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{THE EVENING STAR With Sunday Morning Edition. WASHINGTON, D. C. FRIDAY......September 16, 1927 R e THEODORE W. NOYES....Editor The Eveniny Star Newspaper Company Business Office: 11th St. and_Pennsylvania Ave. 't New York Office: 110 East T Y Clicaro Offce: Tower. Ruilins European Ofice: 14 Regent St. London. ing is ever taken by the Government or not, however, there is urgent need of a compact municipal center, af- fording facilities for the transaction of the judicial and protective work of the District. It would be most ad- vantageous to have all of the munic- ipal activities centered. To that end the project now in process of elabo- ration should surely include provision for the administrative offices, in order that when this work is undertaken there will be a co-ordination and a England 1 The Evening Star with the Sunday morn- ing edition s delivered by carriers within <he city at G0 cents per month: daily (uly 45 cents per month. Sundays enly. 20 eents er month, he sent by mail or Tetephone Main 5000. Collection is made by carrier at end of each month. Rate by Mail—Payable in Advance. Maryland and Virginia. 4 Sunday.... £0.00:1 Paly and Sundar-. -1 v §300¢ 1 Mo Sunday oy, $3.00: 1 mo. All Other States and Canada. Jay . . $12.00: 1 m s lli‘r sS’llll\. 1 mo, B $4001 1 mol! Iy only . Sunday ounly. Member of the Associated Press. The Assoviated Press is exclusively entitled 1o the ‘use for republication vf all news dis- credited to it or not otherwise cred- this paper and also the local news published herem. Al rights of publication ©of special disbatches herein are also reserved Mr. Hoover's Flood Report. Secretary Hoover's report yesterday to the President on conditions in the Mississippi flood zone is encouraging and from it two significant conclusions may be drawn. The first is that the Red Cross administration of flood re- lief contributions has been unusually efficient, showing the results of care- tul management. The second is that Mr. Hoover's findings should sound the death knell of agitation for a spe- ‘cial session of Congress, so far as flood relief, or flood control, is con- cerned. All of the flood sufferers have re- turned to their homes, and while 46,000 of them are still dependent on rationed food supplies, they constitute only eight per cent of those who, at one time, depended wholly on public support. The other ninety-two per cent are now providing for them- selves. In addition, a careful survey to determine the varied needs of re- habilitation work in the one hundred and twenty counties touched by the flood has been completed, the money is in hand to finance this rehabilita- tion and after it is taken care of a surplus of §1,000,000 will remain in the hands of the Red Cross on Jan- uvary 1. In other words, the emergency has unity of operations. Legislation for the immediate ac- quisition of the entire Mall-Avenue triangle for Federal bullding pur- poses, interrupted by the adjournment last March, will doubtless be renewed and effected at the coming session. Coincident with it should be consid- ered and, if possible, enacted legis- lation for the acquisition of the mu- nicipal center site. Any loss of time in this matter would cause heavy ad- dition to the ultimate cost. The properties now held in view for this purpose are certain to advance in value as the Government proceeds with its own program of construction immediately to the south. The Dis- trict cannot afford to have the cost of its urgently-needed municipal center increased through delays of legislative action. R A Drive for Street Safety. Pleas and warnings having failed to convince a certain class of Wash- ington motorists that they must obey the traffic rules, Police Supt. Hesse has ordered an intensive campaign of arrests to make the regulations effective. Beginning today a special squad will range the streets of the city, centering attention upon points of congestion and traffic control, to take into custody all who ignore the requirements and limitations and to hale them at once to court to suffer the penalties prescribed for infrac- tions. There can be no excuse for these willful and habitual violators of the rules. They have had long-continued warnings. The rules are well under- stood. The system of control lights is familiar to all who use the streets. The limits as to speed and corner turning are known. Requirements as to lights are common knowledge. Yet daily and nightly some of the local drivers slip past the control signals, cut corners, crowd the rule-obeying traffic, run with single lamps and otherwise invite and threaten disaster. There can be no effective traffic con- passed; not only the emergency of feeding hungry mouths, but that of setting on their feet again those who were virtually ruined by the flood. A demand no longer exists for a quickly assembled Congress, which would ap- propriate money hand over fist, actu- ated by the humane endeavor to re- Neve acute suffering. The present demand is for a deliberate, painstak- igg Congress planning for flood con- trol on a firm foundation, and build- ing from the ground up for perma- nency. The problem of flood control is not one to be solved overnight. The solution cannot be hastened by har- rowing tales of starvation and ruin. Such tales have set the movement on foot, but the movement now enters the realm of precise engineering and cold mathematics, Secretary Hoover said recently that an annual appropriation of $30,000,- 000 for ten years, in addition to the regular appropriations for work on the Mississippl, would be sufficient. But appropriating this money and knowing how best to spend it are two different and distinct undertakings. For instance, a War Department re- port shows that there are now five separate engineering organizations under the chief of engineers, or co- operating with him, at work on dif- ferent aspects of flood control. And the Secretary of War points out further that a comprehensive and ef- fective flood control program could not even be submitted to Congress until sufficient engineering work of 2 preliminary character has been done. Flood control for the Mississippi, like the building of the Panama Canal, 18 a necessity. Construction of the Panama Canal required vast expendi- tures and a lot of water passed under the bridge before it was completed. The emergency of the Mississippi flood brought home the necessity of flood control. Now that the emergency has passed, let the work of flood con- trol proceed steadily, but unhampered by hysterical demands, ———r—ee— The list of names published indi- cates that a prize fight is a social oc- casion as well as a sporting event. John L. Sullivan once said to a Prince of Wales, “Pleased to meet you, prince. I have often heard of you.” ——— Old Davy Crockett’s motto should be remembered by aviators, “Be sure You are right, then go ahead.” ——oe—s. The Municipal Center Project. At a conference yesterday between the Commission of Fine Arts and the District Commissioners, at the Dis. trict Bullding, general approval was given by the former hody to the proj- ect for a municipal center, to be lo- cated within the area bounded by Third and Sixth streets and Indiana, Loulsiana and Pennsylvania avenues, This project has not yet developed to, the point of specific designs, but is at present in the form of a general lay- out of three groups of buildings, one to house the courts, a second the police and fire departments, and a third the administrative establish. ment. The details of the site and its treatment and use will be worked out by the municipal architect, in conjunc- tion with the Commission of Fine Arts. Thus a start has been made upon a plan that should be pressed with the utmost expedition through the stages of actual designing, legislation and execution. It is highly important that mo time be lost in the securing of con- gressional sanction for this develop- ment. For the Federal Government 1s now under headway in its work of providing housing facilities for its own branches, and the area at present oc- cupled by certain of the District bu- reaus will be needed, and even the central edministrative structure of the trol so long as these comparatively few users of the streets persistently and habitually flaunt the rules. Such drivers are not in strict justice en- titled to licenses. They are a menace to lives and they should be taken out of the traffic equation. Repeated of- fenses cannot be scored against them if they are let off with warnings. They must be carried to court, to stand trial, to be mulcted in fines for their first established violations and, upon repetitions, deprived of their permits. Ignorance of the rules is no excuse. The person who takes out a driver's permit is supposed to know them. He is presumed to have mastered all of them before he is licensed to drive. The nervous driver may become con- fused in an emergency and commit a breach which can be condoned on the assumption that the lesson thus taught will be lasting. But the real danger to the rule-observing motorists comes from those who ignore the rules, though they know them per- fectly, and who take chances on de- tection. To.them the breach of the regulations is a sort of game, to be played with zest. The penalty for such, when caught, should be the maximum, with forfeiture when they repeat their offenses. Rule-observing drivers will have nothing to fear from the present cam- THE EVENING gagements or motion picture con- tracts by which they may keep the wolt from the door. Win or lose, Gene Tunney, who a few years ago was in modest circum- stances, will come out of this fight of the twenty-second a milllonaire. He may be minus the champlonship and he may bear some permanent marks of his encounter, perhaps lessening his pulchritude. But, if thrifty and wise in his investments, he will be one of America’s substan- tial citizens of large means for the remainder of his life. Not every young American can aspire hopefully to such affluence by means of his fists, but certainly the spectacle of caplitalizing brawn and some box ing skill in million-dollar terms af- fords an interesting problem in economics. — e Lost Opportunity. Something ought to be done about the lack of “follow up” details in news reports. For instance, a story is put on the wire at Rochester, Minn., stating the interesting that a group of British scienti their way to visit the Mayo hospital, were confronted with corn on the cob and were at a loss as how to proceed until a clinical demonstration given by the dining car steward. But there the story ends, just as it reaches its most fascinating point. How did the steward demonstrate? The impli- cation is that the demonstration was successful. Why did the reporter fail to state the details? Did the steward seize the cob boldly by both ends, using his fingers, or did he press into service a palr of the gadgets with which one is supposed to impale the cob, twirling it synchronistically with the progress of the eater? Did the steward use the non-stop longitudinal method, progressing from one end to the other, or did he follow the route of the “Great Circle,” eating around the ear until he reached his starting place, there pausing to rest and refuel? Did he butter the ear copious- ly, then sprinkle it with salt? And if he did, was he able gracefully to remove, without calling it generally to attention, the salt and butter from varfous portions of his features far removed from the point of intake? Was the steward able so to maneuver the ear that no stray grains were left solated on the cheek, the eyebrows and as far away as the hairline of the forehead? Above all, was the steward able to eat his corn and at the same time carry on small talk, or did he inform the visiting Britishers that when one eats corn one is sup- posed to eat corn, only that and noth- ing more? Reporters present at such interest- ing demonstrations should remember their duty to the public. Strangers within our gates have no right to a monopoly on valuable information simply becausé they are strangers. Here was the chance for the beat of a lifetime, maybe the Pulitzer prize itself. And now it is lost! —e—. The staff of the White House in- cludes an expert in the management of pets. It may be possible to pro- duce a perfectly tame elephant and perhaps find a Betsy Trotwood to keep a wandering donkey off the green. ————— was Little encouragement is observed for the intimation by Charles E. Hughes that he may be too old to be a President. Hindenburg is no infant prodigy and yet he is regarded as making a remarkably good President. e After all, it may be doubted whether President Coolidge found anything in the Black Hills more attractive than the comforts of home than Washing- ton, D. C., has to offer. —_————— It is an easy matter to bulld all kinds of airplanes, regardless of ex- palgn of enforcement, but should ap- plaud it and cooperate with it, for to them it means safety in the streets, They are the chief heneficiaries of a clearance of the streets of the habitual violators, and while the role of in- former is unpleasant, they should ac- cept it and report the license numbers of drivers whom they observe cutting corners and “jumping lights” and showing inadequate lamps after dark. ————— Loss of a plane signifies little. Loss of the persons on board carries em- phatic reminder that aviation needs more study in order to avoid waste of human life. ————— ‘Washington, D. C., is to have a new theater. The Nation’s Capital is mak- ing its way toward artistic leadership as well as political guidance. —o—s Millions by Mauling. An Incentive for American youth to train for the prize ring is fur- nished by the contracts that have just been written between Promoter Tex Rickard and the two contestants in the fistic encounter that is to take place in Chicago next week. Accord- ing to these agreements Gene Tun- ney, the present holder of the cham- pionship, is to receive a flat guar- antee of one million dollars, while Jack Dempsey, the challenger and former title holder, is guaranteed $450,000. These are the largest amounts ever assured to pugilists. In addition to the milllon which Tunney will receive in any circum- stances, he is to get a sliding scale portion of the gate receipts. If those receipts reach, as it 18 now estimated they will, the sum of three million dollars, Tunney will get $1,250,000. Dempsey’s amount will not rise above the $450,000 of his guarantee in any case. But at that the challenger will have made a pretty penny for a Sum- mer's work, as he received $310,000 from his successful fight with Sharkey in July, making his season’s gross earnings §$760,000 for two fights. While a professional pugilist is at heavy expense in his training his preparatory costs and even his com- missions to managers and publicity promoters do not make an apprecia- ble inroad upon such sums as those involved in the present enterprise. In some cases fight promoters pay a bonus to challenger or defender for signing the contract which is suffi- cient to clear the costs of training. Again championship defenders and aspirants take in a considerable District will probably be placed under _vequisition in due season. A ‘Whether the present District Butid- amount of money in gate receipts at thelr training camps. Between fights they have profitable theatrical en- pense. Finding another Lindbergh to put into one of them is a different proposition. ————— For one man who boldly announces that he does not choose to be a can- didate a dozen more or less coyly ad- mit that they have hopes. ] SHOOTING STARS. BY PHILANDER JOHNSON. Bond of Sympathy. He sald he loved the mocking bird, ‘With lay so boldly sung. He spoke not of the strife that stirred ‘Where reckless speech was flung. He mentioned not opinions grave Upon some sporting chance, Nor thoughts of those who spend or save In realms of high finance. | He may be brave to do and dare In the ambitious throng, And yet his heart has time to bear The burden of a song. And so in deep content I heard His greeting kind extend. He said he loved the mocking bird. I knew he was a friend. No Theorist, “I have heard you called a practical politictan.” “I try to be practical,” replied Sena- tor Sorghum, “to the extent of avoid- ing any effort to sell my constituents theories that won't work.” Patriotic Pride. Forth to the fight the sportsman goes In dignified hilarity. The price of ringside tickets shows Our national prosperity. Hats, “A great many young men go bare- headed.” “I don’t like them,” replied Miss Cayenne. “They look as it they were prepared to disappoint the young lady who has the hat-checking concession at the cabare “He who worships money,” sald Hi Ho, the sage of Chinatown, “must meet the cares of a check book and sacrifice the consolation of a prayer book,” b None Remaining. “I shall not use tobacco,” Sald little Robert Reed. “My mother and my sisters now Monopolize the weed.” 's wrong to fight,” sald Uncle Eben, “but whut are you gineter do when de spo’tin’ public makes it so profitable?’ STAR. WASHINGTON, D. €, FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 16, 1927. THIS AND THAT BY CHARLES E. TRACEWELL. Tha power of ono thin dime seems almost limitless, A dime will make a friend or lose one. It will turn frowns into smiles and cause suspicion to give place to trust. It may precipitate quarrels. So vast is the iniluence of the 10- cont plece for good or evil that it occupies a place in the daily life not held by any other coin. A man will fight quicker for the of a dime than he will for ro bill, popularly known as a roco a dollar buck. As for the quarter, the 2j-cent plece, called in certain circles “two bits,” it has no standing at all when it comes to this queer effect. * oK K % One will discover, for Instance, in his perambulations around the earth, that a dime will make a friend of a certain type of human being quicker than any other known medium. Once this momentous discovery burns itself into his consclousness, he is not slow to avail himself of the power put within his hands. Dipnes are so handy! Why clutter up the giving of largess with cartwheels, when one thin dime will do the trick better? It must be something about the appearance of the baby coins that wins ‘em. Thus may one give other men credit for artisti ses which otherwise he might not suspect they possess. * ok kK Here is a sutly fellow sentenced to duty behind a food counter for life. One cannot say of him, as of the cat, that if you treat him gently he will do you no harm. Approach his station with the de- meanor of a Lord Chesterfield, vet will he take out his spleen on human nature on your innocent self. If one asks him for a ham sand- wich and a cup of coffee, he reluc- tantly draws the latter, puts his thumb in it, then brings forth the former, after handling the slices of bread several times to sce if they are all right. All this, of course, only after one has stood at attenlion for several minutes, hoping that the chap would finally deign to notice one. Yet the innocent purchaser will notice that ceriain other persons do not have to wait, that their requests are met with cheerfulness and alacrity, and that smiles are forth- coming. Of course, he always puts his thumb in the cup. Even a thin dime can't stop that. * K k¥ So the innocent purchaser of food- stuffs begins to get wise. What is sauce from one guest Is sauce from another. This, he correctly deduces, is the true balm of the human spirit. He determines to try out this magic for himself. The next time he wwits, as usual, gets his coffee and sandwich, as usual, with the customary dragging service and offended looks, as usual. He bides his time. He is wise, now. He will turn those frowns into smiles, he will make po- liteness blossom forth where only surliness grew before. He knows how to do it. * ok kK Between thumb and forefinger he brings forth a shining dime. It sparkles in the lamplight. He looks at it appreciatively, does this experimenter in human nature. This is a_laboratory experiment in the whereofness of the human spirit, in the whichness of life, in the where- withal of living. The experimenter slaps the dime down on the counter, and softly pushes it forward. sh-h! vietim instantly undergoes a nsformation. A metamorphosis greater than Ovid ever imagined hecomes a fact before one's startled eyes. “Oh, thank you, sir,” says the man, while a smile irradiates his formerly grim features. “Thank you, thank you."” * K K K Any man with a hankering to be called “Sir” can achieve his fell pur- pose If he applies a dime in the right quarter. It must be admitted that, in the aforementioned case, a part of the ef- fect was the result of the astonish- ment of the man behind the counter. He was so pleased, no doubt, to get anything from a ohap he had set down as a tightwad that he believed in giving credit where credit was due. Perhaps he even framed the dime, and it hangs today on the walls of his home, with some such legend un- der it the following: “The Tirst Dime Ever Given Me by the Bozo in the Green Hat.” * ok ok ¥ A man stood on Wisconsin avenue walting for the charlot from Rock- ville. He carefully nursed in his right hand four thin dimes, the price of six tokens. For many minutes he had counted them o'er—one, two, three, four, in the manner of that best of Hawaiian tunes. He handed them to the conductor. The latter was bugy, and when he finally got around to the gentleman who had given him the dimes he said: You only gave me three dimes.” “I gave you four,” replied the pas- senger, somewhat heatedly. “Are you sure?” asked the con- ductor. “Absolutely,” said the other, giving him look for look. “I stood there holding them long enough, I ought to ‘Well, I won’t argue about it,” said the conductor, handing over the tokens. “Put one in the box.” But the conductor is mistaken. A thin dime is distinctly worth arguing over, even fighting over, for there is magic in it. WASHINGTON OBSERVATIONS BY FREDERIC WILLIAM WILE. One of the most important innova- tions for co-ordinating Army and Navy activities ever proposed }vmu just been launched by Admiral Wil- liam V. Pratt, U. S. N,, who is about to assume command of the battle fleet. Admiral Pratt has formally suggested to Secretary Wilbur that the Navy Department invite the War Department to assign to the battle flect, for regular service, an Army officer who shall be a member of the fleet's staff. The purpose is that the Navy should have at its disposal at sea a member of the military estab- lishment to advise on such questions as disembarkation of troops and other matters upon which Army and Navy, in an emergency, would have to co-operate. The Japanese for some time have had such a system. Admiral Pratt, one of the “thinkers’ of the Nav has just rgllnqulshved the presidency of the Naval War College at Newport. Like Cen. Han- son E. Ely, commander of the Army War College in Washington, Pratt is a_devout bellever in the closest possible liaison between the sister services. N ormer Senator Atlee Pomerene's N:nr(cd affiliation with the presi- dential fortunes of Al Smith may have a more important aspect than meets the eye. Smith's friends give out that when the Ohio Democrat re- turns from Iurope next week. Pome- rene will declare for the governor. Although Pomercno is a lame’ duck Senator, and handicapped by that odium of defeat which is supposed to eliminate a man in politics, many Democrats continue to regard him as first-class presidential timber. The significance of the Pomerene-Smith alllance may be that Gov. Al s pre- pared to throw his vast conventlon strength to the Ohioan, if the New Yorker cannot break a deadlock on his own behalf. In other words, Pomerene may be anointed the Smith people’s second-choice candi- date. He is a Protestant and mod- erate wet. His successful activities as associate Government counsel in the Federal oil cases” enhanced Pomerene’s reputation throughout the country. He practices law at the head of his own firm in Cleveland. * ok kK There's a Greek letter fraternity— Delta Chi—which has_acquired an abiding interest in the District of Co- Jumbia, The cause is that its na- tional secretary for mearly 20 years— William W. Bride—recently became corporation counsel of Uncle Sam'’s municipal bailiwick. Despite ‘his en- grossing practice as an international lawyer, Bride has never failed to at- tend Delta Chi conventions and ac- tively promote its interests among the thousands of lawyers all over the United States who also belong to it. On 12 occasions Corporation Counsel Bride has represented his fraternity at interfraternity conferences. During American neutrality in the World War Bride was one of the first law- yers from the United States to deal With the British foreign office. It is of- record in London that he talked turkey in “American English” to the nabobs in control of “the British blockade and pointed out the perils of too rigorous treatment of our legiti- mate commerce on the high seas. * ok K K Is reverence for traditions ceasing to be an American virtue? A day or two ago the famous home in which President James Monroe lived in New York was put up at auction and knocked down for $10,000 to buyers who are expected to convert the prop- rty into business uses. A scheme to preserve the house as a patriotic shrine fell through. Monroe’s birth- place is now for sale in Westmore- land County. The man who owned it for many years passed away re- cently and the property turns out to be heavily mortgaged. There's some talk of dividing it—a farm—into town lots for ‘“development” purposes. Laurence Gouverneur Hoes of Wash- ington, a great-grandson of thé au- thor of the Monroe doctrine, has ac- quired Monroe's old law office in Fred- ericksburg. He is putting it in repair and will soon housewarm the historic little bullding. * ok kK U. 8. 8. Mayflower, the presidential yacht, like the White House, under- went a general overhaul during the absence of President and Mrs. Cool- idge. The work was done at the Boston Navy Yard, occupled most of the Summer, and was completed in time to permit the Mayflower to dock at fts regular berth in the Potomac a few days before the President’s return. from the West, _-rqn;l of ut- with Capt. Wilson Brown, skipper of the Executive yacht, lived aboard her while she was being scrubbed, pol- ished and keyed up. So did Lieut. Comdr. Joel T. Boone, one of the President’s physicians and a mem- ber of the officers’ staff of the May- flower. ERE Justice Louis D. Brandeis of the United States Supreme Court has acquired a new secretary in the per- son of a brilliant young Harvard Law School graduate—Henry J. Friendly. Mr. Friendly, who received his L. L. summa cum laude, last June, achieved a general average of for his three years at the law school —a rating second only in vard annals to that of Justice Brandeis, when the latter left the school 50 years ago this Summer. While a junior at Harvard, Friendly captured second honors in the Bowdoin con- test with a paper called “The Fall of Naples; An Episode in the Risor- gimento.’ During the past year he took first prize with a paper on “Church and State in England Under Willlam the ~Conqueror.” While still an undergraduate, Friend- ly prepared several of the evidence points for the Federal Government's couduct of the Daugherty-Miller trial in connection with alien prop- erty affairs. * ok ko The Federal Rescrve Bank at Chicago may not think the system under_which it operates is perfect, but Japan does. Chuzo Mitsuchi, minister of finance in the Tokio gov- ernment, has just gone on record as saying that Nippon must “copy” our Federal Reserve system if it desires to instal permanent ways and means of avoiding panics. Mr. Mitsuchi de- clares: “Amerlca centered its atten- tion on the improvement of its mone- tary organization following the great panic of 1907 and thus produced the Tederal Reserve system, making possible the present solid economic foundation’ of that country. America must be our example in this regard.” (Copyright. 1927.) PHILOSOPHIES BY GLENN FRANK The present generation has been damned for an alleged descent into the abyss of immodesty. Whether it be the short skirts of flappers or the sharp practices of financlers, the age is indicted by its elders for a new brazenness. The youngsters, at any rate, are eharged with regarding modesty as an obsolete virtue, inconsistent with candor and honesty and a frank fac- ing of the facts of life. ‘We do not, I am sure, seriously mourn the loss of that bogus modesty which consists largely in a prudishly persistent overemphasis on non-es- sentials and an effort to avold ugly facts by averting the eyes. We do not want, however, to lose the priceless spiritual riches that lie in a genuine modesty. A re-study of the realities of mod- esty is a research to which the young- sters of the time might well give themselves. Modesty must be disentangled from non-essentials that may so easily ob- scure its essential values. Modesty is not a mere matter of long skirts and low voices. “Modesty,” said Joseph Joubert, “is an indefinable sensitive fear, that makes the soul, so long as it is deli- cate and tender, recoil and hide with- in fitself, like the flower, its fitting symbol, at the approach of anything that might wound it by a rude touch, or a light that comes too soon.” Modesty is not the slavish and self- consclous following of rules laid down in Mrs. Grundy’s guide-book. Modesty is an inner sensitiveness of spirit that recolls instinctively from the sordid and the soiling. Modesty breeds in us a sort of crea- tive timidity that serves to set our senses on guard, Modesty breeds in us an exquisite tact that surrounds our spirit in a pro- tective encirclement. Modesty is, to turn again to Jou- bert's masterly phrasing, ‘“that in- stinct warning us off all that is for- bidden, that motionless flight, blind discernment, that silent indica- tion of all that must be avolded, or that should remain unknown.” A bogus modesty produces merely a bore who goes abougldampening the itical impert- that |. Suggests Drafting i For Prohibition Task | To the Editor of The Star: The banner raised by Seymour W. | Lowman, the new Assistant Secretary of the Treasury in charge of prohibi- tion enforcement, surely bears an awakening inscription: “There are many incompetent and crooked men in the service. Bribery is rampant. There are many wolves in sheep's clothing. We are after them.” The last sentence carries courage to every lover of law and order. ‘The following sentences from your September 10 editorial “Run Them Out!” should be read many times— and heeded: “The issue is that cor- ruption, crookedness, graft and ineffi- clency exist among officers of the Gov- ernment. Run these malefactors out! They are morally, if not legally, gullty of treason. * * *® There must be honest men. Let them enforce the law, fearlessly, falrly and with that regard for the sanctity and dig- nity of the Kederal Government from which flows its strength. Rid our Government of the crooks, the drones, the grafters! And then let us talk of prohibition, if the subject is still open for discussion.” All the friends of President Cool- —and they are legion—rejoice ver two things: (1) The increased vigor that has been developed in him during his Summer in the Black Hills; (2) the manifest increase throughout the country of devotion to him and his good wife. It would be a fine stunt for the President to use some of the moral force thus generated to tone up and strengthen the adminis- tration’s stand in favor of the eight- eenth amendment and the enforce- ment of the Volstead act. The burden and responsibility, how- sver, must rest on the people also. It may become advisable to resort to a sort of draft In order to secure enough of the right kind of enforce- ment agents. In all parts of the country there are plenty of incorrupt- ible, law-abiding, temperance men— not cranks—who do not hanker after such a job. Perhaps they ought to volunteer; but they are busy with their own affairs. These men should be properly appealed to and pressed into the service. They would bring at once dignity and efficiency to the whole situation—and most desirable results would follow rapidly. LUTHER K. LONG. id Urges Diversification To Build Up South 3com the Lexington Leader. ‘The authorities of the Agricultural and Mechanical College of Mississippi report that the boll weevil has ravaged the crops in that State more than for many years. Nearly 50 per cent of the squares in some sections have been punctured. The incessant rains, which kept the farmers from the fields, and which made spraying quite useless, have been responsible for the situation. Even with the most favorable condi- tions from now on only about half a crop can be harvested. The price wifl be higher because of the shortage, but there will be little gain in this, and the very low prices which have prevailed since the great surplus was piled up by the most re- cent bumper crop have left the cotton planter, on the average, in very poor circumstances. ‘The conditions, however, are forcing many of the farmers to give up the immemorial custom of planting one crop. They are going into the dairy- ing business, into the raising of poul- try, into truck and small fruit farm- ing, and into diversification generally. Eventually cotton growing on a large scale will be confined, no doubt, to such States as Texas, where condi- tions are more favorable climatically and otherwise. The farmers in Missis- sippi and other States where cotton has for so long a time been the great staple money crop will find it to their advantage to raise it on a much small- er acreage, if at all, and as one of the numerous crops rather than the prin- cipal and, in some cases, practically sole one. It is not easy to make these adjust- ments, and it is much simpler to give good advice on this score than it is to act on it. Circumstances and condi- tions are not always such as to make a change from one method and mode of farming to another a matter to be lightly undertaken. The changes in the nature of the case must be gradual, But the Sduth will have to put cot- ton in its proper place and not lean too heavily upon it in the futdre if there is to be wide agricultural pros- fiergy and if farming is to be stabi- ized. Marvin’s Calendar Is Seen as Remote From the Hartford Times. Dr. Charles M. F. Marvin, chief of the United States Weather Bureau, is responsible for no little present propa- ganda in the American press favoring the adoption of a revised calendar, with 13 months of 28 days each, and one extra nondescript day for the year, which he claims would benefit both agriculture and industry by making the reckoning of time more regular and scientifically systematic than now. “A calendar of this kind would give us days, weeks, fortnights, months and seasons, all in as nearly exact mul- tiple and aliquot relation to each other and to the year as nature itself per- mits,” says he, and he thinks that from the one circumstance that it would release 13 monthly money val- ues instead of 12, it would save the world as much as $5,000,000,000 in the first three months of its operation. ‘We can see that there are many points of advantage in the suggestion of Dr. Marvin, which he has not orig- inated, but rather advocates pursuant to European example, which is agitat- ing the subject abroad and has even brought it to the attention of the League of Nations. There is a certain awkwardness in the way our weeks do not match up into months of even magnitude, and it is exasperating, many times, not to know without both- ersome calculation or inquiry which day of the week the 18th of next month will be or the 19th of Febru- ary fell on in 1884. He would make that all facile by adding one extra day, a ‘“year-day,” to each year, and two extra days each leap year. It would be quite charming to have that day for New Year's, and every fourth year a double “Happy New Year.” But who wants to be born on the 13th day of a 13th month? It would be nice to add another circle to the face of the clock, so that on the 14th of a month we might say, “It is now half- past September,” or, on the 21st, “It is a quarter to October,” yet we fear this pleasure is one that is not to ac- crue very soon despite the illustrious auspices of the thought. Whether the new scheme would diminish the chance of rain on Labor day, or change at all the windy vicissitudes of the Ides of March, Dr. Marvin's literature, which was observable recently, with his por- trait, in the columns of the Worcester Telegram, does not state. ——————— Seasonable Change. From the Syracuse Herald. Autumn s approaching, and silk stockings three one-thousands of an inch thicker will be worn. —_— —— Stern Sport. From the Casper Tribune. A Minnesota town has held a lawn- mowing contest, but we doubt that such events will become popular. ne‘l;co and a chronic expectancy of evil. A genuine modesty invests life with a grace and glow it cannot otherwise capture: it is “to the slightest of our charms what limpidity is to a fountain, glass to a pastel, or atmosphere to a landscape.” e+ (Covyrixht. 1037.) ANSWERS TO QUESTIONS BY FREDERIC J. HASKIN. ° Q. Which industry rankes first as l\)‘m rl;hie! source of national income?— N. P. A. Of the total estimated income in 1923, amounting to nearly $70,000,- 000,000, manufacturing industries con- tributed $24,000,000,000, or 34 per cent. Q. When and by whom was the fa- mous University of Pavia, Italy, founded?—M. W. A. The University of Pavia, Italy, was founded -by Lothaire, grandson of Charlemagne, In 825 and celebrated its eleventh centenary on May 5, 1925. Q. What is the motto of West Vir- ginia?—R. R. A. The motto of “this State is “Montani Semper Liberi"—"Moun- taineers Always Freemen.” Q. Has the Corcoran Gallery of Art always occupied the site upon which it now stands?—L. A. N. A. The original home of the insti- tution was at Pennsylvania avenue and Seventeenth street, but in 1897 it: collections were transferred to the present building, located at New York avenue and Seventeenth street, Wash- ington, D. C. Q. What is the size of the Canal Zone?—S. G. A. Including land and water, the area is 553.8 square miles. Q. To settle an argument, will a log placed in running water travel faster or slower than the water o TR A." The Hydrographic Office says that a log placed in a running stream will travel neither faster nor slower than the water, but takes its speed from the water. Q. How did the United States get ‘Wake Island?—F. S. The Bureau of Insular Affairs says that Wake Island was discovered and surveyed by Comdr. Wilkes in his exploring expedition of 1838-43, and was formally taken possession of in the name of the United States by Commodore E. D. Taussig in 1899, Q. Why does a dog stick its tongue out when it pants?—D. K. A. This is an unconscious effort to increase the evaporating surface of the body. Heat required to evaporate perspiration caused by exertion cools the body. Q. Who invented the machines that fold newspapers and books?—D. E. A. The folding of printed sheets for books and newspapers was per- formed by hand until Cyrus Cham- bers, jr., of Philadelphia invented a practical folding machine in 1856. Q. What use did the Indians make of gourds?—S. M. P. A. The shells of gourds were em- ployed by the Indians as water jugs, dippers, spoons and dishes. They also were used for mixing bowls, pot- tery smoothers, rattles, roof draine, - masks and parts of ornaments. The flowers were used as food, coloring material and in ceremonies. Q. When was Gardner Gate to Ye%lovgvtono National Park erected? A. The National Park Service says that the corner store for this gate was laid by the late Theodore Roosevelt, April 24, 1900. It was thrown open to the public September 1, 1903. Q. How much does a cup of weigh?—J. 8. L. i A. One cup equals seven ounces. Q. How larga an organization is ;{Aen!’edemtlon of Garden Clubs?— ‘A. The membersht 10,000, p is given as Q. Will you please inform me as to where gold in mining quantity was {lzrstcdi;f('c\'ered in the United States’— A. The first gold mined in the United States came from the Appa- lachians. The first gold shipped to the mint for coinage from Southern States was from North Carolina in 1804; in 1829, Virginia and South Carolina; in 1830, Georgla: in 1831, Alabama and Tennessee, and in 1868, Maryland ship. ped gold to the mint for coinage. Q. What is the weight of the steel (ur:r‘fln in the National Theater?— A. The curtain weighs six tons. It was constructed and installed in ac. cordance with plans and specifications of the Bureau of Standards under the ruling. on June 22, 1923, of the Dis. trict Commissjoners. Q. Ts it correct to use the phrase “a pair of heads"? A. Dr. Vizetelly, editor of Funk & ‘Wagnall's Standard Dictionary, says that the term “a pair of beads” is correct when used to designate a rosary, but in other cases “a string of beads” is the correct form. Q. What is the longest single street or avenue in the world>—C. R. A. The Lincoln Highway is the longest street in the world and in the United States. It extends from Times Square, Forty-second street and Broadway, New York City, to Lincoln Park, San Francisco. The keynote of the times is eficient service. In supplying its readers with a free Information Bureau in Wash- ington The Evening Star is living up to this principle in deed and fact. We are paying for this service in order that it may de free to the public. Sub- mit your queries to the staff of ex- perts whose services are put at your disposal. Send 2 cents in _stamps to cover return postage. Address The Evening Star Information Bureau, :’redeuflccl. Haskin, director, Washing- on, D. Public Confidence in Airmen Is Unshaken by Callizo Case The profession of flying does not seem to have suffered in the public esteem because of the action of the French Aero Club in punishing Jean Callizo, who claimed the record mark for an altitude flight. He is the ex- ception, most commentators believe, who establishes the rule that honor and high adventure go hand in hand. “When men engage in perilous en- terprise, for the sake of a record or that some unexplored region of the earth may become known,” the Mil- waukee Journal points out, “there is usually in such endeavor an element that keeps them honest. They do not think of breaking faith when they stake their lives. It is for them to go out and conquer, and return tri- umphant. The honor roll of our Liv- ingstones, Stanleys, Pearys, Scotts, Lindberghs, Maitlands and Byrds is long and much to the credit of the race of men. But now and then something else happens.” The Journal feels that it ‘‘does not matter that Callizo did not go to the height of eight miles. Men will continue for many years,” it says, “‘to build planes and sail away toward the stars. If not he, then some one else. But that a man, in risking all, should ruin his own soul—therein is tragedy.” “Those who have disappeared without trace in stormy waters over which they tried to soar are to be en- vied,” in the opinion of the Norfolk Ledger-Dispatch, “when their fate is compared with that of Jean Callizo, who stands today stripped of all his honors,” and the Ledger-Dispatch holds that “terrible though the pun- ishment meted out is, it was neces- sary. If suspicion is allowed to at- tach to records claimed in various lines of sport or endeavor, they will all become practically worthless.” The Baltimore Sun cites the fact that “even during the war, when propa- ganda purposes forbade the attribu- tion of chivalry to the opposing side, the flyers of all nations were gener- ally admitted to be gentlemen. The qualities which enable men to ven- ture into the uncharted heights seem irreconcilable with sharp practice. * ok K K “The chief reaction to this case,” states the Nashville Banner, “has been to take it as the very rare ex- ception that proves the rule of abso- lute fairness and good sportsmanship on the part of flyers. The men who fly are ordinarily as far from any de- ception of the sort here in question as darkness is from light. There is some- thing about the business, or sport, of flying that seems to wash men’s minds and hearts clear of pettiness and de- ceit regarding their own work.” The Oakland Tribune sees the chief error in the case as related to the Interests of science. That paper remarks: “‘Avi- ation is interested in altitude flights for their proof of the capabilities of is important in the name of sports- manship, at least, that they shall be free from any possible suspicion of fraud.” The Allentown Morning Call emphasizes the fact that action by the Aero Club of France “has been prompt and is commendable. So blast. ing is it to the name of the trator,” continues that paper, “that it is certain to deter any other flyers who may be tempted to any similar practice.” Incidentally, the City Journal brings out the feature of the case that “it is believed it the erasure of these marks will establish the fact that Lieut. John A. Mac- Ready, American aviator, will be rec- ognized as the holder of the world's altitude record of 38,704 feet. Callizo claimed a height of 42,651, to replace his former record of 41,995 feet, which also has been expunged from the books. So one man’s unhorsing brings deserved credit to another.” b * ok kX% “The French flyer has not been given the opportunity to broadcast his claims, as was the ‘discoverer’ ot the North Pole,” remarks the Louls- ville Courier-Journal, after finding & parallel between the two cases as presented to the public. The Courfer- Journal finds satisfaction in the fact that “he has not been allowed to start a controversy over his alleged exploit,” but that prompt action was taken. The Bay City Daily Times adds the comment: “Thus a man who had been greatly respected by the French people, in fact, by all the aviation world and those interested in flying, is plunged from a position of honor. * * * Callizo’s case and its ending are very similar to those of the American base ball players who have been ostracised.” “Jean Callizo joins that company of discredited sportsmen of which Dr. Frederick A. Cook has been for so long the foremost American,” avers the Roanoke Times. “The greed for fame, the love of popular acclaim, whether earned or not, proved the un- doing of both. * * * The sports com- mittee of the French Aero Club heard the evidence and decided that he de- liberately falsified the barograph rec- ords. ® ® * A full report of the evi- dence has been forwarded to the Legion of Honor, with a view of de- priving the aviator of the cross of that order awarded him on account of records he claimed to have made. * * * In the midst of all the honors being won in the field of avia« tion, the discrediting of Callizo is especially unfortunate. It is well to remember, however, that the French' have acted with entire good sportsy manship. They have not sought for a moment to defend their champion against an American when the evi- dence was convincing.” ‘The Norfolk (Nebr.) Daily News em- phasizes the difference between his case and that of Dr. Cook, stating: “After giving a detailed account of his suffering in the rarefled air; of the great height which he claimed to airplanes in the rarefied atmosphere. Let Jean Callizo, or any other, sit on a flagpole for 10 days and claim 20 and science will be undisturbed.” “These attempts are not of great importance in themselves, so far as any scientific results go,” declares the Philadelphia Public Ledger, “but it UNITED STATES IN WORLD WAR Ten Years Ago Today Survivors of three U-boat sinkings reach Atlantic port, bringing story of how, after torpedoing one boat, the crew was marshaled on the desk of the submarine which later submerged, drowning 38. * * * London news- papers see America now in deadly earnest and determined to strike smashing blow at Germany. * * * German editor points out to allies the futility of hoping for ar enduring peace until Germany is thoroughly beaten and Prussianism shorn of its power. * * * Further confirmation of wireless warning of German sub- marins reported seen off Nantucket Lightship is brought in by American steamship arriving from England. * * * German prisoners assert war will end as soon as America gets her aviation going—some time in 1918, they predict. * * * Red Cross offi- clals state that value of dressings, garments and knitted articles made and contributed by American women during past year reaches tremendous amount of $36,400,000. * * * San Francisco faces big iron trades strike as 24,000 men, engaged on Govern- ment -Mpbul!fin‘. are called out by unions, have attained; after staggering about in an apparent faint due to his ex- perience, he was confronted by such proof that after a heated attempt at defense, he is said to have admitted the charges against him.' Mrs. Roosevelt's Tavern. From the Brooklyn Eagle. Israel Putnam may not have killed & wolf in a cave at Pomfret, but he certainly did open a tavern at Brook- lyn, Conn., on his farm, in 1767, being’ then 49 years old and already a vet- * eran of the French and Indian War. If the widow of Theodore Roosevelt desires to own the historic building which is still standing on that farm becaise it later became the property of Col. Daniel Tyler, a townsman of Putnam and an ancestor of Mrs. Roosevelt, the former mistress of the White House only manifests a senti- ment pretty commonly felt. And if having bought Mortlake Manor, she decldes to continue the operation of the “Israel Putnam Inn" she is prac- tical as well as sentimental. 3 It was on this property that Put- nam heard of the Battle of Lexington' in April, 1775, which never a man Is now alive to remember. He was plowing when a neighbor stopped to tell him the news. Old Israel got out of that fleld quickly. He washed up, didn’t stop to put on his old uniform. mounted his best horse and in 24 hours rode to Lexington, getting there in time to command the Minute Men at Bunker Hill. Under the same con- ditions we are sure that the late Theodore Roosevelt would have done precisely what Israel Putnam did. deed, a striking temperamental like- ness b.t:nwnm these :wt; nllon will l;: apparen any analytical student