not inter- fere with the regular functions of the co-operative marketing organizations. It would merely supplement them. “Farmers themselves must be willing to aet together,” says the Secretary; “leaders of local organizations must be able to work together for a com- mon purpose. The Government can do a great deal to help the farmers.” Mr. Jardine, however, does not be- lieve that it ja w or feasible for the Government to attempt to legislate prosperity to the farm group, or to any other group. In the final analysis, the farmer, as every one else, must take steps to help himself. This is sound. It is what the farmers them- selves, who have studled their own problem, belleve, There is no govern- mental panacea for farmers’ ills. There is no machinery which can make all farmers prosperous, any vops. o comparatively the farmer price fixing, | press galleries! | tion on the stage, with another Senator, declaring that he had taken precautions to tell the correspondents exactly what had hap- pened. Aye! There's the rub’ to which the Senator refers was dealt ’wilh at great length by the Washing- ton correspondents. that Senator Glass explanation w nat the only explanation offered. The was the explanation of the other man, irur instance, who happened to be Sen- itor Burton K. Wheeler of Montana | Most of the correspondents used all of | the explanations, including of duly crediting their In this case the attitude | the correspondents, as Semator G | charg “sonsation seck ing.” And they did not have to seek | tar. The highly ‘nator ]‘m-. v Virginia furnished sensi tion. But Senator ( student of Dana, being { paper man myself,” pos that Dana’s definition of news should have precluded any mention of his | disagreement with Senator Wheeler. In other words, applying the deflui- ion, when two Senators flght, that is not news, but when two Senators do that is news, There is one way to restrict the ac the correspondents. Run {them out of the Capitol! Abolish the And then watch the Senators, their forensic flights flown in valn, come tumbling over other to get them back ————— A Challenge to Decency. Announcement is made that week a certain former motion-picture performer will appear “in person” at one of the local theaters as an attrac- This man was made notorious a few years ago by his in- volvement in a peculiarly “shocking tragedy in California, the circum- stances of which were such as to cause a profound revulsion of feeling toward him, although for some time he had been @ favorite of the film-watching public. He was barred from further participation in motion-picture mak- ing. Recently it has been indicated that he has been seeking to return to the stage. He has been booked for personal appearance in a number of citlea in a chain of theaters, and Washington's turn comes next week for a view of this noterious charaoter. The understanding is that if there is no pronounced public reaction against him he will later be permitted to par- ticipate in picture making and will again be exploited as one of the lead- ing screen comedians of America. There are several ways in which the public can demonstrate its disap- proval of this attempted restoration of a discredited performer to tolerance and possibly to favor. It can ignore the program that is proffered during the week, refusing to attend the show on the ground of the affront to de- cency involved in the presence of a man who has been implicated in a most shocking offense. It can, in an- But it happens those of . was one of respected the doy an old news- s oss @ Iy helieves ivities of next more than there is machinery that can make all lawyers or manufac- turers prosperous. There are legiti- mate aids, however, which may be wisely adopted by the Government to help the farmer help himself. That is the burden of the argument ad- vepced by the Secretary of Agricul ture, Many of those who support the Me- Nary-Haugen bill take mueh the same view of the farm problem as does Mr. Jardine. The differences come over details of legislative actign. The Mc- Nary-Haugenites favor the so-called equalization principle, with the farm- ers themselves to pay for any losses which may arise from withholding from the open market surplusea which might reduce prices. It has been the opinion of Mr, Jardine, as it has been the opinion of President Coolidge, that such a plan is unworkable and uncon- stitutional. Congress is to tackle the farm prob- lem again when it meets in December. That problem has been the foot ball of politics and politicians too long. It Is time that sane legislation, to which the farmer is entitled, be enacted, much as was the Federal Reserve sys. tem to protect the bankers and the banking public. i Elbert H. Gary. Elbert H. Gary's death, which oc- curred this morning, is not surprising, inasmuch as his health has lately been precarious, It is, however, & shock, for this remarkable man has in the course of his career constituted himself a powerful element for na- ticipation of the appearance of the notorious person, write to the manage- ment in protest. It ean attend the performance and manifest disapproval vocally, It is surprising that this experiment in public patience should have been tried. There was, ne mistaking the feeling of the country at the time of the sordid happening. Time has not softened that feeling. The presence of this man in a publie place of exhibi- tion is a challenge to the sense of de- cency, which should be met with em- phatic rebuke and condemnation. The motion-picture buatness should not be- smirsh itself with such elements. Even if there is a “public” that is tolerant of such abuses and is willing to go, out of debased motives of prurient curiosity, to see a notorious person, then indeed is the great film industry in sad straits that it must resort to such methods to maintain attendance The incident | o | | strate | ceptional abilit each | checked the volunteer car-watching game will grow into a serious busi- The present endeavor of the just the base ball | v for a trip on the road, and so the will be no more nes at the park for some time. | When the games are vesumed an op- portunity will be afforded to demon- to the “watchers™ that their rvices nve not needed and that the atreet spaces o free for all, within {the limits of the parking regulations. ! e Charles A. Evans. In the death Police Charles A, Evans, which with shocking suddenne Saturda afternoon, the District loses a compe tent and valuable official and the Vo {lice Department one of its most 3 |spected and beloved membel apectar Evang was an example of suc- {cess through devotion to duty. He | joined the department thirty-five y ] ago as a patrolman, and from the out- set of his service he proved himself efficient and dependable. He won at- tention for his competence and was the subject of an exceptional com- mendation by a grand jury serve ices which ulted in the arrest of dangerous incendiaries, Ithe detective bureau resulted, and in that assignment he demonstrated ex- Advancement to a came eight and a half | vears ago, with assignment to duty at headquarters, a captaincy and an in- spectorship following in quick succes- ness volico | team is going comes as Ins oceurve for Promotion to lieutenancy | sfon, rewards that were highly merited the as- ind universally commended by | members of the department. As sistant superintendent of police In: spector Evans has had a large part in the development of the organiza- tion. His immediate detail included charge of the entire uniformed per- sonnel of the force. That he won and held the respect and esteem of all the members of the department is attested now by the evidences of deep sorrow felt by the men under his command at his untimely passing. Such an officer, serving the community faithfully and ably for more than a third of a cen- tury, is to be viewed as an inspiring example for all members of the force, and the highest honors will be paid to him as he is laid to rest, —————— Taboo on Blondes. The old gag about gentlemen pre- ferring blondes seems to have run its course. At least it has as far as a New York clothing house is con- cerned, which has just advertised for a stenographer who must be a bru- nette. The manager of the firm was not at all reticent in giving his views ta an enterprising newspaper man who called to discuss the advertise- ment. “Unreliable, temperamental and not much good in a business office” was the way he summed up the blonde contingent. Only one blonde had been engaged during the past two years, he sald, and that was because she did not take her hat off before she had been given the job. This sort of discrimination is likely ta start a big argument. Blondes were very much set up when gentlemen's preferencea for them was bruited around the world, but this expression of preference by an employer is a pretty stiff jolt on the chin. It ap. parently behooves the blondes to get *usy and regain their standing in the business world, especially if they hope to get jobs with this particular mer- chant. ———————— Having looked over the list of his achievements in the last fifty years, Thomas Edison may feel that he has done a man's work and is entitled at last to at least one full night's rest. ———— Geneva hotel proprietors are among the few who assert that the confer- ence was a conspicuous success. at its offerings. ——————— Gentlemen new mentioned as pos- sibilities for the Presidency are en- gaging in various public remarks which may be construed as rehearsal for some great radio work next Win- ter. e As new methods of warfare advance a crulser may come to be regarded not 80 much ag a menace as an ostenta- tious display of wealth. B e If anybody doubts the wonderful Wwealth of this country he has only to gefer to the prices easily cellected from spectators at a prige fight, tional prosperity, through his excep- tional efficiency in the organization and management of one of the great- t of world industries, There is no adequate opportunity, so quickly after his death, to appraise the services which he has rendered to America, but it may be said truly in this first hour of knowledge of his passing that Judge Gary has been for several dec- sdes one of the most valuable citizens of the United States and that the coun- try is a heavy loser by his death. e Reception committees continue to forget all about that modest wish ex- pressed by Lindbergh to take a va- cation and see Europe. Abolish the Correspondents! Carter Glass, the dypamic Senator from Virginia, joins the ranks occu- pied largely by Tom Heflin, weighty and wordy Senator from Alabama, as = critic of Washington correspondents. “Jt s shocking to see what Washing- ten correspondents send out now and compare this with the day of Charles Dana,” says Senator Glass. Tut, tut, Senator! Admitting that the Wash. ington corregpondents are neither suililess now, nor are they apt ever to he wholly free of taint, for there are misfits In eyery trade, the news sent out from Washington today will compare more than favorably with the news of the Dana regime, not only in speed of transmission but in ac- curacy, completeness and fairness. Senator Gilass, however, does not rest his charges here. He characterizes the role of the correspondents as one of depravity and insists that restyictive measures are needed to curb their “vicious attitude.” Queting from the Associated Press account of Senator Glass' remarks: The distorting of facts regarding happenings in the Senate was a com- mon practice, he said, even among the Car “Watchers” to Be Curbed. ‘The local practice of volunteer car watchers at places of large public as- semblage, such as the base ball games, i3 to be broken up, if the police can effect that reform. This business of small boys, and sometimes grown men, offering to safeguard ma- chines as they are parked at curbs near the ball park, the circus grounds and other places where many people gather for sport or entertainment has been in vogue here for a number of years. The fees are various, running from a nickel to a quarter, according to the generosity of the donors. There has been no fixed scale. Most motor- ists have regarded the system with tolerant amusement, feeling that per- | haps there was some degree of secu- rity in the presence nearby of a lad who would “keep an eye” on the cars in the absence of the owners. But it now appears that in cases Where serv- ice has been rejected and cars have been parked as their owners have de- sired, reprisals- for the rejectlen of the proffered attention have been suf- fered. Grease has been smeared on the door handles and in some cases air has been let out of tires. There is, of cougse, no warrant whatever for the charging of fees for | car guardianship in the public streets. The spaces are free to all, and a ma- chine that is temporarily placed agalnst the curb is supposedly as safe in a crowd as anywhere else. Every- body knows that the boys or men who constitute the self-appointed squad of guardians render practically no serv- jce. Their pointing out of avallable parking space is superfluous, for the driver can see an opening as readily as the boy can indicate it, The commission of nuisances or in- | juries is a serious matter, and it is de- sirable to put @ stop to this practice larger and more reputable papers. He told of an incident last year when he . 'was reported 10 -have bad @ fist fight of demanding or suggesting fees as the best meal f preventing these reprisals. It Ky to see that if not —.— In national affairs, as well as those of the home, theoretical economies are hard to reconcile with practical de- mands. SHOOTING STARS. BY PHILANDER JORNSON. ¢ Thrillers. Used to read the thrillers which would cost me but a dime, Especially those of ghosts who liked to haunt their scenes of crime; And as I turned page after page my terror greater grew. T'd jump 'most twenty feet, if anybody hollered “Boo!" Now, as I scan the paper, every para. graph I see Is full of nervous tremors, like the stories used to be. From palaces to curbstone: tions queer we view. In letters large or small, each little revela. Indefinite Postponement. “Do you suspect a possibility of an- other war?” “The possibility may exist,”” an. swered Senator Sorghum, “But states. men have become extremely clever at digging up new arguments, and we ought to be able to postpone it in- definitely.” Makintg of a Hero. A hero took no heed of pelf Nor of the ways of worldly pride. He simply sought to please himselt ‘With honest conscience for his guide. Jud Tunkins says a man who com- plains about the weather wastes his time trying to interest people in some- thing they already know. Agreement. “I want a divorce!" said the dis- contented woman, “At last,” sighed the weary man, “we find something on which we can entirely agree.” “A wise ruler,” said Hi Ho, the sage of Chinatown, “lets his fame for wis- dom depend as far as possible on the respectful imagination.” Actor and Script. The politician makes a soaring speech That wrings your tender heart. The text book which his eloguence can reach Plays the important part. “When a man thinks he knows more dan he does,” said Uncle Eben, “he's purty sure to talk dan he ought to." e From I street to Georgetown, Washington was in tune on this, the verfect Summer day of 1827, . There may be other glorious after- noons, but surely none shall eclipse [ memory the ool sunny day we e te. | Girls wearing the latest thing in clocked stockings (from the knee down) will walk on other bright days. e hoys will gawk again, and the llegiate vondsters” will run around but the equal of and day t appear until in another such mood, decides {to cxactly please mankind. Nature has expansive moods, at times, it would seem, when the warm blood” suffuscs her cheeks, her eyes glow, and she looks upon mere mortals with' eves of vast favor. Obligingly, then, she flips a_pertect day, not just at its end, as celebrated s, Bond, but from dewy morn d-sun-setted even , “You human nny creatures. You are cold at my 60-degree temperature, and { hot at $5; you kick one day because it is too hot, and the next because it is too cold, || “You have a ridiculously smail wave band, in which you declare yourself | to be truly comfortable, Well, today I am doing my best to 150 you. My sun s goiden, my sky is sweet Alice blue, or something along that line, my clouds and little whatnots of just the right tinge and consistency. 30 to it, then—be happy, be happy, be happy!" - LR " Washington needed no seeond invi- ation, 5 With one accord, the city turned out —-at least, that was the way It seemed er, as he plodded his vay from Eleventh street and ylvania avenue to the vicinity of the Western High School. Four miles by the speedometep— ask the bus driver, if you don't believe it. This was our personal guess as to the distance, and we asked a driver for confirmation. He says it is every inch that much. Allowing for several short cuts through parks and so on, a conservative three and ope-half miles is arrived at. Try to get there any shorter! In passing, let it be mo Western High School ia -»-mu"-;f and thereby takes its old place as per- haps the stateliest, moat classieal ap- {)q{l{lnl secondary school in the Dis- rict, One may be forgiven for feeling that too many of our high schoals look like high-class factories or nifty cor: rectional institutions, There are to- day many factories throughout the United States quite as “‘high brow” in appearance as some of the latest high schools, It is Western's glory that it was built before the day of ultra-modern trick architecture. Tmagine the au- thorities erecting those great white pillars on the front of g recently built institution! The applicatipn of several coats of paint to the old Western building and to the addition converts the establish- ment from mmelhlnf bordering on the “Raggedy-Ann” variety to a pleasing architectural unit. More and better grass, too, on the east and north sides add materially to the campuslike character of the Western school. May one who has taken an interest in this place extend his congratulations to the achool au- thoritles? Thirty million dollars has been add- ed to the annual pay envelope of the railway employes during the paat 13 months since the advent of the United States Board of Mediation, created by Congresa to succeed the former Rail. road Labor Board as an agency for promoting wage settlements and other disputes in the realm of rail trans. portation. The Meditation Board has Jjust celebrated its first anniversary. During its first year there have been five major wage settlements in which the mediation and arbitration ma- chinery was called into play. A total of 258 cases, large and small, were appealed to the Meditation Board by one side or the other, oftentimes by both, Virtually all represented de- mands for wage Increases, but many involved also matters concerning working conditions, To date 112 of these cases have been adjusted and are now marked “Settled,” but, most important of all, there has not been a single strike or lockout. * ok K X Chairman Samuel E. Winslow and his colleagues of the Meditation Board have taken much pride in the caliber of their nominees for neutral arbiters when arbitration has been resarted to and when it has devolved upon the board to name the “neutrals.” Edgar C. Clark, a former chairman of the Interstate Commerce Commisalon, and William D, Baldwin, president of the Otis Elevator Co., wera the neutral arbiters in the first major case, that of the Eastern comductors and train- men. Judge (raften Green, chi Justice of the Supreme Court of T nessee, was the neutral arbiter in the Southeastern firemen's case, and Dr. William Splawn, president of the Uni- versity of Texas, and formerly chair- man of the Texas State Railroad Com- mission, and Everett C. Brown of Chi- cago, president of the American Ama- teur Athletic Assoclation, were the two neutrals on the arbitration board in the Western conductors' case. * K Kk K The wage increases awarded in all but one of the big cases so far have averaged about 714 per cent. This was the settlement figure in the first im- portant case—the wage demands of the conductors and trainmen of the Eastern roads. It was a eompromise verdict giving the men something less than half the increase they sought. The awards cost the particular rail- I have just had the privilege of looking into the manuscript of E. A. Ross’ soon-to-be-published book on the problem of population and the future of civilization. ” Under the engaging title of “Stand- ing Room Only" Mr. Ross has brought old Dr. Malthus down to date and given us a vivid and veraeious picture of earth's swarming milliona and all that their swarming is likely to mean in terms of health and diseage, of hap: piness and despair, for the races. In it I came upon this Interesting fact that is worth pondering by the cocksure modern who thinks that civilization is the advance agent of health and happine: “Dirty as a European city might be 500 B.C., eur worst diseage never came to pestey it.” It will, I suspect, come with some surprise to the average reader that many of the diseases with which we are familiar did not exiat in such cities, Mr. Ross' listing is intere: ing. “There was no malaria; an African disease brought to Europe by way of Egypt about the fourth century B.C. Only lately have we realized how ma-: laria sapped the energy and umder- mined the clyilization of the classic peoples. “There was me bubonio plague; it had not yet crept out of its lalr in the East. It arrived 5§42 A.D., although possible that the mysterious pestls it 1 i i o T o e THIS AND THAT BY CHARLES E. TRACEWELL. The parks were full of mostly sitting on the benches. Where were the children? 1In the old day. Washington's parks were filled with little ones, playing on the grass, run- ning along the walks, Something seems to have harpened. Mayhe it fs just vacation time. Oy ady growth of business has driven parents and he suburbs, so that ay the active part th in the daily life of the people. Certainly, on this grandly perfect Summer day, only men and women were to be seen. They were mostly engaged in the traditional park occu- pation of feeding the pigeons ‘What fat fellows pigeons are, to be aure, and how tame they become! They fluttered down to one's very feet, and stood on the backs of henches, and in other ways manifested their interest in the proceedings. To be friendly becomes a man—it is 4 shame more men are not so. But how did the creatures ever lsarn any- thing about kindliness? Yet the dogs have shamed man in regard to this quality for centuries. Even the cat, too often misjudged, purrs its song of peace as it sits on one’s lap. When it«s taken into consideration that the animals cannot talk, or read, and have no abstract idens of anything whatsobver, it is nothing short of another miracle that they really do manifest affection, Affection, therefore, is proved to be natural, under certain favorable con- ditions, and not a product of civiliza- tion as Is generally thought. Civiliza- tion simply furnishes a favorable medium for the growth of kindliness. * Ok ok ok Even on a perfect Summer after- noon the east side of Connecticut avenue is deserted. Save for our own honest effort at pedestrianism, and that of perhaps half a dogen other persons, the whole sunshiny stretch, from the small park at the Army and Navy Club to Du- pont Cirele, was tenantless, except for persons coming out of stores to get into l.tl'mh- su‘tomnhlul' ere is something unique in front ?t the Mayflower—three ?ru hoxes— ‘ona there, one there, and one there" —stained a pleasant dark green! As far as we W, these are the only boxes in the District so treated, and we commend the effect to any one lutfirflhd in the beautification of the city. ‘Thia city is not nor will come to be the world's most beautiful Capital simply through the erection of great bulldings. Hundreds of small details must be taken care of, upon every street, at every place, before supreme beauty is achieved. The sum total of such attention, however, probably Wwould do more to create beauty than any number of grand builldings. If any one doubts this, let him pass the hotel mentioned, and notice the eft created by the staining of the tree boxes, whose bare ugliness is covered with a pleasing color. Around the circle we go to the left, out Massachusetts avenue to Q street, at which latter point we have the pleasure of watching two sand trucks smack into each other. The drivers are excited, but no one is hurt. Across the “Buffalo bridge,” eke Dumbarton, thence to Twenty-eighth, out this to R and along that much, traveled street to the newly painted Western building, where we bid our perfect day and equally perfect reader good-night. people, tormerly did WASHINGTON OBSERVATIONS roads concerned about $1§,000,000 an. nually, and it set the ball rolling in the direction of a higher wage scale all along the line. The conductors and tralnmen in the Southeastern rail roup and the firemen in both the tern and Southeastern groups all received increases of about ? per cent a8 the final outcome of their appeals to the Mediation Board. * k¥ % In the fifth and final big case dis- posed of to date, involving the con- ductors and trainmen of the Western railroads, the neutral arbiters sided with the roads and refused any in- crease. They based their decision on the proposition that the prevailing wage seales on the Western roads were already at virtually the same level as the increased scale in the East. They argued that to grant an increase in the West would in effect reatore the inequality which had been corrected by the 7 per cent increase in Eastern territory. s Kk R The refusal of an increase to the Weatern conductors and trainmen aroused the ire of the brotherhoods. L. K. Shepherd, president of the Order of Railway Conductors, in caustic comment, said: “The decision convinces me that ‘arbiters’ who know nothing of railroad employment can- not he expected to give the workers anything like a fair break, I was op- posed to submitting wage disputes to arbitration in the first instance, and am more emphatically of that mind now.” There ia no interruption, how- ever, in tha procession of applications to the Meditation Board for the nego- tiation of new_ and increased wage soales. The Western flremen are battling befare arbitrators now. The locomotive engineers are next in ling The case involving the en- gineera in the Eastern group of rail- roads is already before the board. The engineers are asking for much more, but they expect to obtain at least the same increase given to the firemen and the conductors and train- men. The total annual pay roll of all classes of railroad employes on all roads aggregates $3,000,000,000. An average wage hoost of 7 per cent figures out about $210,000,000. And the 7 per cent precedent is now pretty well estabilshed. The railroads are not a bit happy over the prospect. (Covyright. 1927.) . PROGRESS AND DISEASE BY GLENN FRANK, President of University of Wisconsin and former editor of the Century Magazine. “There was no cholera; until the nineteenth century it limited its rav- ages to Asia and Egypt. “There was no smallpox; for this was a gift to the West from the Saracens. We first hear of the disea among the Arabs in the sixth cen- tury A.D. “There was no yellow fe of the West Coast of Africa. appears to have been carried b the slave trade to America, whence it spread through the hot lands of the world, “There was no leproay; this specter firat appears in Kurope seon after Zerzes' invasion, “There was no hookworm. This blood-sycker, which is sald ta prey on half the inhabitants of same tropical and semi-tropical countries and which has been the chief blight on our Southern States, was intro- duced from Africa. ““There was no syphilis; a disease 8o recent in our experience that some suppose it to have been brought from the New World by the sailers of Co- lumbus. In any case, the first impor- tant explosion of it in Europe is trace- able to the mercenary army which Charles VIII of France led into Italy in 1494.” » All these have come in the wake of civilization’s advance. We are con- quering these. Shall still other dis- M’ml Wi q‘;:fi:fl‘t‘l;‘l‘g Q._. .‘m Yon ; native The dis- Sentimentalism as to Dogs and Cats Deplored To the Editor of The Star: 1f one may s offense to well <o without personal neaning correspond- onts, a great deal of sentimental non sense has been contributed recently to your columns on the subject of strayed or homeless dogs and cats. These con stitute a real problem in any ecity, which should be approached from the common-sense standpoint of human health, comfort and economy, rather than sentiment indulgenc As the Spring and early Summer is the chief breeding season for such animals, and the warm weather encourages tl sence outdoors, there i them in evidence now. too, families to which dogs or ¢ ro attached ve for vacation trusting their pets to shift for them- selves. They cannet, of course, take them all along. As a result she city resembles Constantinople in certain sectians, being everrun with potential pets that have become pests. Super- numerary and unattached animals of this kind approach the classification of vermin. They seriously menace the safety of children, the public health and the peace and comfort of resi- dents. The real fact is that the whole host of such parasites should never have been allowed to be born. Their very number and ‘condition prove this. A vigorous enforcement of the dog- licensing law, and enactment of a simllar licensing law for cats, also vigorously enforced, would reduce the numbers of dependent animals to the sensible limits of those actually kept and treated as pets, eliminating the nameless and numberless thousands that infest a city the size of Washing- ton to its cost, discomfort and annoy- anes at all times of the year. Until we become sensible enmough to treat this on the scientific basis it deserves (at once the most humane basis both from the human and the animal stand point) the city government is not on justified but absolutely compelled to adopt the expedient of catching and disposing of the surplus, unlicensed, unattaeched animal population. Protest against the administration of such a necessary sanitary measure is short-sighted, indeed. The letters you have recently published on the subject sound more like sentimental orgies than thoughtful expressions public interest. It would be intere: ing to know how many stray ‘‘pet: your correspondepts have fed and sheltered on their own premises. To undertaka such “kindness” for a month would be to risk bringing dis- ease, flith, rabies, vermin and blood- poisoning from bites and scratches inte any home where children lived, to make night hideous for a neighbor- hood and te énd up with an amateur zoo. And to what purpose? In the end the “kind" preserver of such life, tired of purchasing food for her in- creasing horde, would be obliged her- self to take the inevitable course of turning the whole yowling collection over to the protectors of our health for painless extermination. In only the last step would such a person be a public benefactor, or, indeed, a friend of_animals. Real lovers of animal life try to preserve fine breeds, train and prop- erly keep their charges. They are coming more and more to realize that dogs do not belong in the modern city, with its apartment life and crowded traffie, at all. They also agree that cats are on the wholg of dubious merits as pets, because they are intractable enemies of all bird life, are carriers of disease to chil- dren, and are too prolific to be kept within city-life bounds. TIf about 90 per cent of the present dog and cat population of Washington were elimi. nated, the remainder, comprised of pure-bred animals, well cared for, trained and prevented from being a public or private nuisance, would be justified by real use and appreciation. The expense in taxes of maintaining a_ public und and paid ‘“‘dog-catch. era” coulcfn be saved, the Pasteur de- partmentstof our hospitals could shut up shop, and perhaps sick people, the aged, the tired people who need nightly repose, might be able to en- joy less disturbed sleep at night. It this would be any unkindness to our supernumerary animal popula- tion, let us look at the human side just ogce for a change. MRS. EARLE C. MANNIX. The Radicals and Sacco and Vanzetti To the Editor of The Star: The psychology of many people, and@ particularly of the editors of some of our leading journals, teward the criminals Sacco and Vanzetti is not only incomprehensible but inexpli- cable. In an experience of 30 years at the bar I have known of many criminals who were executed on circumstantial evidence far less convincing than the evidence in this case, and there was no hullabaloo raised by radicals or conservatives. Can it be doubted that if these men were American citizens and without affillation with the radical elements of soclety no questions would have been raised, and they would have been exe- cuted long ago? It is self-evident the partisans of these criminals are not primarily con- cerned about them per se, for they have ignored all the facts and evi- dence in the case, and that this case is being taken advantage of for the sole purpose of promoting the cause of radicalism throughout the world, and in the United States in particular. These murderers, whose crimes Were attended by unnecessary brutality, ac- cording to the report of the, Fuller committee, have been made an ex- without parallel in the criminal an- nals of the United States, Every lfi%fll and extra-legal remedy has been exhausted in their favor, and the con- stituted agoncles of the government of Massachusetts have concluded that they had a fair trial and are guilty beyond a reasonable doubt. If these agencies are not to be trusted, then organized government is a failure. It may as well be abolished and mankind abandon hope that it is capable of organizing soclety on any basis of stability, justice and efficiency. The guilt or innocence of those accused of crimes against saclety had as well be left to the decision of the mob. A government, to he worthy of respect and support, should, among other attributes, be just but firm in the execution of all its functions. Jus- tice has been established by the proper agencies of government in this case. and the case in all its ramifications now calls for unrelenting firmness without further temporizing, But, after all is said and done, the situation growing out of this case transcends the fortunes and destiny of these two individuals. It presents a challenge to our civilization, to the safety of society and the security of government itself—a challenge that cannot be temporized with or ignored. To meet this challenge in its rela- tion to our country and its institu- tions, the processes of the law in this case should he permitted to take their course without further hindrance or delay. Congress should as soon as it convenes enact laws'and make appro- priations for rounding up all the alien radicals within our borders and their deportation to the eountries from whence they came. There should also be a law requiring the registration of all aliens within the country or who may hereafter enter it, who should also be required to carry and produce on demand of the preper authority identification cards. Provision should algo be made for the denaturalization of all aliens who, after becaming citi- zens, are found engaged in anarchistic or other ultra-radical propaganda and activities, and their depovtation. The oath of all such is a fraud upon our Government and justifies the taking and ception and shown a consideration |, BY FREDERI Q. When is the “Fair of the Iron | Hox to be held’—R. R. A. This name has been given to |an exhibition of old and modern ve hicles that is to be held in Baltimore, ;,\m. from September 24 to October 8. | Q How m | Dominion of { the last 50 or 60 years? A. The Dominion of € into existence in provinces covered the area of the ed during s nada came The original Toda f Canada and water quare miles. is 3,697,123 Q. tion to high school sororities when such tions ‘are allowed”—E. N. A. It is believed that because of the immature judgmwent of secondary school students nigh school fraterni- ties and sorovities develop snobbish ness and thus defeat democracy that should prevail. Q. 1Ts the sun a ball of fire?—L. P. A. The Naval Observatory says the sun is a ball of incandescent gas. Q. Pikes P W. M. B, aternities and llege organiza- How high ahove sea level are k and Mount Whitney?— sea level. Mount Whitney—14,501 States. have middle names?—A. and Elizabeth, respectively. H. E. M. A. This mold lard or sweet oil. at the time of his death?—O. W, A. President Garfield dled after his inauguration. 000,000 tons. B rectors, at night. Winter time>—E. M. D. of Summer. | Q. In what form is Comedy” written?—M. T. A. “The Divine Comedy, fied. Q. What is a sneeze?—E. M. is caused by irritation of the nasal Baldwin in His Viewed as Symb dressing the Canadian Club at Mon- treal with the Prince of Wales pres- ent, he started a world-wide discus- sion. Some American observers are inclined to view the act as symbolical, even though tha premier may mnot have intended to do anything except seek comfort on a hot night. “The United States has usually as- sumed a monopoly in the field of shirt- remarks the In- sleeve diplomacy,” dianapolis Star. “Sometimes that method may have seemed rather crude to the formalism of the Old World, in- clined to chide the impetuous haste of Yankee leaders who rush directly to the heart of the matter at hand. That the statesmen of Britain are not averse at times to emulating the ex- ample.of their American cousins was demonstrated at Montreal. * ¢ % Mr. Baldwin was endeavoring to drive home some facts to a groun of hard-headed business men and he ‘et that formality, which might prevent him from getting ‘next’ to his hearers, would be dissipated if he removed the coat and gave a number of shirt- sleeved thumps on the table.” Asserting that *“Prime Minister Baldwin was quite in character when he talked to the business men of Can- ada in his' shirt sleeves,” the New York Times continues: *“His subject was no academic matter. He was out in the works with the men of the em- pire. He was doing what he said Great Britain was out to do—creating an atmosphere. In him John Bull with his codt off was impersonate. Difficulties? Yes. ‘But there never has heen a time with us when Britain has shouldered her burdens more manfully.’ Though suffering from the loss of a whole generation of young men, vet ‘we have determined to make good.' The older men have undertaken to ‘stick to it' till the young ones of the new generation are ready to take on.” * ok % ok “There was nothing symbolical in- tended,” in the judgment of the Fort Worth Star-Telegram, “but what the prime minister of Great Britain was not afraid to do on a day of trying heat is nevertheless a symbol of what Great Britai doing in these try- ing years, * Whatever fault may be found with Britain, none can be found with her courage. Facing eco- nomic _problems greater than those in nearly every other European country, Britain has never abandoned confidence. She works at new tasks with persistent courage. Britain has taken off her coat.” While speaking of the occasion as “probably the first time in the his- tory of the exclusive Canadian or- ganization that the principal speaker addressed the company in his shirt sleeves,” the’ Watertown Daily Times believes that “this was done exclu- sively in the interest of comfort, but at the same time it was an excellent opportunity for the prime minisier to get down and bhave a real heart-to- heart talk with the leading men of Canada’s metropolis. The removing of the coat,” continues the Watertown paper, “took with it that feeling of artificial restraint. * * ¢ The prince represents the throne, the in- visible tie of sentiment which holds the empire together. He represents the line of descent from the day of William the Conqueror, and even ear- lier. The prime minister represents not so much the sentimental side of the empire, but the practical side. He is not the figurehead, but a man in his shirt sleeves, who, with his asso- ciates, makes the decisions.” * Xk % Of the general qualities of Mr. Bald- win the Toronto Star says: “Un- dazzled by his proximity to royalty and unelated by his own eminence, he goes his way in Canada, meeting high and low, great and small, the many the world that our public authorities cannot and will not be controlled in 188 squares miles | ¢ the | Why is there so much opposi-| fi the spirit of A. Pikes Peak is 14,110 feet ahove feet—is the highest point in the United Q. Do Lillian and Dorothy Gish A. Their middle names are Diana Q. Is it safe to eat ham and bacon found to be attacked with mold?— does no harm it re- moved with a cloth dampened with Q. How old was President Garfleld in his fiftieth year, six and one-half months Q. What is the leading commodity carried by boats on the Ohio River?— "A. Coal is the most important. The total weight of cargoes carried on the Ohio River system in 1925 was 48, Q. What are binnacle lights?—P. "A.'A binnacle is a stand which con- tains a ship's compass and its cor- Its cover is fitted with lights in order that the compass may be seen Q. What becomes of dew in the A. The frost corresponds to the dew “The Divine by Dante, is written in the form of epic poetry. A long narrative poem is thus classi- A. A sneeze is a sudden, vielent and spasmodic exhalation of breath, whel- Ly or partly through the nose. A sneeze branches of the fifth pair of cranial WERS TO QUESTION C J. HASKIN. | Q. What is the seating capacity of the Roxy Theater, New York City - B. McK. A it ,200. Q. In Mexico Is Winter or Sumn the rainy season’?—N. C. S. A. Summer is the rainy season in Mexico. Little or no rain falls in | the Winter or dry season. Q. What is the weekly attendance a: the movies?—C. T, I A. It is estimated at 130,000.000, more than the total population of tk. country. has a seating tapacity of Q. How much e s made | starch J. E. N. A. The starch industry of the Un States consumes somewhat over 10 000,000 bushels of corn yearly. Over 800,000,000 pounds of commercial cornstarch are produced annually. Q. How many times has South Da- kota had a Democratic governor’— P. A.'W. J. Bulow, elected in Novem- | ber, 1926, is the first Democratic BOv | ernor that South Dakota has had. Q. How many people live on St Helena’—W. H. A. This volcanic island. in the South Atlantic, 1200 miles off the coast of Africa, has a population of 3,703. The island was made famous as the place of exile of Napoleon, and is now a British admiralty coaling station, Q. —W. A. The whale and sturgeon are so called because they belong to the King of England when washed ashore or caught near the coast. Q. Is there ation ‘What are known as “royal fish '? R. ny differance in tie and “gaol? Q. What is the Indian name for “canoe”?—8. A. N. A. Different tribes had different names for things, the Dakota word for canoe being “Canqanzi W'ata”; the Lenape, “Amochol,” and the Cheyenne, “Semo. Q. What was Harry Houdini's name before he changed it to Houdini? Ww. 8 A. Hias name was Eric Weiss. He was the son of Rev. Dr. Mayer Samuel Weiss, a Jewish rabbi. Houdini went on the stage as a trapeze performer when only 8§ years old and soon aftes began his practice of legerdemain. Q. In what year did the Santa Fe Railroad cross Arizona’?—J. 8. A. The Atlantic & Pacifis Rail- road, now the Santa Fe Railroad, crossed Arizona in 1882 and 1883. The keynote of the times is efi- cient service. In supplying its readers with a free information bureaw in Washington, The Evening Star is liv- ing up to this principle in deed and fact. We are paying for this service in order that it may be free to the public, Submit your queries to the staff of experts, whose aervices are put at your disposal. Inclose 2 cents in stamps to cover the return postage. Address The Evening Star Informa- tion Bureau, Frederic J. Haskin, direc- tor, Washington, D. C. Shirt Sleeves olical of New Da ‘When Prime Minister Baldwin of |and the few, with the one demeanor, Great Britain shed his coat while ad- |the same air of friendly interest. He is what he is whatever the occasion, wherever he goes and fn any sort of company. There is nothing of the snob in Stanley Baldwin. * ¢ ¢ The man who can be his own natural self in_highly formal occasigns and before large throngs of people is to be envied, and it ranks as a gift of char- acter or the acquirement of a wise man from much experien Taking the matter from another angle, the Utica Observer-Dispatch finds significance in the example that is_offered by the British visitor: “Thus comfort is pushing its way into the strongholds of fashion. It has al- ready made complete conquest so fae as women are concerned. Loose, light and comfortable garments are now, with them. the invariable rule. Some of them are a bit startling, but that is to be expected. : They were startling all through the long enslavement to ironclad corsets, impossible bustles and quilted petticoats and in the wrong direction. Also, men have been run ning more .to comfort than when they wore stiff chokers, voluminous nec! scarfs, skintight trousers, waist- shaped coats, bell-crowned hats and red flannel underwear. And now, fol- lowing the example of the premier of Great Britain, if they may discard their coats and vests at luncheon on hot days, they have arrived.” * Ok ok K To the Lynchburg News Mr. Bald- win's action simply was an exhibiti of extrem:ly bad manners. “When says the News, “Prime Minister Bald- win appeared at a public banquet in his honor in informal dress while his hosts were dressed properly, and then took off his coat and vest because of the heat, he may have meant no disre- apect. It is inconceivable that he did, but he certainly should have known that he wasn't showing that courtesy which has regard for the sensibility of others. He may not have meant to’ imply that his hosts were overdoing the thing of dressing for the occasion, and he may not have considered that hy taking off his coat jn the presence of a_company in' formal morning at- tire he was giving the appearance of rebuking them, but he very probably did both. And if an American am- bassador In London had done that, if it is conceivable that one would do it, can you nat imagine the chorus that would arise from the British press and the horrified comments in Lon- don ballrooms and provincial cinema palaces?” UNITED STATES IN WORLD WAR Ten Years Ago Today Millions of Londoners yell them- selves hoarse In welcome to a large contingent of American troops who parade through London today, es- corted by all the famous bands of the guards. Reviewed by Ambassador Page and Admiral Sims and afterward by King George at Buckingham Palace. British cabinet adjourns to watch parade. * ¢ ¢ our traitors at home,” is warning of Elihu Root at welcome in New York Cit; upon his return from Russia. He serts “there are men here who should be shot at sunrige.” * * * “Kaiserism must go," says Gompers, declaring that labor cannot indorse the Pope's terms without this basic principle. ¢ ¢ * Spanish Ambassador in Ber- lin is conducting inquiry for this country to learn if Germany is forcing American citizens into 'its army. ¢ * * Resolutions are offered in the Senate to silence pacifists, declaring such peace talk is embarrassing to the President at this time. * * * Big corperation to control wheat. Hoover heads $50,000,000 Government concern as chairman and Jullus Barnes as president. Price-fixing the discharge of their duties by in- timidation or threats of violence at the from them of thelr citize: * The situation furtl p. whn oR the nr{ Qéfm:r‘: .M:: e ang Fedoral, as will be 1y hands of ra . Whether foreigy or domes! . SIDNEY LANIER. board named to eliminate undue profits and end speculation. * * * Dutch commissioners predict that Un 8 mfim om! E on_grain will O uniem fullps ~