Evening Star Newspaper, September 11, 1927, Page 44

v ' stituted and carried to a successfiil 2 THE EVENING STAR With Sunday Morning Edition. WASHINGTON, D. C SUNDAY.....September 11, 1927 THEODORE W. NOYES. . The Evening Star Newspaper Compa Business Office: 11 8t d Pes lvania Ave. xoc-;"' ork §':m'm: _.:-"«‘»’r...; s, e Tower Butloin. European Ofice: 14 Rexent St., London. 3 England. . Editor Mhe Evening Star with the Sunday mormn- ing adition 1 delivered hy carriars within “he city at 60 cents per month: daily (uly 48 cents e manth: Sundava vy er ‘month. Orders may he sent b riephons Main B000. Coliection is made by carrier at end of each montir. Rate by Mail—Payable in Advance. | Maryland and Virginia. iv and Sundav.... £9.00: 1 mo. Daily AndySundar -1 75 $8001 1 mo Dbty 0 1 S 3900 1 mo All Other States and Canada. Daile and Sunday. 1 yr. $12.00: 1 mo. Duly only 1y, Sunday oniy 1sr Member of the Associated Press. Atsociated Pross fa cxelusively entitied 1o the e tar epunication of atl news din- | T D endited To 1t of not therw ian ! mner and also (he Jocal " e T rients ‘o ontdication | i herein are A% 17 | A National Problem. tory, to make overalls, or underwear, shoe-pegs or razor blades, or anything whatsoever toward which a man's or woman'’s ingenuity and spirit of enter- prise may turn.” to win migration of a satisfactor) But other States are also in inviting newcomers character. enterprising and are, perhaps in some cases, a little stronger on the question of good roads than South Carolina, which, motorists "are inclined to think, has been a bit slow in developing. How- ever, it is gratifying to see the spirit of hospitality manifested so strongly, and perhaps the next census will show the old State recovering some of the lost ground in the relative standing table. N - A Wise Policy. The Navy Department has taken a | wise step in revoking the leaves of Lieut. T. W. Curtin and Ensign S. V. the French ace, in his second to reach Paris from New York. By its action the department has put itselt on as taking the stand that overseas flights in land planes have been accomplished and Fonck, attempt record Expressing his confidence that en- | gineering science is capable of the | Jssign and construction of such works | as will forever prevent the recurrence of the recent Mississippi floods, Secre- | tary Hoover on Friday night addressed | the Louisiana Legislature in spv-vm!i joint session on the subject of the | disaster, ita cost and the measures | to be taken againat its repetition. While Louisiana has a very keen in terest in the question, that State hav- | ing suffered the most heavily next to | Arkansas of all the inundated areas, this problem is strictly a Federal one, to be solved by Congress. Mr. Hoover's summary of fecis of the flood was brief: Throughout the valley more than 700,000 of our fellow Ccitizens have been driven from their homes and | hundreds of thousands reduced to destitution. The economic loss has been greater in this single flood than the whole cost of adequate flood con- trol. Nor is the loss borne solely by its direct victims. Every citizen of the whole Nation has lost something from the reduced purchasing power and the destruction in the valley. So fully is this appreciated by the country at large that there will be no demur to the appropriation of Fed- eral funds, however large, so long as the proposed works of prevention are promising of good results. The eco- nomic consequences of the flood are generally recognized as affecting the citizens of the entire country. As never before has this fact of the economic ihterdependence of the vari- ous parts of the United States been appreciated and understood. The disaster itself was calculated to arrest the thought of the Nation. Pub- leity by print and picture reached the people by tens of millions. The magnitude of the inundation was made evident by maps and airplane views. A sensze of intimate participation- in the sufferings of a great number of their fellow citizens was experienced by the people of all the States. There is, as Secretary Hoover stated to the Louisiana legislators, a determi- nation on the part of all Federal offi- cials ‘anfl lof' méfnbers of Congress many of whom personally visited the flooded areas, to prepare and execute a scheme of flood prevention regard- less of cost. This work is now con- celved as on the scale of the con- struction of the Panama Canal, with which it may be compared in magni- tude and perhaps in expense. No doubt is felt of the feasibility of engi- neering” works that will ‘confine the waters of highest flood stage to re. stricted channels and prevent their spreading over cultivated and inhabit- | ed areas. No estimates have been made of cost or of the length of time requisite for execution. But the ele. ment of time is not so vitally impor- tant as that of assurance of undertak- Ing. Even though it should require a decade of constant work, even though the cost should run to a billion dol- Jars, or even more, this great enter- ‘prise must and doubtless will be in- the ef- Lonclusion, — e Furope appears indignant because America has 0 much money. Wealth | often excites hatred. Poverty never | yet won serious esteem in the relations | of nations. —ene: Reports from the Lido indicate that, denplte economic supervisions, Italy stlll has a great deal of foolish mon AR S S South Carolina’s Bid. South C‘arolina is after more popula- tion. Its Department of Agriculture, Commerce and Industries has made a bid for immigration from domestic sources and in a statement just issued | sets forth the advantages of the Pal- metto State. The department declares that South Carolina’s “house is in order,” that it has the schools, the roads, all the agencies of an advanced civilization, together with abundant and low-priced lands. All that it lacks is more people, in the department’s opinion, to make use of and enjoy its facilities and resources. “South Caro- lina is a comfortable State in which to | earn and make a living; it anything has held back its progress it has been the ease with which the average man can take care of himself and family, with never the danger of suffering from want or cold.” The population of South Carolina | was first recorded in 1790 as 249,073 According to the census of 1920 it was 1,683,724, Its decennial increases have not been marked. Indeed, the State has steadily lost in relative position for the past century. Tn 1790 it stood seventh, gaining to sixth place in 1800, which was held in 1810, and reverting to seventh place in 1820. Then, as new States were added to the Unlon, it he- gan to slip in relative status, going Buccessively to ninth place in 1530, to eleventh in 1840, twelfth in 1850, eighteenth in 1860, twenty-second in 1870, twenty-first in 1880, twenty-fitth in 1890, twenty-fourth in 1900, twenty- sixth in 1910 and twenty-seventh in 1920, A particular point of attraction as #et forth by the State's bulletin of in- vitation is that “anywhere in South | they have turned out to he! Ispicuous. that nothing can he gained by further experimentation along this line. There will be little quarrel with the avy for its action in forbidding Cur- tin and Edwards to go with or with its announcement that here- after naval personnel will not be al- lowed to join land-plane overseas expeditions. Undoubtedly the two aviators will feel a keen sense of regret, but they must realize, as a great section of the public does, that the Navy Department has inaugu- rated an eminently wise policy. There 18 no desire on the part of the Government to interfere with ploneering flights through the alr. In peditions will probably be sent out from time to time to aid in the de- velopment of aviation. But the Gov- ernment realizes, as does an increas- ingly large portion of the public, that the ultimate has probably been reached in overseas flights in land planes, at least the ultimate that can be attempted with any degree of safety, and that further experiment will take a large number of valuable lives. Overseas flying, when reaches the stage of practicability, will not be attempted in land ships. Seaplanes or amphibian planes will be the method of transport. It fol- demonstrated that a motor will run for the thirty or forty hours to carry a plane great distances, that the next step is to' devise pontoons or hulls light enough plane but strong _emough to sup- port the craft in case of a forced landing. There is certainly no bene- fit to aviation when lives are lost in an attempt to prove what has al- ready been proved a3 conclusively as it is possible to do In the present stage of development. — e ‘The Boys Grow Older. The fiftieth anniversary of the birth of Tom Sawyer s being observed throughout thefini thI& s¢dr by ter- ary societies and ‘“reading circles.” His year of birth serves to recall two other famous youngsters of a cotemporary period. Little Lord Fauntleroy, for instance, is getting along. Ie is forty-one years old, and long since must have shed those golden curls which were the delight of mothers of a generation ago. And | Peck’s Bad Boy is forty-five. Long | ago he reached the age of discretion | and has probably joined the Rotary | Club and is now what he likes to think of himself—a respected citizen, But although he is older, bets may be placed—and with odds—that Tom Sawyer will outlive both of these youngsters of another day. Along with Huck Finn he will grow to a mellow old age. These two must never die! Tom and Huck have lived to witness atrange things. Neither regarded him- selt as a particularly good boy. But what pikers, at the art of being bad, Tom and Huck could not recognize a hip pocket flask if they met one on the street, and MWuck, remembering his father, would probably have thrown one clear across the Mississippl had he come into its possession. Tom and Iuck never stole an automoblle, and for a few hours indulged in what is politely called a “joy-ride.”” And if Tom had met his Becky in a downtown restau- rant at three o'clock in the morning, Becky having stopped in for a sand- wich on her way home from a dance, Tom would probably have grabhed her then and there and taken her promptly home to her mother. And as for poor Little Lord Fauntleroy, what a cruel fate would be his did he live today! And even Peck's Bad Boy—what an angel that child really was! They have all grown older now, and they must be thank- ful, too. And we blush with them, when, confessing the sins of their vouth to their own children, they suf. fer the pitying scorn of Tom Sawyer, jr.—“Gee, pop, what an awful pill you musta been. ——— Germany has a President in office and a former kaiser in the back- ground. Neither is aggressively con- In politics as well as in blology it s sometimes just as well to let nature take her course, ————ees Another View. Chauncey Depew, one of the coun- try's grand old men, recently made public the fact that sixtysix years ago he put $100 in a Peekskili savings bank and that now it has grown to $1,100. Not to be outdone hy the story, which 18 told as an example of thrift and the henefits of saving, John E. Andrus, a millionaire of New York, proudly boasts that in 1864 he bought a share of Singer Sewing Machine stock which has netted him to date approximately $94,600. Both of these stories should inspire willing to taik ahout that one share Carolina hydro-electric power may be ave money. Such allurements as are set fur(ll‘ in this pronouncement ought surely | Edwards, who were to fly with Rene | Fonek | fact, many Government-sponsored ex- | it really | lows, therefore, after it has been | to be borne by the| young men to save their money. “I am it it will encourage young men of twenty or thirty or thereabouts to Instead of throwing It bad to turn the wheels of a little fac- around extravagantly they should in- THE SUNDAY STAR, WASHINGTON, D. C, ! vest it wisely and walt for the re. | turns,” said Mr. Andrus. | But a good many young men of | twenty or thirty or thereabouts would | like to inquire of Mr. Depew where he got that $100, and how he was able to forget it so completely that | he Jet it lie untouched for sixty-six years, Another thing, and this is | asked of Mr, Andrus: How did you of Singer Sewing Machine stock, that "II thirty-seven years it would yleld |a fortune and not turn out to he a | wild-cat invention scheme? Suppose, say ahout the year 1865, somehody had come along with an iInvention which would have made the Singer | sewing machine about as efficient as | | an ox-cart. Would you have heen willing now to talk about that one | share of stock, Mr. Andrus? There are lots of men today, young men, whose alacrity in putting $100 I]u the savings bank and letting it | lie there for sixty-six years would be | commendable — providing they had | $100 ana were able to get along with. out It when the ear wears out. There | are thousands of young men today | Who will buy any share of stock, no | matter the price, if Mr. Andrus guar- antees that it will yield the dividends | of the Singer Sewing Machine since | 1864, M. Depew might have added to his story by pointing out that the $100 was hard to get in the first place, and still harder not to touch in the second. Mr. Andrus should have mentioned that in addition to his discretion fn investing in the share of stock, the | sods were smiling when he bought it. vt It must be admitted that the “dove of peace” ought to receive some en- couragement as a more quieting influ- ence than the airplane. The old bird, while often garrulous, falks a great | deal of plain, common sense. ———e— Mr. Insull of Chicago says he is go- ing to interest himself in coal Instead of oil. If his bold experiment suc- | ceeds, Mr. Rockefeller will, no doubt, e willing to recognize talent as usual |and award him a bright silver dime. o | Actors, musicians and stagehands are organized. Producers have asso- clations for mutual protection. The theater is no longer to be regarded only as a frivolous diversion. ———— Few men admit that they desire a presidential nomination. No citizen is ready to declare that he would not | {accept it if discreetly proffered. ——— 2 A radical is always ready to back his typewriter against all the machin- ery that capital has rendered available to public use, —————— Air adventure has spared neither | men nor women. So far, at least, the children are safe. ———— SHOOTING STARS. BY PHILANDER JOHNSON, Learning. Tt used to be accounted well For men in studious haunts to dwell Where wisdom was replete. | 'm taking lessons now with pride. { T really shall be satisfied I I can cross the street. I toss away the hooks of schools And concentrate on traffic rules, 8o erudite and neat. My course through queer congestion les. T think T ought to have a prize It I can cross the street. I ask the copper so polite It 1 shall start with left or right, In managing my. feet. Though loftier hopes have been de- ceived, My aspiration is achieved If I can cross the street. Popular Appeal. “Why don’t you tell some of those funny stories for which you used to be famous?” “It is dangerous to make an audl- ence laugh,” answered Senator Sor- ghum. “Good comedy is 8o scarce that, if you have any with you, the folks are liable to want to shove you out of politics into pictures. I'm going to stick to ‘the full dinner pail' and let | the custard pie alone " Less Attains More. With dress elaborately cute lelinda charmed our eyes. Tacinda wore a bathing suit And won a beuuty prize! Jud Tunkins says Adam blamed Eve for eating the apple instead of assum- ing the wifely obligation of turning it to applesauce and feeding it to him. “Superstition,” said Hi Ho, the sage of Chinatown, “makes the sound of a gong more potent than the voice of wisdom.” Approval, “What do you think of Einstein's theory?" “I lke it,” answered Miss Cayenne. “It does not cause brain fag, because | you are told at the outset that you are not expected to understand it. Taxes. It's time our taxes to reduce; Yet, stern is the aggreasor. The phrase is for the public's use And not for the assessor. | Careless. ‘ game of golf is all wrong!" “Too bad:" Vo, too good. 1 got enthusiastic and allowed myself to beat my boss three times in succession!” { “It's wrong to fight,” .aid L'nrle_ Eben, “unless u kin boost de price of ringside seats to Afty dollars From the Boston Transeript, There will be an unexpected bal- ance of the appropriation for the re- piirs to the White House, Now ix this to 1 to modern efficiency or to the skill and honesty of old-time builders? Pretty Soft. From the Los Ankeles Timey 1t does look as if most of the politi. lml pie was made from applesauce. - Wholesome Upsets. From the Wall Street Journal. Humans need more earth contacts, says writer. And, in this auto age, those who walk are getling more, regurded as a testimonial | A Reflection. Pdward Bellamy gave us an inter- They have their own list of ndmmn;m} know, in purchasing that one share | .cting hook some vears ago entitled “Looking Backward.” ~ Very ingen- iously he projected himselt forward into the future and from that ad- vanced position he undertook to indi- cate what would happen In the inter- vening years. Life today moves so swiftly that we hardly have time to consider and weigh the happenings of a single day, much less to think of what may happen on the morrow. To read consecutively and consist- ently the news of a single day's do- ings and events would exhaust the hours and leave us little time for busi- ness or pleasure, hence we take our news, ags we do some of our medicines, In tabloid form. Doubtless our age is Iittle conducive to reflection, and that kind of detachment and meditation that makes poets, painters and musi- cians Is not evident among us. N chipery is more appealing than canvas or marble, and to make money more satisfying than to make sonnets or produce a fine literature. No one with half a wit will say that life today is unintefesting or dull. On the con- trary, as we are the “heirs of a1 th ages,” we move faster, do more, have more varled forms of entertainment, live in larger spheres of occupation and hear over wider areas than ever our fathers did. As we sit within the privacy of our homes we can visit in one evening, at least with our ears, a symphony concert, several theaters, a dinner where wit and eloquence hold forth, & church, a lecture room,’and, it we are not fatigued, a score of other places. What heirs we are! Bernard Shaw was 70 a while ago. The flight of time had made him re. flective. He hall reaped a large har- vest of honors: he had played his conspicuous part on the stage of hu- man achievement. In the quiet hours of his latest anniversary, with his rich mind mellowed by age and experience, he made the following observation: “This I know, looking at life at 70: Men without religion are moral cow- ards, and mostly physical cowards, 00, when sober. Civilization cannot survive without religion. The cause of Europe’s miseries was its lack of veliglon. T can conceive of salvation without & god, but.I cannot conceive One-third of the working hoyvs of New York City's Bast Side are under- nourished, according to the report of a study just announced by the De- partment of Labor. This statement s based on a personal examination of 2,000 boys and is declarad by Dr. lago Galdston, who made the survey with the assistance of other physi- ciaus, to be represcntative of all the working hoys of he section. The study was made at the East Side Continuation School, which the boys are required to attend eiiher one afternoon or one morning in each week. No boy studied was under 14 years of age and none over 17. ich an effort to improve the physical condition and therefore the working abllity of American boys provokes a comparison” with the working lads who figure in so many of Dickens’ novels or in those of such French writers as Hugo and Dumas. The usual picture of the working boy in those works reveals him, also, as undernourished, but with no school at all and certainly with no paternalistic attention on the part of authorities to his physical welfare, One of the principal reasons for making the study of working boys was to determine to what extent the strain of work, during an adolescent perlod, is likely to superinduce tuber- culosis. The results of the investiga- tion lead to the conclusion, it is stated in the report, thmt the working boy is especially liable to contrget the disease. Boys were studied hecause in the growing, adolescent period it is regarded as important for the boy to build up a strong body. During those vears the strain upon him is greatest and he has the least margin of reserve against the encroachment of disease. From the point of view of the De- partment of Labor the working boy who has coniracted tuberculosis or other serious ailments will grow into a less efficient workman in later years, it he survives, Long Hours for Some of the Boys. These boys worked relatively long hours, ranging from 40 hours a week for some to as much in extreme cases as 70 hours. However, a 48-hour week appeared to be about the average for the 2,000. 'Their earnings averaged $11.50 a week. Probably less tuberculosis was found than might be expected out of 8o con- siderable a number.” By special ay tests it war discovered that there were but six active cases. Thirty-one boys were classified as tuberculosis suspects and 10 had chronic but inactive tuber- culosis, The number of other defects and ail- ments were quite appalling, however Of the 2,000 working boys only were found to b normal, ix hundred and twenty had 1 defect, 645 had 2, 374 had 3, 135 had from 4 to 6, and 1 was et down ax having no lesw than 10. One wonders what sort of a job this lad could have filled with such multiple infirmitie As the East Side is known to be New York's poorer section, being one of the largest tenement districts in the world, economic pressure may be re- garded as the principal cause of their going to work while still unschooled. None of the boys examined had com- pleted th: eighth grade. However, an- other motivating cause of special in- terest from the human and psycholog- ical side was determined. The height of the b wag carefully measured and they were found to range, in stat- ure. from 5 feet 4 inches to 5 feet 11 inches, Therefore, these were un- sually tall boys for their years. Em- barrasgment at attending school in classes in which they towered over their fellows, and therefore looked older and were regarded by classmates as atupid, was discovered to have in- duced many of them to quit school and start to work. The fact that they were tall enough to pass muster for jobs which boys of their age but.of more normal size could not perform a vas a factor. flnl’;‘u!“i\( the 2,000 some 220 hoys were found in such physical condition that it whs belleved their work was too much for them and these cases were followed up for special attention and assistance in changing their work. Defective Sight and Hearing. the ailments found were dis- ea:":‘o:)‘" the eye, the ear and the teeth. Eye and ear diseases are re- garded as specially likely to result in serfous impairment to earning ability, as most jobs require excellent fun of both these senses. ::?‘:x:‘e‘elh a?: belleved to lead to other ailments, Heart disease was found in a large number of cases, while defec- tive tonsils, nasal obstructions, skin diseases, plundular diseases and ortho- pedle defects those examined. The 220 hoys who were found to have serious defects, probably arising from their working conditions, wer employed in 56 different occupation Most of these were unskilled and less than half were found to be going through any practical training or serving any apprenticeship which would prepare them for advancement in_any line of work. The tremendous task of making the physical examinations and taking the industrial histories of these boys re- quired 11 weeks, hut experts helieve that valuahle information has heen obtained. Where indefinite diag- Defec- were present among | | | | again SEPTEMBER 1, 1927—PART 2 EVERYDAY RELIGION BY THE RIGHT REV. JAMES E. FREEMAN, D. D, LL. D., Bishop of Washington. of salvatign without a religion.” Ilis observat here is unlike much that has come from his gifted pen and it represents his lnter and more mature point of view, Like us, he shares the increasing privileges and opportunities of this colorful, kaleidoscopic age. Like us, he feels the strong currents of life that bear us along, and yet at 70 he pauses to note that fundamental to life itself is religion and that o ilization cannot suyvive without it. This rounds strapgely like the words penned by a President of our repubii toward the close of his life: “Our civili- ion cannot survive materially unless it be redeemed spiritually It is refreshing to know that those in high places are beginning to think deeply about these things. Perl it is because of the fact that life's currents are swift and strong and the appeal of the passing show. so that the more reflective are ning to sound a mnote of caution and alarm. We are seeking to build firmly and strongly for the future; we are attempting a broader culture as well as a more inclugive view of life and its responsibilities. The question is, Are we in our calculations and reckon- ings giving religion and soul values thelr consistent place? We have repeated demonstrat that “moving humanity to a cleaner style” does not always effect s finer expression of moral worth or the en- richment of the thin of character. A college education, valuable and de- sirable as it is, is no guarantee of moral and spiritual culture, nor, in- deed, of those choicer refinements that belong to gentilit While we are buildinz our house for the future, for generations yet unborn to occupy, let us look to it that we build it securely, We have a mighty task in hand today and there are these among us who have large interests to conserve who are careless concerning it. They seem to think a substantial credit on the ledgers is more to be desived than a conserved and maintained character in the home and in soclety, It were well if they jolned with Bernard Shaw in his reflection, they turned to that great Teacher of fmen, who said, “Seck ye first the kingdom of God, and all these ns things shall be added unto you." A STUDY OF WORKING BOYS BY FREDERIC ]. HASKIN. noses were obtaine were made to obv! of error in the wo ed as necessn re-examinations, An interpretation of the findings of the inquiry is declared to show the mportance of safeguarding the work- ing boy from overstrain and und nourishment. The report declar that under modern living conditions the tuberculosis germ develops rap- idly and is widely disseminated. Scarcely any one who had reached the age of 14 is without some of the germe, Under proper conditions of nourish- ment most persons develop ah im- munity from the serious effects of the disease and therefore the death rate from tuberculosis among adults is_very slizght when considered in relation to the widespread infection the nge of 14. For this reason, ‘the report d- clares. it is of the utmost importance to render the condition of working boys such that they will be able to develop the immunity which would come with proper care during the vear immediately following the fourteenth, . ' re-examinations te any likelihood It was regard- to make 433 of these Coemees o Move Is Made to Stop Manufacturing Losses| BY HARDEN COLFAX, A definite move to put the manu- facturing industry in a bettew position to stop its heavy losses, with resultant benefit to consumers of its products, was launched last week when the Budget Bureau was asked to approve an estimate of $100,000 for an appro- priation to conduct a survey looking toward “junking the junk.” Exomination of income tax_ stati tics disclosed that two out of every five manufacturing corporations ope ate at a loss. That was the appre mate ratio in 1925, at least, for last year the corporations’ returns to Uncle Sam disclosed 54,137 manu- facturing concerns with net incomes aggregating $4,383,357,000 and 34,537 such corporations with no net in- comes for 1925, hut with deficits ag- gregating $683,254,000. Competition is growing more keen, The mortality rate of those manufac- turers who cannot operate at a profit is likely to increase, for they cannot continue ‘in business at a loss indefi- nitely. * oKk ok The consumer fs vitally interested In this situation, for while compet tion with some firms selling at a loss may benefit him through comparative- Iy low prices temporarily, ultimately a balance will he struck. And the $682,254,000 deficit of manufacturing corporations incurred In 1925 did not come out of thin air—some one paid or will pay. Yor #ome months there hasg been agitation in various lines of manu- facturing production to have a stud made of conditions regarding oves capacity of factories. In certain in- dustries overcapacity is attributed to the fact that machinery is never thrown on the scrap heap until it is ready to fall to pieces, like the one- horse shay. A factory, nfodernizing its equipment, sells it 4 machinery at auction or otherwise, and it is bought in at a small fraction of its original cost, Installed In another. fa tory and begins to produce in com- petition with the mill from which it came. Oftentimes the product of the mill with second-hand machinery is sold at a lower cost than that of the modern mill, temporarily hecause of A large investment in machinery, al- though the product usually is of in- «ferior quality, 4 Tn the end, this overproduetion r sults in disaster to some firm or firms, with consequent losses to in- vestors, to workers and usually an advance in the prices of the product, =0 that no one can be said to benefit. * koK ok While industrialists have heen ing over this situation, and pond what to do to bring out a clear ture for ail to view, it has remained for a woman to take the first action toward getting such a picture painted. Mrs. Fdith Nourse Rogers, member of Congress representing the fifth Massachusetts district, last week placed before Budget Director Lord a definite plan, which she and many with whom ‘she has conferred be- lieve will help, This plan involves an appropria- tion where the Department of Com- merce may employ qualified engi- neers to study the ‘equipment of the factories of the United States and sub- mit a report which will disclose con- ditions and point - conclusions. The work cannot he done in a vear; there are too many factories. Probably it never will be necessary to inspect all of them. But with $100,000 it is cal- culated a sample study could be made by two or three engineers in localities where conditions and types of indus- tries differ. It then would he possible to measure whether the study should be enlarged and continued. % Many manufacturers consider 4t ad- visable to determine some of the fun- damental facts concerning deprecia- tion and obsolescence of machinery, ngt from the accounting standpoint, e ring Dic- It were well if once’ ; [partmen Capital Sidelights Senator’ Borah, one of the best horsernen in the country, has a new bay horse that is attracting much at- tention among those wise in the way of horse flesh. There are hundreds of his friends and admirers who have been trying to help the Senator to select a fitting name for his new steed—but none of the suggestions to date have quite suited. One of the suggested names is “Harob,” which is the Senator's name spelled back- wards, R that Florida lands ch have stood for centuries overgrown with the cabbage palmeito which so delights and interests the Northern ow wh inquiries as to what uses the palm be put other than being burned for the - | tertilizing ash. tovically the vallant _service through use in defensive military works. was particularly adapted for stoc ades in the Indian and Revolutiof wars, because the bullets pa through the outer hard pertion and buried themselves in the soft spongy tissues of the center of the log with- out splintering or breaking it. They have heen used also for piling under ht wharves because they are prool agalnst marine borer: Palmetto ledves form a substantial thatch houses and b and hunters readily Wolfe points out that h palmetto extensive It There is a small de- mand nowadays for this weod making canes, furniture and o nal table tops, shelves and pane f work. last for year: AR The Weather Bureau has also heen cilled upon for guidane of modern progress. It is now giving warnings to airmen especially in these days of transoceanic flight, and this service should -he of increasing im- portance if and when the Government | assumes control of such flights. The new cross-ocean demand upon the Weather Bureau was met on Au- gust 13 and again on August 15 by broadeasting for the first time of United States weather reports in for- eign languages, The first use of this service canie in connection with the unsuccessful attempt of the German airplanes Bremen and Europa to fly from Dessau, ( iy, to the United States. The Weather Bureau tele- graphed comprehensive weather in- formation to the naval radio station at Bar Harbor, Me., where it was broadcast,in German. ~The Weather Bureau suggests that “it i% probable that with the progress of interconti- nental flying the practice of broadeast- |ing weather information will become | tairly common in the near future.” ol R With the building up of interde- tal co-operation among Uncle various workshops through Gen. H. (. Smither, the chief co- itor under the hudget system as aison officer, several new services have been inaugurated, which from their very nature are not avaflable to the public, but- which have helped Uncle Sam to save a considerable num- ber of dollars. One of these is a bul- letin service on prices and stocks and a prediction of ‘market conditions on cotton, so that the War Department may be able to make more advantage ous purchases. . Wi Old Man Smith has done pretty well. thank you, in getting good jobs for his boys in the Federal service. There are more than 33 Smiths who hold important positions with the Government, including: tepresentative Addison T. Smith, fdaho, who is on-the hoard of Colum: bla_Institution’ for the Deaf. C. B. Smiith, division chief, Depart- ment of Agricuiture, Charles I*, Smith, Board ¢} Tax Ap- peals. t Delos IT. Smith, secretary. District board of examiners and registrar of architects, * . S. Smith, officer of doorkeeper of the House of Representatives. Edwin _W. Smith, messenger to Speaker Longworth. Everard 1. Smith, clerk to the Sen- ate_committee on appropriations. . C. Smith, assistant surgeon gen- eral, Public Health Service, D. Smith, permanent bonference m. Sam corge E. Smith, assis tendent of city malls, George Otis Smith, director of Geo- logical Survey. . Glenn, S. Smith, Southern Apala- chian Park Commission. H. A. A.’Smith, General Accounting Office. Maj. Gen. Harry A. 8mith, assistant chief of staff, W. P, D.,, War Depart- ment. Henry G. Smith, the committee to audit and control Senate contingent expenses. ‘Horace H. Smith, attorney in charge of titles, Department of Justice. H. O. Smith, automotive specialist, Bureau -of Foreign and Domestie Com- merce. & James J. Smith, Customs Appeals. Maj. J. C, Smith, Pudget. Maj. L. Meriwether Smith, office of the judge advocate general, War De- partment. Murray D, Smith, clerk; Senate com- mittee on the judiciary. Noel W. Smith, general the Al n Railroad. Philip Smith, chief Alaskan ge- ologist, ological Surve; Ray . L. Smith, assistan office, Panama Canal. R. K. Smith, United States Ship- ping Board. . Shelby Smith, chief of division of publi ns and supplies, Department of Labor. Sidney. F. Smith, examiner in chief, Patent Office. Sidney E. Smith, disbursing clerk, War Department, W. A. Smith, elerk in charge at Capitol of Congressional Record. Lieut. W. B. Smith, U. 8. A., assist- ant to. chief co-ordinator. Walter R. Smith, District Health Department, William H. Smith, international joint commission. William Wolff Smith, attorney, Vet- erans’ Bureau. ———— e ant superin- Jjudge, Court of Bureau of the manager, to chief of [but from that of actual practice, as applied to competition in American in- dustr L Depreciation and obsolescence are widely separate things. The first is due to wear and age. The second has been defined as a sudden wiping out or reduction in value because of inven- tion of a better device, changing styles, or because the business of the owner has outgrown the equipment. A per- fectly good machine, only slightly de- preciated from use, may become obso- lete overnight hecausd of the inven- tion of a more efficient machine. Fac- tories which refuse to junk their ma- chinery and adopt improved forms, un- til it is worn out, frequently get on the wrong side of the ledger at the end of the year. 1f all the obsolete machinery In use in the United States were scrapped, the machine makers naturally would enjoy increased actlvity, and a busi- ness now running around $5,000,000,000 a year would increase. But users of machinery also would benefit by hav- ing the latest types, in most cases leading to reduced costs of production, travelers are belng “developed,” Uncle | Sam’s specialists in the Forest Serv- | % |ice are being besleged by performed | make from them convenient huts that | for | a8 a result | BY BEN McKELWAY. Progress tugs at heartstrings as it marehes aiong. | Facing Western averus a few blocks | from Chevy Chase Clrcle there is a Iblack and white sign, still standing braveiy erect though its two support: ing legs have grown wobbly with age, one of them bending forward and the other sagging to the rear, in some manner grown shorter. The white | lettering ~agninst the black back und has been blurred by changing | seasons, but if one looks closely the | wording is still found feebly proclaim- |ing “The Kirkside Golf «lub." Though the courke and the club are the sign hangs on and some- body ought to take it down. All that ‘emains of the old clubhouse and men's locker room, establishments which | never set themselves up as ornate or prepossesging, is the group of trees | which once shicltered them. The rest {f the conrse is cut up by hard, slaring streets of new concrete, hordered with nd-span houses of brick or stucco or the red earth of what soon | will be somebody’s cellar. There used [to be a knoll not far from the club- | house, crowned with a dignified group lof noble old oaks, and when goifers | climbed itx gentle slope to shoot from | the sixth tee they looked out through |2 leafy framework on an jnviting pie- |'ture of green fairway stretching to [the west. Not long ago an unroman- | tic steam shovel bit into ‘the knoll | and swallowed it, trees and all, reduc- ling it to the prosai¢ level of the ground about it. i * kX % It was only.25 years or o ago that the old Bannockburn Club in Chevy Chase was a long way out in the country. The green of its fairwayk was surrounded by, open flelds and | woods. 1t was the scene of family {outings and picnics, as well as the de- |light of golfers. -On holidays families | were wont to pack up lunch and ac | company father 10 the links and while |he played the: children scampered aronnd on the grassy lawn about the | clubhouse. The trip to Bannockburn |from town was something of an ex- | pedition. It represented a long street |car ride out through the epen’ wilds {of Connecticut avenue, and it pro- vided a stimulating breath ‘of country v for those who lived on the out skirts of the crowded city, say on U street northwest. In 1915, when the owners of the land rnised the rent and when the vanguard of ‘the march of progress threatened the sanetity many members of the old Hannock- trn withdrew and moved the club to Glen Kcho, Md. far away. * But others stayed on, changing the name of the club to the Kirkside. “Tts mem- | bership was restricted, for the course |was never large. They plaved golf | there happily nuntil about two years and parceled into building sites and re green turf was gouged and scarred by picks and shovels. The old club- house and locker room were -torn {down. The Kirkside members joined other golf clubs. A few months agc the old barn that used to stand in the |rear of the clubhouse burned. The |fire was at night. There was noth- |ing to do but to let it burn. It saved old building—and it made a beautifut blaze. But somebody ought to take down that sign. L The District is growing fast. Suech landmafks as the Kirkside, with aH | One does not have to be very old to remember when U street was a sort of northern boundary line for the city, |all_beyond it being open, unexplored territory. Yet there is still lots of room left in the District. There are many broad acres of virgin forest and farmland remaining in the District— 9,000 acres, to be exact. . The District is mot half grown up, though it is be- ginning to show the signs of adoles- cence. Half a million persons live within one crowded square mile in the East Side of New York. Here in Washington our estimated population of the links, |ago, when the land was whacked up | the expense of razing the ramshackle | | their memories, are going every day. | OLD CLUB SIGN NOW MARKS THE ADVANCE OF LOCAL POPULATION / 1of 530,000 persons is spread over an area of 69.25 squard miles. There are #ome' widely held mils- concerning the locacion in the District. For in- stance, it is commonly supposed that the city has grown steadily and chiefly to the Northwest. The de- velopment of Washingon's residence sections, the growth of its popula tion, is supposed ‘1o have geccurred mainly in the Northwest. If the ¢ itol is considered -the center o circle, this is in part true. censas of & few years ag | population of Northwest hington as 170,000, against the combinad I populations of Northeast and South- | east Washington of something ,over [ 100,000. But the Cupitol i neither | the. zeographical nor the population {center ‘of ‘the District. The graphical center used to he located somewhere r the Washington When the land originally Monument. |ceded to the Distiict by ' A police ve the K60~ | went back to geographical center of moved to its present Fourth and L streets, ‘The center of population of the Dis- trict is now at Seventh and G streets, Thir years ago it was at Fifth {and G and it was generally supposed then that its rourse would he to- ward Seventh and K, the Public Li- brar Instead it has not:moved northward at all, but in the:last Years has traveled only two bloe west. The center of population of the xo-called metropolitan area, tak- ing in an area of 15 mites from the District - line, is two blocks south at Seventh and E streets. The: flow of population inte- the suburbs has not moved the cemter of population to the Northwest, but tG the Séuth- west. . The rapid residential tavel - ment in Northwest Washington ini into Montgomery County, Md. has been -offset by as rapid a develop- ment in Virginia and in’%ast “Wash- ington. Today there are aboit many people living east .of Seven: street in the District:as thers are living west.. When-the polies 100k their census in 1925, they discovered that- the precinet showing the grent- est growth was the eleventh; which takes .in the Anacostia area. increase was from 1 4919 10 28,000 jn :1025.- Fhe second lorgest . increase was .l the second net, - which s bounded by on the gouth, &.on' the north, Virginia, the District location, at h Fit- teenth on the west-and the raiiond . Hlere the popriation in- m 44,441 in 1919 (o on the eas crensed fr * KoEx ‘e Washingtor's centér -af' wéalfh, I« 1o eated in the vicinity’ nth and | G streets, wiilch is” the hedrt ¢f the husiness district. . From ‘that’ Joeation | the value of land decreases in'a grad- jual curve toward the exfrefietias of | the District. It is only In the region bordering the outakirts of the business | section that signs of congestion are beginning to show themselves., The | sians are apartment -houses, where a | building erected on’a. plot of ‘ground | which once supported,.a, family. resi- | dence now comfortably houses scores | of farilies. When the urge of hun- dreds of people to live in one locality hecomes atrong enough, they huild their home# up in the air _instead of spreading them around. Rising dand values prevent this spreading. qut. |~ Some of the experts at the Dist | Building ‘calculate roughly that in 35 | vears the populatiqn of the District of Columbia may reach 1,000,000 per- sons. That is allowing. for , pormal | development. Eighty per cent of the District Is now ~subdivided, leaving only 20 per cent for future subdivision. | But onlv half of the District is now [ “built up.” Subdividing does . not | mean, necessarily, building. 1f, i the next 35 vears, 1,000,000 persons live {in the District there will be littlé con- | westion. Still ‘another million can live | comtortably hy huilding. over the heads |of the first tillion. And therd Would still be voom for andther’ million... But that's & long time ot ‘¥ew of those now living in the' Distéict wilf have to’ bother about it. “There's no use losing ahy " sleep “over the probl which may then present thefsel Somebody- else will have to solve them. t In The Star On the eve of the assembling of Con- gress in 1877 expectation was felt in P W, The District's ‘ashington that Mm:qll“be action woul taken to- Urgent Need. ~ [04% 0 detabiish. ment of a permanent form of govern- ment for the District based upon equ table financial principles. This was expressed in the following editorial ;n;.l’r;ted in The Star of September 7, “Congress meets shortly and as prompt effort early in the session i necessary in order to get any meas. ure before that body in season to give it-any chance for consideration, it is important that our citizens should take immediate steps to secure certain legislation imperatively needed for this District. Foremost In this legis- lation should he a measure by which Congreas will fix definitely the propor- tion to be paid by Government toward the expenses of the Natfonal Capital. Congress at different tfmes, through special committees, embracing some of the best lawyers in that body, has fully recognifed the obligatlons of the general Government to sustain a pro- portionate share of the expenses of the District. The proportion to he paid by Government has been esti- mated by different congressional re- ports at various amounts, all, how- ever, in_ the neighborhood of 50 per cent. One report recommends that the general Government shall assume the whole expense of the District gov- ernment and assess a moderate tax upon the people of the District propor- tionate to their property interests. “There is but one opinion among Congressmen who have given any thought to the relations of Congress to the District of Columbia, over which it has ‘exclusive jurisdiction,’as to the duty devolving upon the general Gov- ernment to assume a definite share of the expenses of the Capital City, and nothing is needed but a strong, united effort upon the part of eur citizens to procure the passage of a measure es- tablishing permanently the proportion to be paid by the Government. This done, the estimates for taxation in this District could be based each year upon some positive data. and would | not need to be calculated on the con- | tingency of chance congressional ap- propriations for this and that item of District expenditure. ““The relief to the taxpayers and the Fifty Years Ago This and That By Charles E. Tracewell, - 4 ST A child sticks her adse rthrough r hole in a fence, and a*dak’bites . A man tuins on hfg] od ne | dog bites him. 4 nlse In the meantime thousandurier cafy are pursuing their lives Gl sand: Iy, with no_harnt dotie, to ,gvsingle human being agslios All.a-cat asks is to' be " ¥eated’ like a gentleman. o Hatios A cat confronted with aznass pro- truding_through a fence :wauld look at the probocis with mif eiribsity. He might go so far as.to’touch it with & soft paw, claws retract If his soicalled gymer tureied oh the | radio he would show no spleen what- ever, excypt when high pitehed tiolin or harmonica tones split’ his ears. Then he might direct a few re- proachful meaws Ints the #tmosphere, in the general.direction of the owner of the set, and walk sedately from the room. 8 ERE Perhaps the rarest news'in ‘A fews paper is that of a cat biting some_one. Occaslonally such a thidg happens, but even then it is moktly thé case of a frightened animal in a strafige place. The cat helieves firmly in he &inity of the Declaration of Independeice. “Let me alone,” he says, i effect, “and I will let you alorie. 37 He neither resents the tnnocent plav |of .a child nor sets -himself up ns o musical critie, * T o kR “Oh, see little puss, Her coat is so warm: If vou treat her gently 2 She will do you no hasm."- To which ‘well' known dumatrain we wotild like to add the following,® strict- ly our own composition”{§6 no quota- tion marks, please): s But if you treaf her - : As it you were a ruman She Wwill very promptly = Claw out your stuffing. We might add that the sounds better than it lonks. philosophy is perfect! . * ok ok % The house cat:does, Indleed, give the world a perpetual lesson in' minding one’s own business. rhyie And the crippled business interests of Wash- ington in such a measure would be in- stantaneous, While it Is admittedly out of the question that the people of the Distriet should, either as a matter of law or right, pay the enormous debt—or even the interest—ot $25,000,- 000 incurred by the agents of Con- gress in enpoving the National Capl- tal, the fact that such a debt nomi- nally handled by the District and that the interest must be provided for by our District government has the effect of a wet blanket upon the growth and prosperity of the city, “Members of Congress sometimes say that they would gladly legislate in' behalf of the District if our people would_ only agree upon what they want, but that we have so much wran- gling and dissension, and so many op- posing representations go up to them in regard to any District measure pro- posed, that they mever are certain what is the reai wish of the and inventive genius would receive a spur to greater exertions. In the end the whole people would receive henefits, those advocating & survey believe. by (Covyrigbt. 1927.) — le, and, therefore, they do nothln“.”f‘l us show a front so united upon this matter of fixing the apportionment that they shall have no reason to doubt as to what the people want in the premiges.” S S Even at night, when Tom is cater: wauling on the back fence, heis ind- ing his own business very -well, mich better than the jrate householder, wko. having eaten none too wisely, awakes from Indigestis, hus yrefers to blame the eat. s r it In the ordinary affaire. of everydas life the cat strictly attends to his own affairs. He is the .most sanitary of animals. He never atfempts to chase dogs, but even believes in alpwing mu hereditary animal to lve its own . The house cat that liyes in a home where he is really loved comes to re gard both chickens and ducks af¢ friends. Perhaps a squirrel, ‘and certainly 2 mouse, will tempt him 10 hodily as- sault; but in the main ‘"~ house cat is remarkably fres fr. tice. Most cats will stan: " { amount of rough handling and w + x from chil- dren which no dog In ihé world would ."A";.d lol;. " s e 1e cat puts up né blalf about being o waichman:.. oA Ao He is a connoisseur of life, and asks for nothing more than (o be aliowed to enjoy ite it B L4