Evening Star Newspaper, October 29, 1927, Page 6

6 THE EVENING STAR With Sunday Morning Edition. WASHINGTON, D. C. BATURDAY.....October 20, 1827 THEODORE W. NOYES....Editor \'The Evening Star Newspaper Company Business Office: 11th St. and Penneylvanta Ave. New York Office: 110" Fast 32nd St Chicago Office: Tower Builiin. European Office’ 14 ot St.. London England, v The Evening Star with the Sunday morn- | 14ng edition is delivered by carriers within fihe city at 60 cents per month: daily only. | 45 cents per month: Sundays only. 20 cents | + ‘month o o fent 1y mail o lephotie Main 3000, Collection is made by rrier at end of wach month. Rate by Mail—Payable in Advance. Maryland and Virginia. 1y, $9.0 1vr. 8600: 1 mo only. % 3 1 vr$300: 1 mo \Sundav only’. All Other States and Canada. \v and Sunday.1vr. $1200:1mo. $100 | v only 1vrs %2001 mo 5 nday oniy. 1yr. $400°1 mo. Member of the Associated Press. The Associated Pre: titied | 10 the ‘usa for epublic: dis- jatehes credited to'it or not o e s Epilishen e 10f special disnatehe: af vnblication < harein are aleo roserved The Power of the Progressives. T of the Republican aCe he Senate in the com- ing Congress is obvious. With the Re- publican and Democratic strength divided almot equally, a group of Progressive Republican Senators can, by the simple expedient of joining with the Democrats, block legislation urged by the administration and the majority party, or it can, by the same .expedient, put through bills which are opposed by the administration. Obstructive tactics are rarely popu- lar in this count The American people like to see things done. If they ere not done, they blame the men in public life who prevent action. In the Sixty-eighth Congress the Repub- lican Progressives, joining with the .Democrats, played hob with adminis- tration measures. It is not on record, however, that either the Progressives or the Democrats gained in popular estimation thereby. In the national election of 1924, the Progressives, under the leadership of the late Sena- tor La Follette of Wisconsin, carried one State, Wisconsin, and the Demo- crats, with John W. Davis at their head, carried the “solid South” and one or two other States. The Progressives in the Senate, however, have an opportunity at the coming session of Congress to aid and to play an important part in really constructive legislative work. Farm relief, better termed farm aid, 1§ com- ing .prominently before the Congress. If it ean be tackled with a real de- sire to aid the farmers and not merely for political purposes, so much the better. Flood prevention in the Mississippi Valley presses strongly for action. Development of water péwer, especially at Muscle Shoals, a_definite program for the American overseas merchant marine and the Navy pro- gram all need the most earnest at- tention. Progressive Republicans who have the interest of the country at heart will deal honestly with these legislative problems. Legislation at best is usually reached through com- promise, not of principle, but of method. ¢ It is when political animosities dom- inate that reason and justice in the ‘halls of Congress depart. In the ' United States, the will of the majority is supposed to be supreme. Minori- ties have their rights and they are carefully guarded in the rules of the Senate. But when the tail undertakes to wag the dog, it produces no little irritation in this country. ‘The course of the Progressive group in the Senate will be watched. It can “hse its power well or foolishly. It Tray be expected to fight for Progres- sive measures and it is its right to do ®0. But if it undertakes to block measures of merit desired by a ma- jority, it will do much to discredit itself. : power —_—ee It is estimated that there is one automobile for every six persons. Sta- tistics have not yet touched on the number of ambulances and profes- | sional nurses required. LT Hydra-Headed Indianapolis. Legal and political chaos prevails In Indianapolis, as a result of the re- cent conviction of Mayor Duvall of malfeasance in office. Upon the find- Ing of the jury that he had been guilt of impropriety in connection with the making of certain appointments, he ,was pronounced ineligible to hold the mayoralty. He at first resisted this contention. and then named his wife leity controller, from which office she ,would succeed to the mayoralty if it 'were to become vacant through his ouster or resignation. This act caused a vehement protest, with references to the celebrated case of the Ferguson | family in Texas. After a brief lapse of time things happened with swiftness and confusing results. Mayor Duvall resigned. His wife succeeded him, in her capacity as controller. She named Ira M. Holmes, an attorney, as con- troller. Then she, too, resigned as mayor, and Holmes assumed the office thus vacated. This caused a furore of protest, as it was recognized as a device to continue the Duvall regime in power. The city council met in spe- {cial session and elected Claude E. Negley, its president, as mayor. When he went to the city hall he found Holmes in possession, but in a polite | mood. Holmes allowed Negley to sit alongside of him at the mayor's big desk, and the two men went through the motions of administering the af- fairs of the Hoosler metropolis. They named different people to fill the same | offices and issued contrary orders to subordinates, all in the best of humor and with a finesse of consideration. Meanwhile two other claimants for the mayoralty bobbed up, Joseph L. Hague, who declared that inasmuch as he had served as city controller in the preceding administration he was entitled to the office, and Walter Meyers, who was Duvall's Democratic opponent in the 1925 election. Just how these two can possibly sustain their claims is somewhat of a mystery, but the addition of two more potential nayors does not appear to have both- cred thefIndianapolitans, who are by this time accustomed to confusion in!fifty dollars in a private settlement 'y, trants in the mayoralty race, at least, did not try to find places at the execu- tive desk at the city hall, already somewhat crowded. A way out of the difficulty has been proposed. It is nmow suggested that the matter be left to the judicial bench of Marion County, the nine judges to choose a mayor who shall serve until an election can be held. Meanwhile all sorts of quo warranto proceedings have been stamed, certain to give the court plenty of work. The situation must, of course, be quickly relieved, for it is inconceivable that so |large a city as Indianapolis can run along under two helmsmen without disaster. A factor of interest lies in the decision of the chief of police that hie will obey the orders of Negley, the nominee of the city council. That would seem to give him the edge on the situation, pending some action by the court. Altogether a pretty spectacle of American competence in self-govern- ment. It should be speedily corrected. T N Disorder on the Mafalda. While the early reports of the Ste: ship Mafalda disaster marked m it as | exceptional in the excellent order that prevailed on the stricken ship and she foundered after an explosion, later accounts of the accident depict it as a scene of horror and needless losse: Statements by survivors of the Ma- falda’s company, made upon arrival on the rescue ships at Rio, are wholly at variance with those first reports. They tell of drunken sailors who looted pas- sengers and seized the lifeboats. In- stead of the calm order that was at first descrive. a scene of the utmost confusion followed the first blasts of the ship’s siren summoning all hands on deck. It will be impossible to know just what happened on the Mafalda until after the case has been examined by authorities. Even then, perhaps, there will remain befogging doubt as to the sequence of events. It will be remem- bered that after the Titanic_disaster a Congressional inquiry was conduct- ed in this city and confusion ensued. Charges of improper conduct on the part of the ship’s officers and even a representative of the owning company, who was on board, were brought and were examined at length. The result was only further obscuration of the story. Everybody had some differing version of the tale to tell. Nobody, it would seem, was in position or mood to know the whole truth of the case. A modern passenger liner is a com- plicated machine, of large extent. It is impossible for any one person to know what is happening in all parts of the vessel. In the event of a disastrous mishap, such as a collision or an ex- plosion or a fire, even the officers of the ship are in many cases incapable of grasping the exact situation. If per- fect discipline prevails on the part of both erew and passengers the pro- cedure of leaving ship by means of boats can be carried out smoothly and efficiently. But despite drills and rules and the most rigid control tempera- mental outbursts are likely to occur. In a ship’s company of ten or twelve hundred it is certain that without the most severe restraint there will be some who will break bounds, seize the chance for loot, or, losing their heads, rush for safety without regard to orders, It was that fact of the difficulty of preserving order on a stricken ship that made the first reports of the Ma- falda disaster, which depicted a scene of calm and well-ordered rescue, to cause the catastrophe to stand out markedly. Now it seems to have been unfor- tunately of another character. If the tales told by survivors, of drunken- ness and disorder, of unskilled boat launching, of the collapse of discipline, it will serve rather as a deplorable example of the perils of the sea through human incompetence. ————— Italy has no regard for Paris fash- ions and may yet succeed in making the black shirt more popular than the Navajo sweater. ——————— Realtors are utilizing poetry in their publicity. “There’s no place like home” was written too soon to enroll its author as a successful ad writer. R Print is importantly useful. And yet a navy composed entirely ‘of maga- zine editors might not be satisfactory, R — Public Hack Indemnity. Corporation Counsel Bride has ruled that the Public Utilities Commission has sufticient regulatory power to re- quire owners and operators of vehicles for hire to furnish indemnity against possible injuries and deaths to per- sons riding in public hacks and dam- ages to property caused by the operation of such vehicles. This ma ter has been brought up before in the District and was successfully chal- lenged by a hacker who claimed that his vehicle was not a common carrier, but operated as a livery service. In spite of this, however, Mr. Bride be- lieves that ample authority is vested in the Public Utilities Commission for a strict enforcement of an indemnity rule. . There can be no question but that every motorist operating on the streets should have financial responsibility for damage he may cause. As far as taxicabs are concerned it is obvious that the desirability of insurance ap- plies even with more force as they are public carriers engaged in trans- porting passengers for hire, A recent e will serve to illustrate this point. A Washington woman engaged a taxi- cab in the early morning to take her to her place of employment. She was the sole support of her family. The driver of the cab had evidently im- bibed of something stronger than water, and started off at a reckless pace. The woman urged him unsuc- cessfully to decrease his speed, hut it was only when he was in lision with another car that the cab was brought to an involuntary stop. The woman was badly injured and was confined to a hospital for some months. When she sued the owner of the company he demonstrated to her lawyer that he had only a small equity in his fleet of taxicabs and that a judgment would avail her practically nothing. She pressed her suit, how- ever, and was able to collect the munificent sum of one hundred and the small number of pegsons lost when | THE EVENING some ten or twelve postponements covering more than a year. It was a pitifully small amount to recover con- sidering the sufferings endured. It is to be hoped, therefore, that the ruling of Mr. Bride will stand up under court tests. The public is en titled to a safe, sane and responsible transportation and the first tryout of | the corporation counsel's decision will ilm awaited with Interest. ————— | The Vertically Rising Plane. | An important announcement comes | from the experimental laboratory of [the Curtiss Airplane Co. that a m | chine capable of making a perpendicu- {lar flight has just met successful wind tunnel tests. On the basis of these experiments it is now planned to pro- duce a standard plane of a new and revolutionary type, capable, it is ex | pected, of rising verti {of 1,000 feet a minute. This machine, it 13 explained, will have three win rotating as a speed of from 120 to 135 revolutions a minute. It has long been recognized that | the airplane of the standard type pro- pelled horizontally by its driving pow er and ascending by the deflection of |vanes is serfously limited in its | plicability. For rising or for it must have a wide are wsed a la to seek Ianding This fact e number of inven- vertically rising ma- rocopters and helicopters | have been devised which have | measure of success, but whi not reached the point of practical de- velopment. Should the gap between the standard plane and the helicopter now be bridged by this new device, the art of flying will be revolutionized. It will be possible to send planes up from a limited area and to bring them {down within a restricted space. Great airports will not be required for take- off and landing purposes. The air mail services can be conducted from the roofs of postal stations, Passen- ger plane service can be maintained from the center of cities. of aviation cquipment is sure to be greatly decreased. Of course, there is one primary con- sideration to be borne in mind—that of safety. The vertically rising and descending machine must be as de- pendable as the present standard plane. It must be as stout in stress |0t weather, as certain of functioning throughout its flight. 1t is announced that it will be a year before the new type plane is ready for use. If it meets the essential requirerfents and comes up to present expectations it will have solved the greatest prob- tem of human flight now remaining. e When President Coolidge said “I do not choose” he made a very simple form of speech conspicuous in public thought. The slight phrase has oc- cupied almost as much popular atten- tion as thé cross-word puzzle. Fo ek TS Washington, D, C., is a big town now. Only a very modest statesman advocates holding official salaries down to an ancient level that makes it im- possible to meet modern hotel bills. o Gardening is a fad with Lloyd George. The personal enthusiasm has as yet produced nothing tangible in the way of farm relief, R Courts and juries are pretty agreed on one point: A lady who her husband is “no lad: ———— A “hop-off” is no longer regarded as successful unless it can guarantee a “come-back.” - SHOOTING STARS. a 1d some. BY PHILANDER JOHNSON, Delusions of Grandeur. Most of us have a manner of assuming that we are Superior to' our station, by a distance very far. Be gentle with your fellow man, as far as you can go. It's always wise to humor him who tries to give the show. So, it's “Hello, Alexander!” As we cross him on the street, And “Napoleon—Ilet's meander To some sociable retreat!” We let our wandering fancies roam at egotistic ease. Each man who quarrels with friend ‘wife thinks he's a Socrates. And every one who is engaged on superficial strife Thinks he’'s a Julius Caesar, with a mission great in life, 8o, it's “Howdy, King!” when greet- ing The gay figure that you cut— Though we suspect we're meeting Only just another “nut.” Active Influence. “Do you remember the words George Washington?” “Well,” answered Senator Sor- ghum. “But out my way George doesn't seem to assert as much po- litical influence as a good, live spell- bindeg.” of Sleeplessness. Tom Edison! On you we call In an insomniae plight, Since your inventions teach us all To stay awake by night! Jud Tunkins says troubles never come singly and pick out the home where folks would rather be worried than lonesome. Sporting Uncertainties. do you know about race “Nothing whatever,” sald Mr. Chug- gins. “Give me my old fliv. It never pays big odds, but I know exactly what it is going to cost me when I pull up to a filling station.” “To hope for the best,” said Hi Ho, the sage of Chinatown, “is useless without honest fortitude in guarding against the worst. Taking What Comes. The mocking bird has hid away. The cricket has a merry lay. It we can't have the classic song, With jazz we'll have to get along. “A cheater,” sald Uncle Eben, “has no friends except folks dat imagines dey kin cheat better dan he does.” ————. Looks Good Anywhere. From the Boston Herald. Another pretty sight under the moon a big New England mill with a ousand windows, all lighted from PO ally at the rate | ap- | h have | ot | The cost | STAR, WASHINGTON, Kknow some say tnem. once 1 have thought so, 1 couldn’t help but vour realistic descript attending the deli very spirit cou hav your pen, so pa el 4 to your printed “Dear Sir swear words more than them: cven snicker at nent the ne f mill. My en directing my suffering Though I but don't write a_ much twin-hrother can- ean't needed word I nuisance, the vou agalnst a houseylo-house 4 What woman uld say she ( all these plaints, wo The bal is teethin; | clally fractions to hut afte hard battle has been settled for afternoon nap. A sudden rap on the knocker makes the mother say £ 1 keep quiet, mavhe they But not thi: Ny, or she, gives nothe The baby sti fro all but wakes. Torn between es out the window, What plea o risking another rap, noise Hling the new multiple n is enacied at the ind 's nap is off, till s other has expe d withont i espe e ke has just reached whorn one moment” I neslect will eause, a confiscation, in- | stead of a eveation. Enough clitter has been going on in the kitchen that, not satisfied with ment at the front d b heaving the attack from the 1 in at the kitchen door and in with audible sniffs, he endeave make himself solid with some happy remar such as ‘There are still a few old-fashioned women left who can make cake better than mother ever made it.’ fy water has been drawn for a shampoo and T am about to lower my head into the basin. A rap on door, a hastily donned dust cap to hide ‘my disheveled locks and instead the friend expected the ice-making machine there. A cold blast of in on me in my thin house dr makes me think less of ice than ar thing he might mention. After suring him I'm the lady of the house (my dust eap giggled—I heard it) 1 fidget first on one foot, then on the other, Incautiously, I say I prefer a rival machine, hoping to discourage his_eloquence—'tis only grist to the mill. He tears that rival machine apart in front of m) s me what an awful dumb:| am pre- ferring any machine other than own, my dislike for his methods mounting with each word. And the next day, when I'm just plain tired and want to sleep, even if it is in the daytime, the phone rings and my ice machine friend is telling me some of the things he told me y day, plus many more he thought of before. Why isn't there a heavy penalty against soliciting over the phone or at one's house— same ‘as against a stick-up man any where? I thank you! A, LB * Kk ok ok The house-to-house canvasser, who seems to have bheen an the increase in Washington during the past five vears, is at once a nuisance and bore. Prosperity has brought him forth in flocks. Usually he is a neat- appearing young gentleman who trying to sell a product he probably never heard of before this morning. He is spurred on by fabulous tales of one Jones, who “went into that neighborhood yesterday and made $100 in 100 minute one has to do is to go into a neigh- borhood of the well-to-do middle cl and begin to ring doorbells. After that the sales take care of themselves! Further requisites, however, which one's e the vital point Alesmen i THIS AND THAT BY CHARLES E. TRACEWELL. without a | his | | who are forced to put up with such ay, month in | the I | mutin D. C, most of the salesmen seem never to have heard of, are as follows: One must be sold on the article him r hefore he can put up a convine plea in its hehalf; the article must b something that the person solicited genuinely wants; the Her must be a uine salesman at h t here too many br men tlc around on doorsteps who were not cut out to be s wn, To such n man salesmanship 18 the most disheartening game in the world, and most such misplaced persons shortly ot out of the busines but not 1 hey have suceecded in horing I neighborhoods — to veral of distraction. The letter printed above vividly de the annovance caused by and that it is trne ail the present writer o 8 v, for he onee s 1 home in an attempt to do his work, and answering at least Ao the doorbell, from men pining to_sell waching machin zave it up as downtowr where little peace and quict. ht your picts A salesman who comes into a neigh- horhood often wonders why he cannot coll his product, hut ke would not wonder a second if he could have seen the 1 left hy the 11 other ean vassers who preceded him. That he gets treated as courteously he does speaks well for the patience and kindliness of innumerable women importuning day after and month out. The “lady of the house” mot on faces the old discourtesy of the sa man's foot thrust into the door when SATURDAY, OCTOBER 29, the | in | he | 1t this time | blowing | | the ar | swittly cl il it is opened, but also is subjected to a barra low is t all_opposition. g im, therefore, is simpl ing time, not only the honseholder's but the salesman’s time if one is honestly not interested cle or for any reason wh does not care to purchase. a canvasser will continue to against opposition when he on to a home where his article really is desired is only to be accounted for by the aforemen- tioned fables of how “‘Jones made $100 in an hour,” ete. * kX Xk X The writer is convinced that most ladies are much too polite for their own good. Instead of wasting thei time over house-to-house canv ¢ should lean out of the second- v window and declare: I have studied salesmanship my- self and it won't get you anything here. Bang! Then shut the window down. Probably a better and certainly shorter way would be to simply state, “I don't want it,” and close the door firmly, especially if the salesman has his foot in it. Perhaps an even better method would be to look severely at the fellow, then the ‘door on his foot or otherwise, preferably on the former. This non-huying policy by house- holders would shortly end the house- to-house canvasser, and it is about the only method that will end his er, because so long as he simply akes orders he is not required to even take out a license. If he makes delivery of his article he must have a license, but the man who simply takes orders, as most of them do, is not regarded as a peddler. Mag: lesmen and those soliciting in the name of charity must have licenses, but such a license costs nothing and means nothing, since practically any one can secure one upon application. t soever Why argue might go Only a dictator or a congressional filibusterer, in the opinion of facetious- minded American observers, could get away with a 400.000-word speech such as Mustapha- Kemal Pasha inflicted upon his Turkish Parliament at Angora recently, Calling the performance “an endur- ance test for himself and the Turkish people,” the Des Moines Tribune- Capital remarks that “clearly the Turks have more sturdiness than many have been inclined to believe. However, somebody ought to tell Kemal about the two speeches made at Gettysburg—one by Everett and one by Lincoln, the long one forgotten, the short one immortal.” The New Bedford Standard wonders where Kemal got his idea. and concludes that if he got it from the United States Senate “he must have been misin- formed as to the attention paid to such senatorial oratory.” Kemal,” says the Buffalo Evening New ‘may be, for all intents and purposes, a dictator who can get- the Assembly at Angora to put through any type of legislation he desires; he miy have the affection and esteem of all ‘the people of his land who remem- ber his notable services in the cause of Turkish freedom, but if he expects the peasants of Anatolia to sit by their loud eakers continuously while he reads his voluminous manuscript, he is sadly mistaken. They might suffer an hour of it, provided nothin se was on the air. But eight day of it, not hy the beard of the prophet!” The Kalamazoo Gazette suggests that “since Kemal's chief purpose has been to acquaint the masses with his record and his program for the future, one might think that a series of pam. phlets, written in popular style and circulated in all corners of the Turk- ish nation, might have accomplished the end more effectively. Yet Kemal is entitled to his own ideas of mass education and inspiration. Even if his lengthy addre to achieve its purpose, it will at be an im- portant contribution to the post-war records of Europe.” The view that “Kemal's speech is a venture that is not likely to be re- peated elsewhere” s heid by the Christian Sclence Monitor, which is convinced that “the long speech gen- erally has been consigned to the dis- card pro bono publico. But in Turkey it is tolerated,” the Monitor adds. “The people have been taught to sub- mit to authority. Kemal has strength- ened his grip upon the republic, and his is, perhaps, the most autocratic regime in Europe. His Parliament is unique. It consists of one par has no opposition. His rule lute, and the people submit to it ap- parently without murmur.” * K Kk % The Indianapolis Star feels that the only danger from this venture is the reaction which might possibly set in elsewhere. ‘“‘Some veteran knights of the filibuster,” thg Star fears, “‘may regard Kemal's feat as a challenge to America’s oratorical durabilit The humble taxpayer, meanwhile, may well contemplate with dismay the ef- fect on the Congressional Record. Seriously, the Louisville Couri Journal recites the great changes that have been wrought hy the Turkish leader, and argues: ‘‘In modern time: there has been no more complete revo- lution. It may be only superficial. The country and the people may not be ready for ‘Westernization,’ but President Kemal has a record of per- formance that warrants his extended oratorical effort. ‘The Providence Journal observes that “at any rate, the Anatolian sheep- herders and farmers are taking their histery stranght from the man who recent years has made most of it. * * ® Rven if the value of 400,000 word historical addresses may be ques- Kemal’s Marathon Address Amuses Facetious Editors Mustapha Kemal history of Turkey | will be challenged by many who have the patience to go through the seven days of listening.” A feature pointed out by the Water- town ‘?Ill v Times is that “under the old regime, the Sultan didn't care two straws whether his subjects knew what was going on or whether they didn’t. As a matter of fact, he be- lieved that it was not well for his sub. Jects to know toe much. says the Times, “is going straight to the people and is telling them what going on. Tt is a good plan, even it it does take a week.” The Brook- Iyn Dail gle thinks Kemal ‘“‘must be recognized as a dynamic statesman, and his resort to the radio is only a new evidence of his progressiveness.” In secking an explanation f long suge s before his greatness, he may have been that orator whose name appears last gn the list, the man who is never reached because of the lateness of the hour,” or that “in chillhood, he may have heen possessed of relatives who hushed him whenever he sought to contribute his share of the conversation,” and that paper concludes that “it is kind- lier to think of him in this light than as a cruel ruler, hent on inflicting upon his people cruel and unusual punishment.” UNITED STATES IN WORLD WAR Ten Years Ago Today - Steamer carrying a humber of United States Senators and Congress- men reported attacked last Satur by German submarine off the coast tles. ved by the quick work of gunne * * * (ien. Pershing troons pture their fi prisone mortally wounded by a Yankee pa- trol. He declared that German sol- diers do not yet know the American soldiers are in France. * * * An. other loan of 000,000 to Great Britain, bringing the total thus far advanced to that nation up to $1,400,- 000,000 and total to allies to 400.000. * * * The Red Cross a seeking §30,000,000 for their next six months’ work in France. Food is being sent to Germany for Americans held, as prisoners there are poorly fed by the Germans. * * * Italy's need of direct aid from the United States likely to bring declaration of war against Austria by this country as soon as Congress meets, R One Good Job Overlooked. From the McMinnville (Oreg.) Register. All nations prate about peace, but they all maintain war secretaries and departments of preparation. No na- tion, not even the United States, has vet suggested a secretary of the peace department. Good Fighting Name. From the Springfleld Republican. Magruder is a_good fighting name, and nobody hearing it is likely to be afraid to stand up and be counted. s t of argument which the fel- | ned to bring to bear upon | Sirm | in | zine | . The Great Master. From the Boston Evening Transcript. In these days it might be revised to read that haste makes waste of human life. —————————— One Season to Ignore. From the Asheville Times. This, is called among other things; the season for fordyt fives, You are 1927. THE LIBRARY TABLE By the Booklover. Every traveler who passes the four isolated rocks called the “Evan- gelists” and the rocky headland of Cape Plllar and enters the Straits of Magellan probably allows hi ation to play about the physical ex- periences and emotional reactions of Magellan when he first saw those tor tuons channels and the clustered snow-capped peaks which guard them. James Dryce on his trip through the Straits in 1910 rose at 4 am. and spent_hours on the bridge in order 1o mi detail of the wild land- wondered how Magellan te the narrow - strong head wind moored for the n t his tears of joy when 1 rose on the lon In “The Land Barclay has written of stirring description, history, adventure and romantic legend con 1 with the desolate region about pe Horn and Tierra del Fuego. * Ok ok x one who had seen and suld describe as Mr. Bar gloomy charm of the head inst which dash stormy the jagged, dcy peaks whe 105t n elomd, the Jone pampas and the confusion streams and fells. Hlere and stress of the world of moky ecities drops away like a solid arment, Man is o little here and nature o omnipotent, while the powe: ihai fashioned them, smal: hroods endlessly over all.” tory of this extreme tip of the West- ern continent, almost entirely one of exploration, has heen stormy as the region itself. Magellan dealt with and death fled through the Straits, Sir Drake's fr hooting Vo the Horn, Cavendish’s tragic Patagonian periences and the ill-fated colonizas tion expedition of the Spanish Pedro Sarmiento, who started with sal and reached the Straits with re all narrated with dra- il, The dealings of white 1 with native Fuegans \gonians form some of the darkest ils of the various stories. The hery of Magellan toward the {agonians resulted in hostility to white vals from the natives for ger fterward. Maodern mis sionari rding to Mr. Bar- . not been more beneficial to the ns than the early ex- nd other “henefit zation” have weakened their stamina and caused a high no He ' to channel agai nd where he nd_imagined his little ves of the i hook o Only decply does the lands wibves wind-s of forests, “the fret felt ine round g Since Defoe’s “Apparition Veal,” it has been hard for writers of ghost stories to create anything better in the way of convincing spirit returns. Many are the tales,” hair- raising and blood-curdling, but not convineing, which have been and con- tinue to he written. Only one that can be recalled at the moment really makes one almost believe—that most subtle story of Henry James, Turn of the Screw.” "The stories the coflectin edited hy Cynthia As- quith, “The Ghost Book.” are more or less original and effective, as well \s gruesome, eerie, uncanny, horrible, haunting and all the other things ghost stories are supposed to be. Included in the collection ar tories by D. H. Lawrence, May Sin- cla Algernon Blackwood, Mary Webb, Hugh Walpole, Clemence Dane, Oliver Onions and Arthur Machen. L and a coliection of minor s are contained in the volume by Sheila Kaye-Smith, “Saints in Sussex.” The piays, are on the Nativity and the Crucifixion and As- cension. The scenes are near Rye and Winchelsea. In the minor verse the saints of the Bible are represented as coming to Sussex, that part of Southern England used so many times by Miss Ka; mith in her novels of the soil. “St. Peter sits on Caburn Hill, St. Paul sits high on Béacon Down, And_there, each side of Wakeland's Mill, They guard the way to Lewes Town. * Kk K ¥ An illustration of the hereditary character of longevity, supported by €0 many eugen is_to be found in the family of James Bryce, former British Ambassador to the United States. H. A. L. Fisher in his biog- James Bryce,” says: “Ulster are proverbially a tough race, but surely few even among the stal- wart families of Ulster can claim to eclipse the Bryce record for longevit: The subject of this biography die with his zest for life still unsatisfied and insatiable at 83. His mother lived to within three weeks of 90. His father showed every sign of a long career when ha was killed at a little over 70" (by the fall upon his head of | some blocks of stone dislodged while he was geqlogizing on the . shores of Loch Ness) “in what appeared to be the bloom of robust manhood. His Uncle Reuben John failed to reach 90 by three months. His Uncle Wil- liam, botanist, physician and_golfer, died at 93, his Uncle Archibald at 80. His Aunt Catherine lived to be 90, his grandfather, the Minister of Kil- laig, was active at 90, and preached two sermons on the Sunday before he died. Of his maternal uncles, one (the Right Hon. Robert Youns of Bel- fast), lived to be 94, another to b over $0, while a maternal aunt (M Tyle), ‘Aunt Elizabeth,' died at 86. A'brood of men and women more hale and vigorous it would be gdifficult to find. * ok ok %k awrence T. Abbott in velve Great Modernists,” defines a modernist as one who ‘“believes in life, in progress in spiritual and in- tellectual tradition,” ~ The 12 .mod- ernists he has chosen to discuss be- long to widely differing periods, from the fourth century B.C. to the nine- teenth centu AD. They are Herodotus, mus, St. Francis of isi, Voltaire, Beethoven, Jefferson, win, Pasteur, Francois Millet, Stephenson, John Marshall and Emer- son. In these men Mr. Abbott the “spirit of courage and prog- etches are biographical to a certain extent, but are even more analyses of character, ‘Kach man is tudied in relation to the events and ideas of his period. * k¥ % “The Woman Who Stole I and Otk s,” by Arnold Ben- nett, misht have been given the title of the famous collection of De Mau- passant s in English, “The Odd Number * there are 13 of them. They ave popular maszazine stories, 1 4 dd nothing to Mr. Bennett's reputation, but are more or less clever and well written, Tho plots are original, if any plots can now be called original, after over 4,000 years of short-story Probably the best is the title stor which' depicts a woman who goes through life taking everything and giving nothing. “Time to Think” shows the far-reaching effect of post- poning a wedding for 24 hours, for in that time the bride-to-be decides to marry another man. * ok %k ok A sample of modern elliptical, sug- gestive writing, though suggestive of what we are not sure, is to be found in “The Gentleman From the Twenty. Second,” an autobiography by Benja- min Antin, a Democratic New York tate Senator from the Bronx. His impression of the United States is thus expressed: ‘“‘America! Farms, Cities. Mines. Tenements. New York. East Side. Park Avenue. Chicago. Evanston. Stock Yards. Pittsburgh. Schenley Park. Steel Mills, * * # America! Searching, seeking, strug- gling, rising, falling, scraping, bleed- ing, soothing, healing, but never stop- ping—never resting—never yielding— today, fire; tomorrow, famine, flood, factorles, laboratories, colleges, school- houses. East side, west side; uptown, ivervthing, o ORMDRRNS . aoiiiicie e imazi- | ex- | and | his_hook, | Q. Does Mary Astor have long hair or short’—G. D. A. Miss Astor has never bobbed her h: | Q. Why is Turkey called the “Otto- man Empire” ?—V M. 8. A. The word “Ottoman” is from the Turkish Othman, founder of the Turk- ish Empire in a He reigned from 1288 to 1326. nith saved when the H. W. A perished with his | <hip. eported that Capt. Smith swam to help a drowning child, and, after carrying it safely to a lifeboat, returned to his ship and sank with it. i apt tanic sank?—R. mith Q. How is it that we so seldom hear men of George Washington's father R A. When Washington was 11 years |0ld, his father died on is meant by horse lati- Py Q. What | tudes?—1 A. Regions of calm, about the thir tieth parallel of latitude both north and south of the Equator. I belongs more ypropriately to northern belt. The account commo iven of the origin of the name hat vessels carrying cargoes of horses from New England to the West Indies {were often caught in tropical calms jand eompelled by the shortening sup- ply of fresh water to cast some of the horses overhoard. many children —T. R. there were 152 E in the Territory of Hawaii, | having 1977 teachers and 58,860 pupils. There were 63 private schools, having 400 teachers and 9,631 pupils. is Q. How are In school in Ha A. In 192 hools public Q. How many fce manufacturing plants are there in the United States? —. L., iere are about 6,500. | Q. Will you give the latest immi- gration ires available?—C. C. A. Aliens admitted to the United | States in the first month of the new | fiscal year, beginning July 1, 1927, totaled 39.393. This is 5.440 less than | the average admitted during the pre- ceding 12 months. There was, how- | ever, a large outward movement of | passengers in July last, 27.739 aliens | having left here during the month, | or 6.613 above the monthly average | number of alien departures for the | fiscal year ended June 30, 1927. An_editorial statistician announces that 3,400 tons of hair have been lifted from the heads of American women, and that today 14,000,000 women go ound with bobbed hair. Those figures are significant. Hair has always been significant. It some- times makes the difference between life and death, when we have “hair- breadth escapes.” It takes about 330 hairbreadths to make an inch. Hair marks the distinction between human and ornithological species, for man has been defined as “the only two- legged unfeathered beast.”— Ergo, the only hairy biped. In a recent interview with Thomas Morgan, a Rome correspondent, Pre- mier Benito Mussolini, dictator of Italy, thus expressed himself on the subject of beard:: “I am anti-whiskers. Fascism is anti-whiske Whiskers are a_sign of decadence. _Glance at the busts of the great Roman emperors and vou will find them all clean shaven. When the decline of Roman glory be gan, whiskers came into style. It is true of all periods, The Renaissance was a beardless period. ~ Whiskers were the rule in the decadent regime, which Fascism replaced with youth of | clean-shaven faces. The beard 1s Ori- { ental, the smooth face Occidental. e The first instance on record of a hairbreath escape is that of David, son-in-taw of King Saul, husband of Michel. Saul became jealous of the Slayer of Goliath, and declared that he would kill David. Thereupon, like |a good wite, Michel took a log and put it to bed, with a goatskin over the head—the first known wig—and when Saul's men arrived she pointed to the hewigged stick of wood as her David, thus giving the real David time to flee. How many husbands since then | have been mere sticks, with or without wigs? 8% wig saved David’s_ lite; long natural hair was the undoing of his son, Absalom. Natural hair has had more to do with the fate of men than wigs, for was not the hairy hand of sau the clue which dim-eyed Father Abraham trusted? Was not the long hair of Samson the secret of his strength? Was not the equally long hair of Lady Godiva all that saved her blushes? * ok K K How significant of woman’s eman- cipation and new thought it is to have lifted 3,400 tons off her mind! It is a greater relief than the solving of any vexatious problem of housekeep- ing or gossip. Before the, writer at this moment lies a little pamphlet of 30 pages, with a price mark of $2. It is entitled “Man, Mind and Hair.” It traces the development of the savage beast through evolution, and on page 17 it We have reached the time where | they are losing their hair. the nose and ears and close around the ears. Next they lose their hair around the eyes, then down toward the cheek bones, then upon their for head, and finally their temples. This js the rotation in which our fore- fathers lost their hair. “What caused them to lose their hair “Through the devclopment of the thinking ability man became master th, the water, above and and the air. What do we un- and by the thinking ability? Napoleon, who wrote his name into ory, did so through the develop- ment of his thinking ability. “John D. Rockefeller, one of the world's foremost business geniuses, made his remarkable success through the development of his thinking ability to a_wonderful flame. * * * * * * “It was through the develop- ment of the thinking ability, or intelli- zence, that man hecame the master of this earth, the water below and the air. It was by utilizing the thinking ability that man lost the hair on the upper part of his face, his ears and close around, and, by utilizing his thinking ability to a vet greater e tent, man loses the hair on the top of his head. “How can the utilizing of the think- ing ability_cause the hair to fall out? Pulses. We have pulses all over our face, head and body.” Dr. Nicholas Murray Butler be- wails the alleged fact that Americans have lost the art of thinking. Hair! That's all, doctor! Too many college foot ball players! Too many musi- cians! Too much mattress stuffing and too few barbers. It's up to the colleges to clip, shave, and &0 learn to think. * ok ok %k What a lot of hard thinking the women must have exercised to cause a loss of 3,400 tons of hair! The infer- ence is obvious—the less hair the more thinking ability. All the wise mem are baldheaded and Beardless. America ieads the world The name ! the | irst, they lose their hair upon | ANSWERS TO QUESTIONS BY FREDERIC ]J. HASKIN. Q. What is the apple crop this vear> Are apples kept over from year to year?—D. M. A. The total erop of apples ths vear is estimated at 123115000 bhushels. The commercial crop has been estimated at 24,330,000 barre There is practically no carry-over « apples from season to season, Q. What was the official uniform the French common soldier when World War began?—A. B. M A. The official uniform was da:k cont nd red trousers T on blue was dopted u some time in 191 not st stone theat built’—C. T. A. Pompev's Theater in Rome was completed This was th first building of such construction de signed as a place of amusement. Q. What is | ot President « | A, Presic the heizht and wel Coolidge's height s feet 10 inches and his latest reports weight i3 162 pounds, Q. Where fs the in the United Siates?—\W. A. The Bureau of Mines s that the present time the largest gis field in the world is located at Monror | La. The past largest ficlds have bec at Cincinnati, Ohio, and in the Sou'h | A possible alternate to the Aonroe field is the Amarillo fleld, Tex. Q. 1Is it good form to spread felly on bread at the table?—E. P, H. | A. It is never correct to spre:d | jelly om bread. Jelly is conveyed o |the mouth on the tip of the fork, One, for example, eats a portion «f bread and this is followed by a small | portion of jelly. Any reader can get the answer v»‘ \any question by writing The Evening | Ntar Information Burcaw, Frederic . | Haskin,director, Washinaton, .. Ths offerapplies strictlyto information. The | bureau cannot give advice on legal, | medical and financial matters. It dors not attempt to scttle domestic trouhles nor undertake erhaustive research on any subject. Write uour question plainly and bricfly. Give ' full name | and address and ‘inclose 2 cents in stamps for return postage. The reply |is sent direct to the inquirer. Address \The Evening Star Information Bus |\reau, Frederic J. Haskin, director, | Washington, D. c. largest gas | D, | BACKGROUND OF EVENTS BY PAUL V. COLLINS. short as their skirts. And how they do think! Three housand four hun- dred tons of thought! A baldheaded man was twitted about his hairless skull and retorted that when he was born the gods gave him his choice as to hair outside or brains inside his skull; he chose the inside. But he was only proving his stupidity, according to the pamphlet quoted above, which continues: “The most important pulse is situ. ated in the center of the head, just below the skull. Tt is in_this larg pul that intelligence, mind or the thinking ability is located. “When you utilize the thi king ability, the blood in this large 1 lse becomes hot, and through circulating the blood in those tiny pulses, 1 to 11, it also becomes hot. The heat from the blood in those tiny pulses causes the shiny appearance of the i % . utilizing the think- ing ability to a yet greater extent we lose the hair on the top of our head.” WEER . This “sclentific explanation” clears up some myste While the pulse of the thinking ability is thus located “in the center of the head, just below the skull,” it is not so definitely placed as might be, for one is left in doubt as to whether it is in the fro or rear of the skull, until it is accl dentally remarked that when one heats the blood by much thinking, the “heat of the blood in those tiny pulses causes that shiny appearance of the skin.” So it is clear that the shiny thing where thinking is seated must be the nose. That explains why there is no hair left on the nose, and why it is shiny. If the ladies would stop thinking, the hair on their noses might regrow, and the nose no longer require so much powder. Men's noses used to be covered with hair, which now has simply slipped down a little and rests upon the lip. [ No man’s lip is shiny; none calls to powder. When an American fir glimpses a French crowd of men he, is struck by their conspicuous lon beards, covering their whole faces r% low eyebrows and reaching far dow the waist. The farther east onel! travels the more evident is the beard until in the Orient men swear by the beard of the Prophet. * ok x k Another book, entitled “Your Hair and Its Growth,” tells how contented must be the possessor of plenty o hair, and it gives the diet warrante to make hair grow, but warns agains eggs, milk, white bread, old potatoe and liver, “poison to hair.” ¢ reserve the right to doubf the diet which declares that milk o tarés the growth of hair, when on has seen babies grow much hair on milk diet. Wherein, too, is the logi of proscribing, instead of preseribin eggs? Is it in fear that eggs m develop feathers rather than hair? been found that it takes man ostriches years to grow enoush feathers to cover one *chicken,” an it makes no difference whether the eat milk or egs In the matter of polite behavior, the book advises: “If you are oblized to meet and converse with people who are bald or whose hair is thinning, never gaze at it or study it; pay no attention té it whatsoever; hecome indifferent te it. Endeavor consciously to lose ine terest in the baldness of others. Cuiti ite indifference, utter and absolute indifference, to the scanty heads of, others. Never mentally compare yough hair with othe 1f one mus 1 scalp another, shut the eyes: the s may contain the thinking ability of the victim, * ok R K Half a century ago a_pamphlet was published by Dr. D. W, Prentiss of Washington on the “Change of Color of the } in which he discussed the much-disputed possibility of hair suddenly becoming gray through grief or fright. He aquotes authorities keptical of all such cases, as de- by Byron's “Prisoner of Nor grew it white In a single night, 4 As men's have grown from sudden fear: ‘While Dr. Prentiss recognized the general skepticism of such a sudden changing of color of hair, he found m; cases in the records of the surgeon general's office in which hair had turned gray in ill health and been restored to its natural color upon the regaining of normal health. He also disclosed the ct that by persiste; taken 1mern€ “My hair is gray, but not with year: doses of “jaborandi, with food, a lady’s hair will change in color, just as by feeding n canary much cayenne pepper it will chang from yellow to orange, or by feedirg a parrot a certain fish, it will change from green to yellow or red. in brains and prosperity; hence the best American men_have no hair on the face or skull. If any man com- promises by retaining & mustache he takes a chance and may lose his pre- eminence. _ So the women, compro- mising Wil total baldness, have their A But what dose of jaborandi, cayenne pepper or fish will bring back color or substance to the 3,400 tons of hair the bobbers of American hair have clipped? The glory of woman has' always been her hair—oh, (casmtend, 1047, e Foud . 0