Evening Star Newspaper, September 19, 1927, Page 8

3 THE EVENING STAR With Sunday Morning Edition. WASHINGTON, D C. MONDAY. ....September 19, 1927 THEODORE W. NOYES. ... Editor The Evenin, Star Newspaper Company Business Office’ 11th St. and Pennsylvan: New York Office: 110 Eas Chicaga Office. Towe: Builiine Eurovean Office: 14 nt St.. London Englan Tha Evening Star with the Sunday mern ing adition 18 delivered by carriars within -he city at 60 cents per moth: daily (i 45 cents per manth Nundave cniv 20 er ‘month. Orders may be sent hy mail or Tslephons Main 3000 Colection 18 made by carrier at end of each month ail—Payable in Advance. vland and Virginia. Ler $9.00. 1 mo 1vr 860071 mo 1vr $300° 1 mo All Other States and Canada. 1vr. 81200 1vr 00 el $100 alle oniv .. Sundav onlv. . 1 mo 1 mo 1 mo’ aile and Sunda Sunday” only X 45 3¢ Member of the Associated Press. The Assocaied Press s exciusiy iy entitied o the use for republication of ail news dis. Tatches eredited 10 11 or not otherd ise cred- fted in this paver and also the loc published heten. Al rights of ou of special dispatehes herein are isy :eserved —— Tax Reduction Hearings. Tt is announced by the House ways and means committee that the hear- ings on tax reductions will begin on the 31st of October and will be con- tinued for ten days. Within that limit of time all arguments and demonstrations must be confined. A schedule is arranged. The first two s1.00 | landing of & blow by the then cham- pion a shade too close to the zone of prohibition, In view of the outcome of the engagement of 1926, this re-| search is quite beside the mark. In view of a fecent encounter, which left charges of foul blows pending against the winner, the same Mr. Dempsey who is soon to take up gloves with his conqueror. the discussion of illicit taps and punches would seem to be somewhat indiscreet. Modern pugilism, it would calls for more than mere physical training. It requires legal staffs, writ- ing staffs, publicity staffs, financial experts, boards of str The as- piring swinger of upper cuts and left hooks and body punches cannot pro- ceed solely upon his own qualific tions. He must be surrounded by aides and advisers, by counsel and literary craftsmen. Gone are the days when two men, mighty of stature and in the ¢ i condition.” { met with few prelimin: in semi- | sécret, in the presence of a select as- | semblage of sporting men, and smashed | their way to victory or defeat. The proportions have all heen changed. The promotion of fights has become one of the major industries of Amer- ica. Thousands of columns of printed matter are poured forth in advance, in anticipation and analysis, in exploita- tion, in promotion, and following the | engagement in explanation and ex- | tenuation and in charge and counter- charge. 1f there must be a literar aspect to the modern game of fisti- cuffs, let there be a distinct under- standing that the protagonists of the art do their own composition. That seem, es days will be devoted to general state- | ments. One day will be given to| arguments on the income t{axes of | corporations and another day to in- | dividual income taxes. Then will wome two days devoted to the discus- | sion of administrative features. The | seventh day will be set apart for dis- | cussing excise and stamp taxes, the ! aighth and the ninth will be devoted | to the estate tax question and on the Leoncluding day miscellapeous subjects . will prevail. There will be no exten- afon of time. With the conclusion of the hearings the committee will close its doors to write the bill that will be r&ubmitted to the House, probably [flwnly after the opening of the wession. This is an excellent plan of action. | It will result in concentrated pro- | .wedure and will not prevent an ade- quate presentation of any topic. With “‘a fair allotment of time all interests +oan be heard. There will, of course, be competition for the few hours that are at the disposal of the committee under this arrangement. Some may be disappointed. But they can be sure ot representation on the floor of the House and in the Senate when the "bill has passed the lower branch and has gone to the upper. There will, of course, be a partisan debate on this question. The Repub- lican majority of the House will doubtless draw a bill that will effect /m reduction in accordance with the rTecommendations of the President and the Secretary of the Treasury. The Democratic minority will seek to amend it by effecting a larger reduc- tlon, based probably upon a different ‘system of changes, giving the major ‘benefit of the lowering of taxes to the “smaller taxpayers' rather than the Jarger. ° Whatever is done in the way of tax reduction legislation will figure in the *campaign of next year. Indeed, out- side of prohibition and farm relief, if .those two questions should become issues, the amount and character of “tax reduction will be one of the chief points of disputation in the presiden- tial fightt No matter what the Re- publican administration may recom- mend and the Congress may enact, with a Republican majority in the House and a near Republican control of the Senate, the Democratic con- tention will be that more of a cut should have been made. The hearings that will open on’the 31st of October will probably be non- partisan. The political and partisan discussion will come in the House and Senate. Arguments and demonstra- tions will prevail before the commit- _tee, leaving the oratory to the mem- bers of the two houses. Whatever the outcome, the taxpayers will be re- leved in a large amount and the financial condition of the country will remain sound. ———————— Alr routes have taken the place of ‘lhe old grade-crossing as a means of ‘startling the public with daily tragedy. ———— The only eminent Democrat who appears to be enjoying life thoroughly for the moment, regardless of politics, 18 Mayor Walker of New York. —ate. Pugilism and Literature, On the very eve of the battle that I» to be fought in Chicago later in the week one of the contestants takes pen in hand, if not to indite, at least to ign an open letter to the other com- batant asking him certain questions relative to their preceding engage- ment. Viewed as financial strategy, this may prove to be a wise move. 3t may stimulate the sale of tickets, which, it is reported, has been lagging somewhat as the dimensions of the arena and the distance of ‘“ringside | meats” from the center of interest has become known to the public. It may | indicate that the bout will be tinged | with unusual bitterness and promise a lively shindy, in which the two ex- ponents of the “manly art,” aroused | by the epistolary exchange to the point of intense personal antagonism, /will fight 10 a finish with all the zest of which they are capable. 1f that is the purpose, it would seem to he a superfluous enterprise on the part of the signing Mr. Dempsey, whose sti- pend for the enterprise is fixed and cannot be affected by the size of the multitude. Just why Mr. Dempsey seeks to revive memories of the lamentable ex- hibition which he gave a year ago in Philadelphia, when he appeared in the ring in a condition that shocked his wupporters, is mysterious. His pres- ‘ént line of attack is an imputation that Mr. Tunney conspired with cer- tain eminent persons, one a political Philadelphia and the risker of money on sportsman of other a notoriou pugilistic events, to secure a partisan | #taff of officials at the bout, who would | give a decision in favor of the chal- would at least add to the entertain- ment. R McAdoo's Alleged Favorite Sons. | Now comes a new aspect to the ! Democratic situation caused by the | announcement by Mr. McAdoo that he will not enter the race for the presi- | dentlal nomination next year. It is| averred that he is going to throw his strength, whatever that may be, to a selected list of favorite sons. who most nearly comply with his preseription of true Democracy. Foremost among these is said to be Edwin T. Meredith of Towa, who was Secretary of Agri- culture in the Wilson administration. Another is Senator James A. Reed of Missouri, who, however, is a little shy on the dry question, but occupies a position of decided strategic im- portance. Another is Senator Walsh of Montana; still others are Senator Robinson of Arkansas, Senator Harri- son of Mississippi, Senator Glass or possibly Gov. Byrd of Virginia, Gov. McLean of North Carolina, Senator Barkley of Kentucky, Gov. Donahey of Ohio and Evans Woollen of Indiana. There are some others, who may be vated in the’favorite son class. The object of this cultivation of smaller individual booms is unmistak- able, 1t is to prevent the capturing of State delegations by Gov. Smith of | New York. Just at present the Smith boomers are busily engaged in scout- ing expeditions in the South and the West well in advance of the primary and State convention season. They hope to line up enough delegates be- fore the national convention meets to make unnecessary a move to abro: gate the two-thirds rule, It is indi- cated that Mr. McAdoo will try to prevent the change of rules; although he was twice the victim of that cen- tury-old requirement, he doubtless does not forget that it was the opera- tion of the two-thirds rule that pre- vented the nomination of Champ Clark in 1912 and eventually permitted the nomination of Woodrow Wilson. If the two-thirds rule stands the fieldi is open for a wide range of favorite | son movements. But in such a cam- paign of negation—a campaign to pre- vent the nomination of a particular candidate—there is weakness unless placed in a position to concentrate the scattering vote and overtake the fa- vorite. Otherwise a completely dark horse alone can win the nomination unless the favorite wears down the op- position and crosses the two-thirds line by virtue of his steady momentum. It may be that Mr. McAdoo has such a dark horse in grooming at this time. Radio transmits much good thought and fine music. Its greatest service, however, is rendered when it sends a distress call in the hour of peril. Radio may be expected to do much, indeed, toward making the world safer as well as happier for humani ——e—s Joseph Conrad Is another of those fine authors who did not live long enough to defy poverty by selling an occasional autograph. B ) Refusals to run for office are seldom registered so late in the proceedings as to leave no time for a little coax- ing. ——— A “Razzer” Silenced. From time Immemorial, since base ball became a national pastime, it has been the practice of a certain type of enthusiast to “root” for his home team by means of contemptuous re- marks anent the failure of individual members of the local aggregation. By a strange inversion these persons have conceived the idea that the way to victory lay through the path of | ridicule. They have “booed” fieldeis | who have made errors, have jeered batsmen who have failed in pinches, have “razzed” base runners who have | been caught napping. Raucous-volced critics of the individual offenders have made lives miserable for the unfor- | tunate performers. Upon their ap- | pearance at bat they have heen greet- ed with ratiric remarks. Loud calls for the substitution of other batsmen have heen voiced. | Such treatment, now says that | eminent and veteran leader of the | sport, Mr. Cornelius McGillicuddy, bet. | ter known to millions’as Connie Mack, director of the Philadelphia Athletics, calculated to demoralize the best of ball teams. Accordingly he has at last assumed the aggressive against these disturbers of the peace of his own aggregation and has caused the larrest of a particularly annoying | eritic, whose voice has been heard | of the intelligence, the capacity, the industry and even the integrity of certain players. This man, despite his | will py | throughout the season in deprecation | THE EVENING turbing the peace and bound over in $500 ball. Mr. McGillicuddy avers in his com- plaint against this offender that his criticisms have demoralized several of his best players this season and that in fact he made it necessary for him to release one of them outright, his usefulness having been destroyed by the constant scolding he received from the grandstand. This not an unusual case. Certain players are at times picked out for torment and “ridden” by the crowd, usually under the leadership of the poss of the foudest voice. Often the release of a player to another club hag been due to this fact, and in his new quarters the player has regained ' is nerve and performed brilliantly that the patrons of his former club have scored the management for valuable player go. Good sportsmanship demands fair treatment of the ball players. If they make errors at times they should be encouraged to do hetier work, rather than shamed by je No batsman ever hit “a thousand” throughout a season. The mightiest club swinger will occasionally strike out with base runners waiting for a chance to score. That is why base ball is so interesting. Its uncertainty gives it the strongest appeal for support. The true spirit of co-operation on the part of those who want the home team to win is to cheer and not to jeer, to give every player the benefit of the belief that he is doing his best, and not to shame him by sarcasm or direct assault in word: It is to be hoped that the example set by Mr. McGillicuddy in Philadel- phia will he heeded all around the cireuit and that the “razzers” will be silenced and that good sportsmanship 1y and constantly 2 s0 vail unifor in the grandstands. Blame for the War. Wearing his marshal's uniform and carrying the baton of that rank, Presi | dent Hindenburg stirred millions of his countrymen to app'ause yesterday when he dedicated the Tannenberg memorial with a speech repudiating for the first time, publicly and offi- cially, the charge that Germany was responsible for the Great War. The subject matter of the speech was well chosen, for it concer: a question upon which there can be little dis- agreement in Germany. It was well timed, for there are thousands of American ex-soldiers in Paris. But his plea for an impartial tribunal before which Germany might appear and pre- sent her evidence to refute the charge of having deliberately started the Great War is, of course, an empty plea, made in the name of effect only. A large library devoted to the sub- ject of fixing the blame for the Great War is now accumulating through the efforts of those who have collected data to prove that Germany inspired the conflict; by those collecting data to show that the allies were re- sponsibie; by those collecting data from an impartial standpoint, and from which they draw their own con- clusions. At #he same time the mili- tary experts, Yooking at the war as a laboratory for experiments in tactics and maneuvers, have tackled the sub- Ject free from the emotionalism of in- ternational politics. But the library is not complete. It will continue to grow. More and heavier books and memoirs will be added. And from it there will come in time an impartial tribunal to deliver its verdict long after von Hindenburg and the chil- dren’s children of his comrades have gone to join the sleeping heroes of Tannenberg. This verdict will not make history; history will make the verdict. — vt Nearly everybody who disapproves of prizefighting will be at the ring- some one of the favorite sons can be |side, or else listening in. King Tut is almost forgotten. Even a mummy needs a press agent. - o SHOOTING STARS. BY PHILANDER JOUNSON, * Confession of a Parent. The boys and girls are on their way To school. I wait to see them play. Some of them do not seem to know The rhymes and games of long ago. They talk of heterodynes and waves, And why the static misbehaves; Of airships overhead so far, And how to mend a motor car. And as the youngsters congregate I linger with an air sedate To listen, as they pass the spot— For they can teach me such a lot! Hard Work. do you manage to be re. elected so frequently “By hard work,” answered Senator Sorghum. “But you never say much.” “It's hard work to keep from it." Coy. The lass whom suitors would confuse Retains a visage frozen. And’ though she says, choose,” 8till hopes she will be chosen. “I do not Jud Tunkins says a successful holi- day tires a man just enough to make a regular working day seem kind o' restful. *“He who has never heen deeply dis- hinatown, “has entertained only slight ambitions.” Tables Turned. “Women's costumes have been sim- plified.” “Yes,” answered Miss Cayenne. “I hear many wives complaining because it takes their husbands so long to dress.” Dangerous Imitation. A genius oft upsets the scheme Of order which should still prevail. So easy do his efforts seem, He tempts a lot of folks who fail. Always a Chance. “So your boy Josh refuses to learn grammar.” “Yes,” answered Farmer Corntossel. My hope is that mayhe he’ll get a place with the moving pictures, where he won't_have to talk out loud.” “Life_would be easy,” said Uncle Eben, “if a sinner could allus remem- | illogical disclaimer that he has been lenger in the event the fight went to the Umit of rounds, or in case of the at heart a most loval hooster for the team, has been found guilty of dis- ‘\ her dem good resolutions he made durin’ de camp meetin’ letting such a appointed.” sald Hi Ho, the sage of | STAR, WASHINGTON THIS AND THAT BY CHARLES E. TRACEWELL. Our _esteemed cotempordry, Fred- | eric William Wile, told us a personal anecdote the other day which pleas- antly brought to mind one of the distinct foibles of human nature. “Do vou still get letters?" he asked, bearing in mind, evidently, that This and That is now in its fourth consecu- tive year. “Oh, ves, displaying a roudly | | | fo cald this writer, | weaf of latest arrival As a matter of fact, the lette from readers have been one of the | greatest rewards of this work and | the inspiration of whatever good we | | may have been able to do. I never get any,” went on Wile in his fovial. abrupt way, “unless it is 1t I say some Senator is [a tall man, 12 veaders write in in stantiy reminding me that the Senator is. 43 'a matter of truth, a very short man.” PR Human natwre, it would | dearly loves to find fault. It is amusing to see the way many persons carefully pick out the one flaw from something otherwise good | and havp insistently upon it | seem, | thus to detect defects in others. misery loves com The feeling what humanity craves. Every one wants to| feel on an equality with every one clse, Kok ok There seems to be a very mistaken idea on the part of some that every one who writes harbors the sublime conviction that he is always right. truth. A writer is confined to plain print, however, and must set down the teuth in so far as he sees it to the best of his ability. When it is in type it is there for- ever, in a sense. t some readers do ot allow for this immutability of cold ! type, but seem to feel that a writer | ought to iwedge nimself about with “This is my opinion merely.” and “Ac cording (6 my belfef” and *This is the way the thing seems to me.” Some obdurate persons, would rvequire, seemingly, that a writer put a footnote to his writing to :‘s('lpfl their charge of egotism, stat- ng: “All the ahove is. of course, only the opinion of the writer, whose name is, by the grace of God and the pub-| lisher, attached hereto. “It is distinctly understood by the | writer that he may bhe wrong and that any reader who disagrees with him may be entirely right.” * % ok X The writer of This and That re- flects with a great deal of honest pride that his correspondence in regard to | this mildly disagreeable trait is in | much the same class of the soap that | advertises itself as “99 44-100 per cent | pur | Face-to-face greetings, however, do | not always handle us so gently. Here | we come in for our share of this| foible of our common human Here | good old human nature cro) | Recently this column ¢ adventures in more or less detail of a | hardy bug that made the grand pas- | sage across I street at the height of | traffic. It was a darn good varn, if we do say it ourself (and we are our own| worst critic). Some score or more of acquaint ances personally assured us of the same, 5o that we are reasonably sure of it. ¥ in fact. ( | Gen. A. C. Dalton, president of the Merchant Fleet Corporation, recently returned from an inspection trip to the Gulf, bubbling with enthusiasm over the future of the port of Mobile. The State of Alabama, in a fifle spirit of local enterprise, is spending $10,- 000,000 upon a water front and harbor development described by Gen. Dalton as undoubtedly the most modern equipment in the United States. The | entire plant is 1!; miles square. It will be filled with railroad tracks,| warehouses, docks and all the other paraphernalia of a port capable of ac- commodating the ~shipping of the | The plant is unique in that it is an all-steel and concrete - establish- ment. There's hardly a single piece of wood in it anywhere, It is designec to last through the ages. Severuf! great railroad trunk lines that run| through Dixie are alive to the impor- tance of the port of Mobile, and in- tend “feeding” it with traffic in ever- increasing degree. Frederick I. Thompson, Alabama newspaper mag- nate, has more than ordinary interest in the Mobile development. He was a member of the first United States Shipping Board, by appointment of President Wilson, and was reappoint- ed in succession by Presidents ‘Hard- ing and Coolidge. Mr. Thompson re- signed in 1925. * ok K K Now., the've picked out still another | job for Calvin Coolidge when he re- linquishes the burdens of the Presi- | dency. This time it's a United States | senatorship from Massachusetts. The | suggestion emanates from the Bos- ton Daily Globe, which says: “It so happens that there is to be an important vacancy in Wash- ington two years after Mr. Cool- idge leaves the Whits House. Sen- ator Gillett has announced that he will retire when his present term ends. 1f Mr. Coolidge should take that place he would be setting a worth-while precedent. He could bring to the Senate a great wealth of experience of enormous value to the country. Unlike Mr. Taft, Mr. Coolidge 1s distinctly political. He will find it extremely difficult to refrain from public life. If he should be disposed to accept the apportunity which will be provided by Mr. Gillett his tremendous ex- perience in public affairs would be available where it is needed.” * ok ok K ““Hughes and Hoover” is the newest thing under the 1928 presidential sun. New York G. O. P. leaders are patentees of the ticket, which they are persuaded would not only win with a bang at the Republican national con- vention. but sweep the country in the succeeding November. It's claimed in New York that Hoover has been sounded” and found agreeable to the idea of becoming Hughes' running mate. Men who know the Secretary of Commerca bast take this assertion with a_whole cellar full of salt. The enforced inaction imposed upon a Vice President of the United States, in the capacity of presiding officer of the Senate, would be about as foreign to Herbert Hoover's taste as anything politically imaginable. How Gen. Dawes has managed to survive the gag remains a deep mystery. Hoov- er’s friends declare he has far too solid a foundation of popular strength, even at this early hour, to consider any second-place talk. * ok ¥ ok Former Senator Robert L. Owen, Democrat, of Oklahoma, is the author of a book just off the press, entitled “The Russian Imperial Conspiracy, 1892-1914.” Tts purpose is to establish, by documentary evidence from official sources in Europe, “that the theory that the World War was waged in defense of American ideals is untrue.” Mr. Owen also essays to prove as “false” the notion “that the entente allies were fighting a war to defend themselves and the United States from the criminal design of William 11 to dominate the world by military force.” In a foreword, Mr. Owen says that he feels hix 200.paged hook is timely because of the ‘“second great 1 | thinks to be falso in another! Perhaps it makes them feel better | ing souls in existence. % WASHINGTON OBSERVATIONS BY FREDERIC WILLIAM WILE. | President in 1920, Ci MONDAY. Now, the point is: Only one of these failed to point ‘nu( that our estimate of 10 miles an heur as the bug's speed was a gross xaggeration, if not a downright mis truth. g |7 How unerringly honest humanity i | when it detecis untruth or what it * % k¥ Being quite human oursell —or ndly believing that we are—we re- | serve the right of the traffic cop to | overestimate the speed of offenders. The bug. black and yellow, ried no speedometer. There was no tangi ble method of computing his speed. The estimate of 10 miles an hour, | which so offended these righteous | readers, was based largely on a trip | we made in an automobile of a cau- tious friend. who insists on running his car at 10 or 12 miles an hour, To a dashing soul such as our own | we seemed to be veritably ecrawlin | So when we came to estimating hug | | progress, 10 miles an hour seemed | about right. | Note that the writer said “dashing | «oul.” We have one of the most ll:flh»i It we live All| yp to it, we would travel the high | people peac the world loves a lover, it Is true, and | clouds with Lindbergh and personally | Detition the Government for a redress combat with | jungle. The soul is willing, but the flesh i | weak. do great apes in the | | K K K | | Another recent article we took an. | innocent pride in was the one on the | annual death of the garden. | "We thought the phrase | death” vather good. “annual | As far as we can Nothing could be farther from the | recall, we never saw the thing stated | '*ason for adding the above amend- | in print exactly that way. l | Yet one of our good friends who | | loves the flowers accosted us in this | | wise, falling to say a good word for | the rest of it ! | “Say. where did you get that stuff lahout ‘the death of the garden? Why | my garden is the best it has been this year—grass green, gladiolus stitl | blooming, marigolds doing fine: and vou ought to see my hardy asters! | Ain't you a bit previous?” | | | * X X % | Previous? | Yes, thank God—just a bit. | Previous about the death of the | garden, because we know the garden | |is going to die. | Previous, perhaps, concerning hu- | | man nature, because we hold the hope | | that some day human beings will for- | get their poorer traits and concen- | trate solely on their best ones. Let us close with one of those good letters we spoke of: “Dear Sir: Apropos your article re garding the sort of telegrams tha could not be sent to prospective vis- itors, I want to tell you of a method used once by myself. “An aunt and cousin who had never heen known to lend a helping hand with the work wrote that they would | arrive at a certain time on a day of | the coming week. Realizinz 1 had no time to lose, 1 immediately sat down and wrote them a cordial letter to the effect that I was £o glad of their impending visit, as I had long wanted to visit them, but could not manage the three small children alone, but, with their help, | after their visit over, 1 would | return home with them. “Needless to say, the aunt and | cousin did not visit us then or ever 1 should add, not to seem too heart- |less, that it was only an aunt by mar- age and a stepcousin. Sincerely yours, B&C” American propaganda” whereby ropean interests are seeking to bring about a cancellation of the war debts. ' R Resignation of D, R. Crissinger from the governorship of the Federal Reserve Board removes from the Washington official picture almost the last of the Harding old guar “Dick” Crissinger was one of the late | President’s closest and most cherished cronies of Marion home-town days. He was a member of the local groun, mosily Democrats, who backed and boosted Harding for political honors from the time of his eariiest ventures in public life. When “W. G.” ran for singer and the rest switched their party allegiance. Although_Crissinger came to Wash- ington with only a country banker’s reputation, his colleagues on the Fed- eral Reserve Board found that he “grew” steadily, and he wound up, an able executive of the national banking system. His knowledge of ag- riculture—as a dirt farmer—proved of particular value, The illness of Mrs. Crissinger, a_long-time invalid, is accounted one of the chief reasons for her husband's retirement from the Government service. * ¥ * ¥ | R. Kent Beattie, senior pathologist of the Bureau of Plant Industry apd Forest Pathology in the Department of Agriculture, made a startling state- ment at Tokio the other day. He went to Japan to pursue a two-year study of ways and means of combating chestnut tree disease. Mr. Beattie de- clares that this pest has cost the United States in devastated chestnut trees the tidy sum of $100,000,000, due to germs, microbes and bugs “im- ported” into this country from Japan. Japan itself suffers grievously from | the same plague, which originated| long ago in China. Mr. Beattie’s task is to discover a chestnut tree which | will grow in the United States and be able to resist the disease, or else elicit a method of creating a new species of chestnut which will be im- mune from the malady. The Depart- ment of Agriculture pathologist points out that not only are our chestnut forests in danger, but that “billions of dollars’ " worth of pine is in peril from the same cause. * Kk ¥ K The Army hopes to make the mili- tary exposition and carnival. to be held at the Army War College in Washington on September 30 and Oc- tober 1, not only b annual affair, but one that will eventually be a national drawing card. Our officers and soldiers in the Philippines some vears ago in- augurated a similar event at Manila. It was a modest show at first, but, as the years went on, grew in splendor and attractiveness, until people began to come to see it from as far afield as Shanghai, Hong-kong, Pel Tokio. The Army Relief Ass: for which the exposition and carniv will be given, is a meritorious institu tion which takes modest care of the widows and ren of enlisted men. It was formed away back in the Cleve- land administration by Mrs. Daniel Lamont, wife of the Secretary of War. tCopyright, 19! —o—— Children Accused As Law Vi To the Editor of The Star: Thanks to the arrival of 2 member of the police force as a neighbor in our vicinity, we find that our young- sters ranging in age from 2 to 11 years are disobeying the law by riding their scooters, automobiles, busses, bicycles and skates and are making themselves reprehensible for the Juve- nile Court, as the officer asserts. If this be true, why do the best stores in Washington sell such toys? Aren't they in truth bootlegging in toys> If our children are amenable to punish- ment for the use of such toys, why isn't there a law forbidding their sale” The mothers are very discouraged and the children most unhappy., Is there no redress for us? CCA SMITH, olators | dent when it was formed so as to en- | member that I ha | my opinion that eve | were limited. | thy | has stood as a recognized principle b | abiding. As a blessing to the Ameri- | amendment, | day law in any State of the Union or SEPTEMBER 19, ! | | Sunday Law Attacked By Minister-Editor To the Editor of The Star: The liberal space set apart in The | Evening r of September 1, and | again in the Sunday issue of Septem- her 11, devoted to a prospective Sun- day law in the District of Columbia, raises a religious argument in which the issue is joined between a_certain class of clergymen and the Congress of the United States. | The articles published breathe a| spirit of intolerance that is mot very becoming in the Capital City of a Protestant country where religious liberty has contributed to the building of a_great Nation and the protection of the conscientious scruples of ils citizens. Working in eonjunction with the Lord's Day Alliance as the agzressive party, these clergymen have turned wside from their hizh and holy call- ing to a political issue in which re- ligion is attempting to dominate the | Government; in violation of every vir-| tue that lies at the foundation of our | civil and religious right | First Amendment Cited. The ficst amendment to the Consti tution says ‘ongress shall make no law specting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise there- of; or abridging the freedom of speech, or' of the press, or the right of the | ably to assemble and to re- | of grievance ediately following July 4, 1776, , ns had an expecience which has not been forgotten, and it was recognized by the administration as n attempt to control religion b civil law. The violation of the spi and principles of the Constitution was | considered by the founding fathers of our country as good and sufficient | ment to the Constitution, that they might nip in the bud any possibility | of religious persecution ever crowding its way into this Nation. At that time there wa ch of Sabbath-Keepers in Eph-| 1 number of their mem 1S were arrested for working om | Sunday. A letter was addressed (o George Washington, asking him if he considered that the new Constitution | justified any interference with the scientious scruples of Christians iving in the Unjted States, Reply of Washington. To this letter P replied as follows: “If T had had the least idea of any difficulty resulting, from the Constitu- tion adopted by "the convention of which I had the honor to be presi- a Baptist sident Washington danger the rights of any religious | denomination. then I never should ve attached my name to that in- strument. 1f 1 had any idea that the | General Government was so admin- istered that liberty of conscience was | endangered, I pray you be assured that no man would he more willing | than myself to revise and alter that| part of it so as to avoid religious per- | ecution. You can without doubt re- often expressed man who con- ducts himself as a good citizen is a countable alone to God for his reli- | gious faith, and should be protected in | worshiping God according to the dic- | tates of his own conscience. | G- ORGE WASHINGTON. “Aug. 4, 1T This experience led to a further ex- amination of the Constitution and | the extent to which it had failed to pratect the inalienable rights of eciti-| zens as declared in the Declaration of | Independence. As the authority of our constitutional form of govern-| ment is vested in the people, at once the franchise was brought under revi ion and by it the powers of Congress | It was decided that— 1. “Congress shall make no law re- | specting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise there- of."—First amendment. “The enumeration in the Consti- tution of certain rights shall not be nstrued to deny or disparage others | retained by the people.”—Ninth | amendment. 1 3. “The powers not delegated to the United States by the Constitution, nor prohibited by it to the States, are re- served to the States respectively or to| people.”—Tenth armendment, | 4. “Neither slavery nor involuntary servitude (on Sunday or any other day), except a punishment for crime whereof the party shall have been duly convicted. shall exist within | the United States or any place sub-| Jeet to their jurisdi(’lion."—Thirl(‘en!ht amendment. | Questions Legal Right. With the powers of Congress lim- ited by the people; With their religious rights exempted | from congressional authority; With slavery or “involuntary servi- tude” on any day barred— What legal right has the Lord's Day Alliance and its ministerial con- stituency throughout the States to trespass the Congress of the United States and ask for the passage of a Sunday law which, when enacted, would throw a large percentage of American_citizens into “involuntary servitude,” thus forcing a violation of their conscientious scruples in reli- gious matters? During the history of the past, the above application of the amendments | our court: autho this and is the voice of o ty that halts the clergymen in ion at the threshold of our legislative and congressional halls. The clergymen throughout the United States are very zealous for the | eighteenth amendment to the Consti- | tution, and a fight to the finish for | the claims of prohibition is staged for | the 1928 election. In short, the eight- | eenth amendment is on trial for its | cery life. At the same time, these | cmen, co-operating with the Lord’s Day Alliance, seek to violate | the first amendment to the Constitu- tion, which is a direct defense of the principles involved in tha fourth commandment of the Dacalogue, and they have threatened any Congress- man who dares to refuse to do their bidding. The amendments to the Con- stitution stand or fall together. 1t the eighteenth amendment is a part of the Constitution, then it should properly be enforced, and it is the duty of the people to become law- can people, the first amendmant is ad- | dressed to the Congress of the United | States, and therefore stays the author- | ity of that body from legislating upon | any religious question. Leyalty to American principles is certainly most becoming, and of all people the clergy- men who grace the sacred desks in America should respect the laws of this country and see that the first as well as the eighteenth amendment, is also properly enforced. Let the American people stand true to the principle involved and a Sun the District of Columbia would be an impossibility. Again, every Congressman is bound by oath to uphold and defend the Con- stitution of the United States with every principle upon which the foun- dation of our Government rests Clothed with delegatéd authori their election does not carry with it the powers that are reserved by the people in the States from which they come. If true to the oath taken, pvery Congressman in this country is barred from the presentation of a Sunday bill calling for legislation. Spiritual Anarchy Seen. Spiritual anarchy is just now rais- ing its head in our Capital (ity. de- claring what it intends to do when Congress convenes., Forty-six of our States have in the past trespassed the religious question by enacting local Sunday laws in open violation of their | nated Niaga | benefit i sereens are provided. The 110 | to established knowledge? | cerned whether the use made of them ANSWERS TO QUESTIVE > BY FREDERIC ). HASKIN. Q. What was the correct name of Hatry Greb, the prize fighter, and| what was his religion?—S. E. A. His name was Harry Greb. He was born in Pittsburgh of German- American parents. He was baptized | a Roman Catholic and was a member | of the Knights of Columbus. | Q. Please give the seating capacity | of “the Ringling-Barnum circus, the | Hagerbeck-Wallace, Miller Brothers | and the Sells-Floto.—J. A. | A. The Variety Magazine says that | @ informed that the Rlnxlin:—" trothers-Barnum Bailey circus has a seating apacity of from 12,000 to! 15,000 ordinarily; with all extra seats in’ hippodiome track, the limit is 16, | 000, Hagenbeck-Wallace, with recent | additions to equipment, runs hetween | 3,000 and 9000, and Sells-Floto is slightly more, esiimgited =1 about 10, 000, Miller Protherey &lso lately en- | larged, is about 8.00i Q. Has Niagara Falls always been illuminated at night?—D. K A. Albert Bierstadt in 1884 illumi Falls one night for the of English railwaymen by flashing. powder on the ledge of rocks | heneath the American Falls. In 1907 | the Falls were illuminated for 30 nights by searchlights under direction of Darcy Ryan of tie Goneral Electric | 0. Afterward the uoly illumination { the Falls was provided by small in- candescent flood lights. Since May 24, 1925, Niagara Falls has been illu-| minated in colors four hours every | night. The installation of lights is cn the Canadian side, and the power is| donated by the Hydro-Electric Power Commission of Ontario. The project is financed jointly by the last-named, by the cities of Niagara Falls in New York State and in Ontario and by the Vietoria Park Commission. olar | attery of | searchlights directs upon the Falls | Leams totaling one and one-third bil- | lion candlepower. Q. Were Sace Vanzetti Ameri can citizens?— M. A. Neither Sacco nor Vanzetti was a naturalized American citizen. Both | were Italians. | | Q. Haw is Andorra governed?—S. | D. W, | A. The republic is governed by a | council of 24, elected for four years| | by heads of families in each of the|that a parishes. Q. When is a river a navigable stream?—B. L. T. A. The courts say that those rivers must be regarded as public navigable | rivers in law which are navigable in| fact, and they are navigable in fact | when they are used or are suscepti- ble of being used in their ordinary conditions as highways for commerce, Q. What is the largest gland in the body?—A. . A. The liver is classed as a gland and exceeds all others in size. Q. What is “podagra’ (A A. A species of gout which recurs| at regular intervals, attacking the| Joints. I Q. called . A. The name “Americs | What part of the world was first " was first | as e s h applied to Central Brazil, in honer of Amerigo Vespuccl, who claimed its discovery. It was first applied to the whole known Western World by Mer cator, the geographer, in 1541. Q. What will take tar off automo- les?—M. C. J. A. We are informed that tar splashes on cars and motor cycles my be renoved quickly with eucalypius oil. The cil, when applied with a sofi cloth, immediately softens old and dr tar splashes and efectively re. es them without in any way in. % the surface which the tar dis figu During the cleaning process the tar-stained cloth should be dic arded for a new one as soon as sciled The oil should Le applied libaral) the cleaning commencing the boundary of the stain and procesdin: toward the center bi n Juri < has a house fi located on h. o nd body ™ How many wheie ave they I R. M A. The greaier part of the head « a fly is ocoup the eyes, s saveral thousand in number, descriie rpound. Between the compouri and near the top of the head triangular _arrangement of three wle eyes. The upper two are much farther apart in the female than in the male. In spite of the artanse ment of the eyves and the great mo! i of the head. it is not believed th the vision of flies is especially act although the r of vision is wide. ey a Q. Will you please tell me how § nuts may be salted in the shell” G alting peanuts in the shell done cuite extensively in the tropics The peanuts are boiled in the ligiid and then allowed to which they are r equipment is required fcr this process, Q. What are wd of a firste! A. The Lew cheel says that a ntel is in effcct the purchasing agent The steward also helps a eitef plan m In large hotels there are often of storeroom clarks undsr the direction of the steward. Q. What is a “lazy man's switeh” (elecirical)?—lI. G. A. Tho Bureau of Standards sa:s man switch,” also ealled a “three-way switch.” is electrically a_ single-pole, double-throw switch. Using two of them, a light can be controlled from two places, such as | upstaits and downstairs in the case of hail lights. A called a “four-way trically a double-pole reversing switch. Any number of four-way switches ay be used with two three-way switches to control a light from any number of point: related switch, switch, is elec The resources of our free Informa- tion Bureau are at pour service, and you are invited to call upon it as often as you please. It is being maintained solely to serve you. What question can we answer for you? There is no charge at all, except 2 cents in stamps for return postage. Address your letter to The Evening Star Informa- tion Bureau. Frederic J. Haskin, di- rector, Washiagton, D. €. The grain of truth that appeared in | the remarks of Right Rev. Edward | Burroughs, Bishop of Ripon, advising a holiday from scientific research for ars, has served to produce a semi-humorous debate on both sides of the Atlantic. The bishop's idea that it might be a good plan to assimilate the knowledge already achieved before going forward, in or- der that life might be mads pleas- anter, is met with words of approval, but serious doubts are raised as the world contemplat the time that would be lost by the proposed holiday. | ““There should be no stopping of | scientific_investigation,” advises the | Albany Evening News, “but there ought to be a better assimilation of | the knowledge that has heen gained. # + ¢ Even suppose that for 10 rs past science had made no prog- ress and that we were still living un- | der older ¢onditions, would we still be | giving more time to philosophy and | Hardly. As soon as the world stops going for. | ward it will go hackward. It will not | stand still.” The Oakland Tribune also feels that “the theory of a scien- tific holiday, in which research and | invention would mark time or take a vacation, has a natural appeal to bewildered world, but is one holiday which will never be marked on the calendar. There is no way to order | ‘men to stop thinking.” “Moralists are pretty much in agree- ment,” admits the New Bedford Stand- ard, “that mankind has not oriented | itgelf to the revolutionary cha i the material world of t | vears. Whether it will ¢ | doing so is a question vhile, sclence, speaking through insists that it must go on wresting from nature her secrets, discovering | new things. and that it is not con- is for the individual and social good. | That, science is the concern of | religion and mor: | * kK k¥ H “Seience points the way to eanserva- | tion,” says the Toledo Biade, “not only of fuel but of lumber, minerals and natural resources of all kinds. Science | combats new plagues and diseases, as | well as insect pests, but it knows| comparatively little yet and the world | is not glutted with overwhelming | knowledge. As the Duchess of Atholl | cays, we may be breathless and tired in the race for knowledge, but we need much more knowledge than we have, and nothing more potentially disas- | trous than a 10-vear holiday for all| scientists could be proposed. Waste of natural resources which might be saved by science would be appaliing. and pests and pestilence might prevail against mankind in the struggle for existence.” b The Dayton Daily News agrees that ‘sclence has provided the human race with physical powers which it has not developed the moral intelligence to control. We are hoisting ourselves,” continues the News, “‘with the petare which science has made for u: It is a question of eatching up quickly in a moral and spiritual way with science or blewing ourselves to pieces with! our new implements, as the small boy | hlows himself up with his cannon fire- | cracker. Science is now threatening | to release molecular energy for the of man. If it does that, how long | will the race take, its fighting biood being us at present, to put a_total, end to itself? The Bishop of Ripon wants science to wait. A joke? Rather, it might appear a matter of life or death.” | “Now it might be that a little pause would be just the proper thing for| us,”" suggests the Providence Bulletin. “In moments of excitement, a deep breath and a litile enforced reflection | over the situation have proved many, B Y to be religious, and the passage of a Sunday law In' the District of Colum- bia announces the engagement be. tween the Church and the State and leads the masses to the altar where a | union of the State with the Church will pave the way for persecution in | America. i The movement is a violation of constitutional authority. The enforce- ment of those laws has always proven a curse, and such legislation sounds the death knell to religious liberty in any community. Tt is the revival of an age-worn methc. of forcing people every virtue that lies at the founda- tion of our religious life, and there- fore may be properly branded as un- American and un-Christian. REV. HENRY M. LAWSON, Editor, W Sentinet. | | whic visions. { men. asks Senate committee for Idea of Scientific Holiday Lightly Treated by Press a man’s salvation. ‘Wait just a min- ute, now.’ says the philosopher; ‘don’t get excited. Let's think this over.’ But it is to be feared that some ad- justment other than the one proposed by the bishop will have to bring us poise and re-establish in us our lost sense of mastery. * * ¢ Let the scientists go right on bestowing upon us benefits which only make us nervous, but, meanwhile, why cannot a delegation. headed by Sir Oliver Ledge, instead of chasing up spooks. help us to uncover our own submerged capacities? * ok ok % Admitting that “many of the fore. meost scientific investigators are im- iled rather by natural human curi- osity, a burning desire to tear away the veils that hide the unknown, than by a wish to make the lives of their fellow beings happier,” the New Yok Sun, nevertheless, believes that “al- ways in the backs of their minds is the thouzht that when they have attained their goal, or even come within meas- urable distance of it, the human race will have advancad to a higher plane and lite on this pianst will be some- thing far richer and deeper than it i today.” The Sun surmises that be that he merely wished to give the ntists a jolt—a forceful reminder that science is not everything, that, to quote his own words. the: a ‘wisdom which is older tha greater than knowledge, and wi knowledge may be a curse. ‘The point is that science is con- stantly furnishing human nature with cause for greater happiness,” states the Minneapolis Tribune, “and if hu- man nature does not realize the greater happiness made possible for it by science, the blame should be placed upon human nature rather than upon science. Apparently, the one miracle which even sclence can not achieve is that of making human nature appre e its blessings.” The Rochester Times-Union con- cludes that “this plea, which the Bishop of Ripon makes on behalf of a calmer and more philosophic _life i and hout | might well find an_echo in the heart of many a worried manufacturer or business man. New discoveries, in- ventions and applications of scientific principles follow one another so fast today that a producer must be alert to avoid being caught napping." UNITED STATES IN WORLD WAR Ten Years Ago Today Three hundred thousand more men g0 to camp, making a total of half lh'e first draft Army now in training. War Department announces that the enormous task of obtaining equipment and supplies for the Army is moving satisfactorily. * ¢ * War Depart ment now confronted with problem of filling up the National Guard di- ® * % Secretary Baker. vlanning for an Army of 2,300,000 000,000 “ e suspicion U-boat. for additional equipment. American schooner seized on of supplying oil to German * * " American steamer Platuvia sunk by submarine. Cap tain and eight of crew drowned. 43 survivors landed by Italian steamer Andrea. * ® * ‘Opne hundred and one Americans now held captive in Germany. * * * Campaign to be waged for a million dollars to buy a million books for a million men. * * * Hoover warns business men that socialism may be the penalty of their failure to realize their responsi- bilities and co-operate adequately with the Government. * * * Conscrip- tion of labor by Government suggested as 6,500 shiploaders strike in New York War activities are being hampered. o Plenty of Czars From the Terre Haute Star. New York wants a theater ticket czar, but what is the matter with those in almost every Never Content. From the Santa Barbara Daily News. Six months after the arrival of the millenium. there will he a petition out