Evening Star Newspaper, September 3, 1927, Page 6

',, to present estimates the new work 7" ment of the old one that has so de- “.‘leaving little for other bridge re- THE EVENING STAR With Sunday Morning Edition. WASHINGTON, D. C. BATURDAY....September 3, 1027 THEODORE W. NOYES....Editor 'The Evening Star Newspaper Complny Business Office: Lltp St and Penneyivania Ave, New York Offie: 110 East 4dni’st. o Buildine. European E:‘E"r:;l 8t.. London Enkland. ‘The Evening S with the Sunday morn ing edition is Jelivered by carriers within the city at 60 conte per month: daily only 45 cents por month: Sundavs only. 20 cents P mo: Orders may he sent hy mail or elephone Main 5000. Collection is made by carrier at end of each month Rate by Mail—Payable in Advance. Maryland and Virginia. ?::l! wq Sunday. .} yr 1y ‘only. vr. unday only. e T :fil!fl:lm 6.00: 1 me $300: 1 mg All Other States and Canada. v and Sunday.] vr.. $12.00: 1 mo.. $1.00 ily only . yro g8 00 I mo. " 15e unday oni! 0071 mol 35c¢ Member of the Associated Press. The Associated Pre xelnsively entitled 10 the ‘use for republication of all news dis- Paiches credited 1o it or not otherwise cred: fted in this paver and also the local news ublished herein. All rights of publica o a4 dispatches herein are also rei Awaiting Hughes. Charles Evans Hughes will reach this country from Europe on Monday, returning from a vacation trip abroad. He will be met soon after he lands by a number of eminent Republicans asking him to reconsider his decision announced several months ago not to be a candidate for President, in view of Mr. Coolidge’'s “I do not choose” statement of a few weeks ago. ‘They are animated by the belief that Mr. Hughes will be the strongest candidate the Republican party can present, and especially in case the Democratic party should nominate Gov. Smith as its standard bearer in 1928. ‘When Mr. Hughes was approached last on the subject of the presidency he declared that he was “too old” for another race for that office. He is now sixty-five, and, if nominated next year and elected, he will be seventy upon completion of the term. He is, however, in sound health and his years are not a burden upon him. His admirers scoff the idea that he is too advanced in life to take on the responsibilities of office. There is, moreover, a belief that while, when he expressed himself last on the subject of the presidency, he demurred on the ground of age, in point of fact there was every reason to expect the renomination of Mr. Coolidge, who was at that time virtually the only one considered for the 1928 nominatien. It would have been unseemly for the former Justice and Secretary to ‘‘nominate” the President by declining to permit the consideration of his name on the score of Mr. Coolidge’s priority of expecta- tion. Whether the “I do not choose” statement, which has been accepted as a definite declination, will modity this reluctance on the part of Mr. Hughes remains to be developed. It is altogether unlikely that Mr. Hughes will “throw his hat into the ring.” He is not an office seeker. His momination in 1916 went to him un- solicited. He was then on the Supreme Bench, where he desired to remain, but he obeyed the summons of his party, accepted the nomination as a mandate and missed election by the narrowest of margins in a campaign conducted in abnormal conditions. His defeat was not a discredit to him and he afterward gained the highest esteem of the American people in his oonduct of the foreign relations branch of the Government as Secretary of .State. He is probably today stronger with the country than he was when be was nominated a little more than eleven years ago. Again it may be that Mr. Hughes regards himself sincerely as too far advanced in years to undertake a campaign for the presidency and the duties of that office in the event of election. In any case, it is quite well assured that he will deal frankly with thoss who approach him upon his return next week and will' not “play politics.” —————— A strike has closed many film the- aters and threatens to close more. The supreme moment is evidently at hand for Dictator Will Hays to assert the Hmit of his authority. ————————— The boy King of Rumania has en- deared himself by ingenious wit and much may be done “for the love of Mike!” ———— Canada {is inclined to criticize tne smuggling industry for taking out of the country much better liquor than it brings In. Chain Bridge Repair Costs. A proposal has been broached, though it has not yet been definitely considered by the Commissioners, that the cost of building a new concrete .. #butment to Chain Bridge, in replace- terforated that the closing of the bridge has been required as a measure of public safety, should be met by the - dmposition of a toll charge on all users of the structure when it is again put into commission. The cost of the new . mork will be paid for out of appropria- tions for bridge repairs. According “ will cost the larger part of the total annual appropriation for this purpose, . pairs unless Congress should promptly at the beginning of the session make & new appropriation reimbursing this general fund. Inasmucl as it will take about three months to build the abutment and put the bridge in com- mission, by which time Congress will have met, it is doubtful whether the toll expedient will be necessary. No appreciable amount of money could it would seem to be only equitable for the State to bear at least a part of the cost. The closing of the bridge, necessitated by its decrepit condition, has imposed a far more serious burden upon the Virginia people than upon those of the District, and yet responsibility for its replacement by a new bridge or its repair pending provision for a permanent substantial construction must, under the present arrangement, fall wholly upon the District taxpayers with such small assistance from Federal funds as will be afforded by the bridge-appropria- tion mojety of the “lump sum” appropriation, . A Cruiser for Williams. Upon receipt of a communication from the Navy Department President Coolidge has given his approval to the assignment of a fast cruiser to transport Lieut. Williams and his sea- plane to Venice for the Schneider Cup race. which will take place September 28. While this is apparently a recon- sideration of a former position, the fact is that the President was await- ing the recommendation of the depart- ment, which has now recorded its de- sire that the sole American represent- ative In the great air classic should be enabled assuredly to reach the scene of the contest in season for tun- ing up and testing and finally par- ticipating in the competition for speed. It would have been deplorable if, because of repeated delays in the preparations, Lieut. Williams had been deprived of the chance to enter the races. For there is evidence that the plane which Willlams will take with him to Venice is capable of speed greater than ever before achieved by alrcraft. Williams is still putting the machine through its paces in tests on Long Island, being somewhat handi- capped by unfavorable weather and the necessity of testing some new pro- pellers, but there is every reason to be- lieve that he will be ready before next Friday, which, it is estimated, is the latest date on which the Trenton, now tentatively named for transporting him, can sail in season for the races. The run to Venice covers about 5,000 miles, and can be made by the Trenton in from ten to eleven days on an aver- age cruising speed of 20 knots. If she sails on the 9th and reaches Venice on the 20th a little more than a week will remain in which Williams can as- semble his plane and try it out. In the assignment of a cruiser the United States has followed the course of the British government, which has placed several warships at the service of the entries from that country in the Schneider races. Inasmuch as the postponement of the contest to permit Williams to arrive by regular transpor- tation was prevented by British refusal to consent to a delay, it is most appro- priate that this Government, which is | not officially represented in the Schnei- der flight, should send its unofficial entry to the scene by its own trans port. — An Tnexcusable Practice. . Motorists ~ entering Washington over the Baltimore Boulevard are loud in their condemnation of the practice that has grown up almost overnight of advertising Washington hotels through the medium of circu- lars thrown blindly into cars in the vicinity of Hyattsville. These de- scriptive bulletins are distributed by THE EVENING ing at the rate of seventy-seven miles an hour on one of the fine rolling roads near Sherbrooke. The polite but determined provincial policeman, after the fine had been paid, filled out a receipt for the motorist. “What's that, a summons?” queried the latter. “It is a receipt for your fine,” an- swered the policeman. “Shucks, I do not want that!" shot back the driver. “I do not need a receipt when I get caught for seventy-seven. Good-bye.” In any event, Americans should | hold down their speed when traveling | through the Dominion—that is, if they want to save a little money, and it is presumed that every one does. Can- ada should do its part by being a trifle more lenient in its speed laws. Thirty miles an hour is entirely too slow for the open road, and the city signs cautioning a speed of twenty miles are placed too far out from any habitations. A reform is needed on both sides of the border; the Ameri- can speeding motorist must cut down his speed, and the Canadian author- ities should increase the speed limit to a reasonable point. ] Melting Devices for Car Tracks. In the operation of the New York rapid transit lines much trouble is caused in Winter by the freezing of switches through the accumulation of ice and snow. Whenever the tempera- ture falls there is a serious blocking of the lines, especially at the termi- nals where trains are made up and transterred from track to track, and large forces of men with brooms and shovels have to be put at work, with the consequence of delay and some danger from the high potency cur- rents. An automatic melting system has been devised and is now being in- stalled in anticipation of the Winter, which by the application of current whenever the temperature of the out- side air falls below a certajn point operates to dissolve the ice aMi snow and clear the switches. By the end of the year nearly 3,500 of these ap- pliances will have been placed on the Interborough Rapid Transit lines and it s expected that they will serve to keep the trains in motion without de- lay or risk. Much trouble is likewise experienced in Washington at switch points dur- Ing Winter from the same cause. Track gangs are needed whenever the snow falls to keep the switches clear. They do not always succeed in doing so. They must be kept constantly at work at crossings and crossovers and curves at intersections, and with the greatest diligence they fail in extreme weather, with snow and ice forming, to insure the constant operation of the cars. It would be well for the local traction companies to consider the in- stallation of these melting devices for STAR., WASHINGTON, THIS AND THAT BY CHARLES E. TRACEWELL. Every one has to find out from his own experience the worthlessness of advice, Experience is the bird in the hand— advice is only what is in the bush. The young man starts out on a tri- umphant advance upon futurity, buoyed up by the sage words of the elderly gentleman with the long beard who made the graduation address. “Seek counsel of your elders,” the distinguished man had said. Now the young man was to learn, as the resuit of many years' flowing over the wheel of his own individual time, that this gratuitous advice was a wonderful sample of all advice, It was, if the sad truth must be stated, a bit of buncombe, a little propaganda by Age in favor of Age. Had the Successful Graduate been strictly honest with the fledglings, he would have said something along this line: “Young gentleman, I am sorel tempted to advise you to seek adv: in the years to come from those who have fought the battle of life. “It sounds well, and there are very few with enough—er, intellectual stamina to gainsay me, now or here- after. “Yet, the plain truth is that most advice, given as the result of ques- tioning, is utterly worthless, because the giver is both unable and unwilling to see the thing from any other stand- point than his own. “What 1 am going to tell you is walk under the shadow of your own hat brim, as the late Uncle Joe used to say. “If you are seized with doubt not run to the first solemn-lc gent with a good-sized bank account, but figure the thing out for yourself, and then stand on your decision. “Thus you will grow into stature of a real man.” * ok ok K If we had life to begin over again, we would flee advice as we would the devil himself, We would not accept advice if it were presented upon a silver platter. Of course, we don't now—but that is different! ’ Think of all the sadness and futility we would have saved ourself from if we had listened, in our early years, to some such brave man as outlined above. Our present line of conduct; in which the worthlessness of most advice is honestly .recognized, was worked out at a great cost. Any one who has innocently be- lieved in the wisdom of others to the minimizing of his own will tell you that it is a painful process, brothers. One hears so darn much stuff that isn’t. so! the * koK ok Some busy little adviser is forever telling one to do something that won't work out. Not long ago a young gentleman who doesn’t smoke a pipe bustled up and proceeded to hand out the-follow- ing free advice, second hand, at that: “My doctor says that if you do not simply this: Stand on your own feet, | D. C. SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 3, 1927. smoke a pipe until after lunch it will never hurt you. I'll bet you smoke right after breakfast.” He looked at us fixedly. Unfortunately, the time was 9 a.m., and we were caught with pipe in hand. “Well, what of it?” we said, in an attempt to be nonchalant, something in_which we invariably fail. Nonchalancy is not natural to us. Anyway, we failed, as usual. S doctor says,” went on he, t if you smoke before noon yvou injuring the heart and the entire piratory tract—"" “To say nothing of certain obscure injuries to the eCringing soul,” we murmured, “But if you wait until after lunch,” he went right on, “a pipe will never hurt you.” “But we eat lunch at 11 o’clock,” rejoined we, crushingly. ‘“‘And, be- sides, the only tim® we really like to smoke is right after breakfast.” * kK ok Tuake motor cars, now. There is absolutely nothing your friends delight to advise you about as much as automobiles. If you happen to be that guileless innocent, the man who has never owned one, you are their meat. There will be at least one person to speak up for every car on the market, and at least two to knock every make. Rival salesmen have simplified the knocking process to such a- degree that each one pridefully boasts that he “never knocks another car.” Here is the way they do it: You ask the man who Is trying to sell you a Coyote 6 what he thinks of the Big Bear 4. “A good r,” he says doubtfully. “A good car. “Great!” you say to yourself. But it is not so great, after all. en—he speaks: ‘But it is an experimental car.” This is the latest and positively the most sure-fire method of damning with faint praise since Shakespeare was a lad. A good car, but ah—experimental. Hellish, isn't it? Perhaps in a dozen years or so the manufacturers may have the thing down to a stable basis, but a prospect now is surely taking an awful chance —an awful chance, mister. In fact, you poor sap, if you buy the Big Bear 4, do you know what you really are doing? Why, you simply are a dog. Yes, sir, a dog. The crafty manu- of that Big Bear car are ing that car out on the dog, as the saying is, and you will have the inex- pressible ~ satisfaction of being the dog, if you fall for it. It may be a good car—I ain'# saying it ain't—but how do you know? Why, even the manufacturer doesn't “tha So one sees that in buying a car, as in everything else in life, one must use his own noodle, ard come to his own decisions, If you seek advice, seek it at home, where you can get it with the least fuss. Seek it right inside your own head. adoption here. While the Winters in Washington are short, they are at times severe, and heretofore most of the traction troubles at that ‘season have been caused by frozen and block- ed switches. One such obstructed switch may tie up traffic over an en- tire line. Accidents result as well as delays. As long as rapid transit is maintained here by means of track lines the equipment should be of the best quality and should include the latest dependable devices for main- taining constant and regular operation, ——— The fact that President Coolidge asks no further political favors gives men and boys who stand on the side of the road. Some of the circulars are made of cardboard and on two occasions recently injury has been recelved by motorists who were the unwilling recipients of these adver- tisements. One woman has reported that she sustained a bad cut over her eye from the sharp edge of the cardboard which was thrown directly in her face as she was driving through the town. Another, blinded by the paper and excited by the un- expectedness of the occurrence, drove head-on into the car preceding her, causing a bad accident which might have had serious consequences. ‘Washington hotels and merchants who advertise in this manner should take heed of this condition. There is absolutely no excuse for the ac- tions of the men and boys who distribute the circulars. They seem to believe that it is nothing more than a game, consisting of sailing pleces of cardboard and paper in the general direction of the motorists, most of whom do not care for this type of business enterprise and are exceedingly annoyed at the merchants or hotels that engage in it. If an immediate reform is not in- stituted by the organizations engaged in this questionable activity it is likely that police action will be had. Motorists should not be compelled to face a paper barrage in addition to the manifold trafic problems of the road. And it is obvious that nothing but resentment can be aroused by methods that' add to the hazards of him an independence which may carry an interesting weight of personal au- thority. “I do not choose” implies power as well as renunciation. ——— Acclaimed as L That part of the will of Elbert H. Gary in which he advises his family. ‘against doubtful investments and loose business practices promises to live as a legacy to the public. Prob- ably no utterance of the late head of the United States Steel Corporation during its extraordinary successful life ever attracted such universal at- tention. Assuming that he “was well aware that the advice given to his heirs would be published to all the world,” the, Kansas City Journal summarizes the warning as follows: “Decline to sign bonds or obligations of any kind as surety for anybody; don't antici- pate income; don't lend money except on first-class, well known securities; don’t invest in any untried or doubt- ful securities or property or enterprise or business, but reject recommenda- A movie troupe may block traffic Wherever it decides to go ‘“on loca- tion.” The camera confers new au- thority which is seldom questioned. ————— Summer resort announcements have this year offered little to the resident of Washington, D. C., in competition with the comforts of home. ———————— SHOOTING STARS. BY PHILANDER JOHNSON. September. September wanders through the lane, And gathers with a careless hand The blossoms which a glad refrain Had greeted in the Summer Land. The rose belated strives to smile And humbler buds come forth each day, “ Though it is but a little while Before they all must fade away. And still the birds make bold to sing, And flowers struggle to be bright, As brave they bring, though sorrow- ing, Their tribute to the conqueror's might. Flippancies. “Aren’t your remarks sometimes rather flippant?” “Perhaps I am overdoing my pose,” confided Senator Sorghum. “Some- touring. ——————————— Another literary labor should be undertaken by Charles Lindbergh. It should be in the nature of a chapter of “don’ts” for brave flyers. Speeding in Canada. Canada does-not fool with speeding motorists from the United Staies. A quick fine, right on the roadside, with no explanations accepted, is the regu- lar rule. Mounted on speedy four- cylinder motor cycles, the provincial police are on the job every minute, as is testified to by the figures just re- leased showing that during the last three weeks forty per cent of the ar- rests have been American victims. All'of this big percentage of Ameri- can speeders are very probably gullty; in fact, the roadside fine paid to the arresting officer is based on an ad- mission of guilt by the defendant. But it does appear that too much attention is being pald to visitors and not enough to the Canadian motorists. A , be raised by such a means in the period elapsing before the passage of @n appropriation measure. In this connection it is’again to be noted that Virginia authorities are unwilling to bear any part of the cost of reconstruction of Chain Bridge, al- though that viaduct is in great meas. ure a utllity for the benefit of the residents of the State. It is a District bridge, as are all others crossipg the Potomae, inasmuch as the District|to explain. ‘boyndary line lies at high-wate# mark | classic tale, however, of the American | ey thought religion was 80 | on the Virsinia shore. Nevertheless, motorist who Was arrested for speed-. of » sida show,’ road census on the busiest Canadian thoroughfare, between Toronto and Montreal, showed only fourteen per cent of the automobiles bearing United States tags. Yet the arrests total forty per cent. Perhaps many of the gullty admis- sions may be accounted for by the desire of Americans to be quickly on their way after an arrest. Then the total of forty per cent would be easy But there is still the times a man has to try to be funny in order to convey the impression that he is not scared.” Big Profit, In commerce Art now finds a thrill Which may increase hereafter, As she collects a dollar bill For five cents' worth of laughter. Jud Tunkins says a man who smiles all the time {s a bad actor, who fgnores tion of such by anybody when in doubt.” The Journal adds that “this is &ood advice to the inexpert. Such as follow it will have no cause to mourn.” “There is evidence to be found in his last testament that he had read care- fully and profited from the proverbs of Solomon, whose reputation as the wisest of men and monarchs has come down to us through the centuries, observes the Newark Evening News. The Richmond News-Leader exclaims: “How many homes would be saved and how many widows kept from want if this advice were made a part of every will and were respected!” The advice “is of inestimable value” in the opinion of the Rock Island Argus, and the Portsmouth Sun sug- gests that “it would pay husbands and fathers generally to take the Gary will and use it as a text for heart-to- heart talks with their families.” * ok ok ok Recording that the words of wisdom came “along with his bequests, not the least of which were $400,000 in scholarships,” the Atlanta Journal feels that, though addressed to his wife and daughters, “the public gen- erally should profit.”” Still, the Flint Daily Journal, praising the statement as ‘‘perfect,” adds: “Somehow, the words of authority have a way of gong astray with those of heedless younge: generations who could learn %0 much by them at the expense of their own independence and curiosity.” The New Bedford Standard recalls —from Kipling's “Certain Maxims of Hafiz” this plece of worldly wisdom which Judge Gary might have quoted: “‘My son, if I, Hafiz, thy father, take hold of thy knees in my pain, Demanding thy name on stamped paper, one day or one hour, re- fraif, 5 Are the links of thy fetters so light that thou cravest another man’s chains?" " The Philadelphia Public Ledger be- lleves that the advice of the will, “if followed, should guard the Gary heirs from the mistakes which have brought about the ruin of many large in- heritances.” “Perhaps,” suggests the Lynchburg Advance, “the widow and children of Judge Gary were often warned during the fact that some parts of life are bound to be serious. The Suburban Agriculturist. “Are you managing to make the place pay?” “Yes,” answered Farmer Corntossel. “The other members of the family have jobs in town. I stay home and the life of the steel magnateagainst doubtful investments, and would natu- rally have followed the same business principles which he emphasized in his will. Yet such advice cannot be given too often.” To the Louisville Times it seems that ‘“such concern for the well-being of his family represents no extraordinary virtue, and affords evi- ence of nothing -except that Judge Gary was like most other men, good collect for board and rent.” “‘Love of humanity,’” said Hi Ho, the sage of Chinatown, “is too often a phrase which disguises much self- ishness.” ST More Puzzles. The metric system we may get, While daylight saving lingers yet. We cannot tell the time of day Nor how much flour and sausage ‘weigh. Oh, bring the cross-word puzzle back! The riddles old let us not lack! But save the simple talk of yore ‘When trading at the grocery store! ‘Some o' dese wonderful talkers, said Uncle Eben, “soundg to me like ne kipnd and bad, rich and poor, in this re- spect.” From another point of view the St. Louis Post-Dispatch remarks that “it might be arguéd that the testator him- self did not achieve his wealth by prac- ticing such a policy of caution,” and that paper concludes that “‘admirable as this Gary mandate may be, it were a deadly blight if universally estab- lished and observed. It is the spirit of derring-do, of take-a-chance, of win- or-lose,” concludes the Post-Dispatch, “that keeps the wheels revolving and the roses blooming. And the New York Herald Tribune, observing that “‘one should remember that almost all of us are prone to caution those we love against risks which we ourselves occasionally, or in some cases habitu- ally, disregard,” adds: ‘Very likely, as Steve Brodie grew older and pros- pered, he dreaded to see his descend- ants even approach the Brooklyn E:lydse. ulful““ Steve Brodies of to- who, cky ;i Garys of Words of Wisdom in Gary Will egacy to Public As to Judge Gary as an example, the New Orleans Item-Tribune de- clares: “When a man accumulates be- tween $25,000,000 and $100,000,000 he may properly be considered an author- ity on the art of gaining and, more im- portant, of keeping money. The Pasadena Star-News sees in his words “the gist of business wisdom of a life spent in achieving big success,” while the Charlotte Observer regards them as “typical of that rare business judg- ment which carried Judge Gary to the top in the realm of industr; The Bloomington Pantagraph holds that “‘when a man'’s life story bears out the meaning which his words convey, then his words take on new significance.” *‘As for investments,” comments the Columbus Ohio State Journal, “make it a rule first to ask your banker or some one else of a conservative na- ture and in a position to know values. One of the most pathetic things in the world is the sucker li 1t is the in- deX to many tragedies That paper also offers the amendment that “lend- ing money to friends and acquaint- ances, except in cases where the act is merely one of kindness, with no con- fident expectation of reimbursement, is a bad business.” The need of expert assistance by the unpractical possassor of money is em- phasized also by the Chattanooga Times. ack of this advice,” says the Times, “lies half a century of ex- perience and the wisdom of a man who was one of the country’s greatest and most successful taptains of busi- ness and industry. Its soundmess is beyond question. If it were scrupu- lously adhered to by all who are not at home in the world of business, many an heir, legatee and toiling saver would avoid financial loss, it not finan- cial ruin. And even if a proposition seems to fulfill all the conditions of Judge Gary’s advice, the inexperienced in business methods should consult lh(-ltr banker before deciding to in- vest.” What of the M From the Detroit News. In its own way the strange loss of interest by the Natfon in thé question of Mississippi flood control, now that this year's physical crisis on the lower river has passed, is a greater tragedy than the flood itsels. ‘The economic erisis confronting: the vast devastated region is not passed, Its peak is not yet reached. The war with crushing debt, the long struggle back to economic health is scarcely under way. If the tens of thousands of flood victims were able. to carry on in the knowledge that the sudden sympathy displayed by the Nation during the flood was more than a fugitive sentiment, and that the sub- ject of flood control has become a matter of permanent concern to the entire Nation, so that once restored econom; ly they would not be plunged into new wretchedness, their burden in this battle would be meas- urably lightened. Yet no such hope is extended them. They struggle back with no assurance that the future does not hold a sim- ilar disaster. Not a single practical movement toward flood control has been made. ——————— Age of the Apache? From the Boston Transcript. We speak of “hardened criminals” and ‘old hands at crime” when we discuss the wickedness and felonies of the world, but certain investigations lof the New York State Crime Commis- sion seem to prove that the average American criminal is by no means a tough old veteran. On the other hand, he is a tough youth. A report of this New York commission, covering 25, 000 felony cases, reveals the distress- ing fact that the medium age for those who commit robberies is not over 23, while the age of the perpetra- tors of the specific offepse of burglary is a little lower than that. The medium age for forgery and fraud is about 30, while grand larceny falls between 25 +and .30. . The most important crimes in the State, the commission says, are committed mostly by males under 25. —_— ississippi? Punctuate the Parson! From the Passaic Daily Herald. 'Twould be the sgourteous thing If THE LIBRARY TABLE By the Booklover. The double life of the sofl—the life of drudgery which may lead to deadening of all the sensibilitles or even brutalization, and the life of beauty, which enables man to live alone in happy association with Na- ture—is keenly realized and suggest- ed by Warwick Deeping in his novel “Doomsday.” After the World War Arnold Furze becomes master of Doomsday farm; often he feels that the farm is master of him. In order to redeem its neglected acres from the nettles, gorse, brambles, bracken, ragwort and all the other weeds, he works from before daylight until after candlelight, with never a holi- day, unless market days can be called holidays. “For five years now he has been able to call Domesday his. He had fought it, loved it wrestled with it and there had been times when it had threatened to tear the gutd out of him. But that was life. Better than finnicking about in an office and putting paper over your shirt cuffs * * * Five notable, terri- ble and glorious years, full of sweat and Mate and love and weariness and a back that had refused to break, and a stomach that would digest anything.” All these five years he has lived for the soil alone. The niceties of life have been uncon- sidered. His big tiled kitchen has also been parlor, dining room, bed- room’ and workshop. There is a camp bed in one corner, a work table with implements for carpentry and mending harness and shoes before a window, a pile of logs for the fire- place in another corner and in the center a dining table of deal boards over four fence posts. He has not had time to think whether he is happy, but at least he has been con- tent, for the farm has prospered. * K % % Then a woman comes to disturb the unity of his life—to disturb it without giving it the beauty which it needs. She stays but for a mo- ment and when » has gone she has taken his content with her and left only bitterness. Henceforth, his work becomes drudgery and he sinks, effortless, into a life of squalor and incipient brutishness. ‘“‘That all the graciousness had gone out of his life was an accepted fact, and he acknowledged it tacitly, if he troubled to acknowledge it-at all. * * * If he brutalized himself he did it with a stubborn set of the shoulders. He would not let himself think or feel above the level of his byres, or beyond the limits of a root crop. 4 * A tarmer should be of the or like a boot kicking a clod, or like hands that caught and threw a sheep.” % * K Kk ok But this phase passes. Partly he rescues himself, partly a woman res- cues him. He emerges again to sat- isfaction with the life of the soil and has in addition a new appreciation of the beauty of Doomsday. ‘“To Furze it was very beautiful, with all its changing contours, its high woods and the swelling steepness of its grass and arvable. Never did it look the same, but was eternally changeful above the green deeps of its valley, where the brook ran down to Rushy Pool. Difficult—yes, but he never grudged it its difficulties; for a beauty that is loved is borne with in ail its moods and mischiefs.” Even when the life of the farm is busiest, he can spare moments to tend the flowers in his sunken garden, to listen to the blackbirds in the orchard or the thrush on the old cedar tree, to look at the primroses and blue-bells in Gore Wood, and to enjoy the scene of the new-mown hay. * X X * A philosophy more simply expressed, but as pungent and as experienced as that of Montaigne or La Roche- foucauld, is found in the sayings of Alfred Aloysius Horn, as taken down by Mrs. Ethelreda Lewis and pub- lished in the book ‘“‘Trader Horn.” Talking to Mrs. Lewis on the stoop of her South African home, where he first eame to sell kitchenware, he gave expression at different times to words of sdom in form almost proverbs. “’Tis no gentleman's way to give way to anything but philos- ophy.” *“I was always one for the preservation of nature when humanly possible.” “What won't any of us do for magic? We call it luck now, and that’s the only difference.” “Amn ape is surely God's picture of the unstable man, no doubt put up by Providence as a warning to all and sundry.” “’'Tis fortunate for the world English habits are more catch- ing than the so-called Latin influ- ence.” *“Aye, if we'd think of death as the hand of nature it'd be no worse than lying down to sleep in a cornfleld.” ‘“‘Some get-away for the soul is necessary and that can only be found in the open, whether air or water.” “If a book’s to be sold in America you must keep an eye on the novelties, I know America.” “Here I am still, and even philan- thropy can't rob me of my memories and my pride in navigating a river “What is poetry but the leavings of superstition?” “The Americans—a moral people, except when it comes to murder, and so on.” “And believe me, when man has de- stroyed nature then it's his turn to go.” “Big-game hunters—an equa- torial gang of cut-throats, wasting wild life to make what they call a bag.” “Bacon for breakfast and Shakespeare for reading’ve been good enough for Lancashire and England, generally speaking, for a number of generations.” “There’s no softness about nature. When you're driven from the herd it's for good.” * ok ok ok Literary vagabondia has -received another contribution in “The Glorious Adventure,” by Richard Halliburton, who followed the wanderings of Homer's Ulysses and wrote of what he experienced. Starting frong Athens, not Ithaca, he first climbed Mount Qlympus and later struck the trail of Ulysses at the island of Skyros. This rocky island in the middle of the Aegean was the home of Achilles, sulking hero of the YIliad.” It is also a modern shrine, because it is the burial place of Rupert Brooke, whose poetic promise was so great when he fell in the World War, not long after writing: Tf T should die. think only this of me: That there's some corner of a foreign field That is forever Enzland. On the way from Skyros to Troy Mr. Halliburton swam the Hallespont. At Troy he sat on the hill where Helen identified for Priam the Greek heroes in the plain below, and, “with my imag- ination aroused by the history all about me, the ‘Iliad’ ceased to be words on paper. It lived and it throbbed. I tried to shake off all mo- dernity, and to be Trojan.” The next stop on_the route was the island of Jerba, Ulysses’ “lotus-land,” off the coast of Africa. The cave dwelling of the Cyclops Polyphemus Mr. Hallibur- ton found turned to pastoral use as a shelter for an Italian boy goatherd and his goats. An attempt to swim the treacherous current of the Straits of Messina, between Scylla and Cha- rybdis, had to be abandoned. The journey ended with the long, low island of Ithaca, the home of Ulysses. ok ok ko The novel “Jalna,” by the Canadiap novelist Mazo de la Roche, which won the Atlantlc Monthly $10,000 prize and is now running serially in that maga- zine, will be published in book form in the Autumn. It is the story of three generations of the Whiteoak family, who live on the estate of Jalna, in Ontario, Canada. Adeline Whiteoak the grandmother of the clan, is ap: proaching her century mark, but still dominates her descendants. Her thres sons have been more or less dis- appointing and her six grandchildren are not altogether a_harmonious fam- ily. Miss de la Roche’ Q. In what period of growth does a boy eat mere than a man?—C. M. A. A boy between 9 and 13 years of age requires just as much food as a man, and between the ages of 14 and 19 he will require more than a man does. Q. What is the new Palestintan coinage to be?’—C. A. D. A. The new coinage of Palestine has reached Jerusalem and is ex- pected to supersede the Egyptian coinage now in use. The coins are struck in silver, nickel and bronze. The Palestinian pound is the equiva- lent of the British pound sterling, but is divided @ecimally into one thousand mills. . Why was Bryn Mawr, Pa., so named?—A. L. K. A. Bryn Mawr, Pa., was named after the town of the same name in Becon County, Wales. It is composed of two Welsh words, “bryn,” mean- ing “hill,” and ‘“maw ‘meaning “big," the whole name meaning “big hill.* Q. Why are boots reversed at the funeral of an Army officer’—J. A. R. A. At the funeral of an Army ofll- cer or of an enlisted man who wore boots it Is sometimes customary for the boots of the deceased officer to be slung across the saddle of the rider- less horse, heels to the front, thus signifying that_the march of the de- ceased is ended. Q. Did Roman women wave their hair?—D. R. A. Whenever a woman's head is shown on a coin of the late Roman period, elaborate waving, similar to modern marcelling, is evident. Be- fore and after the Roman period there is but a trace of waving, which indi- cates that fashions changed in those days much as they do now. Q. Was there not an English test case similar to the Dred Scott deci- sion of the United States Supreme | Court?—S. F. A. You have perhaps reference to he case of the negro Somerset. In 729 the attorney general, Yorke, and the solicitor general, Talbot, of the King’s Bench had given an opinion that a slave coming into England fagm the West Indies did not become frée, but might be compelled by his master to return to the plantation. Granville Sharp brought the test case, which was decided in the name of the whole bench by Lord Mansfield, June 22, 1772, that as soon as a slave t his foot on the soil of the British Islands he became free. Q. Is there such a thing as nut milk?—W. W. A. Nut milk is another product made from nuts. This is made by pouring boiling water on ground nuts, draining off the liquid and allowing it to settle. Then a kind of cream t 3 | ANSWERS TO QUESTIONS BY FREDERIC J. HASKIN. Q. Approximately how many peo- ple die In the United States in a year from accidental shooting ?—T. A. In 1925 thers were 2,570 deaths from accidental shooting and in 1924 the number totaled 2,571 Q. Were overtures included in the first operas?—B. G. A. A. The first operas had no over- tures. They either began directly with the dction or were preceded with a prologue which was sung. Q. Who was Vice President and President of the Senate during An- drew Johnson's administration?— o A. There was no Vice President when Andrew Johnson succeeded to the Presidency through the assassina-- tion of President Lincoln. Senator Daniel Clark of New Hampshire offi= ciated as President of the Senate. Q. Will any foreign newspapers have offices in_ the new National Press Club in Washington, or is it intended for the exclusive use of American papers?—C. H. A. The new project is interna- tional in its scope. Among the fo! eign publications which have al ready (aken leases are the Berliner Tageblatt, the European edition of the American Motorist; the French Havas News Agency, the Ingeriaria Internacional, the London Telegraph Exchange Co., the German Wolff News Agency, El Automobile Ameri- cano, the South American Havas News Agency, and the Santiago Union d@nd Times. Q. What are the insignia of the Order of the Golden Fleece?—W. B. D. A. The Order of the Golden Fleece was founded by Philip the Good, Duke t Bruges, January 10, The insignia are a sheepskin with head and feet attached, hanging from a gold and blue enameled flint stone emitting flames, and borne in its turn by a steel forming the let. ter B. Q. What will keep magnetic metal from attracting the needle of a coms pass?—C. L. M. A. The Bureau of Standards says that there is no known insulator for magnetism. Our Washington Information, Bu= reau does mot take a vacation. It is on the job every day during the year, answering questions for our readers. Its special service is to answer any question of fact on any subject for any reader at any time. It is impose sible to make a complete enumeration of subjects giving an adequate idea of the scope and range in which the bureau can serve you. Its activities can only be summed up in the phrase, “Whatever you want to know.” Send in your question. Address The Eve- gathers. Some of these nut milks, especially that of the Java almond, are used as food for infants. “The great God that formed all things 9oth rewardeth the fool and re- wardeth transgressors.” — Proverbs, xxvii.10. . What a lot of wiseacres are both the fundamentalists and the self-suffi- cient scientists, when they become so excited in defending their dogmas! Now the controversy between them has again broken out, through the con- ference of science. at Leeds, England, and the reiteration which makes mon- keys of us all. The fundamentalists, in their extremity, squabble over sci- ence when its interpreters dare men- tion the genealogy of man and trace it back to monkeys—or at least to collateral lines of descent alongside of the monkeys—as if that were a denial of the origin of man by the great Cre- ator. Darwin lives again; he is in- dorsed at Leeds by modern science. * ok kK “Seest thou a man wise in his own conceit? there is more hope of a fool than of him.” ‘Who ever proved that man was not derived from the dust of the earth, through proving that in the millions of steps between dust and the wiseacre there have not been as great apes as the cotemporary know-all? Now comes a scientist who announces that. back of the xs:mkey, there was a time when man's dhcestor was only a bit of jelly in the ocean. It must have been something before it became jelly—why not dust? Who made it jell? Then the water throbbed and a m was set up which tickled the “ribs” of that bit of jelly, so that ever after, when it could feel that rhythm, it laughed and turned itself so that it received the full pleasure of it—the first jazz. So by the rhythm it reach- ed out and developed limbs with which it grew stronger. And in the course of centuries the limbs grew and de- veloped so that the one-time Jjelly- fishes became able to swim the sea at will—they even got ashore and crawl- ed up and down the beaches and de- veloped lungs which could extract breath from air instead of from the water. Later they sauntered far from the sea and became animals upon lh? dry land: they climbed trees to seek food; they enlarged their fins into wings and—a few days ago Col. Lind- bergh in an airplane flew a great race with a golden eagle far above the clouds over South Dakota. Did’ that prove that Lindbergh was not de- rived from the same source t.hflt hatched the golden eagle? Both were in the element above clouds and de- fied gravitation, yet drew fl"\PI; strength from oxygen of the air and not of the sea. Neither flyer scorne laws. Whose laws? * kK K scientists! How long have thig\dmt‘g:vn all the wonderful truths which they assume we common mor- tals should swallow whole? A cen- tury ago, did they know the ape descent of man? Did they trace the chemistry of nature a thousand or a score of years ago, and tell of the vital needs of vitamins in maintain- ing health and life? Could they then look with clear vision through opaque- ness, as they do today? Could they use the waves of ether (which were in existence from the beginning of creation) in talking and _seeking around the whole globe? What is radium that it may give off its rays through endless ages and yet lose nothing of its.own weight? “Though 1 take the wings of the morning and fly to the uttermost ends of the sea, behold Thou art there!” Even Job scorned the wisdom of the wise men: “For vain man would be wise, though man be born like a wild ass’s colt. So it makes no difference at all, in the great universe of truth, whether | man was created magically out of mud or evoluted through hundreds of millions of years from dry dust into ning Star Information Bureau, Frede eric J. Haskin, director, Washington, BACKGROUND OF EVENTS BY PAUL V. COLLINS. rated as one of the most famous scien- tists in the world, yet, from a purely scientific basis, he denied that the re- cent discoveries in the field of prehis- toric anthropology proved that man was derived from an ape. He pro- nounced that as “a myth due to our ignorance of the real course of human evolution, and that humanity would yet be thankful to anthropological sci- ence for having at last removed this bar sinister from man’s pedigree.” He argued that recent discoveries proved that the human race is far older than it was formerly thought to be, even by scientists. In the course of millions of years the climate of the Arctic and Antarctic regions changed many times. From the North the polar ice cap descended four times and buried all Europe and all America north of the Ohio River under hundreds of feet of permanent ice. Arctic cold prevailed through centuries of Summerless years. Only cold-resisting life could exist here dur- ing those ice ages. Four times the sun drove back the edge of the ice cap, melting the ice and depositing its debris. The beginning of the Pleistocene Age was more than a mil- lion years ago, yet far down in that Pleistocene Age, during the first pe- riod between the ice caps, there lived and died a man. whose remains are now known as the Heidelberg Man— in a stratum of glactal sand 76 feet thick above the jawbone of that relic. How many years did it take for melt- ing glaciers to deposit sand 76 feet deep? In England, carved flint instru. ments have been'found, far deeper than the locale of the Heidelberg man. And later .here have been found in Nebraska. Bone instruments evidently made by man—found in deposits whose geologic age is set at four to five million years. Similar instruments have been found in Maine. And Prof. Osborn infers frem this evidence that “men were men,” out in the open spaces so many millions of years ago: therefore, they could not have been asses nor monkeys nor jellyfishes— they were men. He also deduces from the head of the famous “Neanderthal man” that not only he, but his an- cestors for thousands of generations. must have walked upright. Now no Jellyfish ever walked upright—nor did monkeys or asses. Also the “Pithe- canthropus,” found in Java, was a true man, ,walking upright, and his proper name indicates that he was a “dawn-man"—not a child of an ape. Yet Prof. Frederick Tilney, examining the convoluted surfaces of the skull, discovers “are. ssociated with thought, imagination, reason and speech.” On the other hand, there are those who contend that horses and dogs and other animals think and love and laugh at the foolishness of man. * K X % Paleontologists have also traced back relics of horses, elephants, pigs, cows, bears, cats and dogs, and other mammals, and find that even to the most distant ages they remain un- changed—unevoluted. So the Osborn conclusion is that all represent inde- pendent creations—man the same, “out of the dust of the earth,” by the instant act of the Creator and not by the age-long development from jelly- fish to man. But doctors disagree. Now comes the great scientist at Leeds who in- dorses Darwin. Also Prof. William K. Gregory, professor of vertebrate paleontolegy of Columbia University, New York, who contradicts Osborn flatly Dr. Gregory writes in Scien- tific American: . Since 1916 I have written fre- quently that the branching off of man from a lower primate stock ma; not, in the present state of our ev dence, be looked for later than the Middle Miocene epoch, which; aceord- ing to Barrell's estimates, lay some 10,000,000 of years earlier than the mud and from mud into Jjellyfish and thence through fishes and quadru- peds into a professor of a great uni- versity. Many a ‘“great” wiseacre continues to be a “poor fish” to the end. It would be a problem for the professors to indicate just how they differ from the ass’ colt, when they bray about the irrefutability of their latest pronouncements, even while they are refuting the highest wisdom of their fathers in science. * ¥ k¥ We ordinary laymen would be an- nihilated by the weight of the wisdom and knowledge of the scientists if they did not counterbalance each other by di ing. ‘We read ghe speech of Prof. Henry made before the hild Middle Pliocene. Therefore, the fact, if it is a fact, that the little-known men of the Middle Pliocene had al- ready attained a human grade of or- ganization may mean only that the traditional stages between ape and manhmust be sought in an earlier epoch. “But why assume that thers were * such transitional stages? Why not admit that man and ape always were different, no matter how far back we g0 in geologic time? Chiefly because the sciences of comparative anatomy, of comparative physiology, etc., offer their silent testimony to the blood kinship, in a very real sense, of man an ‘Lo, this only have I found, that God hath made man upright; but they have sought &l; many inventions.”—