Evening Star Newspaper, August 27, 1927, Page 6

THE EVENING STAR With Sunday Morning Edition. WASHINGTON, D. C. SATURDAY.....August 27, 1927 THEODORE W. NOYES. ...Editor The Evening Star Newspaper Company Business O 11th St. and Penneylvanta Ave. New Vork Office: 110° Fast 4 t. Chicaro_Office” Towvr Buil Ing. European Office: 14 Regent St.. London. England. The Fvening Star with the Sunday mor: ng edition 1s delivered by earriers within the city at 60 cents per month: daily only. 45" cenis ber onth: Sunidnws oniy. 0 ot er month_ Orders n - by mail o Tolepmane Main 5000, Coliction i made by | h. carrier at end of each m Rate by Mail—Payable in Advance. Maryland and Virghia. ! nd Sunday. ...l vr. $000: 1 mo. Paiy andeSundar: o dvr 860t 1 mo undav only <1 vr. 33000 1 mo., All Other States and Canada. 1vr. $1200: 1 mo., § 1ars 850001 mo. Syl $100°1 mo ociated Pross is excln, far repuht credited to in this naner et terat . Al of special dispatehes here — Where Is the “Defense Fund"? While the Sacco-Vanzetti case was | nending in ons stage and another it | was frequently stated and was gen- erally accepted that a large fund had been raised for the defense of he two men—a fund that ran into the hundreds of thousands. Thi had been contributed by radicals in this country | and in Europe in volun subserip- tions a of or; me ey d assessments upon members anizations. The money was sup- posed 1o be expended for the procure- ment of testimony, the pay of counsel and court costs, stenographic work and the preparation of records and appeals. It believed to be the best financed defense ever set up in this cou save in the case of a few Individuals of great wealth accuspd of crime. Now that Sacco and Vanzetti are executed the defense committee in Bos- ton is having a hard time to pay its bills. Its chairman and secretary say that if, as has been stated, half a mi lion dollars was raised by the Com- munists and afliliated radicals here and abroad, a very small percentage of that sum reached the organization. The chief counsel for the defense is still a creditor and it begins to look as If his fee, which should be a liberal one, will never be paid. Indeed, the chairman of the defense committee declares that the amount received from Communist sources was only about $300. Now the question is raised, where is this money, this ha!f million supposed to have been poured out by the indig- mant partisans of the accused men, the “friends of humanity,” Who thought that American justice was on trial and that the rights of man were being trampled upon by ruthless offi- cialdom? An investigation is to be started by the defense committee to answer two quest-ons: Was the money raised? And, if it was raised, who got it? , Probably it will be found that a very small amount of money was really contributed, and this will be a further evidence to show the actual size of the element of discontent in this country. Alarmists talk of hun- dreds of thousands of extreme radicals in America and point to the large mobs that form for demonstration as proof of the existence here of a grave spirit of revolution against the established order. It is true that there are great crowds on all such occasions, but they are composed in large measure of curi- osity seekers. A very few hundred elamorous agitants can give the im- pression pf a powerful force, with the aid o bystanders and onlookers, who are really not sympathizers. New York has a population of be- tween six and seven million people. At the lower figure one per cent is 60,000. At no time during the Sacco- Vanzetti demonstrations in that city have there been a quarter of that num- ber of people engaged in any form of inflammatory manifestation. In Bos- ton, too, the numbers of the persistent protestants against the execution of the law have been relatively small. A few hundred picketers have gone forth carrying placards. A flashlight photograph taken the other night of the “silent death watch” at the bar- riers drawn around the prison showed that four-fifths of those present were childrsn. Th Mruth is that there are a very few real Communists in the United States and the chances are that the Communists of Europe gave little if any money for the defense of these men. was —or—— Not only are motion picture stars expected to progress in developing the art of the screen, but they are depend- ed on to give the neighbors something to talk about, thereby bringing pro- fessional talent to the relief of home- made gossip. > <o The Great August Chill. This present remarkable &pell of cool weather in Washington is caus- ing much disturbance of mind as well s discomfort. Is the climate chang- ing? Has there been a veritable read- justment of the forces of nature? Or is this mere| so-called “heatless Summer” that comes only once in a great cycle and is not likely of repe- tition for centuries? Certainly the temperatures of the past few days have been such as to cause a searching of records and an overhauling of diaries kept by habitual thermometer watchers, and a disclos. ure of the fact that not for more than half a century has Washington had so little heat in August. Domestic problems are increased by this visitation. 1Is the furnace to be started? Or is heat to be supplied by some extraneous means with electric- ity or gas? Those with open grates may ease the situation by burning twists of old newspapers or fragments of packing boxes 1f more conventional fuel 18 not avallable. But there are sompensations, Conversation s stim- ulated 1 the circulation s slugglsh. The cold weather, like excesslve heat, starts talk and glves opportunity for en exchange of experlences wkich, though almost precisely simllar, are | ency nevertheless put forth in a spirit of | competition. % There is no reason to be really con- cerned about the matter. The Sum- ! mer is not yet over and there will be warm days, perhaps even hot ones, before the frost actually comes. Lawn mowing is not ended for the season by w nor is regular furnace tending quite yet the order of the day. Gardeners are somewhat stumped by the abnormal conditions, for they do not know whether to bed down for the Winter or plant for the Spring. These abnormal days somewhat puz zle the particular people who put the | i rules of style above the question | of personal comfort. Is the traw hat to be put into the discard ahead of schedule? Can one wear an overcoat and a straw hat at the same time? How about spats? Is it permissible to wear gloves in August? These are only a few of the posers that the lag- gard sun is causing no e Is This the “Perfect Crime"? The other day attention was called in these columns to an evident tend- toward the bizarre in crime in connection with a peculiarly atrocious murder committed in Baltimore. Now New York, which has had numerous cases of the fantastic in homicide, furnishes a fresh instance. The head- less body of a man completely stripped of clothing found in a ditch in a suburb. Medical examination indi- cated that he had been dead about forty-eight hours and had probably lain in the place of discovery for most of that time. There was no mark of identification. Nearby were the wheel tracks of an automobile, giving evi- dence that the body had been taken to the place by motor. No attempt had been made at concealment save that of the placing of the body in the ditch in a patch of woods. Now comes the question of identification. It may be effected through fingerprints. If the dead man was ever under arrest at any time in his career, in recent years at least, his physical sign manual will be found in the official collection. Otherwise there may be a long hunt for his name, and perhaps it will never be ended. But the police have re- markably effective means of tracing identities and this unfortunate person may be named Within a few hours. In the lack of clothing and without a head the torso offers a difficult prob- lem. Perhaps the head itself will he found and identification may be ef- fected through some dental record if the features themselves are not rec- ognized. The perpetrators of this crime, short means, y safm one of the most coveted records in aviation. The Navy will be doing a great service for the development of the art of flying If it will lend its facilitfes to Williams in this emer- gency and Amerieans will watch cagerly the progress of the tiny racer when it takes the air over foreign waters, R e An Honorable Defeat. Beaten on the thirty-seventh green MacKenzie, Washington's representa- tive in the semifinals of the national amateur tournament at Minneapolis, thus barely missed the chance to con- tend for the highest American golfing honors yesterday. It was a creditable defeat. MacKenzie had fought his way through to the next-to-last stage of the tourney against the stiffest kind of competition. He ;had met some of the best men in fhe long list of entries. It was his fortune in the semifinals to be pitted against a vet- eran of many golf battles, Chick Evans, who entered his first champion- ship contest twenty years ago, and it is to his everlasting credit that he gave the former title holder one of the hardest fights of his long career. The match went overtime, the two players being tied at the thirty-sixth hole. But for the difference of the least margin of space at the cup on the thirty-seventh MacKenzie would have continued the tie, to a perhaps different conclusion on the next or perhaps a later green. Evans holed out with a thirty-foot putt, and Mac- Kenzie missed by a hair from twelve feet. Tt was remarkable golf, and the loser, in whom Washington's hopes were centered, won distinction by his pluck and perseverance and steadiness in his endeavor. Today comes the final round, between MacKenzie's con. queror and the wonderful “Bobby” Jones, a match that should go down in golf history as one of the classics of the sport. ———— England objects to the flat straw hat customarily worn on this conti- nent. The shock would be terrible if the Prince, who indulged in that head- gear in Canada, were to return to London wearing an Indian war bonnet and a set of “chaps.” —— It will not be long hefore several statesmen will have to doff their Wild West togs and get into evening clothes. The after-dinner speech, though much discredited, is still more impressive than the warwhoop. o As headquarters for conferences, Geneva should be encouraged to build of the complete destruction of the body, made almost perfect conceal- ment, In the absence of identification they cannot be placed save by some chance disclosure outside of the im- mediate inquest upon the remains, The use of the motor car makes the solution of such a crime difficult. The body may have been transported for many miles or for a very short dis- tance. There is no clue to the scene of the murder. Estimates of the age of the victim from the condition of the body are mere guesses. His sta- tion in life is undeterminable. Probably in this case the slayers were not aiming at the fantastic in crime, but were taking the surest way to safety by thus disposing of the body in an open manner, and without any attempt to destroy it. Their only problem lay in the disposal of the head, which could be effected by plac- ing it in a box heavily weighted and dropping it over a bridge into one of the deep streams. It will be interest- ing to see what comes of this case. The chances would seem to favor a continued mystery, though it is to be hoped that this is not that *perfect crime” which baffles detection alto- gether. ] Eskimos have found rich ivory mines where walrus tusks have been buried for many years. An Eskimo ivory king may yet appear among the picturesque figures of wonderful wealth. ———— v 1f Vice President Dawes is sincerely intent to capture the young American vote he will drop his pipe and learn to smoke cigarettes. ————————— Japan has been diplomatically suc- cesstul in limiting references to her international relationships largely to the realms of pure rumor. ———r———— If the weather could have been fore- seen, a boost in the price of coal might have been iIn order for the month of August. ————. Williams Gets Into the Air. America’s hopes of participation in and the possible winning of the forth- coming Schneider Cup races to be held next month in Italy were given a distinct boost by two events of Thurs- day. Lieut. Al Williams got his twelve hundred and fifty horsepower, twenty-four cylindered plane into the air for its first trial and the Navy Department announced that it would look with favor upon a request to dispatch a cruiser with Williams and his ship to Italy in time for the races. Williams is the sole hope of the United States in the blue ribbon event of aviation. Following the refusal of the Government to participate in this vear's Schneider races the Navy flyer determined to secure private capital for the construction of a fast plane. He was successtul in his quest and the tiny ship was built, powered with the biggest motor ever put in a plane of its type. But delay followed delay and dis appointments were numerous. The pontoons were found to be insufficient to support the craft and it looked for a while as if it would be impossible to test the plane and get it to Italy in time to compete. Flying officlals in this country interceded on Williams' behalf to get the races postponed for a month, but England's curt and ungracious refusal made it imperative that plans be rushed forward for the assigned date, ‘With Willlams® ship in the alr and the Navy assuming & helpful attitude it now appears that America will have an entry. If the plane comes up to its expected speed of three hundred miles an hour there 1s every reason to believe that a strong fight will be made on the part of this country to craper hotels and announce fire- works in the evening for the benefit of onlookers. e ‘Whether next season's theater will show the effects of a censorship can- not now be known. A certain amount of hard experience may cause even a censor to relax rigid ideals. ———————— It becomes difficult to understand how some of our motion picture “stars” should have won fortunes by the use of a custard pie for a yellow chip in the game. ——— e Trotsky was possibly estimated at his true value when he lived in the Bronx and radical editors gave him barely a living wage. ————— So many prominent citizens have acquired Indian decorations that in. stead of mentioning a “hat” a candi- date may say, “My war bonnet is in the ring. —————— SHOOTING STARS BY PHILANDER JOHNSON. Policing Life’s Game. Throughout the splendid Nation Our cares will never cease, We get the information, “We must have more police.” ‘We place a cop on duty, And there we cannot stop. ‘We need, for moral beauty, Some one to watch the cop. Then, some one must be landed The simple- truth to tell, ‘When he has been commanded To watch the watcher well. Plain people, few, it any, ‘Will see “the force” increase. ‘We can't be very many, Compared to the police. Business and Oratory. “I suppose you will have some im- portant speeches to deliver in Con- gres Not that I know of at present,” answered Senator Sorghum. “I'm not going to peddle my talk. Any speeches delivered by me will have to be ordered by only a fraction of an inch, Roland | 3 uweg’ THE EVENING STAR, WASHINGTON, D). “Dear Sir: For some time T have turned regularly to your This and That column, as I have been both instructed and entertained by the ticles appearing therein. 'his is to thank you for the one pecting ‘music one never tires of.’ I imagine that many, like myself, are longing for the time when the jazz craze will have passed. I like to at- tend the movies for the sake of the film numbers occasionally and my great horror is to have to stand one of those juzz orchestras provided as 1 ‘treat’ by the management. “Perhaps some never tire or get above these imitations of an auto- matic monkey band, but T cannot help wonder why some good music is not sandwiched between the jazz num- bers. If we had to eat either straw or cake only for food we would soon tire of eating. What a pity that the better class of Jazz orchestras do not show what they can do in the way of playing good music oceasionally” in- stend of rendering a long string of pifffe tum-tum stuff! “Very sincerely yours "W. S, AL ¥ ek The better dance orchestras, as a matter of fact, do attempt to deal with the better musical numbers, but even these high-brow jazz organiza- tions do it in their own way. Thus we get “rhythmical versions" of the classics strained into 4/4 time, whether it fits or not. The first of these was Strauss' immortal “Blue Danube Waltz" in a version fearful and wonderful to hear. Since that day less sacrilege has been done good music by less vio- lently wrenching it into fox-trot tempo. Recently we heard over radio a really interesting treatment of a complicated classical number. It pre- served enough of the composition to be good, yet was not an outrage upon the spirit of the piece. This sort of thing, of course, is not what our correspondent meant when he agked for some good music to be sandwiched between the jazz numbers, It is, indeed, a very poor compromise, for not one of these “versions” makes as good a dance as a really good dance tune, There are, of course, some of the latter. - There is no question about it. Perhaps half a dozen times a some writer of so-called popula writes better than he knew. arise the “big hits."” The trouble is that one has to listen to so many poor or indifferent tunes in the meantime. We heard of a grandmother who listened for the first time to the radio. A dance orchestra happened to be on the air. Tune after tune was ground out. After half an hour of patlent listening the old lady turned to her son and made the following historic com- ment: “Why, they all sound alike!" * ok ok % They do of a truth, all sound alike, not only because their composers lack the melodic gift, in its best sense, but also because the means of instrumen- tation are absurdly limited. Here is one department of music in which the modern dance orchestra ought to shine. The effects it may use are unlimited, there being here no occasion for the more or less strict propriety of the symphony. Yet nothing is more common than to hear the violin carry the melody throughout, including the boresome repetition of the chorus half a dozen Hence BY CHARLES E. TRACEWELL. go to the trouble of writing a “verse” at all, since too often it is utterly worthless, evidently anything being acceptable so long as the chorus has any melody at all. The modern dance orchestra, at its best, constantly offers interesting uses of instruments, with ever-varying effects secured by their use. To the lover of orchestra music the best dance orchestras are interesting as It W. E. o inter- ested, will carefully analyze the next organization that is presented to him as a “treat,” he will probably discover that the orchestra is failing in its pos- sibilities. Instead of using the bass horn for the basic foundation of the melodic pattern. as one sees a sheet of solid linen upon which embroidery has been placed, too many of these orchestras rely too much upon trick stuff in the upper registers. The sharp tang of the banjo, for instance, which surely ought to bs used sparingly, else it loses its effect, in some orchestras is made the show instrument of the outfit. Drums, too, often are much over- worked. * ok ok ok To our ear dance orches general thing, would be proved by a general softening of their tone, as a whole, ‘While the raucous note may be nec- e y in some sorts of dances, it must be remembered that the theater is not a dance hall. A young man who is something of an authority on these matters tells us that no one could dance to the music of most of the or- chestras showing at the local theaters. He says that the syncopation is wrong, and that this is to be achieved hy the proper use of the bass drum, not through the little drum, or the tuba, or any other instrument. More strings and woodwind, with a i of the blare of brass, would bring these orchestras down to the concert level, or up to it, either way one choose. Even tho who find most of the music played mere piffle would then find themselves interested in the vary- ing orchestral effects, and especially in_the tonal results achieved. We have several records embodying our idea of what real dance music ought to be. With the exception of the blaring introduction, which even the best of them seem to think es- sential, there is not a harsh tone in the record. Instead of the shriek of the clarinet at the “turns,” soft-toned orche: bells are used. One record even ends with a single soft tap on a bell. * ok ok ok Playing the saxophone off-key is another blemish on many otherwise good dance outfits. We never have investigated this instrument, but when it is properly played we like it very much nd cannot join in the cry against it in some quarters. When it is constantly played “sour,” however, it utterly ruins an orchestra, much in the same manner as does the violinist who does not exactly hit the right note, but who plays constantly just a semi-quaver untrue, It is perhaps impossible for the jazz orchestra (a very poor name) to play classical music between the strictl: dance numbers, The spirit of the modern dance is so essentially Afri n tom-tomish that no group of play- ers can be expected to jump from it into the cla 1 spirit, and back again. There is no reason, however, times. As a matter of fact, musicall inclined persons often wonder why the lesser composers of dance tunes “The farmers are very foolish to support any measures like the plan to have the Government dump their surplus crops onto Europe. What the Government should do is to build great storage and save the grain, in anticipation of a world famine. We should do as Joseph did in Egypt. A world famine is coming, because of the weather conditions resembling the conditions of 1816, which was known as the ‘Year Without a Sum- S Such is the foreboding of the long- range weather forecaster, Mr. Her- bert Janvrin Browne of Washington. He so predicted in January, 1926, con- cerning the season of 1927. This was given out in his address before the National League of Commission Mer- chants at Chicago. One year later, January, 1927, he again spoke before the same body, and, referring to gar- bled reports of his speech of the year previous, he said: “I have never forecasted a ‘Sum- merless year” Certain sensational newspapers, wanting to make a good story, or perhaps misunderstanding my statements, widely circulated a story some months ago that I said 1927 would be a ‘Summerless year.' I have never been able to catch up with that yarn. ® ¢ ® “What I have forecasted is that this vear, 1927, will see a return through- out the Northern Hemisphere of weather conditions closely paralleling those of the famous year 1816, 111 years ago, historically known as ‘The Year Without a Summer. It had a Summer, but that Summer was char- in advance.” Respect for an Institution. We still serenely forward go, Despite some fierce acclaim; And every day we want to know Who won the bage ball game. We sometimes wish to shirk a task And scold; but just the same We still conservatively ask, “Who won the base ball game?" Jud Tunkins says he's going to go on loving his wife, even if it does pre- vent him from getting his picture printed in the alimony news. Shying at Professionalism, “You were formerly a regular win- ner at poker,” said Mesa Bill. “Of late you have always quit to the bad.” “That's all right,” confided Cactus Joe. “I don’'t want to lose my ama- teur standing.” “Do not grudge a busy man his days of vacation,” said Hi Ho, the sage of Chinatown. ‘“‘Some of the world's greatest thoughts have resulted from lonely reflection.” Interference. “Are you going to swim the English Channel “If T can get a clear course. But the crowd is going to be terrible.” Industry Program., This 1s the tircleas way ‘That business men now seck— Twelve hours of golt per day And seven days per week. ‘Tell do truth” sald Uncle Eben, L “Lut mot de kina of truth Q¥ gits it- self mixed wif fdle gossip.,”* | night. acterized by such extraordinary and violent fluctuations of weather as to, in large areas, practically all over the Northern Hemisphere, reduce crops to a low position. * * ¢ rom the 17th to 19th of June a snowstorm raged all the way from the Ohio and Potomac north. There was 4 inches of snow in Maryland, and the quanti increased toward the North. * * * I can get records of only one place, and that a field of less than an acre, in which corn was matured north of the Ohio and Potomac, and t S a little patch in Vermont. * * He built stump fires around that patch every threatening night, and he was peddling it the following Spring by the handful for seed. My grand- fathers both confirmed the statement that in their neighborhood corn on the cob for seed, held over from the crop of 1815, was selling in the Spring of 1817 for $5 to $10 a bushel. * ok ok ¥ Mr. Browne went on to explain to why they cannot give us good melo- dies—even if they have to play the old good ones over again. BACKGROUND OF EVENTS BY PAUL V. COLLINS. R — e ———— of the oceans from tropics to the frigid zones. * K ok ok Referring to 1816, Mr. Browne said in his January, 1927, speech: “There were at that time early observations of solar radiation by the use of the periheliometer, an instrument which in modern times has been very much improved. It showed for a period of about five years prior to 1816 a condition of low solar radiation, confirmed by low tempera- tures all around the globe. It was also known to astronomers that the period reaching into 1816 was one approaching the maximum of sun spots, ¢ * “This year (1927) we approach the maximum sun spots. They indicate reduced temperature on the carth. The sun spot is a huge body of & emerging from the interior of the sun under terrific pressure, possibly as thick as coal tar, but still a gas. It obeys the law of gases and expands at the surface of the sun, and expanding gas means re- duced temperature. You expand liquid ammonia to produce refrig- eration.” Then discussing his theors the solar radiation and ocean currents, Mr. Browne said: “Land cannot move solar heat from place to place. * * * But the oceans, for the double reason of their being water and being salt, absorb solar radiation. * * * Warm cur- rents flow in enormous volume prin- cipally to the North, like the Gulf Stream in the Atlantic and like the Japanese Current in the Pacific. He explained the long time required for the currents to carry their rhythm from tropic to arctic or from antarctic to tropic, so that when the sun’s heat is lessened and thereby the heat stor- age in the water is reduced in the antarctic or along the coasts of the American hemisphere, it will be a vear or three years before the full ef- fect of that reduction fs felt at the other end of the ocean rivers — the iulf Stream or the Humboldt and Japanese currents. When by the periodic increase of sun spots, year after year, for four or five years, there is a cumulative reduction of absorbed heat in the ocean, the full effect of that reduction is spread over the fol- lowing four or five years of climate, * Kk ok Space limits prevent discussion hese of the scientific data back of that Sye- tem of long-distance prognostication of weather, but it ased upon un spots, causing variation in solar radiation, and absorption and distribu- tion of the solar heat through ocean currents. This system s no at- tention at all to the day-by-day ob- servation of the air, as does the or- thodox Weather Bureau, and the two schools of sclence are at consistent that audience of commission mer- logzerheads. It should be further st January, on what he had based his statement that 1 would resemble 1816. He was ferring, he said, to the fact that ¢ radiation of 1917 resembled diation of 1816, owing to sun spots. And right there is where sts are now splitting, and both parties are ready to prove that the other is unscicntific. Behind M Browne, the long-distance forecaste stands Dr. C. G. Abbot of the Smith- institution, one of the world’s uthorities on sun spots and ation of the sun’s radiated nce or ab- sence of sun spots. When there are no spots the imum of heat pours out in space. The r lose no h in passing through etherial space, but when they fall upon the earth the heat is absotbed and radlated back into the ailr. Beven-tenths of the earth’'s surface water, and water retains heat much longer than does rock or sand or soil. A troplcal desert becomes burning hot during the day, but equally cold during the Not so water, especlally salt water, which absorbs the heat and Fetalns i, carrying it In the currents | Browne tated that the adherents of the tem cite the records of astronomy which tell the condition of sun spots for many centuries; and to the geologists who find confirmation of periodic changes in climates, from tropical conditions in the Arctic to the lavers of peat and palms and oaks and other vegetation records of the ages, coincident with the astronomical in spots. There are distinctive ¢ = The warmth carried by the currents does not cease as soon adia tion is lowered: it lags behind for sev- eral years The Benguela current flows north from the west coast of South Africa, taking 15 months to reach the Gulf of Mexico. It takes an- other 12 months for the r Iting Guif Stream to reach {ts farthest northerly drift in the Arctic; hence, the effect of solar-radiation and absorption off the coast of South Africa does not reach its destination north of Spitzbergen for two and & quarter years, but if a forecaster knows conditions today In South Afrfcan waters, he knows what will be the effect in I nd and Spitz L:2rgen about Deces 1, 1929, (Copyright. 1037, by V. Colling.) O, SATURDAY, AUGUST o7, 19%k THE LIBRARY TABLE By the Booklover. Not all Interpreters of the younger generation are as charitable and opti- mistic as Phillip Gibbs in his novel “Young Anarchy.” His conclusion fs that, with all their flamboyance and iconoclasm, the boys and girls of the 1920's will come out all right in the end. Not so Alice Brown. new mnovel, “Dear Old Templeton sho presents, as a secondary characte a modern girl who is evidently intend- ed to be somewhat typical, and prophe cizes for her through the worls of Dear Old Templeton a future élsas trous for herself and for every one who comes into her direful sphex: | frene Renfrew, neither beautiful, clever, mor original in any wa avidly ized upon all the audacities and unscrupulousness of her age and | poor success. ~She simply doesn’t et away with-1t" well, as cleverer girls do. A devotee of the theory of the superwoman, whose right it is to pick her man and make him Fer own, she spreads her net abont and over riy en- to work loose It he really chooses. When he finally does chc Irene pursues him indefat : him_ down with a series of hy attacks. After one of these scene she persuades herself that she really going to carry out the suicide she has so often threatemed. Sha drives her car madly out of the woods where she has been staking Champ, on to the main highway, with intent, so she afterward maintains, to across and down the steep bank on the other side. But her purpose, if she ever had one, weakens at the last moment and she makes a sudden turn on one wheel, and runs down Amy Templeton, who is walking home from the suburban raily ation, Any did not wish to commit suicide, nor to be maimed; she is the victim of Irene's egotism, which modern Jife allows to go unrestrained. When Trene drives around to make a futile and inappropriate apology to the Templeton family, she hears, prob- ably for the first time in her life, how she appears to a sane person. * % ¥ ¥ You had the power to destroy life, couldn’t understand to save your soul. I suppose it would have been better for you and everybody if you hal gone over the bank. You'll live to be married and the mother of sons and daughters. Good God! What is the world coming to in the hands of im- beciles like you?" After a sight of herself in the mirror of Templeton’s wrath, she merely crouches down in the seat of the car and whimpe If there were only Irene in the story, it would be very hopeless; but there is Sally—Sally, the unusual girl, who wears her long hair in braids wound around her head, because she know r, who say: the style suit! Father 20" and “Mum,” who refuses to talk of com- plexes, self-expression and trial ma riages, because she hates the modern jargon, who loves the waods and her garden, who can endure being alone with her own thoughts. * wew The name of Rodin France much the same of St. Gaudens in the United States— the best of national sculpture. Near- ly everywhere in France Rodin is re- called by his works and by personal associations. A book of several months ago adds something to the Rodin material—"Personal Reminis- cences of Auguste Rodin,” by An- thony M. Ludovici. The author, him- self an artist, was at one time secre- tary to Rodin and lived with him in his villa at Meudon. He speaks of Rodin’s lifelong relation to the woman who passed as Madame Rodin as “an exceedingly happy one,” but says that Rodin had little fondness for his son. “Never once did 1 have the opportu- nity of meeting Rodin’s son, but very soon after taking up my duties at the sculptor’s country house I learnt that there was a person who stood in that relation to M. and Mme. Rodin, and that it was best not to make any allusion_to him. His name was Au- guste Beuret—Beuret being Mme. Rodin’s maiden name—and almost all I knew about him wag that Rodin was not particularly fond of him and could not suffer him for long at his side, and allowed him to call at Meu- don about once a month.” * ok ok x Darwin was not responsible for all the suspicion cast upon science as the natural foe of revealed religion. Be- fore the publication of his “Origin of Species,” usually referred to as “epoch-making,” in 1859, there were many who considered that an educa- tion ‘from which science was missing was the only safe kind for one who wished to preserve his religious be- lief. In 1836 Benjamin Lundy, editor of the antislavery periodical, the Genius of Universal Emancipation, published the collected poems of Eliza: beth Margaret Chandler, who had been one of his most valued contribu- tors and the editor of a “female de- partment” of the magazine. With the poems was a memoir by Lundy, in which he gave the chief facts of Eliza- beth Chandler’s life and an unqualified eulogy of her poetic gifts and her de- votion to the anti-slavery cause. In speaking of her early education, he says: “We do not learn that she made greater proficiency in the more scien- tific studies than many others of her cotemporaries. The bent of her mind, even at this tender age, was religious- ly contemplative, and she was more inclined to view with admiration and gratitude the works of the adorable author of nature as they were un- folded to her mental or corporeal vision than to pry into the mysteries of creation and strive to attain to a higher degree of knowledge than was, perhaps, vouchsafed by the Creator.” In caring little for science, Ilizabeth Chandler was not different from most of the women, or even the men, of her time. Education then was chiefly classical and literary, and many of the leading schools either offered no science whatever or such a smatter- ing of miscellaneous scientific mate- ial that modern makers of a curric- ulum would find difficulty i . ing it. Add to this that much of what we consider scientific knowledge today did not exist in the first half of the nineteenth century, and it is not sur- prising that Elizabeth Chandler and others studied science almost entirely throuzh their own observation of nature. connotes in as the name A W Ellen Glasgow contrives a clever mixture of flattery and scorn in hes description of modern girls in hel novel, “The Romantic Comedian Judge Honeywell, who is goi through a disturbing but intoxi process of rejuve his wife's death, : | by his worldly-minded sister that he has been brooding too much and needs to go out more, even that he might dance occasionaily, because it is such good exercise. So he goes to a dance in honor of the birthday of a young girl of his acquaintance, and is sur- In her | | tried to make them her own, with but | to cause an amount of suffering you | e ———— ————— ——— ———— — —— e THIS AND THAT ANSWERS TO QUESTIONS BY FREDERIC J. HASKIN. Q. How many Summer camps do the Boy Scouts maintain?—M. A. N. A. During the Summer of 1926 there were 569 camps conducted by local councils of the Boy Scouts, and the dally enrollment in these camps was 113,300, or a total for the on of 600 boy wecks. In addition to the council camps, many troops conducted | individual camps, but the enrollment | figures for these are not available. | Q. What is the increase in the price of cot ing_to amount to for the | South?—W. A. R. ! A. Definite figures will not be known until the crop has been marketed. It | has been estimated, however, that the | recent sharp advance in cotton prie means at I 0,000,000 to the cot- | ton planters of the South. Q. Did Henry | with his automobiles from beginning?—F. R. A. It has been | writers that the ¥ | $82,000 in its first Q. Why does No such a big internal revenue A. No The internal revenue collected in North Carolina y large because taxes on tobacco are collected at the factories rather than from retailers Since the price of the revenue stamps |is eventually paid by the smoker of the tobacco, people all over the world contribute to the internal revenue re- ceipts of North Carc Ford make money the very stated by financjal wd Co. earned some r. rth Carolina ?—H pay was the ). Qu range of Jenny A. She had octaves and th rters. e qus Q. How many negroes are there in New York City?—J A. Tt Is estimated that there are more than 200,000 negroes in Ne York City. the bLig cables of the sridge put in place?— 30-inch cables of the Dela- re River Bridge between Philadel- nd Camden were laid up in place s spinning in air, originally developed by the elder Roebling and used in practical all the large wire cable suspension bridges since. This method best ad- phia by the method known Templeton says to her: “You're |y prent of the individual wires and e IR Ll e );L\:;!zjn'nuls the necessity of lifting the haven't the least idea what it all | heavy strands. These weigh anout 5 means. Somebody’s refused you | 10nS_each and con ki something, and you're a hurt baby, | W' throwing away your plaything; Q. Which is the mos You, a small, insignificant atom!| poisonous snakes of India A. The deaths in India, \C than any other snake. It is a near relative of the cobwa, is active and th Carolina does not pay it. | clear range of two| | fearless and s likel | houses and tents. to creep into | Q. Has any one ever refused an | vitation to dine at the White House” | W illness have Sudden ncy may or some- suc caused wman emerg 11»:(.1.1» to send ‘“regrets” in r to a White House invitation. Dick the famot remembered, however, eaturing | his visit to the United States with a curt “It does not suit my convenienc in reply to an invitation from Presi. dent Tyler to dine at the White Hou: a | . Q. Please give the story ahout | Little Church Around the Corn A. The Little Church Around the | Corner in New York City is a name | given to tho Church of the Transfigu- ration, due to the following incide )“ cording to the rector of the ehu George Holland, a popular_com lied on December 20, 1870. Thec | man first appealed to refused to | him because he was an actor, bu | rected the applicant to the church around the corner. Hopgh- ton, then rector, immediately consent- | ed. and his action in the matter dr many feelings ward larly on the part sion. Americ . Last y tion was Q. What were the names of tha Indian foursome that have been shown in_pictures lately playing goit in Indian_costur H. hey wer sitting k slack F f Sitting Eag hief Black Buftalo, me was ndian d | Q. Howma > hattleships | the United & s have n R At the present has capital ships. They all bear ma of States. h of the new varieties of | t successful?—N. C. | f yi ble are Kota, Federation, Hard Federation, Kar- mont and Noda The resources of our free Informas tion Burcaw arc at your service. You are invited to call upon it as often as you please. It is being maintained by The Evening Star solely to scrve wou. What question can we answer for you? There is mo charge at all except two cents in stamps for re- turn postage. Address The Ev | Star Inforrmation Bureau, Frederic J. Haskin, director, Washington, D. C. American opinion in connection with the execution of Sacco and Van- zettl gives evidence of a tendency to regard as unimportant the criticisms that have come from abroad. It is felt by many who discuss that phase of the matter that garbled accounts of the case have been carried across the Atlantic, or that Communists have purposcly sought to make cap- ital out of the punishment decreed. There is, however, on this side of the water, a serious debate as to wheth- er Massachusetts criminal practice should offer an_opportunity for ju- dicial review of facts. “The precautlonary yet firm man- ner in which our courts have pro- ceeded with the matter should cause all patriotic Americans to have a re- newed faith in the American way of administering justice,” says the Char- lotte Observer, while the Bangor Com- il feels that “it is to the ever- asting credit of Massachusetts t its justice has not yielded to public uproar, clamor and intimidation The San Francisco Bulletin takes even a stronger position on the case, saying in its editorial: “Foreign com- ment on the trial and execution of Sacco and Vanzetti is as impertinent s it is unintelligent. Our American conscience is in no wise disturbed by noisy European demonstrations of protest. * * ¢ Nearly all the pro- tests of European and other foreign cities are predicated on misinform: tion that the two men wers pe B because they were ‘\\};1[((:?1'.\,1 their political opinions had no more to do with their trial than had the color of their hair, cut of their clothes, or ]lht:xr.l:x‘vo‘]r;(:ticlen{\‘\g reakfast food. as America is an American concern, an:l o corern of European editors an rioters.’ o may rave and s—although only “All the world threaten if it choose: the irresponsible cho of justice, under 1av turbed in the t,'r(u!e(‘!n:" tes g‘\?rn.}\\m Sun holds that ‘th(;‘ Xn(mé_e tion of the death penalty m"t_e Jof of a world-wide demon:llqtlonu‘ purely emotional elements is rather drastic but convincing evidence l‘ill society in Massachusetts s s L founded upon a {!g:t‘en{’lyatlhé:l\:fh(:nz rder and not guided the s s 3;“(‘1\‘9 ;‘nnl:;a." The Jersey City Journal Sees the issue “in the minds of most people” as ‘“‘whether American Co‘ub.~ and the Am(‘li(‘l:m peuxt)’l(l\‘ were to be ive a lawless mob. 3 i dr""’l“‘:fl:@’ that cry out against lhl§ execution,” in the opinion of the Albany Evening News, '\\'«\\Sl\l that American institutions have failed and that clamor should rule. Massa- chusetts had either to carry out th.(‘ law or let clamor rule. It has car- ried out the law. It could take no other course. The case ends. \}) recriminations can change it one bi America would best go about its bus| ness in the faith that its institutions are secure and that justice has been done.” The Toledo Blade feels that “it has been demonstrated that money, influence, foreign sympathy, threats, vViolence, strikes, parades and dyna- mite have not been strong enough to weaken or undermine the founda tions of constitutional government. The law wins,” concludes the Blade. Of the final action in the case the Boston Transcript asserts, “We could not do less without trampling on all our traditions and undermining our as to the penalty the Philadelphia Evening Bulletin suggests that “every death penalty is gruesome, horrify- ing, but there cannot be government or order or peace without law and law enforcement.” If any other ac- tion had been taken in the face of the violence and threats, as viewed by the Scranton Times, “it would have been a sad day for law and order in the United States.” * X Kk X The Lynchburg Advance states that as only because of their radical tiona ews that we witnessed the impudent interference of foreigners in the domestic affairs of a State of this Union and the perfervid sobbing of cranks in this country. “Abnormal and unbalanced sym- pathy” is condemned by the Bingham- prised at his own disinclination to dance with his hostess, a stately, white-halred woman, a half years younger than himself. shamelessly, he longed to dance with thuse Images of fire and snow with- out corsets and without conversation, who melted to wisps of tulle over soft little bones 'and wisps of gold or brown Batr over soft Uitle MIBART. ... oo ton Press, and equal objection to Euro- 'Foreign Criticism Discounted in Sacco-Vanzetti Execution These men would have overturned the present social system. It was, there fore, the duty of the present social system to vindicate its stence as founded on law, order and justi Foreign misconceptions receive attention in the American pres New York Sun finds, in foreign prints, “amazing and ess deviation from fact,” and “If four leading lib- eral’ weeklies of England can be mis- led, what wonder is it that prejudiced or unintelligent publications have de- ceived unthinking readers The S: Francisco Chronicle “It was made to appear, not only in this cou try, but more particularly abroad, where the common people could not readily come by the facts, that Sacco and Vanzetti were being tried for their radicalism. * ¢ * To t propas ganda we now owe the hatred of Amere ir ica which has been thousands of foreigne Replying to.the charges of failure to give adequate opportunity to_the defendants, the Canton Daily says, “It is because these men known as radicals that many Amer- ed in all these icans who are not radicals & * ¢ have favored the most careful re-ex- amination of the hefore letting the men be exccuted.” The Worcester Evening G . Akron Beacon Jour- nal and Watertown Daily Times feel that under other eircumstances they would have been executed 3 . The Springfield Union he officials had been influenced ‘'misrepresentation, prejudice or venom, that would have been a stain on the reputation of Massachusetts."” The Salt Lake Deseret News Is cone vinced that “few cases in history have been more searchingly reviewed.” * % kK The Birmingham News sees the ad- verse opinion abroad as possibly due “somewhat to the ill-feel now pre- iling throughout the world inst this country, but even more to the no uncertain feeling that, for re: 5 of public policy as well as of justice tempered by death penalty might v been commuted to life imp The Waterbury Republican mutation “the nobler course,” the Milwaukee Journal adds that this case “strips the capital punishment ument they advocates of every a have had.” ns for Ame as happened,” : ing to the New York Evening World, “sober American thought will note and promj It iy a time for opinion o remember that its best str in calmness and restraint. Saltimore Evening Sun declares was largely the pressure of B apd American public opinion tha duced France to reopen the Dreyvfus 1t was foreizn opinion, largely ynly them in due course without sslon or violence. all kinds ngth s The American, that forced Mussolini to make pretense of trial of the accused in the Matteotti case. It is vegard for public opinion, always tly foreign, that restrains tyranny in every civilized country “Sacred justice is the onfy stable foundation of popular government. Time will be required to tell how verely this foundation has been shocked,” declares the ®Morgantown whole structure of government,” and ; va | impo: tof capital pun political tendencies and their insurrec- | pean “protest against the orderly proc- esses of the law" is raised by the South Bend Tribune. The Richmond News Leader avers that “it is fitting to re- member that the radicals who most as- sall America for belng wrong acclaim Russla as right.” The Hartford Times comments: ‘4J1 that any one should have. Gemadibn 'wan' biach. e New Dominion, and the Chattanooga News laments that “the indictment of American justice in the minds of the world is ve and horrible thing.” The St. Louis Post-Dispateh conclude “The law has spoken and good citizen- ship must accept it. But in the hearts of men with a passion for just the deportment of Sacco and tti will remain as a conscious® ress of innocence.” R ORI “If the law were to provide that & sentence for life imprisonment make ible the setting free of a con- victed person through the exercise of executive pardon, there would imme- diately be many converts to aholition ment.” according to the Utica Observer-Dispatch. The Rocky Mountain News wonders i “the ones responsible for the conviction of the two and their execution are satls fied with themselves.” The New Yorl Trenton Evening Times and < and Observer suggest v of a change in the courts which would provide for more adequate review of o< in higher courts. “Tho case is more than likely to 20 thundering down the ages ‘as one of the most celebrated involving the righteousness of American justice.” says the Omaha World-Herald, and the Portland Oregon Journal con- clude he debate is ended. There is no Sacco or Vanzetti to dispute over, If they were not guilty, it is now too lat~. No human force can bflnl_hck life or atone for & wronged