Evening Star Newspaper, October 14, 1927, Page 8

\ ‘3 «THE EVENING STAR With Sunday Morning Edition. WASHINGTON, D. C. FRIDAY.......October 11, 1927 .. .Editor THEODORE W. NOYES. The Evening Star Newspaper Company owiness Office t. and Penney)-any New York Ofee: 110 Eant S Bl T Resent St ce! e 3 oy Baxiand. 12 A 4 st ne. London. The Evemng Star with the Su g edition ta deliversd by cacr the city at BC centa per month: 45 cents per month: Sundasa cnly r‘month_ Orders mav he sent he Pifenhene Main 5000 € Ton 1s made by carrier at end of each month. niny morn 1ars within Rate b Mail—Payahle in Advance. g Maryland and Virginia. e iind 1 i Sunday. ...} Ir 3A0a: 1 ma Il vr $3.00: 1 mo. Paite i 7‘:‘]7 on! 54 Sunday only Al Other States and Canada. aily and Sundav. 1 er. $12.00: 1 mo. 81, ¥ o : r %800 1 mo. e e 137 $400: 1 mo. Member of the Aseociated Press. aly priat!sd fication o e din | P ar motetherwios ered. nd alsn the . N e 'he_unh At naner A Ths War Is Over! Fleven verrs ago, after a conference #t Richmond between W . idents, officials of the American mobile Associatlon and Gov. ot Virginia, an incipient automobile | license war iwas amicably settled. | Yesterday at Richmond, at a meeting | with Gov. Byrd of Virginia, attended | by members of Washington trade or-| ganizations and officials of the Ameri-! can Automobile Association, the 1927, edition of tha same war was thrashed out and indications are that (he sat tlement will exceed in amity even. the 1915 agreement. One of the arguments for raciprocity " in 1916, when lJocal motorists were being arrested in Alexandria County “ tor failing to eurry a Virginia tag, was that Washington motorists incurred » large enough penalty when they endeavored to negotiate most of Vir ginia's roads without having to pay “extra, in the shape of a tag, for the " privilege. That arzument does not hold true today. because Virginia has made great strides in road building. 1+ does apply, Lowever, in this respect. uarc | The fine, heautiful roads that Virginia ‘ has today are very properly paid for by Virginians, and Washingtonians should not be compelled to pay for | the privileze of driving over the roadl‘ or of building them. Virginia officials declare that this! latest controversy over tags was not | imed at District residents, but at| irginians who live near the bordprj and take advantage of the cheaper District plates. There are undoubt. | edly a good many Virginia motorists who enzage in this practice, but, after | all, they are Virginians, responsible for their sins to Virginia, and by no mtretch of the imagination can the | District be placed in the position of having to clean house for the neigh- boring State. Tt is a job for Virginia alone. Washington is gratified at the re- sult of yesterday's conference. Vir- ginia will station policemen at all en- trances to the National Capital to stop and question those with Wash- ‘Ington tags who appear to be evading the law. In this way the State will nrot only preserve the cordial relation- ship that has always existed between It and the District, but will get all | that is coming to it, from its'own resi- dents, in the shape of revenue for the building of roads. The time has long since passed when the archaic notion was held that one automobile license Identification plate was not good in every State in the Union, including the District of Columbia, Canada and Alaska. — e Compulsion to travel for awhile on a slow tanker, where she cannot ‘risk the lives of herselt and pilot, makes Ruth Elder's trip look like a grand success from a life insurance viewpoint. et A transatlantie flight is a comedy when it fails without loss of life. It s expensive, but the privilege of a . little laugh where tears were threat- ened is worth almost any price. ————at————— A presidential candidate who seeks to eliminate himself always leaves a . shadow of doubt as to his determina- tion to make a thorough job of it. Wright Field Dedicated. . Yesterday the Army's huge new air- @rome at Dayton, Ohio, was dedicated. | With impressive ceremonies, partici- pated in by the Secretary of War, the' Assistant Secretary of War for Avia- tion, Maj. Gen. William E. Gillmore 4nd Col. E. A. Deeds, the great mili-| tary flying establishment was named | ‘Wright Field, dedicated to the Wright brothers, American pioneers in the | ~mcfence of aviation. %' The stries which have béen made in that sclence in the swift quarter- eentury Which has elapsed since Orville and Glen Wright conducted their experiments in a little shack within easy gliding distance of the resent vast structures of steel and _{eoncrete are well night incredible. The earth has been girded, oceans have been spanned, speeds of close to “Bve miles a minute have been made, tons of dead weight lifted, altitudes of between seven and eight miles a tained, hundreds of thousands of miles Mlown in the safe transportation of ! 'mail and express and passengers. It +1s doubtful whether even the Wright ‘broghers, dreaming their momentous dream, as with the mocking laughter of an unsympathetic world in their ears they pressed forward in the ex- periments upon which the science of aviation 1s today founded, dreamed as febulously as the history of man’s conquest of the air has proven to be. it is eminently fitting that the great fleld at Dayton should be dedicated to those whose names will ever be as- wsociated with America’s greatest con- tribution to flying in its pioneer days. And as we remember that contribu- tion it is equally fitting that we should take stock of our present status in the field of practical aviation. Experi- {co-pilot and naviza | men's | wervic ‘ But in the realm of passenger 1 fiving fields, in the ereating |of adequate peace-time air forces for our Army and Navy and the person nel from which a greatly incr ] corps cou'd bs recruited in time wa we mre far, far behind. Secretary of War Dav perch the d-dicatpr. esterday, declared that “uffering from an inferiority compl ) regard to aviaiion. This may and if it s, taken in conjune. onr mo generally dep supariority ansions, we 1 of in his exerc Ame ot oS ca | he teus, | tion with [ recated | shoutd rid our complex or not, an infeviority perfectly obe vea of the lot. sufferinz from on a'ony eertain lines. That condi- as tha complex, well hvious tion should be cor ..o An Accidental Failuze. Anothor transatlantie airplane cr Ing has ended in failure, & it is the ind of failure thai is accidental instead of traz Ruth Elder and her | orge Halde- 4 to span the ocean a r, tr York and Paris over man, hravely between New thirty-six-hundre They failed wt hundred miles unlike the route. nine mile water n appe hort of the mainland ximately but, ” other: who as out. are alive to of their hattle Thorein lies the bravelv storted they tell tha azainst the eloments difference! Only one other land atlantic fiver has ever in midocean, o that the rar erience of the American Girl's crew can well be appreciated. Harry Hawker and ‘omdr. MacKenzie Grieve, ! in May, 191, fall into the water on thetr ill-starred attempt to rea " land from Newfoundlind. They were sscurd by a small fishing boat which ad no wireless and their fate was story losing plane trans. been rescued of the | aar not known for several dave. ce that time the casuaity list has wn by leaps and hounds.. From ungessar and Coli to the O (:Ym'y‘ single rescue was | ve men and women | es against the un- | expedition not recordsd of the b who pitted the conquered mysieries of the air lnd‘ water. A broken oil line fore2d Ruth Elder down, but providentially a ship was near to pick her up. What forced | the others down will never be known. They have disappedred in the bottem- less depths. | There is consolation in Ruth Elder’s | failure and lessons to be learned from it. She and her navigator flew for | more than thirty hours over the ocean and covered approximately three thou- sand miles. A splendid achievement. But the scientific world is anxious to learn of the meteorological conditions encountered and how they were com- bated, of the behavior of the plane and its motor, and the cause of the oil line breakage which forced them down. When this data is compiled and studied it is likely that a distinct ad- vance in man's knowledge will be recorded to aid in the battle for mastery of the air. Signal Uniformity. Maj. Hesse is to be congratulated en the inauguration of his campaign for uniformity in traffic signals by cross- ing policemen. There is probably noth- ing more confusing to the motorist than to receive a different kind of sig- nal at every intersection, ‘and in a good many cases this difference leads to involuntary disobedience. Police- gestures in directing traffic should be concise and comprehensible. Unnecessary movements should have no place in the traffic officer’s duties. | In this connection it might be point- ed out that inasmuch as a traffic po-| liceman’s chief value over automatic control of traffic is his ability to size up and cater to extraordinary condi- | tions in traftic movement, these offi- cers should be allowed even farther divergence from the cut-and-dried regu- lation of traffic than they are at pres- ent. While they should all give their signals in the same manner, they should be permitted to depart, on spe- cial occasions, from routine rules. Frequently a traffic officer will be stationed at the intersection of two | narrow streets. Under these circum- stances, with heavy traffic to control, | it is ridiculous to force all motorists | making a left turn to turn around the officer. They should be allowed to take the short cut in front at the police- man’s signal, as many large cars can- | not make the center-of-the-street turn. And if the movement of traffic is| heavy enough to warrant it the officer | should be permitted to bar arbitrarily a left-hand turn to the end that con- | gestion will be avoided. BN Mayor Walker returns a little too late in the season to introduce all the spectacular luxuries of the Lido at Coney Island. e Approving Foreign Loans. Senator Carter Glass wishes to| know by what authority the Depart- ment of State has assumed the pre- rogative of approving gr disapproving private loans by Amerfcan bankers to foreign countries. His question may be answered by the simple assertion a such right, outside of its privilege to act in an advisory capacity to Ameri- cans who seek its guidance. words, the veto power heid by the | to toreign countries has been con- ferred upon it by the bankers them- selves, who have adopted the pro- cedure of submitting proposed terms to the State Department before making the loans effective. does not question the legal right thus to advise s0 much as he doubts the wisdom of a continuation of such ad- visory power by the State Depart- ment. There is no doubt that the issue he raises is important. A few days ago the State Depart- ment forwarded to France its ap- fund $78,000,000 of eight per cent bonds which private bankers had floated in this country for the French government. The purpose of such re- funding was to take advantage of a lowered rate of interest. Simultane- ously with the State Department’s approval of the refunding proposal it sent another note to ¥rance on the {azreement, i be that the State Department has no In other | State Department over private loans | But Senator Glass | proval of the French proposal to re- | THE EVENING STAR. WASHINGTON, D O and simple, neither mutter bearing e, In the establishment of com-|upon the other, it was nevertheless | 15 being a move on the pait of the State Department to put in good humor, to sweeten her disposition on the taviff. The wide csmment on this coincldence nossibly led Senator Glass to launch his ciitical attack on the State De- | partment’s policy now. But the mat- ior has heep brewing for some time. The club which the State Department le to wicld through its tacit veto | power over private loans has been dis- cuseed for so long and so openly that popularly accepted as important and regularly ordained in strument. This infermal power over American investments abroad is of rather recent origin, datinz from the Harding ad- tion, when American bankers {did noi wish to embarrass their Gov- | erument at a time when the Govern- ment in the midst of delicate | diplematic negotiations involving set- | Uement of the war debts. One result was that the Stale Department vir- tuzlly closed the American money markets to France, Belgium and Ttaly uatil thoss countries effected settie- ments of their debts to the American Government. Tha Mellon-Berenger hetween France and the United States, is yet to be ratified. Scnator Glass, examining the policy 1s a principle, devoid of personalities and going out of his way to except | the present Secretary of State from consideration, points out that this power on the part of the State De- partment may readily lend itself to unscrupulous abuse; that there may discrimination for political pur- poses between American industries; that one banking firm may be favored commented upon France a i g | it s now an miniz wes | over another, and that there is con- stant opportunity for fraud and scq dal. But Senator Glass' fears in this respect are probably not as well tounded as is his ohjection to the usurpation of power by a branch of the Government that is contemplated neither in the Constitution nor by statute. It must be remembered that the bankers have voluntarily bound themselves to the State Department’s advice. But it is also a fact that the present practice involves sanctions and moral obligations on the part of the Government, Approval of a private loan by the Government undoubtedly places a great responsibility upon the Govern- ment, while refusal to apptove may subject the Government to criticism for acting in a matter which lies out- side its jurisdiction. o Pittsburgh cooks were thrown into panic by the search for President Coolidge’s favorite recipe for biscuits. What would happen should he de- mand Maryland fried chicken and waffles is beyond the power of lan- guage to describe. —————— Interested attentlon is now com- manded by the politician who tosses “a hat into the ring” and tries to imagine that it looks like a war No doubt Charles Lindbesgh would be glad it some aviator would leap into fame and leave him a few weeks of comparative obscurity in which to make that coveted Furopean trip. ———t—e It requires an eloquent patriotism to enable Mayor Jimmy Walker to convince his New York hearers that Coney Island looks better to him than the Lido. Regulation of radio prevents many technical difficulties which necessarily delay some artistic supervision of the programs. ———————e——— No soldiers remain with Gomez. This leaves no doubt of his status as a rebel instead of a revolutionist. —ene. SHOOTING STARS. BY PHILANDER JOHNSON. Improvisation. Cricket tuning up out yonder, Just behind the door. As it stops, T wait and wonder While I say “encore!” Far away from night club rhythm— Yet they're fine and free, Tunes that take my heart right with ‘em- Jazz enough for me! % 4 Don’t need any drum or whistle. Don’t need any horn. Just one cricket, sayin' “This'll Kase your mind forlorn.” Always new, the tune you're flinging, Confident with glee—* Good Friend Cricket, you are bringing Jazz enough for me! Fathomless Mysteries. “By this time you ought to know all about politics.” “Politics,” answered Senator Sor- ghum, “is like poker. Nobody ever knows all about it.” What Chance Has a Poet? He wrote a polished classic verse. he worse.” He wrote a bunch of doggerel guff. They laughed and hollered! “That's the stuff Jud Tunkins says a man who telis you the cold truth may be a good friend, but he's poor company. Setting & New Pace. | “What are all thess documents?"” | Deeds to corner lots and factory | * answered Mrs. Flimgilt. But I thought you were giving a bridge party.” “Iam. And when I give prizes, I'm going to make 'em sufficiently valu- able to be talked about. | “He who boasts of his own right- eousness,” said Hi Ho, the sage of | Chinatown, “must seek an audience ot | strangers so often that he loses the pleasure of old friendships.” | The Difficult Return, | The ‘aviator hops away Across the boundless track Of sky and ocean; and we say, “When are-you coming back Out in the sea a freighter lay To meet the airplane wrack. ‘We are rejoiced. Though with delay, ‘We know you will be back! mentally we continue well in the van. Our air-mail service is the most ef- ficient and extensive in the world. Dur indjvidual aviators ave second to pending tariff issue between the two countries, and while it was maintained in some quarters that this imul- 1ageous action e coigcidence, pure “Trouble,” said Uncle Ehen, *“is most always yoh own fault; which oply makes it so much worse™ Friends sneered and said, “It mlghq | | | What an unusual Sunday that was recently when the sun came out bril liantly in the afternoon, following as gloomy and rainy a morning as Wash- ington had seen in a long time! Contrast, of course, was what turned the trick. If the forenoon had no bren quite so gray, 8o soggy-looking. <) flled with moisture. the afternoon would not have seemed so perfect. Gvery one said, “Tt will ‘And that was where every one was wronz, for the sun finallv ap . suddenly and all at once, as nch say, as if it were some sigantic spotlighi thrown upon the stage of this world. There . as much water as it could, considering the iimted half-day left it. ny time. Only the grass and flower beds remained wet. Bocders filled with ripening gladioli resembled so many sponges fulfilling their ancient m'ssion of water absorh- ers. Perhaps a dry sponge is more futile than a phonograph without a { record or a radio set minus its tubes. J R |1t was a perfect afternoon for gar | dening work, despite the fact that the | ground was so wet. | A gardener was able to don an old perfect October- afternoon, with its bright sun, its breeze and the peculiar smell which the atmosphere contains Jjust after a heavy rain, Surely it will not be long now before the gardens of 1927 are a thing of the past, along with the fisticuff encoun- ters, the world series base ball games and the other important events that have stirred the citizens of the United States. Cosmos, those large but feathery flowers of the Fall, with their bright though delicate blossoms, are truly on their last roots now. Chrysanthe- mums are out, and will be more so shortly. speaks of dissolution. The | rainstorm, with the keen wina from | the North, uprooted many of the | plants. nias, however, have a veritable fund of life upon which they may draw in emergencies. with their roots almost out of the ground have remained green and blos- somed for two weeks, until we got around to tying them up with stakes and packing earth over their exposed roots. No doubt the zinnias should be taken up, as there is digging to do in that section of the garden, which is now made impossible by the luxuriant growth of these second of bloomers. First place for blooming still must be given to the petunias. They began earlier, and without sun for a month and a half still continue to bloom with almost undiminished vigor. In the back border, in front of the altheas and the Peruvian daffodils (Ismene), the Rosy Morn petunias stil send forth their delicate rose- and-white blossoms. Standing there in the luxuriant tangle of vegetation which makes up the charm of the Autumn garden, one is impressed with the “wlil to live” of these hest of garden'flowers for the amateur. Not even the zinn “‘blooming-est” plants one of the 11, can equal There's no' longer any doubt that the 1928 presidential race is degen- erating into an old men's contest. Here's Senator George W. Norris of a, being boomed as the Pro. gressive candidate despite the fact that he's a year older than Charles Evans Hughes, who has proclaimed that a man of 66 is too antiquated to run for President. “Jim" Reed is Norris' age. So is Lowden. Dawes Is 62; Senator Walsh, 68; Borah, 62. and “Jim” Watson, 63. The only youngsters in the picture are Gov. Ritchie, who is 51: Hoover, who is 53; Al 8mith, who is 54, and Calvin Cool- idge, who turned 55 last July, * K K K Republican insiders are not taking the Norris boom very seriously. The Nebraskan, who is himself under no illusions, could hardly ever expect to exceed in the G. O. P. convention the high-water mark commonly assigned Gov. Lowden, which figure is con- siderably less than one-half of the majority _required for nomination. Senator Borah, one of the official custodians of the Norris “movement,” has promptly scotched the thought that a third party scheme is involved in it. The Republican Progressives know full well that candidacy of the late Robert M. La Follette in 1924 was able to swing into the electoral column the vote of but a single State—his own devoted FWisconsin—there’d be little hope in an independent ticket headed by Norris or any one else. Third-party crusades have nothing but defeat to their credit in the United States. Rooseveit achieved the ultimate in 1912. Not even the most optimistic Progressive of this era belleves that what the Bull Moose tried and failed less magnetic candidate than “T. R.” * % x K Politicians discern jmore than meets the eye in the statement just melda at Washington by Representative *Jim Begg of Ohio on the Republican presi- dential situation in that State. Begg says Coolidge is Buckeyes’ first choice, with Hoover a strong second prefer- | ence. The significance of that obser vation lies in Begg’'s failure to say anything about his bosom friend and political crony, Speaker !_A)ngworlh. Once upon a time “Nick” was the only white hope whose name ever crossed the lips of the vigorous young Ohio statesman. Begg managed Long- worth's successful campaign for the speakership four years ago. The pop- ular consort of “Princess Alice” has rather faded from the presidential pic- ture in recent months, although there are those who assert that his unob- trusivenass is high strategy and that | “Nick” is in hetter position than ever | to take advantage of dark horse pos- sibilities next year. * K K K Representative Albert Johnson of Washington, chairman of the House immigration committee, has just reach- ed the Capital after a xhomugh-tolng inspection of the Mexican border patrol. He is enthusiastic over the fine personnel that has been developed on our Southern frontier since the service was established three vears ago. The patrol is a near-military or- ganization, some 800 strong, partially mounted and armed, and consists of vigorous, picturesqueiy - uniformed young men, ready at all times—like the Marines—for a frolic or a fight. Representative Johnson finds the patrol functioning on efficient lines |and devoted to the service. Some | day hs thinks it will be advisable to | confine the patrol's duties exclusi | to the prevention of immigration boo | legging. As now organized, its offi- cers and men concern themselves not only with violations of the immigra- tion laws, but with liquor and narcotic smuggling as well, * ok k% Either the courts or the Shipping Board may shortly be called upon to decide the question whether an ocean liner has the right, on short notice or without notice, to alter a ship's port of tination. The other day 8. 8. Lapland of the Red Star Line put in unexpectedly at Newport News. Her original destination was her usual | a wind, too, that dried up | Streets | and walks were free from molsture in | | heavy sweater with comfort on thie ' innias are still aoing well, but | there is a thin look to the beds that | heavy | Such shallow-rooted things as zin-| In our garden, plants | it the magic | to attain could be accomplished by a | © THIS AND THAT BY CHARLES E. TRACEWELI.. I the blossom record of the petunia. Next year surely there shall be more varieties of this satisfactory flower used in the garden. They shall be tucked into corners which otherwise | would go bare. The fine point about |the petunia is that, although it ‘re- | auires sunshine,” as the catalogues isay, it can get along very well with- out it. * ¥ x ¥ { A new respect has been bred this vear for the galllardia, whose red and vellow flowers still continue to shine forth from a most unpropitious posi- ton. | These were planted next to an east | tence, behind a couple of young hibis- cus bushes. The latter exceeded ex- pectations, growing about 5 feet high, with their ldrge leaves completely blocking off the afternoon sun from the blanket flowers, as the gaillardias sometimes are called. In addition, the tremendous and sprawly roots of the hibiscus did their best to deprive the gaillardias of all nourishment. Despite these inimical conditions, | the latter flourished as nothing else in the garden did, with the exception of | the zinnias and petunias. Where- | tore, we are able to say from personal experience that if one wants to plant |2 flower which will bloom continu- cusly, let it be the gaillardia. The blossoms are not the prettiest in the world, but their number throughout the season make up for their rather primitive color combination. * Kk % The roses in our garden have all gotten over bravely the worm-infested condition in which we allowed them to get last Spring through fallure to spray early. Next season will see a “dormant spray” applied as early March, this to consist both of nicoti solution and some form of mixture to mitigate mildew and fungus. Another spraving will be given after the first leaves appear, in order to route any insects enemies, especially the plant ilce. which escaped the first applica- tion. Our belief is that more failures re. sulte among amateur rose Rrowers through lack of early and repeated spraying than perhaps any other one factor, unless it be lJack of food for the plants, given through the use of well-rotted cow manure or artificial fertilizers properly applied. * X X ¥ Gladiolus now may be taken from the ground, no matter if the leaves still are green. It is not necessary for them to he withered and brown. Our observation is that leaving the bulbs too long in the earth after the plants have bloomed is not so good as remov- ing them after 40 to 60 days or so from | blossom time. Nature has a wide ‘““tolerance,” as thev say at the Bu- reau of Standards. She produces good bulbs in 40 days, or perhaps slightly better in 50 or 80, but still those that remained in the ground the former number of days are about as good as the latter. Nature is not meticulous, as are human gardeners. She is interested in growth, if she is interested in any- thing, and she proposes to secure growth at whatever the cost. Where- fore, dig up your gladiolus bulbs now, if you want to, no matter what date they were placed in the ground last Spring or Summer. There is less dan- ger of them heing underripe than in ! being too ripe. WASHINGTON OBSERVATIONS BY FREDERIC WILLIAM WILE. point of arrival, New York. But hun- | dreds of homebound American pas- sengers found themselves, to their surprise, headed for the Virginia |Capes. They were told that the Lap- Jand would anchor first at Newport News and, 20 hours later, dock at New York. The explanation was that 200 returning American Legionnaires had a special train for Florida await- ing them at Newport News, and the Red Star Line decided to accommo- ‘dat- them. According to stories of passengers who wanted to keep long- | made dates on Manhattan Island, | there was something faintly - resem- | bling a mutiny in the first cabin when 1 it developed that the Newport News | plan was unchangeable. * ok x X At the recent highly successful mili- tary exposition and carnival at Wash- ington Barracks President Coolidge was much interested in the quarter- master department’s comparative ex- | hibit of Army rations. The Com- | mander-in-chief observed with amuse- | ment that in 1776 the Army ration | included an allowance of rum. Mr. | Coolidge also noticed that the present- | day ration embraces a liberal allot- ment of onions. “Have the men al- ways received 0 many onions?” the |President asked his escort. | ply was that the, onion little bigger nowadays tha to be. “Well.” Mr. Coolidge remark- d in one of his characteristically | dry asides, “if you make the onions | strong.enough, they won’t need any of | that stuff they used to get in 1776.” | Speaking of onions, they're the object of serious consideration before the | United States Tariff Commission at | this moment. The United States pro- | duces tons of onions more than the country can possibly consume, yet | the trifling amount of foreign onions mostly of Spanish origin—that are | now imported. E* A Mme. Charaoui Pasha, the dis- tinguished Egyptian woman now visiting her daughter, the wife of the Egyptian Minister to the United States, is the acknowledged leader of | thé feminist movement in her coun- try. Women in the land of the | Pharaohs give her credit for captain- ing the crusade that now permits them to show their faces in public— | that is to say, to shed the veil. Mod- ernism in all directions is the plat- form which Mme. Charaoui espouses. It is her aim to induce Egyptia womankind to Pattern after its sis- ters in Europe and America, not on in dress styles, but in all other fields | of activity in which the sex now | exerts itself. particularly in the | domain of public affairs. (Copyright. 1927.) UNITED STATES IN WORLD WAR Ten Years Ago Today publication of news announcing the arrlval of more troops in France and intimates that officers who cabled the news to this country must face mil- |itary trials, * ¢ * Dutch newspapers | condemn this country for its refusal | to give coal to Holland's ships now in |our ports. Says action is not due to | scarcity of fuel, but to desire of Pr |dent to commit |* * * Munitions ship, afire, puts | back to port. Crew, first in panlc for * | fear of explosion, works bravely and | saves vessel and its $2,000,000 cargo. |* ¢ s president proclaims Liberty Loan day, setting aside October 24 for national celebration; $358,000,000 daily is, needed to put loan across. Is- suing call to patriots, he asks that the results be so impressive to echo through the German Empire. * * ¢ President acts to supervise all trad- ing-with-the-enemy interests. New law's sweeping powers are delegated to various governmental agencies by executive order, ® * * Treasury De- partment issuss details of war rigk, in- surance and publighes rates. FRIDAY, OCTOBER 14. domestic growers want to keep out| ‘War' Department aroused over the | on untriendly act. | 1927, PHILOSOPHIES BY GLENN FRANK The symbol of this machine age is | a machine with which 1 man can do the work it took 10 men to do before. Theoretically, every time such a machine is invented and put into operation 9 men are thrown out url Jjobs. | Practically, of course, this does not happen baldly and as literally as tha while the machine does do any gliven Job with fewer workers, grand-scale machine industry makes more jobs possible. ‘The fact remains, however, that the machine is producing at least te; rarfly a new unemployment. for year by vear, in our factories, the man be- comes less and less important and the machine more and mora important. On_the evening hefore Labor day, Mr. Davis, Secretary of Labor, made this significant statement: “The greatest evils which we are likely to suffer in the future, so far as labor 18 conderned, are connected with the subject of unemployment. “In the last six years, in particular, our march ahead in the lavish use of power has been tremendous. No sooner is that power avallable than we put it to use. But the question remaine, What is all this machinery doing for us? Above all, what is it doing to us? | “Take for example the revolution in the glass industry. A single ma- | chine—not a singl manufacturing plant, but a single machine—can turn out all the carboys, five-gallon glass containers, that the United States can use. Not long ago hundreds of skilled men were needed to blow these car- boys. They got good wages, they maintained familiés, and they were good consumers. Now a single ma- chine has released the majority of these men to other pursuits. “While we should continue to think of our wonderful machines, we must also think of our wonderfud American workers. This amazing industrial or- ganization we have built up in our country must not be allowed to get in its own way. “If you take the long view, the is nothing in sight to give us gra concern, but there is a period of ad justment, a. time when machines turn | hand workers out of old jobs into new | ones. The wise employer will invent | ways of utilizing the men displaced by our machines. With the invention of every labor-saving machine should come the invention of a way of using the man whose labor is saved. Othel wise, we do not save labor; we waste it.” This statement ix a refreshing de- parture from the demagogic hokum so frequently indulged in by political orators on Labor day. It expresses genuine insight into the social impli- cations of our astounding technicdl progress. It recognizes that we are passing through a “‘quiet industrial revolu- tion” which is profoundly altering our social order. And it reminds our captains of in- dustry that they must drive mechan- ical invention and social invention sbreast if they are to be at one and the same time huilders of a good bus t nIlIl and builders of a good civiliza- tion. (Copyright. McClure Newspaper Syndicate.) ————— Secret Benefactor Known as Stingy Man From the Omaha World-Herald. One of the commonest judgments fdrmed about our neighbors is that based upon what we know of how they dispose of their money. We label them stingy or generous, frugal or| spendthrift, or with some other term descriptive of the 57 varieties of char- acter based upon their use or misuse of their material substance. And the pity of it is that more often than not we are likely to be dead wrong about it. ‘Mustration of the diMculty of form- Ing such judgments correctly is given In the revelation of the secret chari- ties of Willlam R. Alden, ploneer mer- chant of Hyannis, Nebr. This gentle- man, according to the story, has heen generally judged to be extremely close. And yet for upward of 25 years he had been relieving want and distress and taking careful pains not to let the fact become known. He hadn't been content merely to give help where the need for it was thrust before his face, but had gone out of his way to search out cases that would otherwite never have been known to him. His story becomes public through the betrayal of his secret by a friend whose assistance he had had to depend upon to dispense his charities. In the circumstances we think that friend is right in assuming that he is re- leased of the obligation to keep Mr. Alden’s secret, now that the latter has passed away. The value of the ravelation is not so much in the post- mortem effect it may have with rel tion to the judgments formed of the living Col. Alden a< in pointing the moral which is our text. Effect of_ Wheeler’s Death Not Yet Known | From the Philadelphia Public Ledger. The prediction of John Philip Hill, former Congressman from Maryland, that the death of Wayne B. Wheeler marked the end of dry dominance over Congress may be premature. It may be likewise unsafe to prediet that his passing means that the end of the “‘experimen to regulate the liquor traffic through the medium of laws passed by Congress is in sight. The Seventieth Congress will find a new general counsel of the Anti-Saloon | | League presenting its demands for prohibition enforcement. As some of | its members did not approve the ‘Wheeler methods, its methods may be | changed. It may not be possible for | some successor to Representative Hill to point out the successor to Mr. | Wheel in the House gallery and| chide Congressmen for “jumping at the crack of his whip.” Clashes be- | tween the Treasury Department and the Anti-Saloon League over the pro- hibition enforcement organization may not be so frequent or so pronounced as those during the Wheeler regime, but the questions raised” will have no final answers until the records of an- other year and another Congress indi- cate the trend and significance of the drys’ program for the future, | The Chemistry Age. From the New York Times. Dr, George D. Rosengarten, the president of the American Chemical Socfety, in claiming this as the age of chemistry, substituted a creative process for the materials of man's | weapons and utensils by which the earlier ages have heen designated. Man has moved from a stone age | into & bronze age, from a hronze age | into an iron age and from an iron He | | | | {age into one of many melals. now knows not only all of the metals in their natural sgate, but all the ele- ments out of which the earth and | all that is in it were fashioned. This i notably the age of synthesizing. | largely through chemist it | has brought to the ken of man. So have the ages of stone and brone | and iron and all the others been | transmuted into an age in which man working with the original ele- | ments, making new combinations, | torming new alloys”has become him- | self a creator. In a very true sense it is thus pre-eminently the age of chemistry. To chemistry industry is looking especially for the perfection of its output and the lightening of labor, It is chemistry that medicine is Invoking to its aid. Th its soil of pure science are to be found, as Secretary Hoover has said, the origins of our modern industries and commerce, But that soil requires continued eultivation If jt is to go on vielding such fruit as we are gathering from the résearches of 8 century ago. governor. ANSWERS TO QUESTIONS BY FREDERIC J. HASKIN. Q. How far should a woman stand from a mirror to see herseif as she would appear to a person standing 4 teet away from her’—B. G. A. She should stand 2 feet from the mirror. The distance to be considered is the total distance traversed by light between the eye and the object. Q. What is the salary of the Presi dent of the Irish Free State’—P. J McC. A. Th!‘salar\‘ of President William Cosgrave of the Irish Free State is 2,500 a vear, equivalent to approxi- mately $12,150. Q. Loew have?—C(: 1 A. He owned than 300 tkeaters. . How far could the diums of the Pueblo Indians be heard?—I.. A. § A. The Pueblos used a regular drum, the shell of which was made from a hollow cottonwood log. Drums were not used in war, but in cere- moni The distance these drums could heard varied, according to the air, state of drum, kind of drum, etc., but probably averaged about six miles. Q. Why does the September moon rise 80 near the same time for succes- sive nights?—M. H. I A. Ev month the moon goes through all the changes in the amount of delay in her rising from the small- est to the largest, but ordinarily these | are not taken special account of. As the sun and full moon must be in op- posite parts of the sky, Autumn is the season when the full nfoon and least retardations come together. Q. What are the best grasses for the fairways and greens on golf courses?—H. S. A. The Bureau of Plant Industry says that for putting greens on a golif course southern German mixed bent, Rhode Island bent or Colonlal bent should be used. For falrways a mix- ture of 50 per cent Kentucky blue. grass and 20 per cent red-top should be used. Q. Who discovered chloroform?— A. Chloroform was discovered in 1831 independently by Samuel Guthrie ac Sacketts Harbor, N. Y.; by Liebig in Germany and by Soubeiran in France. It was introduced as a gen- eral anesthetic by Simpson of Edin- burgh in 1848. Q. What is meant by ‘“protyle?’— H. A M. A. The word “protyle” was suggested by Sir William Crookes in 1886. In an address to the representative of the British Association he says: “Let us plcture the very beginning of time, before even the Sun himself had con- solidated from the original protyle. We require a word analogous to pro. toplasm to express the idea of origi- nal primal matter existing before the evolution of the chemical elements.” —_— Q. Please list soine important duels fought in _America between 1795 and 1835.—N. D. B. A. Among them are the duel be- tween Philip Hamilton, the son of Alexander, and G. J. Baker; Alexander Hamilton and Aaron Burr, Capts. Barron and Decatur, Henry Clay and John Randolph, Gen. Jackson and M. Dickinson, and Col. Benton and Mr. Lucas. Q. In the universities do the ath- How many theaters did Marcus | L. D. | or controlled more | letic associations make money during the foot ball season?—N. H. B. A. Generally speaking, foot ball is the one sport which is self-supporting at the universities. The receipts from foot ball are used bv the athletic asso- clations to finance other sports. such as base ball, basket ball, track and {crew. Q. Tn parking a closed car, is it a *| violation of the trafic rules to close T. ;and lock acors and windows 7 . A. In Washington locking doors | and windows fs permitted, but not the steering wheel or other parts of the {car that would keep it from heing moved in case of fire or other danger. Q. What proportion of the homes in the United States use ice’—T. A. R. A. Sixty per cent of the homes do not use ice. Forty per cent use ice during July and August. Only 8 per cent of the homes use ice the year around. Q. What Is vegetable marrow?—J. A, McC. A. Vegetable marrow is a kind of squash, caten as a vegetable, which is very popular in England, but is not often seen in this country. The true English tvpe is, when full grown, gen- erally about 9 inches long and 4 inches in diameter. with green to yallow rind and light-colored flesh, Q. How can a watch be used as a compass’—E. B. A, La ur watch lie flat in vour hand, with the hour hand pointing toward the sun, and the point on the circle half way hetween the hour #and and XII will be directly south in the Northern - Hemisphere .and directly north in the Southern Hemisphere. Q. Who was called the “Father of —W. T. A. This title was given to James Madison by his cotemporaries. | Q. What .nation has the largest | coast trade?-C. T. | A. The great length of our sea and lake coasts, the number of good har hors and the fact that most of the coast ragion of the United States has been settled make the coastal tra | of this country the most extensive in | the world. Q. How does it happen that there are so many small lakes in the north- ern portions of the country?’—B. B. A. They occur in the portions of the country that were covered by glaciers during the ice age. They consist of accumulations of water from springs, or from drainage of rainfall, or from inflowing streams, sometim within hollows, gorges and channels scooped out hy the glaciers in their movement, sometimes within vallevs or channels which were more or less completely dammed up by deposits of sand, gravel, boulders, dropped by the gla clers, and sometimes with hollows or depressions, called kettle holes, in the earth’s surface. Did you ever write a letter {o Fred- eric J. Haskin? You can ask him any question of fact and get the answer in a personal letter. Here is a great educational idea introduced into the lives of the most intelligent people in the world—American newspaper read- ers. It is a part of that dest purpose of a newspaper—service. There is no charge, except 2 cents in stamps for {return postage. Address Frederic J. Haskin. director, The Evening Star Information Rureau, Washington, D). C. Roosevelt’'s Attack on Smith Col. Theodore Roosevelt's keynote speech before the New York State Republican convention, in which he attacked Gov. .Smith and drew word pictures of a Tammany Hall shadow across the White House, has been sharply criticized by many Democratic and independent newspapers. They see in the speech evidénce of what the Hartford Times (independent Demo- cratic) calls “frantic panic” in Repub- lican councils over “the current fact of their lack of competent grip on the State of New York.” Yet the Los Angeles Evening Ex- press (Republican) declares without qualification: “Col. Roosevelt has done the country a great service. It was high time that one who speaks with the authority of knowledge and under- standing of its character showed up the Tammany liquor program in its true light.” The New York Herald- Tribune (Republican), approving the Roosevelt, criticlsm of Gov. Smith's financial policy as “unsound and im- provident,” assert: ““The Tammany school in which he was brought up has never practiced frugality. It be- lieves in the open hand.” The Lexington Leader (Republican), quoting the statement that Gov. Smith “is a product of Tammany, is the can- didate primarily of Tammany, that he is being sponsored by its leaders, and that the governor is tolerating the evils in New York City, Albany and other large centers for which Tam- many has always stood,” adds that “such ideas, as a matter of fact, are prevalent throughout the country,” although it feels that Gov. Smith “is unquestionably able and honest.” The Lansing State Journal (independent) argues: ‘“While Pennsylvania, Indlana and Chicago are bad enough, never- theless one can hardly feel that the evil forces in those places are throw- ing quite so definite a shadow on the White House steps as Tammany. Per. haps voung Teddy did a worth-while job in his putting of the case.” owEw From the other viewpoint, the Fort Wayne Journal-Gazette (Democratic) finds an ‘“evident purpose by the Re- publicans to prevent the nom'nation of Al Smith by Democrats,” and sug- gests that “the most sober judgment of Republicans seems to be that Col. Roosevelt has not in the smallest way contributed to the success of that de- sign.” 'The Chattanooga Times (inde- pendent Democratic) holds that “the most significant thing about Col. Roosevelt’s outbreak was that it mani. | fested the alarm Republican leaders experience at the prospect of having a man of courage and ability, and, above all, a man who knows politiclans and their ways, pitted against their candidate, yet to be ‘picked ““At times his keynote seemed a little shrill, even screechy,” according the Providence Journal (independent), which mentions ‘one point at which he appeared o be at a logical disad- vantage-—he had held the governor responsible for the extravagance of the last few vears at Albany, pointing out how little influence the Legisla- ture has, and then he urged the elec- tion of a Republican legislative ma- jority in ordeg to ‘pave the way for | reclaiming this State from the control of the wig vam on Fourteenth street.’ " The Kansas City Po&t (independent) ohserves that “the general rule seems to be that sons of famous men do not hecome particularly famous, and where the younger has not only the same name but the me initials and the same military title, it must be a terri- ble thing to try to win fame in the same field.” “Col. Roosevelt perhaps goss s Tittle | too far in his attack on Gbv. Smith,” says the Worcester Telegram (inde- pendent), and the Rock Island Argus independent) advises: “The fact m'ght s well be faced-that there are a whole lot of people in New York State who think Al Smith has made a splendid It is perfectly legitimate to wage a fight against him, but it should he a clean fight and a fair| fight. or otherwise it will prove costly | to those who carry on the battle.” EEEE | | to} Is Criticized and Defended Post (Independent Democratic), “know that any attempt to discredit Al Smith personally in New York State will have disastrous resuits; because the New York people know that he is clean and able, as they have shown by electing him governor four times. And now comes along Col. Roosevelt and does the very thing the leaders have wished to avoid.” The Fort ‘Worth Star-Telegram (independent Democratic) tak the further posi- tion: “The campaign for President is bigger than any State political organ. ization, and even if Tammany were as bad as it is pictured by the bogey- raisers who do their work not with- out an eye to the political effect, Mr. Smith as the Democratic candidate for the presidency would not be' a Tammany candidate.” In reply to the Roosevelt charge | that *““Tammany has not changed in the slightest,” the Baltimore Sun (in- | dependent Democratic) states that this | Is “in face of the fact that Tammany faithfully supports Smith and that every rational being knows Smith is a_ perfectly honest executive.” The Wall Street Journal (inancial) makes the point that “Al Smith is much more vulnerable than his supporters suppose, but no man in public life to- day has such cause to offer up thanks for his enemics. Their continued blundering has been his best asset.” “It would have been possible for the keynote speaker to attack Gov. Smi record on the enforcement question.” in the opinion of the Utica Observer- Dispatch (independent), and the Sa- vannah Press (Democratic) raises the question of a possible attack on “the nullification pollcy of Gov. Smith,” but concludes that Col. Roosevelt “was afraid to do it.” The Birmingham News (Democratic) replies with an attack on “foul citadels of Republican strength,” whils the Little Rock _Arkansas Democrat (Democratic), Reanoke ~World-News (independent Democrati¢) and Omaha World-Herald @-dependent) recall at- tention to the oil scandals B BT . Flying: Old Style. #rom the New York World. Exploring our library, we come across a number of books on aero- nautics. The dates of publicdtion range from 1902 to 1909, which yedrs do not seem so remoie as time is | reckoned in most flelds of human ac- fivity. Yet these books look as an- | cient as so many filurminated manu- scripts of the year 7127. They are filled with many half-forgotten por traits — Farman, Tatham, Cutiiss, Bleriot, the Wrights, 2rd | Santos-Dumont. And the portraits, there are pictures of the queerest set of machines ever heard of: dirigible balloons, helicop- ters, gliders and airplanes—the last named having rudders in front, pro pellers at rear and vital parts in the midd Furthermore, there are serious dis cussions on points that seem archic now: as to whether it might not be well to provide the occupants of these machines with seats to sit on, and some kind of inclosure to protect them from the weather; as to whether some heating arfangement will not be ulti- mately devised: as to whether aircraft will ever b of any real use in war fare, and so on. The author of one of these books makes the prediction thdt the development of aircraft will mehx the disappearance of all houndarfes hetween countries, together with all customs and dutles. for, he argues, ‘ot what use are customs collectors when aviators can fly right over them? e same author is also convinced tHat afreraft will cause unprecedented crime, since they offer the criminal a perfect means of escape. et If We'd Listen, From the Ohio State Journal Our friends who spent the Stimmer abroad have been home mors than a “National Republican leadars,” as| viewed by the Charleston Evening!| = month now and we'd know the sxact dimensions of every cathedral in Eu rope, If we'd listened. i