Evening Star Newspaper, October 1, 1927, Page 6

G e e e — ————— — — —— {THE EVENING STAR With Sunday Morning Edition. WASHINGTON, D. C. SATURDAY. ..October 1, 1927 11th St New York ( Chicago 0 European Offic The Evening St ng edition 1s delive the city at 60 cents por nioni 45 cents per month: Sur only per month. Orders may be <r telephone Main 5000, “Collr carrier at end of =ach m Rate by Mail—Payable in Advance N - s6.00: 1 00" 1 S300° 11 Daily and Sunda; Daily ‘only Sundav only 25c | d Canada. $12.00: 1 mo All Other States ally and Sunday. 1 e aily only srl Sunday onl: ye. 31000 1 mo. Member of the Associated Pre: The Associated Press 1s exclisively to the use for repubiication of all news atches credited o it or Dot otheiise « ted in and Virginia Reciprocity. Now that Maryland and the District are working together harmeniously on the automobile reciprocity question, Virginia has apparently come to the conclusion that the time has arrived for her to start a littie argument of her own with the District. In line with this policy announcement ha just been made at Richmond that hereafter all automobiles owned by persons doing business in that State must be equipped with Virginia license plates. This sudden change of policy, which has hit the District with the force of a bomb, was inaugurated ap- parently without consultation with the local authorities, or discussion as to its widespread effects. It will mean: that owners of District commercial vehicles who make business calls in Virginia and part-time Summer residents of that State, who in reality live in the District, will have to purchase both District and Virginia tags, thus bring- ing about the same situation that existed for years between Washington and Maryland. Virginia has evidently gone into this matter with haste, but it will cer- | tarite the French principle is loaded with dynamite, and its ramifications are not confined to France alone. France hopes to conclude with other Euro pean nations, notably Italy and Bel gium, treaties similar to the German agreement. In this there is evident {the threat of a combination through ut Burope against the United States which has been bobbing to the sur- face now and then since the World War. It would consist of a commer- | cial union in Europe against the United States, whereby a tariff wall would be erccted against the Yankee. The wall would not be so high that the Yankee could not climb it. Its flectiveness would consist in the fact ihat only the Yankee had to climb it The coutroversy with {boen the signal for some ing in this eountry on the part who attack the American at over the fact that the American manufacturer, ittened on protection, is now afforded | a view of the Americ iff which heretofore has been confined to for- oign manufacturers. They are reviv- ing all of the timeworn argu- ments against the tariff, and th cefully commend France for bring the issue sharply into the lime- | light. There always were, and always will be, evils in the American tarift system, so strongly Interwoven with politics that the economics of the question are often laid away on the shelf. But the present complication with France does not concern the tariff as an instrument for the protection of domestie industry or as a revenue- raising measure. It concerns the question of whether a country should use the club of discrimination, by means of the tariff, to obtain advan- tages against competitor nations. The American tariff may be unduly high in some respects. But its lowest rates apply te all. There is no favoritism shown one naticn In return for ad- vantages which others do not enjoy Should France continue to persist in her present attempt to force America to relinquish this principle in her favor, she will find that her greatest obstacle is the American sense of fair play, and she will discover that it is not to be surrendered. o Counting the Cost. Struggling to clear the wreckage “rance has concerted of those tainly repent at leisure. Its people will be harder hit than will the resi- dents of the National Capital, com- paratively few of whom use its roads or do business in the State, Virginia, on the other hand, sends into Wash- ington a great amount of produce and a large number of persons who are employed here. The District naturally has no intention of sitting back and allowing its citizens to be mulcted by the neighboring State without re- taliation. Each Virginian, therefore, will, if the State's present policy is pursued, be compelled to buy a Dis- trict tag, and furthermore to pass the wnusually severe operator’s test. These measures, however, Wwill create nothing but antagonism and resentment and should never be neces- sary. Virginia, in beginning such a policy, should ponder carefully its in- evitable results. The modern theory of licensing automobiles is that one tag should be good in every State in the Union. It appears, therefore, that Virginia by her action is proceeding directly counter to the opinions of the best authorities in the country. Sup- pose, for instance, that New York re- quired every New Jersey resident who did business in the metropolis to buy a New York tag. What a spectacle that would be and how damaging would be its effect! It is not too late for Virginia to re- consider such a move. In good will, in trade and from an economical standpoint the neighboring State is making a colossal blunder—a blunder that will be resented just as much within its borders as it will be with- out. ——————————— The B. & O. exhibition of old loco- motives provides a reminder of a re- spected past and hope for the future. The locomotive is now on trial to de- termine whether it can hold its own with motor competition. The Tariff Impasse. ‘While the official text of the notes ‘between the United States and France on the tariff has not been made pub- He, cable dispatches reporting the imeeting of the French cabinet yes- terday indicate that the French atti- tude remains unchanged; that in de- clining to accord the United States imost-favored-nation-treatment through an agreement such as Washington suggests, France will repeat her invi- tation to deal on the basis of reci- procity, or bargaining in tariff rates. The impasse remains, and its pro- portions become increasingly sinister. The tariff structure in this country is not founded on the principle of reci- procity. To apply the principle to France would mean a complete re- vislon of the American system and adoption of another table of dutles. No such revision is contemplated, especially at this time. It is pointed out by the French that fncreased rates which went into effect with the Franco-German commercial treaty apply only to a small propor- tion of the American goods shipped into France and that the great ma- jority remains unaffected. The pro- portion amounts approximately to thirty per cent. The commoditics are those which, up to the time of the Franco-German treaty, were com- peting with similar commodities from Germany. France points out that Germany would assuredly protest, if the advantage only rccently secured by German merchants through the trade compact with France is lost im- mediately by a French swresmzat with the United Guates, France sticks o her argument, furthermore, that she can gain nothing she does not now possess by negotiating a favored- pation treaty,swhile the United States would galn, without cost, equal foot- ing with Germany which Germany pald for through reciprocal bargain- ing. The $10,000,000 in annual trade with France which American merchants stand to lose through the French dis- left by Thursday’s terrific storm, St. Louis is counting the cost in lives and dollars, both mounting to an appalling total. Some hundred people were killed and fully 1,200 were injured. From hour to hour other deaths are recorded as bodles are found in the wrecks and as the hurts inflicted by the tornado prove mortal. The task of reckoning the damage in terms of dollars is a great one. It will, per- haps, be weeks before the loss can be thus computed. For the storm crashed through both business and residential territory, and in addition to the wreck- ing of structures it ruined and scat- tered goods. The latest count is that more than 5,500 buildings were either destroyed or badly damaged. A heavy burden is laid upon the sur- vivors of the city, who must give prompt ald to those who suffered in some cases a total loss of their prop- erty. The succor of those who were injured and who were bereft of their THE owe their lives to their friends and the Government for preventing such an expedition. With so many stunt flights ending In failure and with €0 much money spent in governmental aid, it is little wonder that Federal authorities are entirely out of sympathy with those who would needlessly visk their lives in hazardous undertakings. It was conservativel timated that the jump from Tokio to the Midways was a fifty-to-one proposition against the flyers, and if they, themselves, did not possess the good judgment to abandon the attempt, it was distinctly up to their relatives and friends and the Government to persuade them other- W So it appears that far from quarreling with such wise counscl, Brock and Schlee should be happy that they heeded it. o The Decaying Wharves. A committee of District officials in charge of the maintenance of the water front of the Capital notes the deterioration of the pilings at many of the piers along the Washington Channel, and in a report to the Com- missioners expresses the hope that the project for the general develop- ment and improvement of the harbor, which has been proposed by the United States Engineers, will be soon definite- ly approved and funds will be pro- vided for its execution. Included in the gencral scheme for the park development at the National Capital is this plan for the cure of unsightly and even dangerous condi- tions along the water front. Sketches have been prepared for the erection of piers and buildings of harmonious design, with a broad street frontage affording a boulevard drive connecting the Potomac and Anacostia Parks. But no step has been taken toward the definite adoption of these plans and, of course, none for their execu- tion. According to the wharf committee’s report, many of the piers are in an advanced stage of deterioration. Pil- ing is badly decayed and supporting timbers are crumbling. This is a con- dition that demands immediate atten- tion. Great numbers of people use these wharves in boarding and leaving river steamers. Heavy freight loads are piled upon them. A disaster is possible, with increasing chances as time elapses and as materials fur- ther deteriorate. ! Patchwork on these piers should not be tolerated. There should be a definite reconstruction in harmony with the broad plan of water front im- provement. Any makeshift expedient of strengthening or temporary sup- porting will be a waste of money. This matter should receive immedi- ate attention. Human lives are at staka, The present aspect of the water front as viewed from the east- ern driveway on Potomac Park is de- plorable. It is decidedly- due to the District that this condition be cured without further delay. e France welcomed American soldlers. Irresponsible clamor asserted itself with the customary result. The loud- est noise frequently has the least meaning. ————— ‘When Mayor Walker got home, he had to reconcile himself to hear- ing the bands play “Sidewalks of New e sypporters is assured. The immediate task Is to ascertain the needs, which will be fully met, probably out of the resources of the community itself. No call for aid has been sounded. Immediate action by the Secretary of War insured valuable service in the maintenance of order and in clearing away the wreckage left by the storm. A thousand troops moved into the city yesterday from Jefferson Barracks, and rescue and renovation work was organized without delay. The Ameri- can Red Cross was likewise prompt in meeting the emergency. Its readi- ness to serve at any time in any place is always manifest, and its efficiency enables it to meet all conditions. It will take many weeks to heal the wounds left by the storm. Perhaps months must elapse before the souve- nirs of the visitation are all removed from view. Rebuilding will proceed at once. The magnitude of the task is evident in view of the complete or par- tial destruction of between five and six thousand buildings, and it calls for an immense expenditure of money and labor. But both will be forthcom- ing, and St. Louis will probably with- in a year present no mark of Thurs- day's disaster. —— . Prices demanded for seats when theaters hold a current success threaten to introduce the greeting, “Hello, Sucker!” into the legitimate drama. et The “Spirit of St. Louls” is not so satisfactory when manifested In the form of a tornado. —.— Gratuitous Criticism. The United States Navy Depart- ment, according to William 8. Brock and Edward F. Schlee, threw a “mon- key wrench” into their plans for a round-the-world airplane flight by its refusal to co-operate. The two flyers made the trip from Newfoundland over the Atlantic to England and, crossing continental Europe, east to Tokio successfully. Arriving there they were flooded with messages from their relatives and friends urging them to abandon their proposed flight over the Pacific. Added to this was the fact that the Navy Department, fusing to countenance, by its active z0-operation, further overseas journeys in land planes, decided not to provide radio beacons for the flyers from Tokio to the Midway Islands, their first stopping point. Brock and Schice, therefore, put their plane on a boat |and arrived in San Francisco yester- la It was on their arrival in this country that they issued their state- ment criticizing the department. It i unfortunate that the two men should end their trip in this manner. By their courage and skill they over- camo great obstacles in their New- toundland-Tokio flight, and it 1l be- comes them to quarrel with the United States Government because it refused co-operation for a desperately danger- ous venture. The Midway Islands, twenty-four hundred miles cast from York” Instead of Venetian serenades. Ladles who love the wrong man are becoming so frequent that the average grand jury is liable to lose its sense of romance. e The winner of a beaufy contest goes back home and sets the village gossips wondering why she did not even suc- ceed in landing a job in the chorus. —re————— Aviation, like polar exploration, gives a position of high importance to the rescue party. SHOOTING STARS. BY PHILANDER JOHNSON. The Love Lay. The poet’s lay I tossed away, Though it was sweet, beyond denial. It left a sense of deep dismay ‘When logically brought to trial. The hold-up man seeks to adorn The dancing girl with record shady. The burglar, captured and forlorn, Sought to make “Moll” look like 2 lady. Some politicians give their lives To struggles, with grave conse- quences. Because of their ambitious wives, ‘Who study social precedences. I tossed away the poet's lay, ‘Which sang of love in such elation. For love, apparently, muet play A part that bothers all creation! Importance of Silence. “You have remained absolutely silent on some Important public ques- tions.” “In these days,” said Senator Sor- ghum, “a man who can remain abso- lutely silent demonstrates that he holds a pretty important position in public affairs.” Hot Waves. The Katydid still tells of frost. It is a weary tune. The Old Thermom has never lost His preference for June, Jud Tunkins says women are no longer slaves of fashion, but a man throws his straw hat away, regardless of Autumn weather. “Truth,” said Hi Ho, the sage of Chinatown, *“is often helpless, because ~he is more dreaded than desired.” Precautionary Principle. “Are you a wet or a dry?” “I'm dvy,” answered Uncle Bill Bottletop, “not so much because of politics as for the reason that the licker around here has got to be so terrible.” And We Do! Aloft the aviator flies In an intrepid hurry; And from the skies he gayly cries, “You folks on earth should worry!" “De safety razor,” said Uncle Eben, I8 doin’ 'bout as much to stop fightin jes' at present as some o dem big Tokio, are entirely unfit for a stop- criminatory rates in favor .of Ger- ping place for land planes, even if could have conferences. : 4 Scattesing . of light @ln the atmos- | system, of accepting the meter and | legislation EVENING STAR, WASHINGTON, D. C, THIS AND THAT BY CHARLES E. TRACEWELL. In a recent letter to this column a correspondent spoke of a gardener as “working at a picture that could not fail | This seems a very happy way of putting one of the greatest gains of gardeni is relentless, Suc- are very different ng the recipient in dinarily lure thing one can its resulting do in which f: if not a sadness, s not a pos probabili Few endeavors there be, indeed, in which there can only come success | to human beings. wwdening is one of them. * ok k¥ | Nature, that kindly mistress of men |and things, takes cave of the garden for the gardener, so that no matter how little his expericnce, or how slothful his endeavors, he cannot fail. In an agt no one who be sins 1o len can really Perfection makes no particu ference in the sarden. J Phere s no schoolmaster here, waiting with frowning face to mark down a perhaps merited “Poor” be- cause the ro: have not achieved the theoretical perfection of which this queen of flowers is capable. * ok K K In a little garden one may work as the spirit moves, reasonably sure that no matter what grows or what dc not, the final result will be a pict that cannot be other than pretty in its way. This comes beauty is better than no b the garden is no schoojroom. If any proof were wanted of this dictum, one would have to point only to the fact that school is just beginning as the garden begins to fail. Pope's couplet about drinking deep, or touching not the spring of knowl- cdge, has no application in the den. A little garden work deal better than none at all. Many persons seem to think there is an air of mystery about it, but, in fact, it is the simplest thing in the world. Simplicity, of course, is just.an- ather way of saying: Greatness, about because a little waty, Truly is a great %k Magic enough there is in a garden, but it is simple in the way that all truly great things are simple, A garden is incomprehensible, but so is electricity, which fact does not hinder mankind from making tremen- dous use of the unknown force which lights our houses, runs our cars, and toasts our bread. The fact that so much grows from so little—a garden of flowers from a few tiny seeds—leads many a person to look with vast suspicion upon the ardent gardener, as a pretender to knowledge. Hence they prefer to run to “ex- perts,” who, in some mysterious man- ner have learned the curious secrets of beets, turnips, radishes, hedges, shrubs, asters, conifers, gladioli, roses, pansies and what not; who have delved PARIS, France. An important event occurred 100 years ago this month which few peo- ple recognize as a centennial. On Oc- tober 12, 1827, President Adams gave an _official certificate of recognition and placed the seal of the United States upon a bar of brass which had been brought from London by special messenger from our Ambassador to England, Albert Gallatin. The bar of brass weighed exactly one pound. So important was it that this bar should be certified by the President. that Mr. Adams made a special trip to Philadelphia, where he formally opened the mahogany cas- ket containing the bar of brass; cer- tified, in writing, to the same; at- tached to the bar the official seal of the United States and deposited it in the vault of the United States Mint in Philadelphia. The following year Congress enacted a law making that ar of brass the standard weight for 1 coinage; the public, without legis- lation, automatically adopted it as the measure for all weights. * kK K At the time of our Revolution and in- dependence, confusion existed as to weights and_measures, through the use of both English and French sys- tems; hence, the Constitution specif- ically gave power to Congress to reg- ulate weights and measures, the States being forbidden to adopt systems, other than what Congress provided. The fifth Congress, in 1799, adopted the first act regulating the weights and measures at the customs ports; but did nothing further. Washington and Jefferson urged congressional ac- tion in vain. Jefferson, while Secretary of State, had urged a plan “to reduce every branch of measures to a decimal ratio, already established for coins, nd thus bring the calculations of the principal affairs of life within the arithmetic of every man who can mul- tiply and divide plain numbers.” Con- gress, however, declined to take any action. After the War of 1812, the matter was again brought to the attention of Congress, but without success. While John Quincy Adams was Secretary of State, in 1821, he revived it—without result. * K Kk On May 29, 1833, the Senate adopted a resolution directing the Secretary of the Treasury to make comparison of the weights and measures in use at the prineipal customhouses. Mr. F. R. Hassler of the Coast Survey was ppointed to make the inspection. The vesult showed great discrepancies—a direct violation of the Constitution, which directed that all duties, im- posts and excises should be uniform roughout the United States. The reasury Department took immediate eps to correct the evil, with the re- sult that the necessary weights and measures for the customs service were constructed, and on June 14, 1836, Congress passed the following resolu- tion “Resolved by the Senate and House of Representatives of the ited States of America, in Congress as- embled, That the Secretary of the Treasury be, and he hereby is, direct- ed to cause a complete set of all weights and measures adopted as standards and now either made or in progress of manufacture for the use of the several customhous and for other purposes, to be delivered to the governor of each State in the Union, or such person ppoint for the use of the § respectively, to the end that a uniform standard of reights and measures may be estab- ed throughout the United States.” The act of 1836 was supplemented in 1838 by a joint resolution of Con- gress, which directed the Secretary of the Treasury to furnish balances to the States. By 1850 practically all the States had been supplied with complete sets of weights and meas- ures, and, in addition, sets were pre- sented to England, France, Japan and Siam. On July 28, 1866, Congress passed an act legalizing the metric system of weights and measures in the United States, and the Secretary of the Treasury was authorized to fur- nish the States with metric weights and measures. The first question to be considered was that of standards. The practice followed by other coun- tries Which had adopted the metric | vegetable decply into the secret wisdom of the kingdom, and are willir to impart a bit of it, at fancy pries to the less favored persons of th world, ik, Fools may rush into a garden where angels might fear to tread. The point would be that the angels sbably were in gross ny one can put a seed into the ground, with the most elementary in- struetion, and any one will get a few flowe! at least, in return for h exertion, By using his common sense secure a vast number of posic curious how many otherwise o and intelligent persons literally stop thinking when it comes to the pr mary horticultural proc At a game of cards they will 2 and 2 together with great success, but when it comes to observing wha happens and what does not happen, and why it happens and why it does not, in the garden, they are mere babes in the wood. It is largely beeause of this interest- ing t in human nature that the “expe manage to gt by, * ok x k In the garden there is no high and low—every gardener stands on his or her own feet. It the evil of comparison be kept out of the picture, it will be, in truth, as our correspondent has said, with- out the possibiiity of failure. To look over the fence, however, and bemoan the fact that one's own gar- den is not as good as another’s is to take into the heart and mind the il of comparison. one asks, “Must one not will It he put he answer can only be no. Each garden ought to stand on its own legs. If it does not do as well as some other, what difference does it make, after all? The note of competition, introduced so plentifully by flower shows, has its elements of dange chief of which is that it makes for dissatisfaction. It is true that growth lies along the path, but a garden, after all, should be for pleasure, not for growth. There are enough elements for growth in the daily life—let us leave the garden out of it, and keep it a picture the gardener can paint, and at the painting of which he cannot fali. * ok K ok One roschush in a yard is better than no rose: Slightly better grass than last year is better than the grass of last year. No one can gainsay such state- ments! Nature takes care of her children in a really wonderful way. By art and contrivance man may help her, but she can manage very well by herself, after all these centuries. So the gardener finds himself work- ing upon a picture that cannot be other than perfect. If he will take this good thought with him into his garden, he Will meet with success. Summer will tie unrelated parts to- gether, making one complete whole, so that the gardener will know gar- den happiness, than which there are few happinesses simpler or purer. BACKGROUND OF EVENTS BY PAUL V. COLLINS. and the “committee meter” and the ‘Arago kilogram” was selected. The ‘“committee meter” is one whose length was obtained by the committee of weights and measures composed of members of the National Institute of France and of deputies from foreign countries, which met in Paris in 1799. When Mr. Hassler came to the United States in 1805, he brought with him a committee meter. Until 1890 all base measurements of the coast survey were referred to ‘that meter. The Arago kilogram was obtained in 1821 by Mr. Gallatin while Minister of the United States to France. The measure was named in honor of M. Arago, the celebrated French physicist. * x k *x On August 8, 1870, an international conference was held in Paris to con- sider new metric standards. Another conference was held in 1872. On May 20, 1875, a third conference was held. At that time provision was made for the establisnment and maintenance of a_Permanent International Bureau of Weights and Measures, to be situated near Parls and to be under the con- trol of an international committee elected by the conference. The French government set aside a plat of ground in the park at St. Cloud, near Paris, and it was there that the permanent International bureau carried on_jts work of establishing o new standara of weights and measures. By 1889 the work was completed, and on January 2, 1890, “meter No. 277 and “kilogram No. 20,” which had been brought under seal to this country, were duly accepted by Presi- dent Harrison at the White House as national standards of the metric sy: tem of the United States. The s tem i3 in force in the Navy, the Med- ical Ruzeau of the War Department and thq Health Service. Practically all scientific work of the Government is based upon the metric_system. (Conyricht, 1927, by Paul V. Collis A Statue to Geronimo? From the New York Sun, A recent dispatch from so California. reports that an assoelation is to erect a statue to Geronimo, chicf of the Chirfcahua Apaches. The me- morial, as planned, will be placed in Skeleton Canyon, where Geronimo sur- rendered in 1836 to Gen. Nelson A. Miles and brought to an end his long and disastrous warfare against the white man. Geronimo and his men were described 40 years ago by Gon. George Crook, who was first sent asainst them, as “pitiless brutes” and as flerce as so many tigers”; a re- port sald “no languags could describe the atrocities committed by them.” The name Apache became synonymous with savagery and cruelty, Within the last half century the sentiment of the Southwest regarding these Indians must have undergone a decided change, and the region must have re- S s estimate of b f its most noted UNITED STATES N WORLD WA Ten Years Ago Today Navy completes armament of mer- chant marine by providing a gun crew of from 16 to 32 men for each Ameri- an vessel. * % * Regular Army re- cruiting takes a spurt with nearly 900 enlistments in single day. * * * Germans taken prisoners all express longing for peace. They accuse their officers of avoiding dnager by staying well back from the front. * * * Two Columbia professors ousted upon charges of spreading doctrines tend- ing to encourage spirit of disloyalty to the United States Government. * * * Preparedness advocates assert sples menace Pershing’s forces and plead with Congress to make anpro- priations big enough to combat their activities, * * * Campaign for sub- scriptions to second liberty loan open with Nation-wide enthusiasm. Esti- mated $50,000,000 worth sold in single day in New York City alone. * * ¢ ‘Without a dissenting vote the House accepts conference report on war rev- enue bill and sends measure to Sen- ate, ® * ¢ Semator Lewis proposes Wil give President SATURDAY, OCTOBER 1, 1920 THE LIBRARY TABLE By the Booklover. rs in a girls’ h Autumn ding of 4 A group of 10 teache boarding school forms a hook club to insure the re few good books during the Winter even though small incomes preven the buying of many books and multi- rious duties make diffic its to the public library. cher buys one book t not too hi v te 1 form a small club circula At the end of the keeps her an: chas libray teache trade sufliciently. have alréady ccted. | non-fiction, as the new novels ci |Jate ahout boarding schools of th d if tastes d <on the hor < | own momentum, * K K The first hook selected was T. erence’s “Revolt in the Dese use one teacher felt that the li t a sheik in tk esert would bhe nt mental v n - from fe with *“jeunes filles” and that Arab fights and intrigues in the evening would alleviate the hore dom of colleze pi in the classroom. of ’ by Albert en by the fast Who enjc own subj; evotee of bi sritish state a daily hiolozy te ed ing nsationally. p spent more than wee and bought H. Pryce”” The married sister liv- , whom she hoped savings per- der Horn,” the outh African id edited by the novelist, ) eda Lewi Richard Halliburton’s “The Glorious Adventure” was supplied by the Lati teacher, with intent to take the whole club on a vicarious Winter cruise in the Mediterr an. Because she con- sidered it desirable to “make an effori to keep informed on the main cur rents of our national life” (quoted | trom an advertisement) another mem- ber of wh club chose “Men of Des- tiny,” by, Walter Lippman. Love of gossip, Whether of the twentieth cen- tury or of colonial d: , prompted the selection of the new edition of uel Sewall's Diary,” that Amer! llel of “Pepys’ Diary.” One wh artistic style, entirely apart from the subject matter, added D. H. Lawrence's “Mornings _in Mexico.” The new edition of Edward BEverett “A New England Boyhood,” picture of cultured family life in the early nineteenth century and Lewis Browne’s “This Believing World.” a popular survey of the world's great religions, completed the list. A A Rivaling Llewellyn Powys’ deserip- tions of Africa and its people is 2 book by Sarah Gertrude Millin, Though not fiction, it is as varied and interesting as the author’s South African novels, in wWhich, as in this book, her thorough knowledge of the Dark Continent ap- pears. The history of South Africa, from the semimythical colonizing visits of the Phoenicians to the period of Cecil Rhodes, Jan Smuts and the Boer War; the geography of the four provinces of the Union of South Africa, the Cape Colony, the Trans- vaal, Natal and the Orange Free Staté; the archaeology of such places as the Zimbabwe ruins; the various races in the country, their religion, education, trade and social customs, and not least the remonace of ranch and mine, coast and tableland, river, mountain and jungle, all form a part of the book. The dark races in' Africa make an interesting study, and Mrs Miltin describes the descent from the north of the Kafir tribes, which helped the whites to exterminate the aboriginal Hottentots and bushmen. The Kaffirs today work in the mines and as house servants. * k Kk * The mysticism and idealism found in the writings of Tagore and other Indian writers leave Katherine Mayo cold and unbelieving, in the light of her recent economic investigations in India, which are described in her book, “Mother India” She quotes from’ Tagore regarding the Hindu ideal of marriage: “For the purpose ot marriage spontaneous love is un- reliable; its proper cultivation should yield the best results * * ¢ and the cultivation should begin before mar- iage. Therefore from their earliest rears the husband as an idea is held up before our girls in verse and story, through ceremonial and worship. When at length they get the hus- band, he is to them not a person, but a principle, like loyalty, patriotism or such other abstractions.” To trans- late this philosophic ideal into the rule of actual practice Katherine Mayi further quotes from the “Purana the Hindu Bible: “There is no other god on earth for a woman than her husband. * * * Be her husband de- formed, aged, Infirm, offensive in his manner; let him &30 be cholerie, de- bauched, immoral, 4 drunkard, a gam- bler; let him frejuent places of ill repute, live in open sin with other women, have no affection whatever for his home; let him rave like a luna- tic; let him live without honor; let him be blind, deaf, dumb or crippled; in a word, let his defects be what they may, let his wickedness be what it may, a wife should always look upon him ‘as her god, should lavish on him all her attention and care, paying no heed whatsoever to his character and giving him no_cause whatsoever for displeasure.” The facts set forth in ‘Mother India” go to prove that this teaching of the “Purana” is by mno means a dead letter in India and Katherine Mayo cautions against “ac- cepting, at their face value to us, the expressions of Hindu speakers and writers” like Tagore. She says: “As to the theory of the matter, let that be what it may. As to the actual practice of the times, material will be recalled from the previous pages of this book bearing upon the likeness of the Hindu husband, as such, to ‘loyalty,’ ‘patriotism’ or any imper- sonal abstraction * kK % The debt owed by Anatole France to a woman is told in “The Last Salon: Anatole France and His Muse,” by Jeanne Maurice Pouquet, translated from the French by Lewis Galantiere. It was in 1883 that Ana- tole ance first met Mme. Arman de Caillavet, who had in her home on the Avenue Hoche established a salon comparable to the great French salons of the seventeenth and eight- eenth centuries. Frequent visitors to the brilliant hostess were Dumas fils, Jules Lemaitre, Henri Riviere, Sully Prudhomme, Pierre Loti, the Comtesse de Noailles and Marcel Proust. When Anatole France was first introduced in her salon Mm Arman rather disliked him, but ad- miration for his genius soon ove came the irritation caused by his unpleasing personality and the two became close friends. With the ego- i ci nius he monopo- 2 de exacting use of the inspiration of her ideas and her services as a critic. She suggested subjects and material, did research work for him and occasionally wrote passages in his books. In later years, when both were old and custom had worn threadbare the gratitude and courtesy between them, their friend- ship was marred by frequent mis- understandings and quarrels. * oK K K The pseudo-scientific novel, “Man's World,” by Charlotte Haldane, w of the distinguished Cambridge Uni- versity professor of biology, depicts a world governed by eugenics, in which motherhood is a vocation un- der state supervision. All mating is supervised by Motherhood Coun- cils. 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Paper are em- bossed with made of brass, but sometimes of copper ele 1y deposited and suitably backed. o called Th TC counter die is commonly made of | ) QUESTIONS RIC J. HASKIN. tal, card or millboard. The or card is well damped and & fly s generally used. The eme s ccted by presse pay 1ds, turquoises, ade found in the been found n California, Coloe ut, Maine, New Hampe ire, Texas and Utah in Geors v and North Ca the name of the fern n the fountain of the ing Pennsylvania ave- fern that is now growe does a person lose a day round the v n travels westward by one hour for longitude he with the mo- westward . How far can lightning | and thunder heard? w. | A under favor | cums be seen at least 100 r eldom is heard more and usually not over 10 n a skunk b operated upon to rom smelling so disagree- like to make a pet of oA ble to rid a skunk of |its odor. A competent veterinarian | can perform the ne ary operation. | Have we haa pleasure of serving you thraugh our Washington Informa= tion Bureau? Can't we be of some help to you in your daily problems? Our business is to furnish you with authoritative information, and we in= vite you to ask us any question of fact vich you are interested. Send’ |wour inquiry to The Evening Star | Information Bureau, Frederic J. | Haskin, Director, Washington, D. C. Inclose tiwo cents in stamps for returm postage. | in i Needed for Suggestions that maternity hospl- tals generally adopt foot-printing or some other certain method of identi- fication have followed the sensational Cleveland controversy over three Smith babies. In this instance there were two boys and a girl, and one of the mothers who was given a girl in- sisted there had been a mix-up and that the boy was hers. She carried her plea to court, but lost. Tho Dayton Daily News observes tha ' till living who s and, ¢ rove it? he scl Mo farthest star * * ® i3 he yet unable to prove that the little lady in Mrs. Sam Smith’s_arms is or is not the daughter of . Sam Smith? Seience shall not have the ftitle of Solomon_till it _can.” The Brooklyn Daily Eagle thinks hospitals may “have to come to stenciling the nam of each child on its persen in in- delible ink’; that “certainly modern science ought to be able to devise come scheme for obviating doubt like that in the Cleveland case.” “It is well that hospitals are re- sorting to foot-printing and other SY tems that will establish the identity of children,” says the Portsmouth Daily Times, while the Reno Evening tazette favors a permanent identi- fying mark, + The Worcester Evening Gazette, referring to the plan of re- cording fingerprints of the mother and the prints of the soles of the baby's feet on the same card de- clares: “Maternity hospitals which adopt this or some other foolproof method will do much to maintain pub- lic confidence where it is needed and relieve the most distressing kind of parental anxiety.” * Kk Kk K «Videspread interest in the case is natural,” says the Hartford Ti “and comes from the suspicion almost every mother has that her baby will exchange tags with some other infant and thus be handed over to other delighted parents. As a matter of fact, the chances are almost nil that such a thing can happen, and in this case in Cleveland it cems unlikely that the mother's suspicions have much basis in fact.” The Ann Arbor Times-News advises that “the best thing that the Smiths can do is to thrust the lingering doubt out of their minds, and give the baby sirl all the affection they are capable of offering to any child. No doubt they will be rewarded for that attitude in due time. The re- ward may come in the form of a sudden realization that Baby Smith is beginning to look very much like pa_or ma. “It was not the court which save peace to the mother’s troubled soul.” in the opinion of the Chattanooza Times. “That came after the de- cision, when the month-old baby girl | crinkled its nose and gurgled an cooed its way into the heart of Mrs. Smith. Once again it was demon- strated that ‘a little child shall lead them.” The Elkhart Truth remarks that “there are a thousand little tricks of manner and speech and action and endless play of sympathy and tend- ency and likes and dislikes that weave the little pilerim into the fam- fiv and show his absolute right to belong there.” 5 “At the beginning of Dickens famous romance, ‘David Copperfield.” ‘Aunt Betsy Trotwood took umbrase because little David wasn't a g! recalls the Syracuse Herald. * che lived long enough to rejoice over nature’s wiser mandate. Perhaps a similar experience, with the conditions reversed, may await Mrs. Sam Smith.” The St. Paul Pioneer-Pres remark “It 1s a mistake that has happened many times, probably, before and since little Buttercup in ‘Pinafore’ confessed how she ‘mixed those ba- bies up’ In Owen Wister’s story, “The Virginian,’ there was a mixing of babies that was not so irnocent. Crowns and kingdoms have been based on the identity of babies.” * k kX “If the mothers whose babies were, or were not, mixed in the Cleveland hospital had been of markedly differ- ent races,” says the Sprinzfield Re- publican, “the task of the doctors would have been comparatively easy, but, even the white boy and the mulatto in Mark Twain’s ‘Pudd’'nhead Wilson® stayed mixed till manhood, in spite of marked family traits, until Pudd’'nhead identified them by _their finger prints.” The Manchester Union holds that ‘“never can the woman completely dispel doubt, and as soon as the child is old enough to under- stand the story, some playmates will tell it, no matter what injunctions are Iaid upon them, and the poor little Sure Way of Identification Hospital Babies y girl will begin a lifetime of sadness and unavailing repining.” On the other hand, the Milwaukee Journal says of the situation: “We | feel certain, from our knowledge of | the of babies, that as time goes on she will find her way to the hearts of the family. We can just hear Mrs. Sam Smith proudly in- forming the neighbors, ‘We wouldn’t give her up for a million dollars.” And Sam Smith adding: ‘Girls are nicer than boys, aren’t they, mother,® as he joggles Baby Smith on a knee and sings: “‘Sugar and spice, 'n everything nice, That's what little girls are made of.” " “Some_definite law, requiring ade- quate identification, might well be passed to meet the contingencies of the modern ‘hospital era,’” in the judgment of the Boston Transcript, while the Tulsa World comments: “Hospitals are wonderful things. But not quite so wonderful as the home, | The average home of today is a very fine placs for an expectant mother, There every advantage the hospital has to offer may be enjoyed, plus the fact that in that home the man- agement is not general, but specific. A trained nurse, a doctor calling as often as he does in a hospital—and all under the management and direc- tion of that home. No chance for such an impasse as is involved in this case; such as has been the foundation for some of the most intriguing works in fiction. “It should be noticed,” concludes the New Orleans Tribune, “in justice to the hospitals, that such stories are very rare and that this one was made possible only by a most peculiar co- incidence of three Smith babies being born in the same hospital and within a few hours of each other.” PHILOSOPHIES BY Is modern science the savior of aver of mankind? In the early days of September, the ishop of Ripon exploded a bomb shell onz the members of the British As- on_for the Advancement of suggesting a 10-year holi- ntific research, in order humanity a chance to learn ;o use the results of scien- ch. L” he said, “even suggest, at the risk of being lynched by some of my hearers, that the sum of human | happiness, outside of scientific circles, | would not necessarily be reduced if | for, say, 10 years every pl | chemical laboratory were closed and | the pr purceful enersgy dis- I tific_re “Dare red to recover- ting together a formula for making the | ends meet in the scale of human life? “It would give 99 per cent of us re non-scientific some chance of lating the revolutionary knowl. which in the first quarter of this century 1 per cent of the exs plorers have acquired. The 1 per cent would have leisure to read up on one another's work; and all of us might meanwhile in tardy quest of that wisdom which is other than and greater than knowledge and without which knowledge may be a curse.” Underneath this statement is the unconseious assumption that sciem- tific thinking is a good method for making _discoveries, but a bad method for using discoveries—that, after sclentific thinking has created power, moral thinking must come along ‘and devise wise ways of using that power. This assumption is, I think, wholly unsound. The trouble is not so much that scientists do not think morally, as that moralists do not think sclen- tifically. We do not need a different kind of thinking to offsct the kind of thinking that goes on in our laboratories; we need to use outside our laboratories the kind of thinking that goes om. inside our laboratories. + The moral instability of our civilizas tion is not due to the fact that scien- tific thinking has gone too far, but to the fact that it has not gone far enough, I do not suggest that sclentists are to be our saviors, but that sclentific thinking is to be our salvation. Scientists are likely to be prisoners of their speclalties, and a man con< cerned primarily with “the antennae- of the paleozoic cockroach” is nat' likely to give a ecivilization creative suidance. ) We need specialists with scientific’ interests inside our laboratories. '3 We need statesmen with scientifie® of fiction this is hardly one of the ally regulated—for example, “the aseptic cows produced in the last two pparently givinz e most plausible. The story, as it is worked out, suggests a nightmare, or, in;lgxhtt;huksigs o laboratories. Scientific thinking is sim) think- ing that is clear, abjective ':lnyd.nn-“ tive—in other wi ; effective horse i)