Evening Star Newspaper, September 27, 1927, Page 8

8 {THE EVENING STAR With Sunday Morning Edition, WASHINGTON, D. C. TUESDAY....September 27, 1027 THEODORE W. NOYES....Editor The Evening Star Newspaper Company Business Office: 8t nnay} ey Jork Gie: 110, Ea Chicagg Ofics:, Tower | European Office: 13 Regeut England. St.. dvance. Gov. Ferguson, ousted from that office upon his conviction of malfeasance, maneuvered the nomination of his wife as his successor, and she wax elected. But in that case the people of the State ratified “Gov. Jim's" prb- executive, If later she pfroved to bLe only a figurehead for the ex-governcr who, sitting at a desk in the state- house, actually managed the affaivs | of the commonwealth, the blame rested upon the voter. In Indianapolis another “Ma" has been advanced to, in effect, the same position in which Mrs. Ferguson was placed in Texas, but by the direct ap- | pointment of her husband. The votors | of the city have had no part in the transaction. They may in the ma- jority sympathize with Mavor Duvall. ¥ feel that he is the victim of perjured testimony or that his of- fense was not, in point of Hoosier political practice, a heinous one. They may feel that the mayor is justified in naming his wife and that she in turn is justified in taking the office. But they should have a chance to show that feeling at the polls. Untii they have done so the appointment of the wife of the convicted mayor to | 1 position from which she may ceed him in that office stands as a flagrant defiance of propriety, which should meet with emphatic condemna- tion, i suc- ——e—- The Schneider Race. England’s determined effort {o win the famous Schneider Cup trophy for seaplane speed has succeeded. Yester- day at Venice her three spec ing edition 18 delivered by ca the aity at 80 cents per month r month. Orders may be <«nt by mail or mtr‘honb Main 5000, Collection is made ty Rate by Mail—Payable in Maryland ard Virgini ¥ iy. . 1vr. 86.00: 1 mo.. 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The Associated 1" 1% ex ited in this paper and also 1t P Jowed in the case of Admiral Magru- without first submitting it to the de- plan for the reorganization of the ceedings. Indeed, there is no ground| filing of all articles written by naval | By virtue of this command the Sec- structed racing ships outelassed, by a wide margin, the three planes entered by Italy, the only other contender. A new world speed record for either land or sea planes was set up and the two hundred and seventeen miles of the course was covered in approxi- mately forty-six minutes at the rate posel of “Ma” for the office of State | THE EVENING § brings to mind the fact that another portion of the District park remains to be completed. That is the connecting parkway between Potomac and Rock Creek s. The process of acquiring lands lying within the limits of the project has dragged ulong for years. From time to time another area 1s abtained, but the process is in- terminably slow and there is no a surance when the two great areas will | be definitely united by means of this route along the bed of Rock Creek. The National Capital Park and Plan- ning Commission regards it as one )t the features of the general scheme | of park development. It was projected | s0 long ago, however, and has been <o many years in accomplishment, that the public has all but forgotten it. A particular effort should he made during the coming year to complete this work and to add the connecting parkway to the svstem without fur- ther delay. Its value as a link in the great chain of reservations is incal- culable. -t One Dead, Three Injured. Reckless driving has again taken the ihevitable toll. Karly Mon; morn- ing on the deserted Speedway near Inlet Bridge a sedan containing four persons crashed into a tree. Omne is dead and three are injured, and the machine is a total wreck. According to one of the survivors, the speedom- eter just hefore the accident registered | sixty-five miles an hour, It seems a pity that on a road free | from other traffic a motorist should disregard the first rules of safety and drive his car in such a manner as to | cause a fatal accident. There are so | many tmflic rds to combat, hoth day and night, that the imposition of an added personal rd, that of high- | speed driving, merely stresses the in-| ability of a certain class of motor- ists to recognize and safeguard their own best interests. In other words, retary of the Navy puts it up to Ad-|of two hundred and eighty-one miles | After successfully threading the heavy miral Magruder to present his case in detail in such a manner that the de- partment can take cognizance of it for consideration. It cannot conceiv- ebly accept the printed text of a pub- lication, by whomever it may be sign- an hour. The new mark is thirty-five miles an hour faster than the record held by Italy for seaplanes and three miles faster than the land plane rec- ord, which was held by France. England’s triumph is the result of traffic of a city, motorists of this type will “open her up™" as soon as they reach a deserted stretch of highway, thereby putting themselves in much 'more danger than while driving in| congested traffic, instead of proceeding M, as the basis of a program of re-|c ncentration and perseverance plus |at 2 sane and reasonable speed, thank- form. If, however, a member of the organization of whatever rank, either ingenuity of construction and skill of personnel. Many months ago she be- ful for a clear road. It the survivor of last night's acci- before or after publication in period-|gan pointing for this year's Schneider | dent Who gave an estimate of the speed | Jcals, gives expression to suggestions for corrections or changes in methods and policies it is incumbent upon the edministration to take them under onsideration. Admiral Magruder has committed no technical offense against discipline, though his manner of expressing his riticisms may have caused some won- germent. It is possible that he has performed a very valuable public pervice. If, as he asserts, the naval edministration is extravagant with- out results, if wrong policies are being pursued, if the Navy is in course of Hisintegration through erroneous pro- cedure, it is certajnly desirable that the whole question be examined im- partially by the department itself Rnd by Congress. It is probable that Congress will take cognizance of the Magruder criti- cisms. Indeed, the Secretary of the Navy may, in his annual report, bring them directly to the attention of Con- gress. There is no evidence at present of a disposition on the part of the Becretary to sidestep the question or to pigeonhole the criticisms through the medium of disciplinary procedure. En fact, his instruction to Admiral Magruder to file promptly and fully his views regarding naval reforma- tion s to be accépted as an invitation race, which is internationally con- ceded to be the blue ribbon event of aviation. Backed wholeheartedly by the government, the best airplane fac- tories-in Britain were put to work to turn out the fastest machine that would fly. When the planes wer2 ompleted the pick of England’s avia- tors were assigned to pilot them. These preparations brought results and England is to be congratulated upon her contribution to the develop- ment of aviation. Coupled with the unstinted praise that is being accorded John Bull's splendid performance, there remains, however, a feeling of chagrin in Amer- ica that the United States was not represented in the races. Although the American Government decided this year not to compete, Lieut. Alvord Williams, one of, the best of the Navy speed fiyers, secured private backing to build what it was expected would be the world's fastest plane for entry. in the Schneider event. Un- foreseen delays in construction and tests combined with England’s flat re- tusal to allow a month’s postpone- ment made it impossible for Williams to reach Venice in time. England's attitude caused consider- able surprise in this country, inas- at which the car was traveling correct, there is more reason to won- @Ger why there are any survivors than that a tragedy occurred: Sixty-five miles an hour is too fast for even the open road, and certainly far beyond the bounds of safely on the Potomac Park driveway. Automobiles are being made sturdier and safer by every manufacturer, but the human element, on which safety really de»! pends, does not seem to be making the same advances. is | Sy LR The American Legion has been re- ceived with every honor in France, where, g8 happens in every country, irresponsible clamor asserted itself. “The wisdom of the plain people,” to which Uncle Joe Cannon so often liked to refer, is still a potent influ- ence. T In spite of wonderful things Mayor Walker has seen abroad, it his inmost sentiment were made known it would reveal his opinion that there is noth- ing more beautiful in art or architec- ture than the skyline of “little old w York.” Recent Northern explorations re- quire a revision of Arctic maps. The regions of ice are still a long way from for the good of the service for a full,|much as America had voluntarily | enabling the tourist to provide against frank and explicit statement. There will be doubtless some dif- Perence hetween the published articles and Admiral Magruder’s formal report called off the race in 1924 when Eng- land was unable to transport a plane to compete. To retain permanent possession of the Schneider Cup a the probabilities ef long detours. - Albert Fall is at least accorded the doubtful privilege of being remem- or statement to the Navy Department. | nation must win it three times in five | bered when many other past cabinet For an officer of the Navy in writing for publication may use language that is not exactly suited to the text of an official brief. It will be inter- psting to compare the two. But what- ever departures there may be, it is now assured that there will be no sensation, for the present course is constructive rather than punitive. —_——————— Assertions are made that any man’s lace may be filled. Mussolini has de it appear that he is the one man Wwho eould carry on the work he has undertaken. He has no understudy. ———e———————— The time has come when Charles Lindbergh will have to decide whether he: will take up the serious work he has so sensibly chosen or go on oblig- Ingly receiving ovations for life. ——————— Radio has provided a new outlet for protest. Instead of telling his troubles to a policeman the speaker can tell them to a microphone. -~ “Ma” Duvall in Line. Mayor John L. Duvall of Indianap- | blis has evidently read the recent his- tory of Texas. He was convicted the pther day by a jury of violation of the corrupt practices act in engaging in a bargain affecting the appoint- ment of public officials and sentenced to spend thirty days in jail and pay a fine of $1,000 and to be ineligible to hold public office for four years from the date of the offense. He has ap- pealed from the verdict and has an- mounced that he will not resign his office. But in -evident anticipation of the possibility of ouster in case the sentence is confirmed, he has ap- pointed his wifs controller of the city; which office is, in effect, a vice mayo! alty, o that in case he is evicted from the city hall she will succeed him as mayor. There was no vacancy in the controllership, but one was arranged by the resignation of the incumbent, who, according to the news reports, “asked that he be returned to the Police Department, where he had served for many years, to retain his rating for pension purposes.” Fvi- dently an accommodating person! It does mot lessen the outrage #gainst public propriety which this arrangement perpetrates that the mayor's wife announces that she will rive her entire salary as controlier, $4.000 a year, to charity. There is no mitigation in such a gesture of generosity, The fact that Mayor Duvall has contrived by the use remains of his wife to hold the office in the | family even if he should be debarred | from it by virtue of his conviction and sentence. In Texas a acandal that “§aroughout the Na reached racing years. America won it in 1923 and in 1925 and without opposition could have chalked up a legal win in 1924, but with characteristic sports- manship refused to do so. ‘Whether or not Lieut. Williams' ship could have kept pace with the British planes at Venice will not be proved until, a week or so hence, he gets his plane into the air in an at- tempt to set up new marks for speed. His tiny craft contains the most pow- erful engine ever built for flying, a twelve-hundred-and-fifty-horsepower, twenty-four cylinder motor. Its esti- mated speed is three hundred miles an hour, and the naval aviator is con- fident that under full throttle he will be propelted through the air faster than any other human has ever been before. | America next year will have one more chance to win and retain perma- nent possession of the Schneider trophy, as it has won.it twice, com- pared to England and Italy with one win aplece. Regardless of what Wil- liams accomplishes in his coming flights America should be represented 80 that thgee nations will be in com- petition for one of the most coveted tities in aviation, — vt | { Aviation has made the old Arctic/ expedition seem by comparison rather a siow process of risking precious life and creating public anxiety. o Unfinished Parks. A contract has been let for the con- struction of retaining walls around the unimproved section of Meridian Hill Park. Announcement to this ef- fect signifies that at last this long-de- layed work is to be completed. The park itself, created more than a decade ago, has been only partially improved. One statue, that of Jeanne d'Arc, has been placed there, and another, that of former President Buchanan, has been prepared for location within the same bounds. A part of the park has been improved with landscape fea- tures, but the southern section has re- mained undeveloped and uncared for until it is unsightly and of no use to the public. Now at last work is to be performed that will conclude the park inclosure and will permit the grading and landscaping remaining to be done. Representations will be made to the | Buchanan memorial committee to sug- |gest the early emplacement of the statue of the former President and within a few months Meridian Hi!l »ark will become a definite feature of the reservation system of the Capital. The advance to effect the completion of this park, which has so command- ing a posifion, with an outlook un- a tion occurred w_fi'g equaled as to scope and interest, molop picture organ.’ __ 1 officers have been forgotten. r—e— SHOOTING STARS. BY PHILANDER JOHNSON. There Are Others. Kind friends and neighbors, please | draw near, With tempers all serene. And for a moment let us hear No more of Jack and 'Gene. Let's talk of Alexander Great, Or Shakespeare or King George, Or heroes bold defying fate At Troy or Valley Forge. The rash embezzler We may stress As our important theme, Or hail the latest murder In a delirious dream. ‘We'll scan the annals of the flight That Lindy's skilk could make, Or laud the flivver whose delight Bids us with rapture shake. Let's talk of Edison or Cal, Or Mussolini’'s knack For rule; agreeing that we shall Lay off from *Gene and Jack. Irresponsibilities. “You sometimes appcar to regard | politics as a rather frivolous mattes said the reproving friend. “Politics,” answered Senator Sor- ghum, “is always serious. But some mighty frivolous people butt into it.” A Layman’s Mutiny." When mighty intellects draw near, Their meaning surely should be clear. The things I do not understand Too far my mute respect command. Einstein into the discard goes And Nietzsche shall unread repose, I'll view them with remote disdain As things their authors can't explain, Jud Tunkins says if you must tell your troubles, tell 'em to an enemy. He can enjoy them. Reciprocity. “I understand that male dressmakers dictate fashions,for women.” “Fair enough!” said Miss Cayenne. “Women are assuming great impor- tance in dictating politics for men.” “Power,” said Hi Ho, the sage of Chinatown, “that recklessly seeks to destroy others destroys itself.” Horological Puzzle, I am obliged to watch the clock, Whose problems grow sublime, And do my best at taking stock Of daylight-saving time, | “Evolution,” said Uncle Eben, “ain't s0 clear 'bout de monkey an' de man, but it certainly do show up in de progress fum de hand-organ to de | would never have been | elegance of his manner. | who fsure them good profits. A rash gr | tionizea TAR, WASHINGTON, Many a man gets a reputation for being unsocial when he is only sic In a letter to Swift, dated May 17 Alexander Pope wrote: he mornings are my life. In the evenings I am not dead in- | deed, but sleep and am stupid enough. “1 love reading still better than con- ver yut my eyes fail; and at the hours when most people indulge in | company, T am tired and find the Jabor | of the past day sufficient to weigh me down, 1 > T hide myself in hed, as a bird | in his nest, much abot the same time, | se and chirp the carlier in the | morning.” Yet this poor chap was the man of whom an unkind wrote ¢ amazing, to see a little Creature, scarce four feet high, whose very sight makes one laugh, strutting and swelling like the Frog in Horace, | and denfanding the adoration of all | mankind, because it can make fine verse: ok kK The verse which Pope made was the one thing in the world that he could | do well. Certainly, if he had re-| frained from writing it, literature | would have lost some of its most quot- ss these, the literary world had to put up with the sting of his m. Just how much of the lines was due to hi weakness and resulting ness is hard to sy, but that Pope Pope had he been healthy, there can he little doubt. The man whose crystalclear verse | still commands the admiration of the | poetry-reading public was a sick man, | shown in_the ahove quotation from | one of his letters, and as proved in| ¢ accounts. Ilis person was slender and dis- | torted and his stature so low that in | order to bring him to a level with | tables of the common height it w ~{‘ necessary to clevate his seat,” savs one biographer. “He was unable (at middle of life) to dress or undress himself, to go to bed, or to rise w out, stance. He used to wear a| sort of fur doublet, under a shirt of | very coarse linen with fine sleeves: also stays made of stiff canvas, laced | closely round him, and over these a flannel waistcos Three pairs of | stockings were required to give his | legs a respectable bulk, The deformity | and meanness of his figure were, how- | ever, soon forgotten in the ease and | | L Thus we see Pope as a valetudinarian | who was physically deformed, who suf- | fered constantly from headaches and | really _enjoyed life only in the ! morning, when his physical being at_high tide. | The tide began to go out in the afternoon, so that by evening, when. as he stated, most persons are just | beginning to get “pepped up,” he was willing to go to bed, to recharge his batteries for another good morning. It is not to be wondered at, then. ! that A. Pope (as he wrote his name) | appeared rather vindictive to his own world and that his verse has stood out ever since as the quintessence of | polished sarcasm. His life, too, was a succession of quarrels with friends, in which the touchy poet, however, was not always | " BACKGROUND BY PAUL V. ‘When Prime Minister Stanley Bald- win made a speech to 20,000 faumers in an open-air meeting in Lincoln- shire, England, a few weeks ago, he discussed the very serious depression of agriculture throughout Great Brit- ain. le attacked what he termed the “political cheapjacks,” who were “prepared to guarantce a change in the climate to suit every farmer, a change in the world markets to sult every seller, a rise in wages to suit every laborer and a fall i prices to suit every householder. Mr. Baldwin said ‘that farmers should realize the problem hefore them was economic and not political. “It is no more possible,” he stated. “in agriculture than in many other industries, to find a solution that would convert depression into pros perity. * * ¢ If the farmers’ union would devote a little less‘time to pol- itics and a little more to telling the government how they could help agri- culture, they would meet the union more than half way.” The prime minister asked the farm- ers whether there were not too| many intermediaries (middle men), | and, he argued, better marketing was | the key to the whole situation. They | should improve on the methods of | their fathers; but in one respect let them follow the example of their fathers: let them rely on themselves, work hard and have confidence in themselves. Let them not look to the government to help them out of every hole they got into. It was brave talk for a political leader to warn the farm voters that they must not expect the government to enter into their business and in dealer once had occasion to regret his Dbluntfess when, in North Dakota, he rebuffed appealing grain raisers by telling them to “go_home and slop their hogs while politicians ran the legislature.” Later. the farmers ran the legislature, Mr. Baldwin told of a somewhat similar experience in Alberta, Canada. He said: “I wonder how many of you have followed what the farmers of Can- ada have done. For years they were monkeyed about hy the dealers and speculators in wheat. In less than five years the marketing methods of Western Canada have been revolu- and depression has given place to optimism. All this has heen done by the farmers themsclves, Con- fronted by the slump following the post-war “hoom, they consulted to gether. They formed a pool of the great wheat-producing provinces. It is governcd by the farmers them- elv A year ago they had a mem- ship of 125.000. They disposed of ,000.000 bushels of grain, grown | on 14,000,000 acres of land, or 70 per | cent of the total crop of the whole Dominion. That gigantic effort saved thousands of Canadian farmers from disaster. A movement like this has had its critics, but it is authoritative- ly claimed for it that it prevented a glutting of the market, smoothed but the prices and ruled out the unnecessary middleman. “Your problems at home are less in_magnitude. but much more com- plicated in detail, and I should like to | see them faced With the same kind of organized and co-operative busi- ness ability with which your brothers in Canada have tackled their prob-| lems.” x Ok K X Following Canada’s example, there already several state and inter- state pools of wheat in operation in the United States, handling, co-oper- atively, millions of bushels of grain. In Canada, when the grain exchanges ! refused to permit such pools to hold seats on 'change, the farmers con- trolling legislatures passed laws pelling the exchan 50 to recog- nize the co-pperative pools on the floor. That has not been accomplished | in America. The Non-Partisan League co-operatives of North Dakota did not «top with the farmer co-operation, but, through their control of the legisla- tures, th put the State into ac- tive business by building State ele- vators and flour mills and other en- | Addison pi fad, insiead of his own. Subse- | t after the |t | the 80 bushels, | development [ THIS AND THAT BY CHARLES E. TRACEWELL. to blame. Meeting an elderly poet by the name of Wycherley, for instance, the young poet conceived a friendship him, with the result that the two ame fast friends. Fast filends, at least, un (just ot the beginning of his daved to eriticize the verse of the elderly poet! Wycherley proposed the issuance of a new edition of his “fugitive poems,” and commissioned Pope to attend to the revision. The young poet spent two years on this work, changing and amending the older man’s lines, perhaps with more 7eal and merit than tact. A coldness grew up between the two men: and it i difficult 1o believe, at this date, that Pope was in the wrong, except, per- haps, in accepting such a commission from a brother poet! * K Kk ¥ The famous quarrel of Pope and Addison wasx of a different natuve. Addizin among the first 1o vecoznize the genius of the greatest and mentioned him with high praise in one ) papers. § prologue for Addison’s piay. and the way seemed baved for a lifelong intimacy between o of the age. but it was not to be. the two were too different Pope grew jealous when ised another's translation until Pope 1 th haps nature. of the . ent nusunderstandings widened the breach. In 1716 friends of tbe te o™ brought about a meeting waich was o have been a reconciliation, but it ended in a hopeless estrangement Yet it gave rise td some fine lines by Pope and one of the most famcus quotations in English literature, so the world benefited rather more be. cause Pope and Addison could not get along together than it they had. » b The words “damn with faint praise™ are used constantly today throughout the Inglish-speaking world by per- sons who perhaps have no particular idea from whom they zam Pope wrote them in his charac- terization of Addison contaived in the prologue to his Satires. Under the title of Atticus, Pope gave his ideas of the character of Addison, who, he declary s clever enough to “teach the rest to sneer.” without sneering himself—a masterpiece of observation, by the w: “Who but must laugh, it such a man there be? Who would not weép, it Atticus were he?” Pope had a_great friendship for Lady Mary Wortley Montagu, but thiz, too, evaporated, as many of his friendships had a habit of doing. Even the oldest of his friends, Lord Boling- broke, who wept over the poet several days before Pope's death, turned against the poet when he found that Pope had. in his will, made a be- quest of the property in his printed works to Warburton. Thus in death as well as In life Alexander Pope was unable to hold his friends, mostly because he was of an unhealthy physical disposition, which reacted upon his sense of tant and ideas of duty toward friends. He was not an unsocial creature, but only a sick one. OF EVENT . COLLINS. the next Congress, for farm relief. The most familiar is the McNary- Haugen bill which President Coolidge vetoed last session, and which will bob up again in some wmodified form. Briefly, it would establish a farm board which would handle the market- ing of all of certain standard erops, selling abroad the surplus, at world market price, and then adding to the price for home consumption the amount of our import tariff, so that the American would pay enough more than the world price {0 make up a profit, at least equal to the tariff, For example, thke 100 bushels und assume that 80 bushels would be needed for domestic consumption and 20 bushels for export. Assume that the export price is $1.25, then the 20 bushels would sell for $: The 80 hushels bought by ,Americans would bring $1.25 plus the amount of the tariff—42 cents—making $1.67 for the heme consumer—a total of $1.33 for Add the gotien for the exported 20 bushels. —That makes a gross receipt of $1.58 for the 100 bushels, less the cost of operaling. The farmer would get $ per hushel, but the American consumer would pay $1.67 for all he used. That is the McNary-Haugen bill. * ok ok K Opposed to that plan is the measure, =aid to have the support of Secretar) | of Agriculture Jardine, Secretarv of Commerce Hoover and President Coolidge, which would encourage the of *pools” simi to those in Canada, and would set aside £300,000.000 to loan to those pools to finance them in building elevators and in buying up surplus grain during the three or four months each season when it is rushing to market, due to the need of the producers to realize cash to meet their obligations. Zigaty per cent of the crop is usually sold hetween September 1 and Janu- ary 1, when the price is influenced downward by the glutted market. After the grain has thus left the hands of the farmers the price rises, and the dealers and millers reap the profit on that rise, because they had hought it in while the price was “beared.” Dealers have the finances, farmers do rot, for carrying over the grain. It is proposed, under this measure, to loan the means which will make the farmer co-operative pools financially able to mainiain rderly 1 eting.”” spreading the ling more uniformly over the year. When the pools gain control of mil- lions of bushels of the crop, they will hold proportionate power in affecting market pri and the producers in place of the “intermediators” will get the full benefit of world conditions, which is all that any producer can legitimately ask of his government. Canadian pools are managed by ex- perienced and high-salaried heads, the general manager receiving a salary of $35,000 a year. Until recent years our co-operative farmers have shied at any salary much over §100 a month. ‘What is said as to grain marketing applies also to cotton and other non- perishable crops of importance. (Covsright. 1927, by Paul V. Collins.) ———————— Bad Road Manners. From the Kansas City Times. It seems there is a national cams paign on to improve highway and roadside manners. Those who are sponsoring this courageous movement declare they have made some head- way this Summer, and cite instances of consideration ‘shown in various States, the observation ranging all the j way from Maine to California. We om- tshould like to think these champions of outdoor amenities are right in their conclusions, but we fear they are mis- taking the well bred for converts. Well bred persons do not leave thei manners at home. They drive care- fully, they enjoy and respect Nature, they defer to the rights of those with whom they .come in contact, and if they camp by the roadside or picnic in a park, they do not leave a trail terprises, Kok ok There are two main propositions betove the public, to Be eofipfldgr«l by nfi rubbish after them. What is more, they observe these marks of mannerly cbnduct by inclination and habit, not because of signs and instrustons. caveer) | est literary figures of | Per- | in | D. (. TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 27. Y. - e NEW BOOKS AT RANDOM 1L.G M The shop windows, stepping out In tune with these snappy Autumn morn ings, are well off upon their seasonal parade of new fashions and fresh gear to meet the hosts of rusty Summer playfolks now returning to the more or less serious role of substantial and productive members of the commu- | nity. Moving along beside this pag- eant of window displays yvou will find new fashions in everything—in ranges and radios. in headwear, in footwear and all'in hetween. A shift- ing and brilliant procession of wares so artifully disposed as to make rank luxury and extravagance look exact like the most urgent of common daily necessities. In the amazing diversity you will find complete agreement at a certain point, For. in effect, these are all singing in chorus, “Vacation i over. Time to go to work. Time | to shed that shabby, sun-baked look. Time to get into a mplete new out- fit for the sake of the zeat and vigor that this will give you. for the sense of prosperity and well-being that you cannot get a’ong without.” ~So, a riot | ot refitting is about to set in, partly | for the sake of that fresh start which | everybody is forever making. * ¥ k¥ Concerned with bookss and in a mind turning toward Winter readin; yours and mine—I, naturally, draw up before the bookshop windows. |These, too, along with the rest, di clave new fashions in reading matte | Not, to be sura, the frivolous and un- juntable vogues in raiment that ift even in midseaon. Not that. But these windows do, nevertheless, present a marked chargs of front from that of only a short time ago. It is not long since the novel had right of way in the bookshops—novels of love, of adventure, of mystery. And these are still in a decided majority and always will be, I take it, since the story appeals to e, since it meets evel condition and situation. Still, nowa- days. alongside the novel, often crowd ing it, there are travels, explorations, history, biography, philosonhy, reli- gion, science—the whole whatnot of research and erudition making a markedly successful bid for attention and popu'arity. The truth is that these writers on what ara called serious subjects have been going to school to the novelist Recognizing the perennial charm the story, they have uccepted its drama of coherant actipn hent upon some consistent and plausible issue for their own vehicle of del They have, besides, freed themselves from the 'puzzling technig of special | themes. v have moved the past down into the present along the tide of unchanging human nature. They | have simplified, lightened. humanized learning until, under such a glorious concert of purpose and achievement, the most dazzling of human achieve: ments and the most momentous are within reach of common readers. And common readers are simply eating up knowledge where, once upon a time, they refused it utterly or received it under a system of forced feeding. And the hook windows reflect this new | outlook. encouraging it in a ready supply for the growing demand. And. by the way, a bookshop from window to rear constitutes a moving picture .of authorshih | cess, indiffarence, neglect. oblivion. i a diminishing ord>r toward the bic door and the alley. ‘s * X Kk Just now there are hiographies in the bookshop windows, or close to the door. Uncle Joe Cannon's own story, xathered his secretary of many years. There are Emil Lud- wig's masterly studies of Nanoleon and Bismarc Guedalla’s “Palmer- ston” is better than most novels There are: .oth bostdes, d mon- | strating the new value of biography as an inflnence in the understanding of great fleures in the'r effact upon the period which vrodu~ed them. Closp to the door alto, and very proverlv close to the door. is “The Story of Philosonk by Will Durant, an inspiration of comparative inlook- ing upor®the content and significance of human life by philosophers of all civilizations, a comvarison out of which Mr. Durant has drawn the enduring common elements, walding thege to the philosonhy of the pre ent by virtue of their vitality and thelr hearinz upon human life today and tomorrow. A hool: of stirring content, caleulated to awa'en readers to a consciousness that the present holde all of the past and is in a measure. to be understood by that nast. Then. close hy, Towis Rrowne's “This B-leving Warld, comprehendinz and utiful. unifyine in ite vi izfon. so penetratinz and nriceleas! And right over thore are Bruce Rarton's three books that everv ona wonldi he the hetter for rendine—“The Book 2 bodr Knows” “The Man Nohodv Knows” and the latest one. “What Can a_Man Belleve” Reside these three 1 want to plare thot tender story of Jesue bv John Oxenham, “The Hidden Years." * K K * Then such fravel hooks as we are havine made for us thass davs. svery ane of them supporting mv ar that the hook route of travel is by all ad’s the verv best routs. aveld- in~ all the waste and worry while cathering in the full an1 hoaut'ful essence of far plicas. Hare iz the corgeous story of Andalnsia, or “In the Tleart of S|min” by Thomas wing Moore. and Pl Wilstach's “Islangs of the Mediterranean™ and “Along the Pyrenees.” And therve is “Mother India,” by Katherine Mavo, not ‘'so much a travel book as a hook of the womanhood of India. There are here (ravels in Asta and Africa and other remote places, all partaking of the new purpose and the new quality that fs inspiring and project- ing hooks of th class. Of course. and to be sure, there are manv ofhers in each of these groups, all of which should he mentioned in respect and welcome. Rut this is. In substance, the stotchy record of a morning wall throush some of the Washing- ton hook shops. * k x % Now, of novels there are thousands and thousands. But, out of the crowd, certain ones stand clear in hoth promire and nroof. I'm going to men- tion first “The Grandmothers”—not hecause it is a prize Harper novel but because T am sure that, having read it, you vourself are going to call it one of the most heautiful stories, and one of the most useful that could have been drawn from a theme which upon the surface, offered not much of invitation and lure. In “Meanwhile” H. G. Wells is still en- sed in creating a better world than this one, idealist that he is. “Now Bast, Now West,” by Susan Ertz, is A distinguished piece of work. of courss, “Lost Ecstasy,” by Mrs. Rine- hart, is, T think, her best novel, the topping-off. up to this point, of this writer's plain sanity of vision and courage of outlook. ‘“Marching On.” not exactly new, but one of the strongest of the recent novels: a James Boyd story. The Norrises have new romances out. I've not read them. T heard a man say that he liked the Mr. Norris romance better than that of Mrs, Norris—probably just a man talking. But we'll see what we think. A few years ago John Me- Intyre wrote a sirong and picturesque story of colonial days in Philadelphia, “Blowing Weather.” Now John Me- Intyre has a new novel. different—much different! You not iike it, and again, you ma whether vou do or not, vou are ce tain to talk about it—m: fine craftsmanship, maybe about its hard content, maybe about the fact that you do not easily get away from it when the reading s done. There are #0 many more books ia those windows ma —popularity, stable sue- | ument | Q. Tn what year and on what date | was the hattle between Donnelly and | Cooper fought on the Curragh of | Kildave, Ireland?—A. O. H. G. A. The battle between Dan Don- nelly and George Cooper took place December 13, 1815. Donnelly was the victor in 11 rounds 22 minutes. Don- nelly was in his twen the time and was seconded by Cody. Cooper was seconded by Ned Painter They fought for a purse of 60 pounds. Q. What are the correct measure- ments for a_young man of 227V, S. A. The Society of Directors of Physical Education have set the fol- lowing standard of measurements of the physically ideal American student of With a_height of 5 feet § inches he carried a weight of 159 pounds. ‘The girth of his neck, knee { and calf are the same, with the upper arm one and a half inches less. The girth of his thigh is one-half inch less than that of his head. His expanded chest is 40 inches. the girth of his 10 inches less, his ‘hip girth almost the same as his unexpanded chest, while the breadth of his walst barely exceeds the length of his foot, and the | stretch of his arms measures 2 inches | more than his height.” Q. Is there any way to keep lemons from getting hard?—N. M. C A. This may he done Kkeeping them covered with cold water. It i« that temons kept in this manner will also he nfore juicy. The water should he changed once a week. Q. 1= thore any record of the lavgest piece of freight ever carried?— B. D, ML A. It is said that the largest piece | of freight ever shipped over a rail was a tower used in the manufacture of gasoline. This was delivered at Los Ange from Boston. It is 85 feet high, weighs nearly §0 tons and was carried on three flat cars. 1s there an age limit_imposed immigrants to Brazii?—F. J. D. A. Immigrants over 60 years of age are not permitted to enter Brazi! unless they prove that they have suf | ficient means to provide for their maintenance, and make a deposit with the police authorities of their place of residence in Brazil. Single women and children under 18 years old are | not allowed to land in Brazil unless| they are sent for by a person duly au- | thorized to do so, or prove that they | carry on a useful occupation. | Q. 1have been told to dip my dahlin stems in hot water to prevent their | drooping. 1s this correct?—T. T. | A. Dahlias should be cut either late in the afternoon or early in the morn- | ing. Place the tips of the stems in water boiling or the stove for about | 20 seconds. then immediately deep into cold water. A noted dahlia | grower also advises placing the stems | of prematurely drooping dahiias in | hot water and allowing them to re-j main until the water cools. | | on t — e Q. Please tell me how large articles | {are placed in containers that have small openings? For example. the | Capitol at Providence. R plunge | 7 ANSWERS TO QUESTIONS BY FREDERIC J. HASK large ships placed in hottles that have small necks.—8. F. M. A. 1In regard to large articles, s as ships, placed in small containers, the Bureau of Stamdards savs that they may be huilt inside, or they may be built outside and slipped In without masts, ete., which are then put in place with special tools. Another way is to cut out the bottom of the con- tainer and afterward fuse it on again. Q. Will you please tell me who and what organizations restored Mount Vernon?—M. J. V A. The Mount *h Vernon Tadies' As. sociation bought the Mount Vernon estate. Under the auspices of this association considerable historical re. search has been done and the mansion and grounds restored as nearly as pos- sible to their original condition. Q. Where is Reynolds’ name paint- ed in “Mrs. Siddons as the Tragic Muse”?>-M. E. R. A. Sir Joshua Reynolds inserihed his name on the hem of the actres garnient. Q. Should an automobile tire carrv the same pressure in Summer as in Winter’—R. F A Automobile tires, generally speaking. carry the same pressure in Summer as in Winter. particularly it in good condition. Som+iimes, if the tires are old and wealk, it is not ady able (0 give as much pressure in Sim- mer, as they are apt to blow out. Q. What are the nations on sea? - A. 8. A. The three sirongest nations en the sea at the present time are Great Britain, United States and Japan. Q. How often is the population cen- sus of the United States taken’— W.R. P, A. The Constitution requires that a populatien census be taken decen- three stroy | nialy. Q. came from Please tell me where the marhie which was need in the 1.7-J. 8 A. The marble used in the R Island statehouse came from Ger There were 327.000 cubic feet used in nstruction. Thie was shipped in large blocks weizhinz from 10 te 20 tons each, and was sawed. cut and carved 1in a Providence marble vard Although the building has heen fin ished 28 vears, the marble is in splen did condition. A You want to knov: somelling. You wish to he positive before you o ahead. Well, The Evening Star will tell you what you want to know and | wire wou assurance before you proceed. Our Washington Rurean can answer any question of fact propounded to it Here is the uaiversity of in- formation—a great free educational in- stitution established solely to serve you Send in your question and get the right answer. Inclose 2 cents in stamps to cover the return postage. Address The Evening Star Informa- | tion Burcau. Frederic J. Haskin, di- rectar, Washingtan, D. C. Since William G. McAdoo announced | that he would not be a candidate for the Democratic presidential nomina- tion in 1928 there has been a continu- ing argument over what may be ex- pected to happen as the rival forces among the Democrats finally line up for the next convention. Opinion ranges from bellef that Mr. McAdoo has eieared the air and done his bit for harmony to conviction that his | move means only an intensified fight | agaist Gov. Smith with a new stand- ard bearer. Friends of the New York governor profess to find the situation just what it was before. “Multitudes who have looked to Wil- liam G. McAdoo for leadership in the oncoming campaigns will be disap- pointed at his announcement.” says the Atlanta Journal (Democratic), a stanch champlon of McAdoo in the 4 battle. “In yielding to his de- cisfon,” the Journal adds, “we can but reaffirm our loyalty to Democracy’s basic truth, and cherish the hope that others, seaing his good work, may let their light also shine for ‘patriotism rather than for ambition.” “The party really has a cause, as it | hasalways had—the cause of those ele | ments of society which have not heen given their fair share of opportunity in life,” the Houston Chronicle (Demo- cratie) declares. It will be too bad if such a cause is sacrificed to a useless quarrel over prohibition, a thing with which any honest President can have very little to do—and needless to s: it will be suicidal for whatever eandi- date is nomtnated, and most likely for the ty itself. Fortunately, how: ever, the withdrawal of Mr. McAdoo from the picture, with no one of hi kind in sight to take his place, makes the tragic course less likely than most | party members have dared hove.” “Let the Democratic party present to the country, in terse and simple terms, a truly Democratic platform “dvises the Omaha World-herald (i dependent). “Let it then nominate |its candidate a leader who fits it, be [ he from Kast'or West “wel oo drs Protestant or Catholic, and with the | courag> and devotion and character and ability to fight for it effectively. Let it Go this and it can enter upon a campaign in which every real Dem- ocrat may take pride and from which the country, regardiess of the out- come, will reap a lasting benefit.” ® * o ¥ “Mr. McAdoo deserves the thanks | of his party for the effort he has| made in the interest of party har-! in the opinion of the Chicigo ! News (ndependent). “but the \ie wets bettor could have candidate or two than ean | |the arys, as mattors appear.” savanish Pross (Demwocratic) h that “the schism made in the Madi Square convention in 1 bitter to be healed.” but su “one-halt @t the schism has been heal-, ad by Mr. McAdoo's withdrawal:” that “it remains to_be seen whether the opposition to MecAdoo will take the cue and try to bridze the breach.” The Des Moines Register (independent Republican) believes that Mr. McAdoo <hould be more influential because of his action. and adds, “Only one man could create a greater place for him- self by a similar abnegation.” “We need as our standard bearer,” according to the Anniston Star (Demo- man who can captivate the e, a fighter ! Daily | Democ: | snarzd too | Adoo: a man who will atta¢k corrup- tion in high places, like Cleveland; a man of broad morality and uncompro- mising principle, like Wilson, and un- less we get back to the issues pro- mulgated by those men; unless we re- store the party to the people, as did Jefterson, we might as well save our money and not re-enact the farce of another campaign for a man whose mere nomination means defeat.” Sug- gesting a declination for Smith, the Abilene Reporter (independent Demo- cratic) feels that thereby ‘‘the party of Jefferson, Jackson and Wilson will stand a most excellent chance to put the next President in the White House,” and the Charlotte Observer findenendent Democratic) asks: “Is not the New York governor under as e R that should be mentioned—but space is space, so let me urge you to go windo opping for hooks on one of these delectable mornings so that when lit:l. dhlyl lhutdln a little more, you wi ave made vour peadin choice for & while at least. - A ‘McAdoo’s Formal Withdrawalm Interpreted in Many Ways | harmony but for war. | nooga | “the time for a they were at the s much obligation to withdraw In the interests of party harmony as Me- Adoo? - Many papers, however, insist that the withdrawal of MecAdoo means anything but harmany. “Probably the question uppermost In the mind of Mr, McAdoo is with whom would it be easiest to squelch one Al Smith, who now looms formidably, the Indianapolis News (independent). The Spokane Spokesman-Review (R publican) thinks Mr. McAdoo ‘“has chosen high ground for the contest, and from that eminence -will shell jov. Smith and the other nulii tionists.” The Philadelphia Evening Bulletin (independent Republican) calls the voice of Mr. McAdoo one “not for " The Nashville anner (independent) sugges that e will doubtless continue to oppose Smith and by his counsel help in bringing forward a leader and nom- inee more to his liking.” Similar views are expressed by the Chatta- Times (independent Demo- atic), Pasadena (Repnh- Yean). Reno Evening Gazette (inde- pendent Republican), Louisville Cour- ier-Journal (independent). Uticn Ob- server-Dispatch (independent), Scran | ton Times {Democratic) and Wichita Beacon (independent Republican) * ok ok ok “It i= probably possible to mus opposition to Smith, but not o muster that opposition in behalf of McAdoo,” in the judgment of the Lansing State Journal (independent) while the Detroit News (indepemdent) blames McAdoo ‘wrecking the hopes of and avers that armony movement was when Gov. Smith proposed It, at the height of the balloting in the New York convention.” Viewing Smith as a player “who has the hall tucked under arm and is speeding down the fleld with an almost clear path to his goal.” the Charleston Evening Post (independent Deméeratic) conclude: 1 Smith says nothing, but goes on being a good gov- ernor. His boom goes marching on.” The Providence Journal (independent) considers the possibility of an anti Smith candidate “more powerful than the ex-Secreta but declares that “it is only fair to say that no such randidate has loomed as yet on the horizon.” ‘The McAdoo smooth the way harmony.” according to the New Orleans Item (Democratic), which recognizes that “Smith has grown in national esteem during the past few years.” The Kansas City Post (independent) sees £mith’s chances “hetter now than me stage of the me four yvears ago.” Similar judg ment s expressed by the Altoona Mirtor (independent) and Jersey ( ity Journal (independent Republican), while the Rock Island Argus (in pendent) testifies to Smith's ability to carty New York against strong Re- publicans. The Youngstown Vindi- tor (Democratic) says that “the ‘mocratic party would get farther in 1928 with him as the candidate than it would with Senator Walsh or Gov. Donahey or Senator GOV, Pt Reed or Gov “heips NITED STATES IN WORLD WA Ten Years Ago Today More Germans arrested and will be interned, in continuation of drive b the Department of Justice to rid the country of dangerous enemy aliens ® * * The Shipping Board an nounces that on October 15 every American merchant vessel of more than 2,500 tons dead weight capacity available for ocean service will be requisitioned by the Government for its war-time needs. * * ¢ House and Senate conferees reach an agree ment on the war revenue bill. The bill is increased to raise about $2,700. 000000 in revenue in addition to the $1.233,000,000 obtainable under the ex isting law. Compromise reached on the war profits tax. * * * Treas ury Department announces details of the second Liberty bond issue, to be offered October 1. It will total at least $3,000,000,000, and bonds may be issued up to one-half of the oversub- scription, Interest rate to be 4 per cent, R