Evening Star Newspaper, October 20, 1927, Page 8

THE EVENING STAR With Sunday Morning Edition. WASHINGTON, D. C. THURSDAY....October 20, 192" Editor THEODORE W. NOYES. The Evening Star Newspaper Company Business Office: f L. 4 Pennavivama Avs. AL e p : t St.. London. Zuropean Oftice: 14, Regen thvers) i daily caly, . 20 yte a ia made b Mail—Payable in Advance. Rate b aryiand and Virginis. " .00: 1 mo.. 78¢ B, . $8:00: 1 mo.. §0c Datty 2 300° 1 mo.’ 25¢ 1yr. 812,00 1% %k 4.00: Dailv and Sunday. Paily _onlv Sunday oniv. Member of the Associated Press. 880C! Press {n exclusively entitled use ln‘r":(hllh cation of all news a; credited to it or not otherwise cru Fig T ¥ Shoer ard i, iy il v :f’h.;“('r‘ d'”"‘ ‘hes herein are also reserved. e Smith and the West. Two prominent Protestant Demo- crats in public statements yesterday took up tha cudgels for Gov. Smith of New York. They are Senator Royal 8. Copeland of New York and former Senator Atlee Pomerene of Ohio. Both are anti-prohibitionists. Both see the New York Governor as available for the Democratic nomination for Presi- dent. Mr. Pomerene, while not com- mitting himselt finally to the Smith camp, extolled the governor, placing him on a plane with the greatest men of the Democratic party in the past. Senator Copeland, of course, is for Smith, “first, last and all the time.” The New York Senator has returned from the West, claiming that Smith has “won the West.” To be fair to the New Yorker, it 'must be added that he believes that Gov. Smith has “won” the delegations to the Democratic na- tional convention which next year is to nominate the presidential candi- date. This is somewhat different from winning the electoral votes of the great States of the West. The fact of the matter is that the TDemocratic party in many of those States is little more than a skeleton. It has been flat on its back for year What particular appeal to the West does Gov. Smith possess—an appeal ‘which might cause a political revolu- tion, a turn-over of votes similar to that which gave Woodrow Wilson the eslection in 1916? Does his opposition to national prohibition appeal to the West? How many members of Con- gress from that section vote anything ‘but dry? Does the fact that he is a Tammany man give him strength v.vith the people of the West, who have been taught that Tammany is the last thing in machine politics, with corruption as an outstanding characteristic? And finally, is the Protestant West more tolerant than the Protestant South, when it comes to election of a Cath- olic as President of the United States? These are questions which Senator Copeland must weigh. But in so far as the delegates from ‘Western States to the Democratic na- tional convention are concerned, Sen- ator Copeland doubtless is correct in ‘his estimats. The leaders for the most part are for Smith, believing that he has a better chance for election than any other Democrat. The election of any Democrat to the presidency means patronage for the party, large slices of it in the West as well as in other sections of the country. Furthermore, in many of the Western States the democratic skeleton which exists has as its backbone Irish-American and ‘wet Democrats, who will be potent in the selection of the delegates to the mational convention. ‘The former Senator from Ohlo, writ- ing in the North American Review, appeals to the American people not to permit religious intolerance to inf fere in the selection of a President. He maker an admirable plea—a plea that in logic and justice is unanswerab) But arguing away a religious preju- dice is the world’s most difficult task. —————— As a name for a horse “Al Smith” has Senator Borah’'s approval. The fact that the horse is sure to set a awift pace when he gets into the run- ning has no significance in politics. Diminishing Destruction. People of the United States have for years past been receiving the gloomiest sort of warnings from for- esters, conservationists, economists and others interested in preventing the terrain of this country from resem- bling that of tree-denuded Chin: These warnings have dealt with sane and conservative lumbering, with re- foresting, and, particularly, with the terrible annual waste through fire—a waste which benefits no living soul and is in the nature of a crime against eivilization. It appears that America has begun 1o heed the call. Fire Prevention ‘week for 1927, which ended recently, brought the glad news that the fire season, now over in the Northern Pa- clific States and soon to be over in California, in the North and East, h ‘witnessed less forest fire damage than any previous season for many years. What with the tremendous recent in- crezse in the numbers of motorists, campers, hunters and fishermen, this is a marked achievement. Contributing causes, over and ahove the favorable season, include the ex- tension of Federal, State and private fire prevention and suppression activi- ties and the increasing care and cau- tion of the public. It s the last. ramed that is particularly gratifying. Americans get some lessons rapidly; others very slowly. They have been a long, long time assimilating the idea that scrupulous care in the woods is an essential obligation to the next fellow down the trail or along the river and to their own posterity. Many a man who in years gone by was perfectly willing to go to war and risk his lite to save his country 1yrl ate veterans have taught greenhorns, and patrol leaders have taught their scouts to watch like hawks each one of these sources of danger. Men who once touched off dead birch tres stumps just to see them flare up now hold an extin- guished match for hal’ a minute be- | fore casting it aside. | The time is coming when responsi bility for any unintended blaze, no matter how trifiing, will he looked upon as a moral as well as a legal misdemeanor. And that time, thanks be, seems now not nearly so far dis- tant as it did a few short years ago. There is just one excusable cause for the consumption by fire of any tract of timber. That is lightning and, with all other causes eliminated and with constant improvement in the tech- nique of firefighters, this country | will well be able to cope with that. | e Alabama Clean: While her sister States look on with approval, Alabama continues to clean her own house, rectifying throngh the orderly processes of constituted au- | thority a condition which an investi- | Rating grand jury has likened to | those which existed during the Span- ieh Inquisition. A series of brutal and cowardly floggings by masked men who worked under the cover of dark- | ness has been laid at the door of members of the Ku Klux Klan, and the special grand jury of Crenshaw County has handed down 102 indict- ments against men charged with com- plicity in twenty or more cases of lashings. With one exception, all of the indictments were against members of the Ku Klux Klan, and the grand | jury charged that all except one of | the floggings wers committed by mem- | bers of the order wearing their masks | and robes. The grand jury went | further and implicated high officials of the State Klan. i Since the widespread organization their sport s House. | | of the Ku Klux Klan throughout the country many cases of violence have | been charged against the members of this order, but the Ku Klux Klan has | countered with the assertion that crimes committed by men wearing masks and uniforms could not be | blamed upon their organization, for the organization countenanced no such | tactics. If the Ku Klux Klan as a | society stands for law and order, the | Alabama indictments afford an excel- | lent opportunity to prove it. 1If the cowardly assassins who heat men and women acted without the license of | their officials, if they deliberately uni- tormed themselves and performed their deeds in the name of the Kian | when the Klan was guiltiess, now is a time when the Ku Klux Klan as a whole may center its attention on Alabama and take a leading part in | bringing to trial and helping to prose- cute its members who have been in- | dicted. If the Ku Klux Klan possesses | those vast financial resources popn-“ larly attributed to it, no better way of spending a part of them can be found than in bringing to justice men Wwho pose as its members and commit outrages in its name which shock de- cency and form a blot on present-day | clvilization, ‘ Speedy Transportation. | Although the four successful trans- | atlantic airplane flights during the past vear did not prove the practica- | bility of overseas passenger carrying | by air, there is no question but that | stimulation was given to speedy trans- | portation by a combination of hoat and airplane over the stretch of water | that lies between the United States and Europe. Already, in this country, plans are being carried forward to put into the transatlantic service a fleet of thirty-five-knot passenger ships, with airplanes aboard in case the traveler wishes to better the minimum time of four days that it will take these fast liners to make the trip. In Kngland, on the River Thames, experiments are now being conducted with the “Sea Flea,” a small, pecullar looking craft driven by air propellers, which have skimmed it over the water at a speed | in excess of one hundred miles an hour. The inventor of this hoat is | confident that a larger model will | carry one hundred passengers across | the Atlantic in a record run. Five davs is now the accepted | length of time for the Atlanti¢ cross- | | | | {ing. The new thirty-five-knot boats | are expected to make it in four days } flat, and with airplanes cutting oft part of this time at both ends of the | jtrip it could easily be reduced to thres days. If the “Sea Flea” type of craft comes up to the expectations of its inventor it should make the cross- ing in about forty hours Speed is the | slogan of transportation today, and | with the impetus given to it by avia- tion great things may be looked for in | tuture development. i The difficulty a vacation residence | for the President has in keeping up the Summer pace is shown by the | manner in which Rapid City has slowed down in itx publicity. o ‘The line of cleavage between wats and drys is so clear among Republi- | cans and Democrats that there may, in effect, be as many as four parties. THE ers suggested that they should try another kind of cabaret from that which they were witnessing. There- upon, the four bundled into a taxi and whispered instructions were given to the driver. A few minutes later they drew up in front of a police station where the man who had received the note explained to the desk sergeant that “thess two kids have run away trom their amall town home. [ have sisters and T came alsa from a small town. They will not go back by them- selvi =0 1 thought the best thing to do was to have the police take charge of them before they get into trouble.” Without seeking In any way to cast slurs on the male sex, it is pretty certain that only one in ten would do what these two young Chicagoans did under similar circumstances. 1t fis unfortunately the case that young girla seeking excitement of this kind get their full share of it, aided and abetted by the type of men who have little responsibility nd chivalry Back again in their small-lown ex istence these voung girls «honld wonder carefully the resulis of their first expedition. 1f they do they will have a finer and Keener appreciation of character than ever hefore and they themselves may ahsorh some of it to their everlasting benefit. ——oe—ee -Vrfhererl(olt Credit Lies. After serving his Government fully for twenty-eight years average salary of $85 a month and raising a family of twenty children, Conrad Zeller has been retired from the Post Ofice Department at the age of sixty-five. But one looks in vain through the aceounts of Mr. Zeller's accomolishments for ade- quate mention of the real hero of the sto who, it must he generally agreed. is Mrs. Zeller. Mr. has won praisa from his including the Postmaster General, for his faithfulness to duty, his efciency, his steadiness and his skill. He has reaped further honors as an angler who always possessed an uncanny knowledge of where the fish were biting and how to make them bite in the presence of high officials for whom he served as a guide. But ch honors, as worthy as they may be, fade into insignificance when held up to the light of comparison with those due Mrs. Zelle It is some- thing to bhe the father of twenty children, but how about being the mother of twenty children? Who was it who rose in tia dark, chilly hours of dawn to heat bottles of milk with which to silence bitter wails from eribs? Who was it who through more than a score of long years tied and untied each morning and night countless shoestrings Who was it who slept for two dec- ades with one eve open and both ears alert to be the first on the scene with ipecac when croupy made the night hideous? And who was it who so arranged the family no th- at an | bill of fare that twenty-two hungry | mouths three times a day would find sustaining food smoking on the table? Praise be to Mr. Zeller, who served his country long and faithfully! But more praise to Mrs. Zeller, after toil which only mothers under- stand! —— s mte— The fact that a theatrical produc has to go to the penitentiary does not deprive him of all the comforts of Broadway publicity and the assurance of general attention when he resumes activity. The musical producer may be, like Orpheus, more or less ac- quainted with the underworld. e —o——————— Leading minds in Europe instead of envying American wealth have de- cided to study the methods by which that wealth was accumulated. eeee—e The motor market is still attentive- 1y observing the fact that Henry Ford has held out his hand as a signal that he is going to do something. — -t SHOOTING STARS. BY PHILANDER JOHNSON, 8. Claus (Inc.). 014 Santa Claus will soon he dus. His benefits he'll bring anew. The children used to lie awake, Expecting oranges or cake. But youth has grown exceeding wise And scorns the things it used to prize. | | A gift must cost, to cheer the feast, A million dollars, at the least. Still larger grows the giving game, And good old Santy has the fame Which others use. Advantage great He'd find, could he incorporate. Comfortable Gait. “You have been elected many times. Your friends say you ought to run for higher office.” “Why should I let the run,” said Senator “when 1 aiready have a walkover No Mere Gossip. My radio! My radio! Your words will eaxe my labors. You often talk an hour or so, But not ahout the neighhors. ‘em get me on Jud Tunkins saye it's your duty to tell the truth. But don't go out of EVENING STAR, WASHINGTON, THIS AND THAT BY CHARLES E. TRACEWELL. Zeller | weriors, | coughs | whose | | crown of twenty jewels was won | Sorghum, — | your way doing it so much that you'll A large number of citizens have |always be regarded as the feller that formed the habit of referring to any- | thing they do not quite understand as | Fortunate Young Women. Two young runaway girls from a | small city in Illinois can thank their | lucky stars for protecting them on their hazardous quest for excitement. Believing that the old home town was “Loo slow” these two flappers hoarded a train for Chicago. Arriving at the “big city” they undertook to find their first thrill at a movie. The thrill, however, came not from the picture, but from the handsome appearance and bearing of the usher who showed them their meats. They conferred in | whispers and decided to “date” him ' up. Accordingly, they procured pa- per and pencil and wrote him a note asking him to get “another fellow” and take them out after the show was over. The usher acceded to their request and with another man—the term “man” is used advisedly because ecould not quite bring himself to the task of putting his campfire absolute- Iv out, of extinguishing his cigarette or pipe dottel befora he hurled it into Nature's waste basket. Fathers have Sy {they were hoth in every sense men |and gentlemen—met them when the | movie closed itx doors. i llhe iwo girls had run away from home e A half hour later on learning that | brings the bad news. Patronage. “Would you patronize a bootleg- ger?”’ o, sir,”” answered Uncle Bill Bot. tletop. “The only bootlegger 1 know is 80 rich that it's my turn fo act in a deferential and not & patronizing manner.” “He who would be his own hose said Hi Ho. the sage of Chinatown, “must be willing to accept that hard- est of taskmasters, a sense of duty.” Decision. Always heen willin' to learn ‘While strivin’ an' strugglin’ along. Precepts 1've studied to learn— And most of 'em wrong. Tried to be friendly and nice To wisdom abundant an’ strong, Takin’ a heap of advice— And most of it wrong. I'm goin’ to venture alone In efforts at labor or song, And boast that my way is my own, Though mebbe all wrong. “A fortune teller,” said Uncie Eben, is one o' de people dat knows how to give an’ take comfort by means of As the eager flames, leaping hizh into the afr, fairly ran along the back norches, we realized as never hefore whv (he ancients pictured hell as both very Lot and very flery The clock in a distant tower sounded the time as 1:30 a.m. The community had not_vet got over the surprise and shock of the dread cry of “Fire!” Dazed by the colossal bonfire of half a dozen neighhors’ homes, men stood in the alley, uncertain as to what to do. One felt utterly helpless 1t took a certain number of minutes (o orient one's self to the realization that something out of the ordinary had happened. There are some rare persons who instantly respond fo the unusual, but the average man or woman is not so constituted, and requires a minute or s0, dften a very precions hit of time, to get used to the new fact A fire is a real fact, one of the most real in this world of many facts facts tairly tumbling aver one another, like fames in their conquest of dry wood ok ok to prevent The bhest way fre s nat_to have one t'is how not (o have o conld he answered | pletely, there wonld be no ne ‘Kire Prevention week.,” or city fire rtments, or elahorate five-fighting equipment, ‘and the expenditure of Kundreds of thousands of dollars in firemen’s salaries. By taking thought, however, much can be done by the average house holder to prevent fires. A fire in a neighborhood brings home to many persons just what a monster fire is, Ordinarily one does not stop (o think much about the matter. One reads abowt a fire in another section of the city with a strange calmne But let the bright light come from across the street or down the alley, one suddeniy vealizes that fire is a very real menace, Looking into the front door of a home ruined by fire, a man with com mon, ordinary sense speedilv makes a resolution that, in so far as possible he will not allow the same fhing to happen to his own home. There Is the grand piano, once a thing of song and happiness, now a mass of charred wood, its strings probably wrecked he yond reclaiming. Forlorn, indeed, are the once comfortable davenport and chairs, and migerable the smoked and dingy ceiling, with chunks of plaste: loosened and about ready to fall. There on the back steps sit three hottles of milk, mute reminders that the faithful milkman did his duty, com working firemen. Here where only a few hours ago was a home i$ a ruined place where fire and insurance ingpec- Lo et have to do their work. Shall such a scene occur at your home? No, you say. But have you any form of fire extinguisher, or even the garden hose hooked up? % o ok * When one recalls the infinite care lessness with which the average house. hold handles matches, and runs fur- naces, and snaps on and off electric lights, and radio sels using large voltages, the wonder grows that there are not 10 times as many home fires as there ar The first care in a household. it would seem, ought to be for the matches used in the daily routine. LONDON, England. What a difference there is in the at- mosphere of different countries! Not alone does “Sunny France” differ from London fog, but also from arid Ttaly, and most of all from the “Land {of the Bryve and the Home of the | Free.” The difference does not lie | mainly in {the weather, but more in the “atmosphere” of society and pib- lic. administration. train in America there was overheard the almost typical grumbling of the “Man in the Smoker” against the striction laws of the United States, where, we are told, there are more “petty laws” forced through by *fa | natical minorities” — whatevkr th | may mean—than in any other coun- try. Not even in Mussolini Italy, under Dictator are there laws forbidding intoxicantd, but there are laws forbid- ding freedom of the press and of speech. Plesident Butler of Columbia University-lectures on “The Lost Art of Thinking” in America, but what would happen i7 he delivered that in the land where every man drinks at will, provided he does not ‘think {amiss about “Fascism”? There, if one is even suspected of thinking awry, he is in peril of a visitation from the po- lice or the Black Shirts and haled be- | fore a police tribunal, where, without jury trial or even the right to call witnesses of defense, he may be “rail- | roaded” to the “Island” under sen. tence of 20 or more vears, | safety of the state.” Yet | Communism has heen suppressed, even where five years ago it terrorized the nation. * %k * Ir France there is more liberty of thought and action, but following the | Sacco-Vanzetti riots 8,000 alien Com- munists were exiled and thonsands more who were natives of France were imprisoned. There were no Sac- co-Vanzetti demonstrations in Italy, where the murderers had heen born, for Mussolini did not permit such agi- tation. The first indication toward it met with prison sentence: the “Island.” Here in England, despile the serious turbances of the peace by (om- | munist agitation, there are hundreds of orators, with free license, rending the air by day and night, denouncing tutions of law and order, and there is | no interference by the police. Even into the pulpit of & famous church go hecklers, standing alongside of an archbishop in the pulpit, in order to denounce him to his own congregation as a derelict of the church hecause he accepts Darwin as against a_literal acceptance of Genesis. ‘That s tolerated in England. Would it be possible in the United States without police interference? Another phase of soclal order marks the differences in nations. In neither Paris nor Rome is much drunkenness to be seen, though the cafes are cater- ing to the public with wines and cog- nac: hut walk the streets of London in the evenings and one must be alert o avold collision with drunken men, | women and girls, arm in arm, stag- gering and singing or talking in ribald tones. England is “half slave and half ree” in the matter of its intoxicants. At only certain hours of the dav can liquor ‘he hought—less than haif the | day or night—but there appears no re- straint during those hours. Commu. | side world has realized. | ek | What of the United States upon these lines? There are metropolitan cities where the officials openly declare nullification of Federal laws and an- nounce that they refuse to attempt to enforce them. There are schools main- tained for the purpose of teaching Communism to our children. In Eng- land recently the venerable Bishop of London declared in a sermon that American schools were teaching chil- dren to hate England. The declara- tion amazed American Legionnaires sitting in the congregation. How many Americans would not be amazed to discover what Is really being taught to some of our children? The Roman Catholic Church works upon the principle most practically wese secking thrills the two ush- a fow kind WOrds.” o esmsam.. s . (B2t give it the first six or eight 1. enrity for | after the fire was put out by the hard- | BACKGROUND OF EVENTS BY PAUL On the railroad | s or exile to | not only the government, but all insti- | C., THURSDAY, OCTOBER 20. 1927. Claims Qil Stock Holders ' Lose by Voiding of Lease To the Editor of The ta: H 1 have just read in The Sunda the articls of William Hard. every on mous oil eases, falls into some error He describes Mr. Dohenv yepaid to the Government m mil lions of dollars far oil taken from the Elk Hills reserve, and again speaks | of the millions Mr. Doheny will lose from having eonstructed for the Gov ernment the great oil storage tanks at Pear] Harbor. the everinteresting Mr. Hard, like aln else who discusses the fa | These ordinarily are used to light the | = gas range, in starting furnace fres |and in tobaceo smoking. | Modern people are =0 used to han | dling matches fhat they commonly | | never stop 10 think of the potentiality | for harm that is wrapped up in the innocent appearing slivers of wood Yet a match might fire an entire city Each household ought to keep its entire match supply in one place, pre. ferably in the Kitchen, in a jar or| The fact ix & off ek BTRETan other fireproof vessel. Matches car-| tioned milllons Mr. Dohenv (controll- vied (0 other parts of the house should | ing Pan-American Western) loses a | be returned to the jar if not used. | relatively small portion. That com Burned matches should not be care- | panv, of which Mr. Doheny owns | lessly discarded, thrown in N open | about 25 per cent of the stock, loses hucket or into the coal pile, a8 SOME | jags than $2,000,000. The F | persons are in the habit of doing; but | can Petroleum & Transpor cach match, after being lit, should he | which Mr. Doheny and his fa hroken in two, or placed in the fur-!gne time had as much as 27 per cent nace, or in a basin of water. of the stock,. paid the Government This may seem to much care, | 511000000 for the ofl taken from hut one only has to witness a really | jijlis reserve and for Interest on had home conflagration to realize that | value. A< Mr. Doheny sold his inter no amount of daily ecare fs too great | aop in this latter companv several to prevent such a holocanst, vears 0. he i= nat pavin one cent L] f the lose. It i« heing borne Thoughtless Keeping of matches, | ch'effy by about 16000 men. women wheth of the plain or sncalled and children scattered all over the safety” variety. in eoats hanging in| United States. A great mans closets is another possible souree of #rve widows and orphans; a great ma household fires. jority of the man are small husiness Another source of (he home fire js | Mmen, clerks, hankers or wage earners I'the gas heater in the basement. Too|These people had nothing whatever to | often this is turned on, then forgotten, | Ao with the contract made with the and only the good luck of the house- | (Government, and most of them never hold prevents a_bursting tank. | heard of it until the scandal was It Is amazing how many persons run | started for political purposes at a hot-water heating systems, for in-|much later date. stance, without ever really knowing| The Supreme Court canceled the whether the plant is steam or hot | leases and voided the contract on the water. | ground that the Government had no Another bit of carelessness I to| legal authority to make such contract. open the furnace draft at night and go|Of course, it was a question of the to hed with it still wide open. correct interpretation of laws. | Blectric irons. not turned off, may| The Supreme start fires. The whole subject of the | contract was illegal, the Pan-American electric wiring of » home in a modern |companies (divided into two parts since city is one that the householder must | the original contracts were made, of frust (o Giod and the electrical fnspec- | wh'eh Mr. Doheny retained the one tor. and particulaily to the builder. |known as “Wastern™) should pay for No amount of cara on the part of | the ofl which had heen turned over to the owner and occupant will do much | them in payment for their having good In the face of defeciive wiring |erecied tha storage tanks at Pearl ‘There ought to be but one standard Harbor. Then the Supreme Court of Wiring in a city—the hest. Short stated that it had no authority te order of thix, no home should he allowed to the Government to reimburse the Pan possess the hoon of electric servie American people for the great’ work * Ok kX they had erected at Pearl Harhor, All inflammable substances should #nd Suggested that they go to C(on | he Lept outside the house, it possible; | Kress for relief. Surely the Supreme or it within, under the constant and|('ourt in this language recognized the daily scrutiny of the householder. | right which the Pan American people | The handling of matches hy chil-| had-to this relief. | dren and their playing with the same| Be it remembered that the work at | Is something frowned upon hy the|Pearl Harbor was done under two | common consent of mankind, but too | contracts. The first storage units |often too little care is taken in this| Were completed long hefore the Elk {regard. so that parents are not In-| Hills reserve lease was even thought | formed. | of. The second construction was con | A fire in the city involves not only | nected with the lease. The cost of | the persons whose property catches, |this entire construction was, roughly. {but all too often the adjacent prop: | $12.000,000. There was no profit in it | erty, so that a fire is not ji one | for the Pan-American Co. They em | person’s business, but it is every one's | Ployed the | White Construction business, Co. to do the we Some European countries make a| Pany cash. The Navy Department | fire in a home an offense, punishable | had its checkers on the job all of the by fine and imprisonment. While this|time to see that it was a no-profit job. may seem a rather harsh after-climax | I believe this is the only time the to visit upon a man who perhaps has | Government has ever had a big con- lost his home, vet surely it serves to | tract done on that basis. bring home 1o every one the sense of | Several years ago. when M | personal responsibility and the realiza.| owned a fractio F | tion that fire, so good a friend when | the Pan-American * | within hounds. is a raging monster | 8tock), he sold that stock to a syndi- when unleashed, fully capable of turn.|cate made up of four members. The ing a home inta a hell on earth. | other half of the “A" stock and all of the “B" stock was in the hands of the public —men, women and children. | " There are nearly 3,000,000 of shares {in their hands, and if the Congress does not pay for the Pearl Harbor storage, with the oil placed there by the company, then they, and not Mr. Doheny, will lose about $12,000,000. The Navy is using the storage facili- ties, and has to use them. They con- stitute our first line of defense in case of anv aggression from the western side of the Pacific. No enemy fleet dare attack our Pacific Coast so long as an American fleet lies in Pearl | Harbor with that fuel supply at hand. | A few weeks ago the Pan-American Petroleum & Transport Co. paid the Government $11.000,000 for the oil taken from Elk Hills. Mr. Doheny’s Western company pald something over a million. About one-fourth of this last amount came from Mr. Doheny and his family, but none of the $11. 000,000 was his loss. As a result of that enormous cash payment, Pan- American’s 16,000 stockholders, scat- tered throughout the country, have had their annual dividend cut from $6 to $4. I am sure Mr. Hard will not think this is just punishment for their participation in fllegal contracts. Some of these sufferers have heen born since the contracts were made! 1 know a widow with three children whose husband left her 200 shares of this stock. It brought them $1.200 per vear, now reduced to $800. It is unthinkable that this great Govern ment could complacently make use of the Pearl Harbor storage at the ex- pense of 16,000 perfecily innocent atockholders. Mr. Doheny the sole individual connected with the ompany who was willing to make the contracts. H's own brother-in-law. Crampten Anderson, president of the California property At _that time, strenuously protested. The rest of the stockholders knew nothing about it WALLACE D. BASSFORD, B R S, of at | a | Doheny ) per cent of stock (voting ". COLLINS. years of a child’s training and it fears not the rest of the years. nday | schools operate upon that The Socialist propagandists recognize it, and boast that if they can convert the children of today to Socialism, the | adults of the next generation will give | them a Socialist government. TIn a catechism compiled by a patri- otic propagandist occurs this picture of the situation as the investigator | sees it | Question—"Do students understand the purely destructive nature of these Socialistic clubs?" (in schools and col- | leges). | Answer—“Not at all! Enrico Ferri, {an Italian Soclalist. once hoasted, ‘I |can make three-fourths of my class | Socialists without once pronouncing the v.ord *“Socialism.” * And when Com- {munist students start a new club | they often pose as liberals, or even | conservatives, choosing mainly unsus- pecting, genuine conservative students for their members and organizing largely under the guise of peace or of religion. Gradually, through skill- tully graded Socialistic hooks, pam- phlets, and, above all, through lec- turers who know how (o sway an au- dience emotionally, many students are {led to ridicule the old true values of |life and to glorify immorality, slack- | erism, atheism and revolution. | Question—*Are there specific exam- [ples of instigation against religion, | morality and patriotism in the Youth ' movement " Answer——"Yes! ‘Then, at cry that had heen waifing outbreak in “God fs dead! Accusation and longing all in one. became enemies of the church, ete. | The New Student, March 3, 1923, | . “Agaln: When a studenis fathe Denies Protestantism | wrote o the president of i < College (a high-standing college for Is Entering Dark Ages | 8lrls) protesting against an unhealthy | 1, e Editof of The Star: | Your briet notice of a haok, soon to and immoral book on sex being re. Anwer. CA0inE there, he received an |’ uplished, in which the editor of ver: students o e published, {n Whicl v that fundamentalism is triumphant, asis. | last. the 0 long to i many books the teaching of which it {would not think of indorsing.’ “Reviswing the various moyements | With the consequence that Protestant’ We find. organi | ism enters the Dark Ages, calls for a satlons striving o influence the youth | Showdown of facts. in thelr attitude toward military train- | ,, Thos¢ Who are in clote touch with ing. toward nationalism, toward the|the clergy of today know that the; race question, toward a world church. | ¢lash between what has heen dubbed | unity idealism, toward the sex ques.| fundamentalism and modernism has | tion. In this' great industria) Stats |ahout worn itself out, but with no de- | A movement of paramount significance | ided victory for either school of inter- to the future industry of Ohin is the Prétation. Sane men of both sides| activity known as the ‘Studant i In have long since seen that the conflict ldustry’ movement." | was over terms and supposed beliefs i | rather than over essential differences. TR | If, instead of using either the term | The secretary of the Washington | ‘fundamentalism” or ‘“modernism.” Chapter of the American Association | ther could be used some such word for “the Advancement of Atheism |3 'essentialism,” the great majority writes an open letter to the Daugh. |©f 0Ur Protestant clergymen would ad- t mit that they meant nothing more |among young peopl: | n-Amerl- | of them | ‘ourt held that, as the | k and paid that com- | | nism, boring from within, is disturbing | | England more seriously than the out- | ;ers of the American Revolution, say- ng: I hereby denounce the efforts of your organization to force Bible read- ing in the public schools. It is an anachronism of the twentieth century that supposedly intelligent women should engage in attempts to pump silly, stupid and obsolete superstitions into the brains of the children of the United States. Why don't you try to |teach facts instead of foolishne: |seience instead of theology?" The above scraps of references indi- cate some of the problems now faced by the American public schools and colleges and by all parents of students Not all problems are Euro- pean. (Consright. 1927, by Paul V. Colling.) ——oe New Soungs. ! Prom tha New York Post. ‘While we have made great progress during the present century in the building of bridges, the erection of skyscrapers and the development of uirplanes, philosophic students con- tend that we have fallen off sadly in the writing of songs. Few will dis- pute the contention. The great war did not produce nearly so many as the Civil War, Very little of the poetry written during that world-wide con- flict has been virile enough to outlast the hostilitie: For the purpose of “stimulatin, e writing of songs be- fore the veteran numbers are done to death,” a Philadelphia musician h: offered a money prize for the hest on written today. The early responses in dicate that Posts atill flourish in the than this by the stand they took. The more conservative students of the Bible ask no more than that the essentials of the Bible stand undisturbed, and the rank and file of so-called “modern- ists” mean no more than that a strained literalism he surrendered for the essential meaning of the Scrip- tures. But the editor of the Christian R ister speaks of something very unlike popular modernism when he says that | school of interpretation has gone down | In defeat. When modernism takes the form of something more radical than ven high-class paganism. there sho-d | {be no surprise over the defeat of this | as the accepted interpretation of the Bible. Protestantism is not entering the Dark Ages, but is emerging from an interpretation of the RBible which could not be reconciled with reason, | science, archeology or philology. The editor of the Christian Reglster does not speak for Protestantism. He only speaks for a very radical and small section of it J. 0. KNOTT. land, mostly in the Midwest. While the contest doesn’t close until December 1, the first mail brought the judges 165 songs. The subjects chosen show the trend of American poetical thought. More than 31 per cent were devoted to unrequited love, 22 per cent to flowers and 13 per cent to home and mother. There were eight lullabies, seven sea songs, seven humorous poems and one drinking song. ‘The twe subjects which interest the publie most at the moment—prohibition and avia‘ion. | human bodily and mental capabilities, ANSWERS TO QUESTIONS RY FREDERIC J. HASKIN 0. When was fhe tobacco brought to England’—W. O. N A. The introduction of the tobacen nipe into England is ascribed to Ralph | Lane. first Governor of Virginia. who | in 158 hrought an Indian pipe to Sir Walter Raleigh. Q. What organization does “Q. B.” stand for’—R. R. { The letters “Q. B." stand for the | aviation fraternity called the Quiet| | Birdmen, Richard Blythe is the pres- ident of this organization, and may be addressed at 220 West Forty-second street, New York City. In order to, | become a member it is necessary for | | the applicant to be a licensed pilot and | to be voted on by five Quiet Birdmen. | pipe, Q What was the maiden name of | the princess who met her death in a| nsatlantic flight? L. C. K. A. Princess Ludwix Towenstein Wertheim was the Lady Ann Savile, daughter of the fourth Farl of Mex., borough. She married a German prince, 1 | | i | Q. What o v mada of? - P. L. Mt A. Meerschanm is aleo the name of the clay from which meerschaum pipes are made. In mineralogy meer- | m is called sepiolife. The mate- | rial comes chisflv from Asia Minor. Q. How large a fish can a whale! swallow?— W, (" | A. The throat of the giant sperm | whale iz said to be large enough for he passage of an object about |the e of a man's waist. The food consists largely of | cutttefish, but fishes not larger than | the bonito and the albicore are found in its stomach. The sperm whale is | the oniy large whale which feeds upon fish. The hlue whale, the largest ani- mal alive today, reaching a length in| excese of &0 feet, with a mouth 30| large ibat 10 to 12 men could stand herein has “ throat ahout R inches in diamater. rachaum pipes | 0. What eity is now the capital of Anstralia?—B. . A. Canherra is the official capital of Australia, although government offices have not as vet bheen entirelv trans ferved 1o the new district. The par- liamentary huildings were opened in the Spring of 1527 hy the Duke and Duchess of York Q. Where is the Long Trail in New England?—E. 8. A. The Long Trail is a mountain | 1 that extends from north to south over the backbone of the Green Moun- | tain ridge, stretching throughout Ver- mont from the Massachusetts line to the (anadian border. This has been | under construction since 1910, and was just completed at its mortherly end this Fall It has shelters at frequent intervals, and is proving very popular wit hikers. | I Q. How many soldiers were hidden in the wooden horse at Troy J. D. A. According to the notes on the “Iliad” of Homer, the wooden horse of Troy was built by Epejus of Paneopus at the suggestion of the goddess Athene, and was capable of containing 100 men. Among the hundred were such noted memhers of the Grecian army #s Neopotolemus, Odvsseus and Menelaus. | Q | odor | | Do snakes have a detectable A. S. The Biological Survey sayvs that some srakes have. This is stronger in some species than in others. Ie is most noticeable in the garter snake. Q. How is the money coined by the mints dividled among the banks?— P. I l A. Money coined by the three mints is held until an order from the Ti ! urer ¢f the United States is received This order for distribution {s governag 2v the need of the hanks for money, Upon the order of the treasurer, the monev is distributed among the Fed. ral Reserve Bank centers, which ix urn redistribute the money to other banks. Q. What ix the aircraft strength of the Army and Navy?—A. B. C. A. As of 1926, it is as follows: Army—T714 aircraft, actually in com mission. exelusive of school and train. ing in service; no aircraft in reserve, Navv—212 aircraft, actually in come mission, exclusive of school and train- ing in service; 126 aircraft in reserve, r % How old ‘is London Bridge’— A. The first stone bridge at the point where the present London Bridge stands was completed in 1209, The present structure was opened after rebuilding in 1831, Q T have heard my father nse the expression “Wake me up when Kirhy dies.” Can vou tell me anything of ts meaning” -F. M. F. A. In 1846 or 1847 an old actors named Kirby was a great favorite at the famous Chatham Theater, on tha Bowery, in New York Citv. He was strone on melodrama. and was noted for the pathetic and convincing man- ner in which he could enact a death scene Once during a particulariy dull play a small hoy in the gallery, hecoming bored, said in audible tones to his companion, “Wake me up when Kirby dfes.” There was an immediate uproar, and the curtain was rung down. From then on for many years this expression was used as a by-word along the Bowery. Q. What s the best season to visit Honclulu?—T. W. A. Thers is I'tile choice. a5t temperature in 1925 tha lowest 62, The high. was 86 and Q. 1= the count alwavs 10 when a fighter is knocked out of the ring? - E L P. A. In most States tha eount in 10, | However, the Boxing Commission nf California allows a count of 20 for a hoxc: te get hack int the ring Q en is the Week of Praver which observed by Protestant churches?—E. A, 1. A. The Universal Week of Praver, sponsored by the Federal Council of | the Churches of Christ in America {ani the World's Evangelical Alliance of Great Britain, will be the first week of the new year, Sunday, January 1, to Saturday, January 17, inclusive. w O How can newspapers be served in libraries?—H. R. R. A. The paper upon which modern | newsp-apers are printed becomes brittle | when exposed to air for a long timb. | Some libraries have solved the proi- lem of preserving newspaper fiies by mounting each sheet between two sheets of thin Japanese tissue. This seals thg paper from the air, reducing its legibility but slightly and strength- ening the page. Government slatistics bring out the fact that the wneducated man has only one chance in 800 fo attain | distinction. There is vo reason why any one should live under such a han- | dicap in these days of [ree schools and free information. This paper supports in Washington. D. C.. the largest free information bureaw in eristence. It | will procure for you the answer to any question_you may ask. Avail your- seif of its facilities for your self-im- provement. Inclose n 2-cent stamp for return postage. Address The Eve- i ning Star Information Bureau, Fred- \evie J. Haskin, director, Washington, pre- i | | | | A A Arbitrary Age Limit for Workers Attacked by Many as Unfounded Tha recent pronouncement by Will Durant, author of the “Story of Philosophy.” to the effect that a man’s life work is completed at 35, meets from favorable reception While some com- mentators feel that Durant's ve- like Dr. Osler's some years ago. are perhaps intended to be taken with a grain of humor, they never- theless offer an array of testimony for the defense of slandered middle age. “If the Durant rule had been ap- plied in the past.” it is pointed out by the San Francisco Bulletin, “the world would not have had many of its great masterpieces of art, liter- ature and the drama, and might have heen deprived of some of the greates achievements in the sciences. Durant could certainly have made a mere pamphlet of his story of philosophy.” The Bullstin quotes Walter Johnson's statement that “‘one’s hody may he on the down grade after |35 or 40, but one’s brain should be on ths upgrade. Some of our great- est men have not reached their zenith till fir the sixties and seventies.” “Meanwhile,” remarks the New Or- leans Item-Tribune, “Dr. Dorland, = | noted surgeon of Chicago, finds that men of intellect reach their highest accomplishments long after 40, often heyond 50. and hold their highest levels far beyond 60. He bases the conclusion on the study of 400 fa- mous lives of our own time. Men died younger in past times th they do now, and wore out faster than they do now before reaching tha stepping-off place.” Of the position taken by Mr. Durant that paper sav “When he fails to accept the self- evident truth manifested in natural | phenomena, we hardly know what ' to do with him.” * o % The Hartford Times quotes the fig. ures supplied by Dr. Dorland as to| averaga productibn peaks for various | occupations as follows: Chemists and physicists, 41: dramatists, poets and inventors, 44; novelists, 46; explorers i | | with a far from the press. |and soldiers,” 47; musical composers | Sty and actors, 48; artists and preachers, | 50; essayists and reformers, 51; ph: sicians, statesmen and surgeons, 5 philosophers, 54; astronomers, mathe- maticians and humorists, 56; histo- rians, 57; naturalists and judges, 38. The Times adds: “With respect to humble hewers of wood and drawers of water in the vast hall of common workaday livelihood, what the statis- tics may reveal is an inquiry which many cun wish Dr. Dorland or others |cidentally the 1 cen: emplovment ratio of 37.2 per cent for men between 25 and 45 vears of age, and a ratio of 93.8 per cent for men he- tween 45 and 64 vea The difference of something like per cent is not big_enough to support the theory of modern economisis who would send the worker to the scrap after his first youth is gone.” i * Kk ¥ | “Our past-80 Oliver Wendeil | Holmes.” suggests the Oklahoma ity {Oklahoman, “is the brightest jewel of the Supreme bench, past-80 Hin- denburg is saving an empire from the wreckage of war, Clemenceau, at 37, still is breathing out threatenings and slaughter, while Hardy, at 87, is wri ing purer poetry than he wrote at 23. And the Pasadena “Star- “Truth is. the age of men is dete mined more by their epirit and their mental attitudes than hy their vears, Some men are vounger in spirit, in mind, in ambition and in vision at 70 than some others at 40. Aze is no bar to useful and successful activities, if one keeps in health of body and mind, and if one keeps up with - the times, and faces life and its problems with the zest of youth. There are fine souls who never grow old. even though their years may multiply to 70, 80 and even 90." “It is not the number of times the earth has traveled about the sun that determines when a man has reached the zenitn of ability,” according to the Ann Arbor Times-News. “More important is the question of how he has lived while those journeys were being made. Age, according to the calendar, really means very little, In fact, a itself may be something of an il n."” The Columbia State offers the com- ment: “When the Hebrew minor proph- L Joel wrote the lovely saying that shows an | Dryden hammered into an heroic line “‘Your old men shall dream drean our young men shall see visions' —he was probably--we haven't the Hebrew text hefore us—irving to round out what is known as a Hebrew ‘parallel ism." saving one thing in two ways, han two things in a kind of formula. He was saying that every- body, with due illumination, would dream dreams and see visions, as Joh dreamed and saw them in the dead watches of the night. Neither old nor young has a monopoly of dream and vision.” UNITED STATES of scholarly mind may soon addrese. | Meanwhile, the ancient motto, ‘Keep | plugging.’ is sufe and sane and worthy to be engraved upon the national| currency along with ‘In God We Trust: ** | “An arbitrary age limit.” in the opinion of the Topeka Daily Capital, | runs against the opinion of - | ogists and scientists familiar with | and the enforcement of such an ar- bitrary judgment must have an unfor- tunate repercussion upon the question of even iInternational rclations, in the matter, for example, of immigration restriction. 1f labor is shut off at the ports of admission to this country and at the same time is restricted by age limitation not corresponding to scientific facts as to capacity for the job, the employment problem will not be simplified but aggravated.” The Capital quotes the physiologist to the effect that ‘“the average span of life in the last generation has been ex- tended from 35 to 66 years.” “According to the 1910 census,” a gues the New York Times, “the men over 45 engaged in gainful occupations constituted 85.9 per cent of all men in that age class. In the 1920 census the proportion was 87 per cent. Em. — "ployment. opportunities for the - | v failed tp find any poetical interpreters. aged are w:ncntly ine-maln‘rf““ll:- ‘;e‘ge“"r & . IN WORLD WAR Ten Years Ago Today Provost Marshal Crowder announces a new system of classifving drafted men—five classes, running from those who have no dependents down 1o these who are physically or otherwise in. capacitated for active service, * * * United States informed through official channels that Germany has so far wrung_about $1.600,000.000 in cash from Belgium. Deportations of Bel #lans to work in Germany and looting of Belgian industry continue. * > Liberty Loan drive near two-billion mark on eve of final week. New sub- scriptions must average over 500,000.- 000 a day to reach the five-billion goal set. * * President implored to re- lease .Dutch shipping on ground that Holland is not feeding Germany. Present economic conditions in Hol-, land are bad and nation’s need of relfel is acute. * * ¢ Sweeping order issued that supplies of sugar to candy manu- facturers, ete., must be curtailed. if not entirely stopped, until Cuban sugar is available in January. * * ¢ French airmen and aircraft guns bring down five and possibly seven giant Zeppeline _on their return from air England in which 37 persons