Evening Star Newspaper, August 29, 1927, Page 8

({THE EVENING STAR With Sunday Morning Edition. WASHINGTON, D C. MONDAY.. .August 29, 1927 THEODORE W. NOYES. ... Editor| The Evening Star Newspaper Company Business Office aud Penn<yivama Ave ' E The Evening g editi the ety 45 cenis nor per_month rlenho carrier at Rate by Mail—F Maryland and aily and_Sunday S0 00 : 8 00 1 mo 1 mo aily only, i mo unday only and Canada. $12.00: 1 mo. $1.00 <500: 1 mo 4 S100°1 mo All Other Stat Iv and Sunday.1vr only A, v onlv. 1vr Member of the Associated Pre: The Assoctated Press 1< exclusiveiy entitled to the ‘uee for repuhiication of all news dis- atches credited 10 it or ted_in this published he of special Incendiarism. nd th sm In a first of in scheduled demon- Incendis marked the Sacco-Vanzett! posthu strations yesterday in Boston. At the crematory, where the bodies of the executed reduced to Mary Donovan of the defense commit- tee read a statement in which she ex coriated the social order under which th Simul- taneously several fires were started| by sympathizers, two of them being | at the station houses of e panies which had been called to Serv-| ice by a blaze started as a lure. While | there is nothing to prove that these fires were the direct inspiration of the organization t seeking to make a revolutionary class issue out of the trial and execution of the mur- derers, it is a rea that they were at least incited by the agitation accompanying the last rites over the victims of the law. In her speech at the crematory Mary Donovan indulged in the usual extravagance of language that marks the deliverances of the radicals. Sac- co and Vanzetti were “murdered” be- cause they were anarchists. Those who did this thing “allowed the bitter prejudice of class, position and self- interest to close their eyes.” Sacco and Vanzetti were “the victims of the craziest plutocracy the world has known since ancient Rome.” It is *one of the blackest crimes in the history of mankind.” The “blatant exultation” with which those respon- sible sent these men to death “is the final sign that the act of killing them ‘was the act of vengeance of one class, the class dominated by the worship of money and position, against them as symbols of another class, workers and all others aspiring to realize the true meaning of life.” Thus are Sacco and Vanzetti to be martyrized, to be made the symbols of persecution by the plutocracy of ‘America. They are to be exalted as the victims ~of tyranny. Such language is calculated to arouse the intense feelings of prejudice upon which the Communists are constantly playing for the purpose of arousing the spirit of revolt. Sacco and Van- zeitl are depicted as noble characters, who lived pure and upright lives and were animated by the highest ideals. The law is pictured as a cruel, selfish monster, directed by tyrannous masters. All these things appeal to the ignorant, especially to those of foreign birth, who do not understand American institutions and who have been, perhaps, disappointed in not finding immediate fortune in this “land of opportunity.” It is special pleading of a most venomous charac- ter. No wonder that the incendiaries set forth to burn, throw bombs and start. disorders. The inspiration of such addresses is far-reaching. Today the ashes of Sacco and Vanzetti are to be taken to New York and there made the center of a dem- onstration. A permit for a procession has been denied, but a meeting will be held at which probably speeches milar to that which was delivered et the Boston crematory will be ut- tered. The rule of “free speech” will be invoked to the point of incendi- wrism. The law will be defied. A few arrests may be made for “disorderly oonduct” and the episode will end. T Any artist will agree that red is a perfectly good color, capable of the most sane expressions and agreeable modulations. It is a pity that it should have been disgraced by erratic political theories. ——aene Irresponsible bandits assume the privilege of adopting the designation that pleases them. Every red calls himself a revolutionist. - A Prompt and Generous Act. New York City has acted promptly and generously to provide for the destitute widow of the motorist who was commandeered by a policeman in & chase for an automobile thiet and was shot and killed. The tragedy occurred on August 14 Samuel Golden, New Jersey truckman, @riving peacefully along a New York street when a policeman jumped on the running board of his car and ordered him to chase a stolen auto- mobile which was being driven rapidly ahead. When Golden had almost overtaken the other car shots were exchanged and the motorist who was lending his help to the law slumped down in his seat. Ie died before he could be rushed to the hospital. The case aroused nation-wide atten- tion, as it is the practice in many cities for policemen to commandeer automobiles in pursuit of law vio The pros and cons of the question as 10 whether a policeman should thrust @ defenseless citizen into peril were Giscussed and it was the conmsensus that on dangerous missions the public was well within its rights to refuse 1o aid. The incident also served to stiess the fact that all police depart ments are inadequately equipped with mobile transportation and that one ©f the crying needs of today is a goecdy remedy for this condition. men were ashe: v were condemned to death. is sonable conclusion ors. \ New York. howaver. has taken the 2,600,000 acres speech | | they attitude that the motorist in this case should be treated as if he were a policeman at the time of his death and that his estate should receive the same benefits. Twelve thousand dol | 1ars. a sum slightly more than would acerue to a policeman’s family under mi circumstances, has been awarded Mrs. Golden. This amount | wdded to the five hundred dollars which was sent anonymously to her | Il serve to keep the wolf from the until adapt herself New York, s W door she can to conditions. of | course, cannot give her back husband. but it is doi the | best thing in the appropriatior | was made less than two weeks York has the in this matter sumber of for the changed het next whict 1ter set the nd accident. example fc to follow adequate | the W fine country until an mobiles are provide of lawbreaker should follow its I s rest of aute appr 1ension every other ity Fast Time to London. round-the-worid record of Evans of | days | The ton Wells and Bdward F {approximately twenty-eight pears to be in considerable danger of being bettered by the ambitious fly- {ing excursion of Ei F. Schiee and William S. Brock, who completed the t leg of their giobe-circling trip in fast time. Yesterday they landed at Croydon airdrome twenty- three hours and twenty-one minutes afte took off from Harbor Grace, Newfoundland, successfully | the hundred mi Atlantic, their next to longest ocean hop. If | can keep up the speed estab lished on the first lap of their more than twenty-thousand-mile trip they will set a new mark by a comfortable ward twenty-three over the ering and fifty s margin. Wells planes, boa twenty-eight- ons Evans used trains, and automobiles in their ¢ jaunt. They missed times, but demon- s in making up ‘hlee and Brock, have proved well over and connec at strated resourcefulns for delays. Already § in their all-plane t that they are ingenious as skillful. They lost their w. England, but almost immediately con- cocted a plan to enable them to get their bearings. Finding themselves over a sandy beach they dropped notes on the inhabitants of the| nearby town asking that their loca- | tion be written on the sand. S- -n was spelled out in large letters and a small Union Ja was hoisted on a pole, and the aviators knew at once where they were and sct off on a beeline for Croydon. It was a device similar to but undoubt- edly more efficacious than Lind- bergh’s shouted query to group of fishermen far out at s this the right road to Ireland?” Of course, the time will come, and soon, when the names of all towns, whether in America, England or con- tinental Europe, will be written large in some conspicuous place for the guidance of aviators, but for the pres- ent flyers must rely on their own in- genuity when they are lost. Schlee and Brock are, therefore, to be con- gratulated for not only the first non- stop flight from America to London, but for a demonstration of resource- fulness and skill that will carry them a long way in their peril-bestrewn path around the world. R ] The Duffer’s Dream. Ten under' even fours and five better than par for one hundred and fifty-two holes of championship golf! That a duffer’s dream of Para- dise. It is the actual score of one Robert T. Jones in the just concluded amateur championship of America. And so Bobby, the incomparable, adds another scalp to his already sag- ging belt and another trophy to now silver-lined walls of the Jones liome and the Eastlake Golf Club of Atlanta. It is positively uncanny, the mas- tery that this lad has over the most elusive and fascinating sport in the world. A bad round for Bobby is in the high®seventies, and a six on his card looks to him lke the knell of | doom to his game. Yet there are mil- lions of able-bodied and able-minded men who struggle around rolling fair- ways who are tickled to death to shoot in the eighties or nineties and who triumphantly boast of only two sevens on their in eighteen holes. Apropos of sixes on Bobby's card, it might be remarked at this point that he played through the en- {tire British open championship a month or so ago without a single one of these horrible figures on his tally sheet, romping home a winner by a wide margin. TUnless he is physically disabled Jones, only twenty-five years old, is good for twenty or thirty or perhaps | more major championships, thereby setting a record that will live as long as golf is played. He is the master, if there ever was one, of the royal and anclent game, and he deserves the | congratutations of the sportloving world. May he always carry on to| fight almost single-handed the battle | against Old Man Par, so formidable to most goifers, but to Bobby simply another opponent to feel the sting of defeat undor his skill with wood and iron! score ——— raeee Aviators have been reminded by Mr. Bobby Jones that it is possible to be the hero of the hour and still re- main on terra firma. e oo | | | Losses in the Floods. of the States| severely from | June and July Reports from six which suffered most the floods during May have been gathered by the Depart- ment of Agriculture with the resuit of a compilation of the damage and losses inflicted running into high figures. The total flooded area in | these six States was 4,417,500 acres, The chief sufferer was Arkansas, with 1,838,400 acres, and next was Louisiana with 1,112,200 acres. In 2 ippi 561,000 acres were covered, in Missouri 339,000, in Tennessee 195,000 and in Kentucky 50,000. More than 000 head of horses, mules, cattle and swine, and poultry to the number of 1,300,000 were lost. No monetary estimate of the losses has heen undertaken, but it is evident that the damage ran into an enormous total. Crop estimators report that cot- ton was gro in 1926 on about the area flooded this | survey shows that the farmers intend- | one of the most fertile regions in the | disaster. The Mississippi " | region | of this year to find the surest wr | longer rog | in oppor year, corn on 1,100,000 acres, hay on 360,000 acres and other crops on 370,000 acres. No estimates are avail- able to show how much of the flooded wrea was replanted this year, though the height of the flood a special ed ha to plant corn on 1,351,400 acres, on 447.300 acres and other crops, iding cotton, on 2,044,600 acres. hese fizures give a concept of the devastation wrought by the waters in United States, fn which resource an area wsriculture is the prinelpal of the people. The loss of live stock < an especially scrious factor of the ley plant- is almost all done by animal trac not The loss of more tha 000 head of horses and mules thereforc is a grievous handicap the planters of the flooded area. This stock eannot be quickly replaced, though the Government did something to alleviate the situation in this respect, tion, mechanie: While no estimites are available as e, it is known s of the flooded went back to their homes as the waters subsided and started in as best they could to redeem something from the disaster. Some ports have come to show that in the higher areas. from which the water: subsided ecarliest, unusually heavy crops have been grown. The Inunda- tion has indeed, to some of the people, | been a blessing. But these are excep- tional and the total reckoning is one | of an enormous Engineering s to the replanted acre that the- inhabitan soon as udies have been con- dueted in the light of the experience v of flood control. A project will un- doubtedly be presented to Congress at, the next Iistimates of the st will run into high figures, but in view of the I that the Depart- ment of Agriculture’s reports reveal the magnitude of the undertaking should not discourage action. o s and fundamentalists no at one another. Both are | concerned in conscientious religious thought and may be expected to unite ng any manifestation of reck- less iniquity. Modernis r S e At this point in the world's vicissi- tudes some of the most forceful writ- ers and speakers content themselves with looking out of the car windows and describing the natural scenery. R e In computing the enormous alimony demanded in motion picture circles the question arises as to whether, after all, it is not really the public that “pays and pays and pa it e Perhaps the world would understand the Chinese war more clearly if the fighting could suspended long enough to give the propagandists their opportunity be e | American Indians have been liberal in distribution of war bonnets. The old Tammany Hall decoration will still hold its influence. Reports of unrest in Mexico do not create the impression of novelty. Un- rest has always been a characteristic of that country. ———e—— America is a large and beautiful country with fine hotels. European travel is not absolutely essential to happiness. e —ees The problem which will confront Congress is that of fewer new laws and more enforcement of old ones. —oe—s SHOOTING STARS. BY PHILANDER JOANSON Post Card Land. In Post Card Land I like to dwell, And with a friend enjoy the sea, Where twilight colors deftly tell Tales of a life so far and free; Or in the mountains near the sky, Where products of the richest mines Are far surpassed, none will deny, ‘When dawn upon the dewdrop shines. One moment down the lane I stray; The next,' where buildings great are shown. The pictured greetings every day Have never let me feel alone. The office room expands its cheer With visions of the hill or strand, And friends all heartily draw near My tranquil home in Post Card Land. Correct Phrase. “You have been before the public a great many years.” *‘Before the public’ is right,” an- swered Senator Sorghum. “I have sometimes marveled at the way I have managed to keep ahead of it.” Reliable Signals. My sense of humor may be slow, Yet I appreciate the chaff. The headline writers let me know Exactly when it's time to laugh. Jud Tunkins says divorces have be- come so common that pretty soon really smart people will avoid them. Copper Coin, “The Chinese carry an amount of copper cash.” “Don’t see what they want with it. They haven't so very many street cars.” immense “A leader,” said Hi Ho, “is too often one who, without having mastered the theories afiout which he talks, is will- ing to take a chance.” Limited Luxuries. The richest land on earth have we; And that's what makes it seems so queer, That the plain people cannot see More than one circus every year. ‘Nobody ever fergits a friend,” said Uncle Eben. No matter how long you has been separated, a man can always call a frien’ to mind when he needs him.” N Slaughter. From the Boston Transcribt Sixty-two persons were Killed by motor cars_in Boston between Janu |ary 1 and July 15, and still we speak |of the shooting of five men back in 1770 as the Boston Massacre. — e An Expert. From the Portland Oregonian. Mr. Dawes, who complains that the STAR, WASHINGTON, D. € THIS AND THAT BY CHARLES E. TRACEWELL. The French have a good word, more or less generally adopted into English without change, the noun ‘“insou- ciance,” lites meaning carelessness, heedlessness, recklessness. In our tongue, however, it is given 4 less harsh connotation, usually in- dicating merely care-free.” If one says that Soand-So did a particular act with insouciance, he merely means that he did it more or less gayly, with a certain zest. There might be more of this good insouciance the benefit of all liv insouciant man, rightly knows and appreciates all bright and happy things Color, tone, movement-—these are the components of the great picture which he views in the act and art of living. Harshness he abhors, although he may come to look upon it In an amused fashion. The wide swing from the attitude toward life of the Puritans to the ultra modern conceptions of the happy flappers has been merely a step to- ward insouciance in the daily life, ushed to the extreme limit, we have heedlessness and recklessness and worse, but such abuse attaches itself to almost anything in the hands and control of certain persons. In its proper degree insouciance gives us the happy frolic of the se shore, the clear air of the golf cou the wholesome diversions of modern life in general. This is neither an immoral nor an age in its better aspects, but merely a happier one. * ok K % There once was, in a certain large city of this land, a newspaper man, known to the public of his town the city editor. (The edito the one who tells the repo to_do.) Now paper, this was a morning news- o the young gentlemen came to work some time in the afternoon, and labored until some time after midnight, One of these young men did his work insouciantly, as we might say i English. He enjoyed himself im- mensely. Not the least of his de- lights was flirting with the talephone operator. She was a snappy little lady, who treated all the boys alike, and was more or less of a pal and brother to all of them Her quitting time was 11 pm. One night the insouciant young gentle- an offered to take her home, and his offer was accepted with thanks. About midnight, the middle-aged city editor, who also was a good ex- ample of insouciance, asked hur- riedly for Mr. So-and-So. “He's taking Nellie home,” was the reply. At 12:30, when finally drifted in, eyed him sternly. “Where have vou been?" he asked. “Seeing Nellle home,” came the truthful reply. “Well, hereafter vou are assigned to take Nellle home every night at 11 o’clock,” grinned the editor. And—believe it or not—this assign- ment stood on the books for a month by Mr. So-and-So the city editor is what means B one souciance.” After all, why should life be made so stern, so uncompromising? Life, itself, is enough so—why go out ‘of our way to make it more un- yielding? There is sorrow enough for all of us. Life is such a serious thing at bottom and. at top that there is no need for £o many persons assuming the frozen face, the tone of harsh command, the attitude of slave drivers. There might be, with evident betggr- ment all around, a more care-frec spirit in the world. This happy re- | sult might be secured, not by a “lower- ing of the bars,” but by a clearing of the public mind of outworn cobwebs. Now a cobweb wouldn't be so no. ble if it were not for the accumu- lation of dirt that accompanies it. Many of the nasty traits of hu- manity, the accumulation of centuries and the residue of outworn creeds and nations are incorporated in much of our thinking. The very physical ills of humanity make men and women grouchy, il tempered, hasty in word and_ action. Thinzs are magnified that ought to be forgotten. When a person is ill what right does that give him to “take it out” on his children or friends? * K X % Tow much has the world suffered some one’ could not get along wife! Why should one have to test a :nd every day, as if he were some t of thermometer, to find out whether or not it is safe to talk to him? Thes appr ter how long the acquaintance, it is plainly manifest whether o they ave willing. Well, now, who or what gave any human being such a divine preroga- tive? It one approaches, wishing to he gay, what right has another to be grouchy? Rather ought he unbend, and in the act of unbending smile the best he can, for a time may come when he will ask the same of the other. This is the exact point where the application of insouciance falls down. If men and women were not so self- centered, there might be more hope for a general adoption of cavefree happine Rut life is, as an old song had it, a seesaw of ups and downs. Some time I'm up, some time I'm down.’ When we are down we are down for good—or, at least, so it seems from the depths. To have this silly fool come with a smile when we, the all-important we can_ muster nothing but frowns, is to offend the divine ego of the human spirit. It is, however, precisely this ego which ‘holds the world back on its grand swing toward complete happi- ness. One would not minimize the dark hours. They come to all. But one should be sure, first, that they really are the dark hours. Let ns save our sorrow for them, and not dilute it over the years, cast- ing gloom where others ask, often =0 pathetically, for smiles. Let us rather live life with insousciance, if we can, for even an earthworm can be solemn. Tt is only human beings who can smile. . fr men whom no one dares awch in Mimiliar fashion, no mat- ntil not WASHINGTON OBSERVATIONS BY FREDERIC WILLIAM WILE. Senator “Jim" Couzens, Republican, of Michigan, is likely to find himself in a controversial pickle as soon as his brother solons can get at him in mass formation, The dictum of Couzens—rated, with his reputed $50,- 000,000 fortune, the richest man in Congress, with the possible exception of Senator Phipps, Republican, of Colorado—that Senators are overpaid finds little agreement among them. Indeed, most of them think they are overworked and underpaid. Many are poor men and are known to have real difficulty in making both_ends meet at Washington. Senator Borah has never felt he could afford an automobile. Senator “Joe” Robinson of Arkansas, the Democratic leader, was four years paying off, in in- stallments, his senatorial campaign expenses. During the same interval he and Mrs. Robinson hunted Wash- ington high and low for an apart- ment that they could afford. An number of Senators devote their en- tire $10,000 salaries to employment of extra secretarial and clerical help, in order to attend adequately to the incessant demands of constituents. * ok ok K A well known “Hoover man”— Claudius H. Huston—who was As- sistant Secretary of Commerce during Hoover's first two years at the head of that department—has just become a labor union executive. The power- ful Brotherhood of Locomotive Engi- neers has engaged Huston to be its fiscal adviser. The brotherhood is the financial aristocrat of organized labor. Its various banks and other business institutions have resources of more than $100,000,000. Huston's job will consist of administering, with a board of directors, the brotherhood’s vast capital investments. He has been, in his day, a banker, a manufacturer, a college professor and an oil magnate. Now and then Huston has dabbled in Republican politic: In the G. O. P. he's known as “the first man to break the solid South,” his feat in helping the Republican State com- mittee of Tennessee (then his home base) carry that State for Harding and Coolidge in 1920. In 1924 Hustan was chairman of the ways and means committee of the Republican national committee. * % ok K Observed on a placard attached to a tumble-down flivver parked near the White House during the week end: “I do not choose to run.” B Maj. Roy A. Haynes seems to he a natural-born prevenger. His legion of dry friends throughout the coun- try have been wondering in what di- rection the long-time commissioner of prohibition would turn his energies, after he fell outside the Mellon breastworks last Spring. Now Haynes comes forth as the presi- dent of a new Washington fire in- surance company, which will special- ize in schemes for preventing fire losses, rather than in paying them after they've occurred. Despite his plunge into prosaic business, Haynes will continue to be an interested by- stander on the prohibition sidelines. His record as chief enforcement offi- cer, from 1921 to 1927, is part of the history of prohibition and his friends assert it will stand the searchlight of investigation in the perspective of time. EEEE The Woman's National Democratic Club, having successfully staged a 1928 slogan contest” at its Wash- ington headquarters in May, decided to hold a nation-wide has con- test and award prizes to the win- | ners. The local competition was won by Mrs. Wilbur W. Hubbard, Demo- cratic woman leader from the Kast- ern Shore of Maryland, with “Eight Years of Wall Street—Give Main Street a Chance.” First, second and third of, respectively, $100, 30 are hung up for the nimble-witted men or Democraic battlecries for next vy presidential ecampaign. Politicians lay great store by slogans. Many a time since “Tippecanoe and Vice President has no work to do, might talk it over with the Jing of Italy, Tyler, Too!" put a President in the White House, slogans have done ef- fective duty in national campaigns. ' i 1 | 64, | should adopt. With “Cal” out of the running in '28 Democrats admit that their slogan material has visibly shrunk. * ok ok K Two new candidates for Gen. Leon- ard Wood's vacant chair at Manila are receiving some consideration at Wash- ington. One is Vice Gov. Gen. Eugene A. Gilmore, who became Wood’s right- hand man in 1922. Gilmore is a col- lege professor by profession and was drafted into the Philippines service from the University of Wisconsin fac- ulty. He is an earnest supporter of the policies Wood pursued in the islands, especially against the en- croachments of the Quezon-Osmena “politico: The other reputed aspi- ant for the governor general professional soldier, Maj. Gen. liam Weigel, who has Jjust red from active servi hav- reached the statutory age of Weigel has a splendid record of more than 44 vears of continuous duty in the United States Army, fol- lowing his graduation from West Point in 1f He saw fighting serv- ice in the Philippines and throughout the World War. In the campaign in France Weigel, a divisional com- mander, won numerous American and French honors for distinguished deeds in battle action. e R The President of the Canadian Na- tional Railways is a Hoosler Yankee, though now a British subject and knight—Sir Henry W. Thornton of Montreal. The other day a newspaper in Western Canada, which doesn’t like the C. N. R. or Thornton, launched a varn to the effect that he'd had to take a hasty vacation because he'd just suffered “a bad stroke.” At the mo- ment, Thornton, a giant, was in the midst of a vigorous holiday in Jasper National Park, Alberta. When the re- port of his disability came to nis at- tention, Thornton issued the following statement: “Yes, it's quite true. 1 had a bad stroke. It overtook me § terday. In fact, I had four bad strokes in quick succession. They oc- curred near the fourteenth green on the Jasper golf course. The first one, one of the worst I ever suffered, got me into the bunker, and I had three more bad strokes before I got out.” ing (Copyright. 19" P ) The Decision. From the Portland (Ores.) Journal. Bill Lamance is going to become 4 That iy not an unusual thing for voung man to do, but the method by which Bill Lamance reached his decision—it was made by a referee in a prize ring—is another story. Bill's father had been a prize fighter. He left that profession 15 years ago to become a preacher, and is a preacher still. When it car time for his son to prepare himsel for a career the youngster was un decided as to whether he would under- take his father's first calling, profes- sional hoxing, or follow him into the ministry Bill studied for the ministry, but while he was in school he also’ kept up his boxing. Upon graduation he was still at sea as to which career he After a time he decided that he would try the ring and if he won an important bout he would re- main_a prize fighter. If he lost hé would fight the devil from the pulpit. He and his father set up a training camp. For weeks Bill ‘Lamance trained for the bout, with his father his_counselor, trainer and manager. The contest’ was fought a few da: ago. At the end of the fight the referee held up the hand of Lamance's op- ponent in token of victory. It was Lamance's last fight in_the prize ving. From now on his fight Is for souls from the pulpit. It is a more worthy calling, but it is to be hoped that Bill Lamance will be more successful in his struggle there than he was in the boxing con- test that altered his caveer. RS, Not Gratis. From the Charlotte O Free speech is always free until it becomes ligel. T;n it's very expen- sive, | under that condition” s THE EVENING ., MONDAY, AUGUST 29, 1927. ANSWERS TO QUESTIONS Socialist-Laborite Denies Anti-Capitalism Is Theft To the Editor of The Star: Your editorial dated August 25 on “Thievery and Communism” shows that you are not aware of the tactics of the revolutionary movement, or you are purposely misrepresenting them. The Socialist Labor party proposes to follow Amerfcan constitutional lines in its spreading of that much-hated principle of collective ownership of the tools of prodiiction. We have American precedent to follow, namely: 1. The American Revolutionists did not steal, nor were they thieves, nor did they confiscate the property of the blue bioods of England and his fol lowing of Torles. Continental Con- gress passed a_law embodied in our Declaration of Independence prohibit- ing ownership by royalty in the Amer- ican colonies, denving their right by God to rule the American people. 2. The freeing of 4,000,000 negro ves representing $2.000,000,000 in wealth, Was that thievery? No! Abraham Lincoln, the gréatest Presi- dent we ever had and ever will have, led his party to victory on that prin- ciple. 3. The American citizens were de- nied their right to have intoxicating liquor, not through thievery, but by law making it a crime to manufacture or use it. 4. American lives were draftad, not taken, by law during the World W It was not for us to say i Wealth will be drafted in the future | in much the same way, and events will force even you to propose such i change for the benefit of society. Wealth which becomes a menace to the happiness of the people will be socially owned, but you state “for the benefit of the few,” an incorrect posi- tion, for you imagine that the finan- cial system will remain intact. It will have tottered, due to its dwn incon- sistencies. Will there be selfishnes: You are plainly mistaken under those circumstancs We do not flout the laws of the land; in fact, we are most law-abiding. The upper class has only contempt for the laws which they instigate. The lawmakers flout these laws, and the law enforcers are mo better in their contempt for these very laws. The revolutionary movement is not linked with the underworld. Canton, New York, Chicago, show us that they have relatlonship with the Repub- lican. and Democratic parties, Who have for their principle the robbing of the workers at production. Private ownership based -upon col- lective production must necessarily be followed by collective ownership. Evo- lutfonary process Is in our favor. As a political party, we are the pioneers, the John the Baptists, crying in the wilderness, proposing a change that even James Madison, Thomas Skid- more, Abraham Lincoln, foresaw in their study of conditions. Capitalism finances bogus movements, agent provocateurs to bewilder you and the American people, to worm their way in among the revolutionists and pro- pose physical force ideas, going so far as to provocate deeds that bring dis- grace on an innocent people. Com- munism does not defy the law. If you believe these sentiments are treason, make the most of it. The modern tory by his very mis- representing facts, stamps himself as a reactionary and an enemy of the people. In the attempt to discredit, vou deny that the people have the right to take over industry. But what L you if that principle is proposed at the ballot box? We are not ashamed of that principle. answer yours. A JOHN McGRATH, Committee, Socialist Labor v Section, Washington, D. C. Clear Thinking Necessary In Regard to Radicalism To the Editor of The Star: The pathetic letter in_ Thursday's Star, entitled “Defense of Radicalism,” is another instance of failure to analyze the situation. It would be hard to prove such statements as ‘no one has ever met any of them who would replace the Stars and Stripes with the red.flag” and that the I. W. W. does not “advocate anything con- flicting with our Constitution or traditions.” The fact that the writer has never encountered any red prop:- ganda hardly bears on the question at issue. The writer fails to distinguish be- tween the two uses of the word “radical,” and it is regrettable that such divergent meanings exist. The radical who strives to reach the root of any matter is to be commended. The radical who is doing his best to uproot organized government is a menace, and the latter is represented by the Sacco-Vanzetti qrowd. writer is correct in saving that “only a deluded fgnoramus would strive to | overthrow our form of government, and that is exactly what these radicals are doing. The tree is known by its fruits, and the purpose of the anar- chists Is proved not only by their name but by the means employed for put- ting over their cause. That there are too many unprogres- sive souls who sneer or look askance | suggestion of change for the | at eve better Is too obvious for argument, but to include the I. W. W.. the Socialists, and the Single Taxers in the same class or to ally the Declara- | tion of Independence with the propa- ganda of Soviet Russia is not clear | thinking. The real issue is between material- | ism and idealism, the spirit of Alex- | ander the Great and Jesus. The quest | of materialism will never end in peace | or promote true progress. The man | who, when face to face with death, cries “Long Live Anarchy” is a fire brand, and firebrands- are not con- structive material. WILLIAM J. SEELYE. ] How Hagerstow ! Regulates Walkers | To the Editor of The Star: I notice your front page article in regard to the regulation of pedestrinn traffic in the City of Washington. In | fact. it is a problem everywhere. I, too, like thousands of others in your city, noticed the very thing of which the article states. However, 1 had not been in the hustling little city of Hagerstown, Md.—on my way home— five minutes until I noticed their s: tem of regulation, by a bell sys- tem, assisted by green lights on each side of the street. The pedestrian | traffic is under a splendid system of regulation; in fact, as good as any place should desire. 1 think it might | be a good plan for your able body of traffic managers to go to Hagerstown and investigate its plan. I know that the same plan will not work everywhere, but the principle of regu- lation of ‘passenger or pedestrian traffic is the same. We are prone to despise the plans of smaller cities, but if a better plan is in existence than I have found here I would like to see it. JESSE (COLDRE; Brownsville, — raeee Genius. sm the Dallas Journal. Chicago millionaire who attributes his success to luck says that wealthy men display no more genius than a lottery winner. But some men have a genius for being luck v Unreasonable. From the Detroit News. A man Is that large irrational crea- ture who is always looking for home F atmosphere in a hotel and hotel serv- ice around the house. Nor do we fear to| The | Q. What is the maximum speed that a human being could endure in an air- plane’—G. 8. A. Aviators and sclentists are de- bating that question and their opinions are varied because no one knows the conditions that may surround flyers in the future, affording them protec: tion against the present dangers of extreme speed. The world's record is now 278.48 miles an hour. held by Warrant Officer Bonnet of France. but it is believed that Lieut. James H. Doolittle of the United States Army attained a speed of 350 miles or mors an hour in a straightaway course when he accomplished the feat of an outside loop. Q. What dam is the highest in the world?—N. A. A. The highest dam in the world that under construction at Pacoima Canyon mear Los Anzeles. When completed it will reach a height of 3 feet. Its base will he more than 10 feet thick, its top only 8 feet. Q puma H. Ss. A. These same animal. In what respect do a couzar and a mountain lion differ terms all designate the Q. Where was the —G. N. A. This was the name given by the Mormons in 1849 to their settlement in the pr nt State of ['tah. Deseret and meant land of the honey bee. In 1850 Congress created the Territory of Utah, and the old name fell into disuse. Q. What is the amount of electrici generated on the American side of Falls? What does i H alls Power s plant was 2 000 kilowatt hours, which is about the maximum that can be generated with the present installation from 20,000 cubic feet per second of water alotted the United States for power purposes under the terms of the 1909 treaty. The cost per kilo: t hour varies, de- pending upon the amount of energy purchased, the time and conditions of its use, and the date of the contract. The average net revenue for all power sold for the years 1925 and 1926, re- ported to the Public Service Commis- 3.04 mills per kilowatt hour. is there a ecol of Shake- aluable?— Q. In this country lection of first editio speare that is unusual . L A. . H. Hale, writing of the Hunt- ington Library and Art Gallery, says that the collection of first and inter- mediate _editions of Shakespeare on deposit in_this library “equal that of the British Museum.” of Pennsylvania is in farm land?— C. 8. ey A. The percentage in farms is 56.8. Q. How wide is the Detroit River at Detroit?—W. E. C. b A. It is about one-half mile wide and 30 to 50 feet deep. times known as the Dardanelles of the New World. Q. How far did Ennis walk on his trip from coast to coast, and how long did he take?—O. J. A. John Ennis covered a distance of 4,000 miles from Coney Island, N. Y., to Cliff House, San Francisco, Calif., in 80 days and 5 hours. did not walk Sundays. Q. What was the first impersonated by a woman English stage?—B. J. A. It is said that an actress ap- peared for the first time as Desde- mona in “Othello.” character on the his writing began to attract notice?— L. 8. A. His first hit was “The Time Ma- chine.” published in 1895, when Wells was 29 years old. Q. According to evolutionists, when aid the human type diverge fyom ape type?—J. T. G. A. According to the present scien- amazing | ate of Deseret? | was taken from the Book of Mormon | sion of the State of New York, was| Q. What per cent of the total area | It is some- | H“I Q. How old was H. G. Wells when | BY FREDERIC J. HASKIN. tific view, man comes of a stock com mon to him and the higher apes. It is believed that the divergence cf the humanoid and anthropoid types oc. cured perhaps a million or more years | ago. Q. What is meant by Evacuation day in New York City’—T. D. A. In history it ‘is the day upon which the British evacuated New York, November 1783, Q. Bunker cd?—V. H. A. It is derived from the family of | Bunker ~which owned considerable property in Charlestown during the arly period. Bunker Hill was for. merly a pasture belonging to the unker family. Q W A, The term cliff dwellers Is us de: nate the supposed ext lders of the numerous cliff attered throughout the c the Southwest, along th f the Colorado and F orado, Ari For a long time thelr origin ect of much discussion, but ion has proved that not the work of any but were built by the tors of the modern some of whom. nota 1l have their vi n the sum f almost inace | 5. Evidences of cliff also been found in various parts rope. having existed during an early period in th story of man. Q used A jern ples did not | 3 = i For whom Who were the cliff dwellers”— to b ruins was a sul S a | exiinet race. immediate an; | Pueblo Indian: bly the Hopi How long have on clothes? J. B. W, The button is a produ on, since the any such form of holding their ciothes toget Th were first used for ornamental | pos The next was the {of the button and loop, the . button hole being last in the developmer Buttons were first employed in south ern Europe in the thirteenth and fou: teenth centuries. Their manufacture in England did not commerce until the reign of Elizabeth. The earliest mention of the buttonhole in litera ture occurs in the year 1561. While men’s outer garments are still m h_buttons and buttonholes, the trend of the present is away from such fastenings. Almost all women's clothes and many men's under ments are now made without tons. of mod- | Q. How long does it take a to become a full grown frog’ A. The Bureau of Fisheries says that the length of time that it takes 1 tadpole to become a full grown frog depends entirely on the type of frog. *or example, for a bullfrog hout two years and for a tree fro anywhere from 30 to 60 days. Q. Who | A D made the first clock in the United ates?—P. R. In 1754 Benjamin Banneker. n | negro, and a friend of Thomas Jeffe: son. made the first clock constructed in America. It told the time and i struck the hou | Q@ Mow long has the Wight Cup been played for?—H. F. A. The play for this tennis trophv hegan in 1923. That vear the Ameri- can team won it: i and 1925, the British: in 1926 the Ameri- n. Only Bri | women are eligible to compete for it. | Q@ How much do the enormous volls of paper on which nev are printed weigh?—J. N. M. A. They weigh about 1340 pounds. Did you ever write a letter to Fred- eric J. Haskin? You can ask him any question of fact and get the an=- swer in a personal letter. Here is @ | oreat educational idea introduced into the lives of the most intelligent people in the world—American newspaper | readers. It is a part of that best pure pose of a newspaper—service. There is no charge except 2 cents in_stamps for return postage. Address Frederic | 7. Haskin, director, The Evening Star Information Bureauw, Washington, D.C. Loss of Big Ar Revelations which have come as a | surprise since the death of J. Ogden ! Armour present the spectacle of a losing battle fought in the business | world against overpowering forces by one whose wealth at one time was estimated at $100,000.000. In the midst of romances of rapidly won for- tunes the story of the one-time mas- ter- of the packing industry is viewed as almost unprecedented. To many his failure to retain the old power is due to his own personal character as exhibited in the crisis of his career. Post-war conditions resulting in de- flation are held responsible for the | shrinkage in fortune “An old story of imperialism, with is pointed out by the Cin- | cinnati Times-Star, which recalls that ‘no legions of armed men carried eagles for him into other realms. His legions were the carcasses of ez and hogs, with which he soug conqguer foreign markets. They vepulsed. And the mighty captain of caitle and hogs was deposed. He died a disappointed man. But he had hi imperial dream, even if it was ex- pressed not in living legions but in ad animais.” With a tribute to the “vast amount of good that he accom- plished.” the Albany Evening New akes the further statement that “i i 1 of him that when his own for- tune dwindled he bore himself brave- ly. vet his sensitive nature made re- es all the harder to bear.” t has Leen said that his fortune, onee among the I f writes Amon (¢ the Fort Worth relegram, s swept away in or ave ths great husiness that bore his name when_the difficulties of the deflation period threatened it.~ Whether that true or not, of course has not been blished, but it would be his natural course. He was that kind of man He worked not for the sake of the dollar. but of worth- while achieve one of *he wo zreatest husines he naturally would have made ri character of person e neces: sary to save it. 1lis name was worth more to him than money.” ey zht have the winds aily World for hin In fact, some of h go friends v now that he could h: saved himself if he had been ‘hardboiled,’ which is to say if he had been But it would appear that he valued his self-respect, which, in the final nal is 1 man’s most valued pos- session. The Little Rock (Ark) Democrat ture in the story of Mr. Armou death which we should not overlook Citing his care for the family name, the Democrat asks: “How many men, rich or poor. would have made Mr. Armour’s selection? The answer would be an interesting sidelight on American life.” The Columbus (Ohio) State Journal emphasizes the fact that “not every man at 60 would be able to make the adjustment.” Queries also came from the Charles- ton Daily Mail: “Could you lose (sup- | variation personal in “Another his creditors to Aberdeen 1 financial n thrown less honorable. | finds that ‘“‘there is a fea-| mour. Fortune Unique in Its Tragic Details person at the end of the 130 days that you were before the days of decline and disaster came? One must hand it to J. Ogden Armour for being a real philosopher.” The Fort Wayne Jour- nal-Gazette remarks that ‘‘Armour was so great a figure in a business { which had to be done publicly that |the belief in his enormous riches was not only natural but seemed to ha all the support that visible evidence can_ furnish. “His packing business,” it is re- called by the Dayton Daily News, “he inherited from Philip D._Armous, its tounder. But the son vastly increase the business and tw®-™eARH ot th amily. Under Ogden Armour’s lead- ership the packing industry became {one of the most powerful and the | most feared of industrial mammoths Twenty vears ago the average farme: believed that Armour made and un- made, pretty much at his own whim, the price of live stock, and the con- | suming public believed that he col | trolied the price of meat.” The Prov | dence Journal finds in the later situa- tion an illustration of “the insccurity of wealth,” while it also “There is something picturesque even magnificent about the terrific { speed of his downfall.” | * Kk ok k “Tod: | sound investment ma | tomorrow's bad risk.” aceording 1o the Passaic Daily Herald, which states that “in Mr. Armour’s experience it was the drop in inventories from 1 to 1921 that shriveled the Armo tune, because he sold most other possessions to reha company r tepu The terrific violence of 1 icultural deflation ca best comprehended by observine ecatastrophic effoct on this private for Urbani and industrialisis professional men may gain a new eption of what happened fo wor )n the land.’ We may all u nd the hetter what these ontents amount to and wh threaten when we link with rheir o «in the tragie crash of the house of Armour.” | “A real traged { the Lincoln s : “He was not a v T little for s <elf to the which he was the {<imply one of many who ove themselves not in a sense but in the hone that the which enarosced their attention wr enlarzed and strenathened.” The | Naw York World asks: “Wns he deenls affected hy the reverses of the last fow vears? One susnects that he was Ifor he was no belisver in soft op timism. ¢ ¢ ¢ He waged war in the Chicazo wheat pit, asking no quarter and giving none.” “If the whole truth of the post-wa. | deflation were to be told to the g ¥ lic.” in the opinion of the Min~. apolis Tribune, “the story would in. clude probably an amazing number of costly experience of American busi- ness men. biz and little.” The inct- dents in the Armour decline, says the Christian Science Monitor. “are not without their peculiar and almost pathetic appeal,” and that paper states + tho posing in the first place you had it) one million dollars a day for 130 days handrunning and be a good sport at the same time? Counld you continue to smile, be chfery in your ways and be outwardl, visibly the same that “the first great success of Philin D. Armour came in the period of re- adjustment following the War Be. «v;e;;; :h- sn:um and the dissipation of arge fortuge began soon after the World War.”