Evening Star Newspaper, November 5, 1927, Page 6

— THE EVENING STAR Wiih Sunday Morning Kdition WASHINGTON. D C. EATURDAY....Novembar 5, 1927 THEODORE W. NOYES....Editot MThe Evening Star Newspaper Company Bustiess Oflice \ i " London Pemn-vivar The “ nt by mail e o 1e mcie by o arh monih N at and Rate hv Mary <300 1 mo Associated Press. sty antitin rahom ored Member of the The Ass {10 1 pevtect. | firefighting system or cou the ¢ Street Signs. Washin mark s Sne As the thy satter rou benefit under thouzht be given to the question of the hetter taken | should | | motor visitors i consideration @esignation of all the streets in the city for the information of Washinz- tonians as well as their guests. In the original lay-out of the Capital | with its sequence of lettered and | numbered streets, it was not diffieult | to identify thoroughfares, even after pightfall. Going east and west one | had mere!y to count. with a few ex- ceptions due te minor streets, and in going north and south it was nesdful | only to recite the alphabet, with the | eame few exceptions. But bevond the area of the original eity. cially in the northern and southern ections, in the suburbs, the system of regular designations has not heen carried out with entire fidelity. 1In some degree street names have heen Jlished in alphabetical order, but with such numerous exceptions and departures as lo cause confusion to those who are not specifically fa- miliar with localities. With the improvement of the s tem of street illumination—which still leaves much room for betterment —the street signs have become less visible than in the old davs when they were placed on the tops of the lanibs and were fairly visible at nizht. But as the lamp posts were made higher and of a different type the street sizns lost their visibility in the dark hours of the day. Being placed parallel with the streets they name, these signs, especially when Jocated on the “near” corner, are - practically useless for identification. Some observers contend that the street sign should not be on the street lamp, but should be across the street in order to receive the fullest possible illumination. By this system a driver approaching an intersection into w! he may wish to turn can get his hearings before he reaches the turning point. Only by placing the street designation on the far side. “If not or. both corners, which would be better, can motor drivers be given the information they need without ,requiring to take their eves oft the roadway and the condition of the traffie. It is not safe to assume that all| @rivers know all the streets. As a| matter of fact many of them do not. | Indeed only a few of the motorists | of this city are thus thoroughly ac- quainted with all of the passageway The cost of large, well lighted, nu- merous signs—four to a corner-would be none too many—that will expedite traffic, lessen accidents, and make in general for the comfort of the com- munity is of small Importance when the advantage is considered. —_— e The Music of Autumn. Autumn has its music. delighting mankind with a different timbre from Spring. but none the less pleasing The tone of Autumn is character tically warm and happy, although, strangely enough, the season s nor- mally coo! and gray, with a melan- choly mood presaged. Hues of red and vellow, colors of hright flames, as displayed in turning leaves, impart a vivid quality to the season. Autumn’s tone is thus twofold, one of effect and one of color. This time of the year has its characteristic style no less than a painting by some master. The frame of mind into which casts its votaries is tangib'e. It weaves a magic Jove for home at the same time that it ealls to the outdoors. The warmth of the interior contrasts pleas- with the snap of the ontside, so when ome is indoors the land- scape calls; when one is outdoors, home appeals. From these diversified composes a melody heard a music which is part called by some “the music of spheres.” To hear Autumn’s mu- #ic is to listen in on heavenly strains, as well as to enjoy the best of all this old earth offers. —— e In the course of time grand juries may %egin to wonder whether they are n3t making conscientious efforts wh a waste of time. i, - Testing the Hudson River Tube. A tunnel has heen driven under the wth River between New York and Jersey City to accommodate vehicular t It is a giant affair which cost an immense sum of money and is ex pected 1o relieve congestion in a de- gree tha' will justify the huge ex- penditure. A system of ventilation has heen devised 10 keep the air in the tunnel free from the smoke and gas ch involv affie | were favorable. fcentage of moving motors that caich taccidental it} gallon fire extinguishers, played chemicals on the blaze. In three minutes and thiriy seconds after tne [ first flash of fire the flames were | extinguished. Al of the smoke had disappeared through the ventilators. The car was then resoaked with nil, (he gunrds resumed their stations. and the torch was asgain applied this sccond test the alarm hronsut 1o the seene a special engine, a con bination of chemical thrower It eame through the tube from Jersey end and threw of foam upon the UWithin two minutes and filteen fire and the smoke | hadt disappenred. in and | ane. a ream wreck was out The apparatus was | onas the | hitehod to the ruined car and It was hauled out of the | Within five minutes after the second | laze was started all evidence of the five had vanished. 1t is belioved that this test demon o that through organization and equipment such a mishap A& motor ear in the tunnel can | e handied in a manner The ventilation was proved The efficiency i the established. | speedily tibe T | | proper as | to vent | lisaster was The way was cle. | | for the apparatus to reach the s« might not be clear in ordinary | wathie conditions. A longer time would | probably be required to extinguish blaze. Panie ight ensne. But at least the question of ventilation | a4 possibly has been answered. and on that seore those who use the tunnel when it for service should e rea In view of the very small pet is | opened | sured. fire it would seem that the element of | ignition the tunuel is in negligible. B Jury Terrorism. Chicago furnishes the latest instance | of a srave weakness of the American jury system. In August a junk dealer was shot and killed because he refused 1o join a union sponsored by Harry J Lewis, who was later placed on trial | for murder. It required four weeks to | obtain a jury, largely because of ter rorism. Six hundred and thirty venire. men were examined before twelve men were found who were yualified under the law and were acceptable to both prosecution and defense. Of the six hundred and eighteen veniremen re- jected the majority showed evidence of pronounced disinclination to occupy the box of judgment. There seems to have been little attempt to conceal | the fact that threats were mide to| prevent service. Indeed, the coercive | action of the defense went so far as to cause notice to be sent formally to | Lewis Newman, an important witness for the State, that he would be killed | it he testified. He replied publicly, “They will have to kill me, for 1 am 20ing to testify against Lewis if I am alive.” After he had made this reply Newman's home was bombed, the| house being wrecked. Public senti- | ment was so aroused that a subscrip- tion was raised to pay the damage Newman has just testified for the prosecution. As far as Information has reached this part of the country about the case there has been no effort to bring to ! justice those who menaced Newman and the veniremen. Yet the crime of inteifering with judicial proceedings by attempting to procure a complacent jury and to choke off evidence is graver even than that of which the defendant in this instance is uccused. Jury-fixing before ‘trial as well as | during progress is so grave an offense against the public security that it| should be punished when detected and proved by the severest penalties that can he administered. Terrorism exer- cised before the jury is sworn and ter- rorism exercised after it has begun to hear testimony are calculated to de- | feat the law. ) | R Fygopeans object to regulations re. stricting this country's importations of vitlcultural products; indicating. to use plainer terms, a fear that a taste for moonshine will be permanently de. veloped and entirely destroy an appre- riation of simple vin ordinaire, o Railroad freight rates are again blamed for farm difficulties. The old Iron Horse still has a kick in him. Rt e gk Oil has demonstrated that aleohol | Aoes not monopolize all the available | espionage talent. —_— e Various elrcumstances have com-| bined to make this life a long. excit- | ing detective story. Quantity Aircraft Production. Quantity production of airplanes by American manufacturers is predicted for 1928. At a hanquet given in New York in honor of the British secretary of state for air, the other night, As- sistant Secretary MacCracken of the Department of Commerce, whose spe- cialty is aviation, stated that the plans of the aircraft industry in this country for next vear were of such magnitude 28 1n “excape comparison” with other years. One commercial company alone, having no contracts with the Govern- ment, has arranged for the production of twelve hundred commercial planes. 1t has taken some years for the air- eraft industry in America, the home | of the heavierthanair machine, to speed up to this point. The reason is | that there has been no commercial de | mand for planes. No regular lines, inululd- ot those carrying tlie mails, | have been established. Ontside of the individual owners, who have plines for their own experiments and pleasure, nd the sight.seeing companies that operate short-trip planes in the neigh- borhood of cities. there has heen small occasion for production. The racers | and stunt fiyers have used a few score of machines The Army. Navy snd Mail Service planes probably outnum- ber all those privately owned. No explanation is given of the uses to which the recordbreaking number | | <tep on a pumpkin at one end of the nditions of the test |’ !red and not green, and. in bygone days, {if. on learning that this prolific pump | | sen, in his inmost secret mind he is of | the skiea without THE EVE vear. notably those of Lindbergh. By and Chamberlin. have arousel a nation wide interest, but there will be no real progress in proper aviation development if the demand fer air machines does not result in the estabiishment of scheduled services as a public utility A Plethora of Pumpkins. A news item has recently been pub. lished to the effect that the owner of a in ranch claims the world's pumpkin zrowing record in that his Aeld is so full of the great golden | that one cannot see the soil | and that a casual ealler ean obule beneatih walk across in a foot nvwhere save on a pumpkin. Other interesting details are to the effect that all the vines have been smothered and two of the fruits —weigh over a tenth inclosure and any divection without setting | vese- of a ton ont tables ipiece. ‘an any bright younz person gue n which of our forty-eight sovereign Siates this marvel occurred? To make t easier these hints are given: It be ns with a € and ends with an A and is rather far out West, Yes, California There come to mind on other stories: rivers Imon that shod across them is the we int ans | | | conn pwded wit one can walk dr 1ds xo full of poppies that they are <0 o spawning old ereek beds so littersd with golden | nugeets that a man arpived there | poor and went to hed the first wealthy, In the more scanty stricken East about the night | | and poverty- only pl | persons can see pumpkins in such pr on is in store windows, while about | fu their only sight of crowded fish when the can of toothsome sardines is opened for Sunday night supper. Tt must he great to live in a region where averything is as perfect and as numerous as in California and. at the | same time, there must be a catch in it somewhere. For if things were that zood. outsiders would not be wanted to rush in and raise more pumpkine and lower the price. Yet the “Come to Californi chorus ix ever on the crescendo. The poor Fasterner gets somewhat distranght on hearing of these marvels. Who can blame him is | | kin-producer is named Chris Peter-| the opinion that it should be Hane Christian Andersen? New England floods threaten to be- | rome so serfous that Herhert Hoover will again be called on to postpne any suggested efforts for his own political advancement. s There is no present intention of of- fering an insanity plea for Remus. It might be hard to sustain a conten- tion that a man who dealt 80 success fully with financial and political com- plications was of unsound mind. e o SHOOTING STARS. BY PHILANDER JOHNSON, We Never Do. We think to greet some radiant day That brings once more the past to view And clears resentments all away. We never do. We_dream that all intentions good Will easily shine forth anew, That we mav make them understood. We never do. We fondly hope some day to learn To change the pathway we pursue, And from misapprehensions turn. We never do. Playing Safe. “Why do you insist on talking about | evolution?” “I don't want to be unnoticed.” an- swered Senator Sorghum. *“Evolution | has the advantage of being interesting. with no danger that it will cost the taxpayer anything.” Opening the Program. The statesman with a furrowed brow Prepares long speeches all sublime. Why should he not start in right now And save a lot of precious time? Jud Tunkins says he has to think twice before he speaks, especially | when he must figure on daylight sav- ing to tell the time of day. Self-Promoter. “He hasn't a penny answered | Miss | Yet he persuaded the beautiful | heiress to marry him! It must have| been a wonderful courtship.” “It doesn’t 100k to me so much like courtship as salesmanship.” “Kite flying,” said Hi Ho, the sage of Chinatown, “is an honored sport which permits pleasant adventure in risking any lives, It has advantages over aviation.” Expensive Luxuries, “You're rich,” the nations say in loud accord. We answer, as we hasten to our toil, “We have to be. Else how could we afford Investigations that relate to oil “We used to hear ‘bout ‘love, honor and obey,’" said Uncle Eben. “A bridegroom now is liable to be satis- fied it de lady will gnarantee not to git mad an' shoot ‘im.” UNITED STA IN WORLD WAR Ten Years Ago Today More complete details of the first actual combat between American and German troops at the front state that a small detachment of Americans was attasked In the trenches early Satur- day morning by a much larger force an shock troops. * * * Ti cans were cut off from relief by A heavy barrage in their rear. They ING_ 8TAR, {of this lotus | tauch: and if the end comes here, {of | art nourishin | rifices as attended this disaster of the and the progress of civi WASHINGTON D. C. SATURDAY, THIS AND THAT BY CHARLES E. Most pocts seem confent with nat- ural objects, such as flowers, rivers, mountains, when they wish to an artist as Tagore. however. while he makes use of these clements of poetic com tion, secures his larger effects words which are inclusive of all things iod made. Thus a modern radio set, one of the wonders of the modern wor is com- | prehended easily in the following poem | frem Tagore's “G jali.” pyb. lished ‘in this country about 1914 hy the Maemillan Compan “When I o from hence let th my parting w that what 1 scen is unsury lle. “I have tasted of the hidden honey that expands on the \eean of light, and thus am 1 blessed— lot this he my parting word. “In Jhis playhouse of infinite forms play and here have [ ht of Him that is formless. v and my limbs have touch who is heyond s be i have it come—1let this he my parting word. * mw The wonder of this world of eurs is that it is. as L a ply house of infinite ¢ One may purchas Washingten this season a silhouette theater. made in a fo land. with a number of deftly made figures to be moved with de | wires, ertain number of these ided with each th The wmimic pageantry desizne hring smiles to the facos of iittle chil- dren is strietly iimited by the number it-out figures The world in w to w1y nathir s endowed with a_profu iving and inert, in s it no one quainted with them all. The hope of man is to know as much as he can, and to make the best use of what he know Yet idleness and sleep—th: too, are part of the play. Tagore, in the depth of a good heart, tells us not to be too severe in living: | ‘On many an hile da: have 1 rieved over lost time. Rut it is never . my lord. Thou hast taken every moment of my life in thine own hands, “Hidden in the h see nd There are a sithouettes ine ich we live, how- | of cur universe— n of figures, W varicty a an become ac- | 't of th into sprout ripening thou buds into blossoms flowers into fruitfulne I was tived and sleeping on my idle hed and imagined all work had ceased, In the morning I woke up and found my garden full with won- dors of flowers. Many a city dweller, feeling ground | Adown hy incesshnt routine, may take | heart from the simple statement, =o | | | | | freshly put ahove, that every moment of his life is in the hands of his Maker, * koK ok Hurry is rebuked: “Time s endless in thy hands, my lord There 18 none to count thy minutes. “Days and nights pass and hloom and fade like flowers, knowest how to wait. “Thy centuries follow each other | perfecting a small wild flower. | “We have no time to lose, and ages ‘Thou | | ther | the signet of eternity | from | thou TRACEWELL. = no time we must scramble for ances. \We are too poor to be havi our late. And hus QU is that time goes by while T give it to every querulous man who c¢hims it, and thine altar is empty of all offerings to the last. “At the end of the day I hasten in fear lest thy gate be shut; but 1 find ‘hat yet there is time.” These religious meditations are touched with the ph ptures. There cent of Isalah of 150 is somethin in the follow made me known to friends whom T knew nor. Thou hast ven me seats in homes not my own. Thou hast brought the distant near and made a brother of the stranger. L Tn the center of mysiic religious ve as if to indi- 1o the wor love, too, is holy, Tagore has included the follow- this volume of < eves— where it » is a rumor that it has its dwelling where, in the fairy village among shadows of the forest dimly lit with glow-worms, there hang two timid buds of enchantment. Irom there it comes to kiss baby's comes? The smile that flickers on baby’s w N h does where it was horn” rumor that a young, pale b of 4 crescent moon tonched the ed of a vanishing Autumn eloud, and the smile was first horn in the dream of a_dew-washed morning—the smile that flickers on baby’s lips when he slecps, The sweet, soft freshness that blooms on haby’s limhs —does anybody know where it was hidden so lor Yes. when the mother was a youn it lay pervading her heart in tender and silent mystery of love—the weet, soft freshness that has bloomed on baby's limbs. * %k % * lips slevps know Nothing is trivial it rightly viewed. = when T did not keep nyself in ess for thee; and en- tering my heart unbidden even as one of the common crowd, thou didst press upon many a feeting: moment of my life, “And today when by chance T light upon them and see thy signature, I find they have lain scattered in th fust mixed with the memory of fo and sorrows of my trivial days for- gotten, “Thon didst not turn §n contemot my childish play among dust, and the steps that I heard in my play room are the same that are echoing from siar to sta 3 We end this series of selections from Tagore with the following: “Here is thy footstool and there rest thy feet where live the poorest, and lowliest, and lost. When I iry to bow to thee my nce cannot reach down (o the where thy feet rest among the est, and lowliest, and lost. ‘Pride can never approach to where walkest in the clothes of the humble among the pourest, and low- liest, and lost, Iy heart can never find iis w. to where thou keepest company with the companionless among the poorest, the lowllest, and the lost.” it Dos Shipwreck Off Brazil . Brings Tribute to Heroes The loss of the Italian liner Princess | Mafalda off the coast of South Amer- ica and the rescue of hundreds of pas- engers. have inspired tributes to the captain who went down with his ship and members of the crew for the bravery and sacrifice displayed. At- tention again is directed to the value | of radio as a means of saving human life, the prompt response of rescue ships in this case being contrasted with the uncertainties of ocean traffic | in an earlier period. “A fine and deeply planted spirit of | hrotherhood among those who go| down 1o the sea in ships” is empha- sized by the St. Louis Times, which alls that following the radio call five speeding steamers, which heard and responded to that cry out of the dark for aid. were alongside hefore it was too late, and were able to rescue | from the ocean no fewer than 75 per | cent of the 1208 souls aba | ship.” Reviewing the care given to “the salvaged human freight” and the search at the scene of the wreck by two remaining rescue ships, the Times conclu “Such things are of the fine traditions of salt water. They are the spontaneo sponse of gen- erous hearts to the call of helpiess humanity for succor. They are a part of the nobility of the seyen seas. “It is this self-sacrificing courage that is almost invariably present in hours of great peril that is the re- deeming feature of the race.” the Bluefield Daily Telegraph, anc Spokane Spokesman-Review, declar- ing that these incidents “refresh the world’s falth in human nature.” feels that “in contemplation of such sen, man is touched by ‘the better angels of his nature.’ Without dan- ger,” continu the Spokesman-Re- view, “we should not have known that there is such a virtue as cour: age, and without courage there could be no conseeration to perilous service ation.” * Kk K K The captain went down with his ship’ (Useless, you say?’ asks the Fort Worth Record-Telegram. “We wonder if it is. What price is too much to pay for a code of ethics? May men qualify as men who have no code that equals in demands for steadfast- ness of purpose the responsibilty for human lives. The Record-Telegram feels that “life would be a cheap and tawdry thing if we began to value it «o0 highly that we would not risk it in the name of duty,” and is convinced that “sea captaing who go down with their ships are worth more to the world than all who live and contribute admonition. The Kansas City Journal is im- pressed by the fact t the captain nd his erew, by maintaining the hest traditions of the sea, “‘demo ated the course and skill which are cosmo- politan and which glorify our univer- <al humanity.” The Texarkana Ga- gette records that “while much of the romance of the sea has been lost with the disappearance of the four-mast craft.” it is true that “the men who ail the seas now are as brave as any ve one hefor The part which the use of the radio played in the 1 of passengers is accepted as new evidence of the out- standing value of that invention. With a tribute to this development of sci- ence, the Rochester Times- Union com pares the wreck with that of the Ti tanic, when “wireless communication value of a new force which secience has uncovered so recently that most of us knew it not in our youth.” Responsibility for the ster s considered hy some papers. ‘The Indi- anapolis News holds that “travel at sea has been made so safe and dis- asters involving great loss of life have been so infrequent that he who oes 10 sea was regarded as having a greater chance for his life than he who travels on land.” The News as- serts that “a tragedy of this nature is a bad thing for all lines and to some extent requires &1l maritime interests to take steps against the recurrence of such a disaster.”” The Asheville Times contends that “if the Matalda went down because of nezlected pre- cautions, or it men, women and chil- dren were drowned through lack of preparation for an unavoidable acci- dent to the vessel, it follows that both overnment and shipping officials have and flagrantly failed in the performance of a primary duty.” PHILOSOPHIES BY GLENN. FRANK The rise of a civilization apd the| ripening of an individual mind alike are born out of the fight that goes on between fancy and fact. The triumph of fancy over fact means the death of intelligence and the downfall of civilization. A vecent volume of lectures on the great minds of the Renaissance and the Reformation recalls two sugges- tive historical ineident Hanging in the south choir aisle of Hereford Cathedral is the famous Mappa Mundi made by Richard de Haldingham. This map of the worl by fanc It represents the theological notion ot the world at the end of the thir- teenth century. The habitable earth is pictured as flat and eircular, as a pie plate with out a rim, surrounded by a narrow border of ocean. Jerusalem stands at the center of the world. The Garden of Eden stands at the extreme east. The Tower of Babel is between Jerusalem and the Garden of Kden. Secattered around the border of this ple-plate world are such places as the nsula on which Alexander the eat interned Gog and Magog, the arthly Paradise that St. Brandan discovered, and the British Isles. Scattered about in Asia and Africa are the Kingdom of Prester John, the home of the Amazons, the granaries of Joseph and the land of the Sciap- odes, a one-legged people whose single foot was so versatile that it gave them swift transportation and served as a parasol to shade them from the tropical sun. This seems ridiculously fantastic to us in 1927, and the man who does not know his history might dismiss it as the complete index of the time, but at the very time when Richard de Haldingham wa sketching this mythical map of the world, which in > answered to the facts of the jan seamen in Venice and were drawing portolani or ers’ charts of the Mediter an Basin in which the maritime commerce of Middle Ages was cen ed. These Italian seamen resorted 1d was drawn It NOVEMBER inyhody | 5. 19218 THE LIBRARY TABLE By the Booklover The rectory of Haworth, in York shire, where Charlotte, Emily and Anne Bronte lived their lonely lives with their somewhat difficult father. the rector, and their dissipated brother, Branwell, has been pur chased by Sir James Roberts, former worker in the Haworth mills, and pre- sented to the onte s ty as a mu seum. The rectory is at the top of ckened town of Haworth, which struggles up vall where lie the tories, sendin forth heavy, black smo! on one side it o looks the churchyard. dark 1 packed with tomb. 3 on the other the open s where the thr I e s ste walked alone or together, finding their only outlet from the gloomy life of the lome. The rectory stands in its own arden, surrounded by a wall and a hedge, in one side of which was for- merly a gate, through which the hodies of Emily and Chariotte were carried to the churchyard. * ¥ X % 'he present Bronte Museum occu- pies two rooms on the second floor of the Yorkshire Penny k., on one side of the narrow, crooked stieet running through the center of the town. Several thousand people visit it every vear, most of them Ame 18, A care ker renders desultory rer The Booklover h: two years ago, after a long journey to | Visit the museum, in finding this pe Ivonage, and could secure his attend- | to unlock the museum only after had finished his The little m ¢ontaing many interestin rie such as Charlotte’s wedding journey bonnet and zown, the collar 3 dog, loc! air of the king sticks Patrick letters, manuscripts of stories and plays, and paintings by the sis- ters and Branwell. When the new museum in the rectory is opened it is to 1eceive the Bronte books and manu- ripts 1eft to the Bronte by . L Bonnell of Philadelphia, * ¥ Xk X In finishing the re: foe much amaze. nd learning and multifarious achievements, but isfaction at knowing throush a man apparently completely fortunate and hapy most_everything good which to give came to him. He was born with an iren constitution, since he seems never to have known illness. He was endowed with a strong and serviceable brain, and spent his long life learning and teaching. He was happy in his wife, who, in addition to heing an intellectual and spiritual companion and his comrade on his travels, often read to him and acted as his secretary. He was happy in the degree of his material fortune, neither too large nor too small that he was immune from b anxieties. He was happy in his par- ents. his whole family, and in a host of devoted friends scattered all over the world, and free from personal sor- rows. lle achieved distinction as an xford professor, of the House of Commons and the House of Lords, and as Ambassador to the United States. He ranks high as a writer. especially in the fields of travel and political science, in which his “Holy Roman Empire” and “The American Commonwealth” stand as classics. He traveled so widely that few corners of the world escaped him, and everywhere studied, not simply art, architecture and archeology, but peoples, governments and institution: <y and botany. Born in Ireland Scottish parents and living most of his life in England, he traveled so widely that he justified in claim- ing to be “a citizen .of the world." Happy in life, he was happy in his death. A few days hefore his death. at 83 years of age, he walked 6 miles over hilly country. On the last day he was busy writing an article on a_phase of Homeric stud Late in | the evening, spent at | beautiful country place, he went out as usual to look at the stars, and a few. hours after died quietly in sleep. Of him { his biographer says: “For tha vani- ties and luxuries of the world he cared nothing. A pipe, a book, a_walk, or, hetter still, a stiff climb, a plunge into v water, salt or fresh, which might be' available—these were his chief nleasures; these and the unending pur- suit of knowledge.” * ok kK H. M. Tomlinson, author of the novel, “Gallions Reach,” and the travel | essays, “Tide Marks,” “The Sea and the Jungle” and “Gifts of Fortune,” was a clerk in a London shipping | office, where he acquired a thorough | knowledge of the business of shipping, | without knowing the sea itself or the | foreizn lands to which the ships of the company sailed. Being a roman- he became dissatisfied with e shipping office details and al- lowed his imagination to wander with the ships that entered and left the port of London. Then imagination failed to satisfy him, and he left the office and himself went to sea. He visited India, the Malay Peninsula and South America, and discovered, liké Conrad under similar_circumstances, that he could write. Though “Gallions Reach” can hs be compared with “Ty phaon,” " “The Nig- ger of the Nar or “The Re: cue,” it is a more than usually dra- matic romance of the sea and exotic lands. The title is taken from the rame of a portion of the Thames water front near the Limehouse quarter. are not ment at his intellect his =0 Al * ok K K Unknown rivers and jungles were seen probably for the first time by Dr. William Montgomery McGovern on a recent expedition to the country of the upper Amazon. He has described some of his findings in “Jungle Paths and Inca Nuins.” Like the expeditions of William Beebe and others, Dr. Me- Govern's explorations were for scien- tific purposes. He brought back ree- ords and cas of specimens, though some valuable ones were lost when a canoe overturned. But adventure was combined with science and gives the book a quality of romance. Vicious little savages who might have been blood brothers of the Malays in Conan Boyle's ign of the Four" shot poi- soned dartsthrough blowpipes. Drugged clairvoyant medicine men prophesied thrilling events. Anacondas of almost fabulous length and thickness slowly dragged themselves along dark river banks or over the trunks of fallen trees. Indian tribes initiated the trav- eler into their mysteries. To visit Inea ruins Dr. McGovern crossed the Andes on muleback., and was a wit- ness of the opening up of a buried city containing many valuable Inca remains, * Ok K K TLuther Burbank, as at least partly a product of heredity. is the subject of a little biography, “The Early Li and Letters of Luther Burbank,” by his sister, Mrs. Emma Burbank Bee- on. The great experimenter with plants amd a long line of ancestors who not @nly loved Nature but curi- ously investigated her methods and ventured to make experiments of their own. On both sides of his family for several generations wers forebears of this type, and Mrs. Beeson tells many interesting facts and aneedotes about them, as well as the events of the first 25 years of Burbank's own life, * ok Kk a steep hill from the' hilly | 4 difficulty | life has | s a member both ANSWERS TO | | Q. Did Lazzeri of the New York | Yankees make three home runs in] lany game this season?—N. H. 1 made ree home runs White June 8, 19 Q. Who in tha film world receives | | the ‘most fan letters AL {7 1t s said that « Row receives e lettors from admirers than any | other player. | What is the non-professional i rnity for college journal | ary fr is for ternity for women, Thet Q. In what States are onions im.| portant erops?—W. J. 1 = i A. Onions New York, Te coll Journalists ama Phi iof history of the tion.—. ngres e hartered under it of Columbia— ition actively en- A, Tines of edu interested in cts may become members. On Fo 17,1897, it was organized under the name of the National Con- ress of Mothers by a group of women led by Mrs. Theodore W. Birney and ! Mre. Phoebe A. Hearst. The organ- {izers, persons of affairs, representing | the philanthropie. relizious, social and { political interests of the Nation. real d that while mothers have ever de termined the character of voung chil- ldren, they have failed. lacking suid {ance and means of co-operation, to| |exert ‘the nfluence upon the race { which might be possible were. condi- | tions heyond the home brought under ial control. Tt | aim of the Co Mothers to secure such control and 1o Carey mother-ove and mother-thousht | into all that concerns or touches child- | hood in home, ool. church o State. Q. Please give a | Parent-Teacher 2 A. The Nation ents and Teachers the Jaws of the Dist is a voluntee ed in cert | cress of Q. What would the stone in the! Great Pyramid at Gizeh weigh?— D.W. D, AL Prof. W, there are over aging twe and one-half tons each. pyramid would weigh at le 000 tons. D. Durant says that 300,000 blocks aver. | The | | Q. What is the cost of making the Imodels of the war vessels of the United States?—F. M. | A The cost of models varies wita | I the type of ship. Models of dread- | naughts such as the North Dakota,| which was serapped in 1923 under the { terms of the limitation of armamen= i pact, cost from $§10.000 to $15,000 and | cometimes take two years to build. Q. Tlow many children in this| | covntry are employed as bootblacks, | | newshovs, ete.?—N_ W. | A. There are in the United States | | about 200,000 children under 16 years | The findings of the Bureau of In-| tepnal Revenue, supported by the sta- tistics of the National Bureau of Eco- nomie Research, will make men en-| vious, dissatisfied with themselves and skeptical of figures which cannot lie. This is because it is alleged by the above named high authorities that we are more prosperous than all the dreams of avarice, wealthier than Croesus, and growing more so every | Nohody ever before was o rich as we are—we Americans. No people ever maintained so high a standard of liv- ing. And when each of us looks at his personal bank balance and then back at those highbrow statisties. who can help heing indignant and dissatisfied? 1t is just as easy to overdraw the ac- count today as it was when “we were <o poor and so happy” in the days gone by. 2 | Besides that, there are the pestif- [ erous cynics who take the joy out of doliars by pointing to their reduced purchasing power, and telling us that it takes two &0-cent 1927 dollars to equal one 1913 dollar, hence our banker should not flatter us by inti- mating that we, too, are plutoera because there is no red ink on our account. Our average income in 1920 was $823 of the 1913 coinage, but show- ed up as $1.851 in the ‘modern money —both heing measured by whar they would buy of the necessities of life. In 1926 we made $1.186 of 1913 size, hut $2,010 of this latter-day character. | The one great lesson that is thus| demonstrated is that the face value of | a dollar is of little significance; what counts is what it will buy in what we need—or think we must have. * ok ok X Nevertheless, our marvelous pros- perity is not a chimera. It-is the product of peace, of industry, of the| natural resources, and, above all, of sound business methods, added to un- precedented progress in using inven- tion to lengthen the arm of industry. The last half century has made more progress in labor-saving invention than all previou’ centuries of historic civilization, and nowhere has that progress been so great as in the United States. The fatuity of aserib- ing our prosperity mainly to the im- poverishment of our foreign markets through the misfortunes of war is demonstrable. We do not thrive at the expense of those nations with which we deal, but in spite of their distressful condition. Our surplus ex- ports would be in greater demand and bring higher prices if the people to whom we would send them were bet- ter able t0 buy. * K kX The greatest manifestation of our national growth in business is made the increase of our mails. Up to the time of John Wanamaker's adminis- tration of the post office, in the nine- ties, the greatest annual appropria- tion for mails amounted to 1 920: now it is $736.000,000. Lz a single firm paid in postage $9 000, and several firms exceeded 000,00 each. If we had no foreign trade whatever, the marvelous home market would give America unprece- dented prosperity. It preserves us from the curse of unemployment and from doles. It avoids useless waste transportation. It creates a de- mand for our natural resources, which we might have difficulty in finding, outside of our own land. ameng peoplg too poor to import such com- netition with their own resources Prosperity, like love, ““begins at home."” LR We Americans hoast of our advance over all the world and over all ages in the use of inventions. Yet man of the very things of which we are proudest are of non-American_intro- duetion. and some date heyond even the Christian era. We may almost— not quite—sigh with William Knox: O why should the spirit of mortal be prond? SRR e For we are the e our fathers have been: We see the same sights our fathers have e v We drink the same stream and view the ame sun. | January 1 than on July was the |t | ¢ QU ESTIONS BY FREDERIC ). HASKIN, f age employed s newshoys, hoat- blacks. errand Jelivery and messen= ger hoys, venders of chocolate, chewing gum and shoestrings, mar- ketstand helpers. ete I= the sun nearer the earth In oM approximately tha earth on 1 Q the Winter time”—F A. The sun is 3000000 miles nearer Q. Tlow long have women hoen permitted to practice hefore the Su- weme Court of the United States? —w. T A e bill permitting women to practice law hefore the Unites States Supreme Court was passed by the Congress in 1879, largely due to the efforts of Belva A. Lockwood the do seats Exchange n't the Q. Why York Stoc and why " Me Stock In ovder on price stationary ? \bership on the New York nange is limited to 1,190, to pussess the right to buy securities upon a stock ex- . one must be a duly elected r of the same, pay his ini on tee and share in the assets and ilities of the exchange. His in- st instead of being called a “share of stock,” is called a eat.” A seat may be, as in the case of the New York Exchange, very valiable, but varying m price in rdance with the business activity of the ex- change—that is, the amount of busi- ness being transacted, which nate urally affects the demand. Do incandescent electric lights oxygen from a living room? out are lights?—B. H. E. The Bureau of Standards says an mcandescent electric light does not take any oxygen. Arc lights do consume some oxygen. Q. I have a rubber plant which has srown very well, but does not anch. Can it be made to do so? . H M. Cutting the top off down to the point where you want it to fork should produce the desired result. After this is done the plant should he placed in the sun-and the usual care given it. L . This is a speeial department devoted solely to the handling of queries. Thi: paper puts at your disposal the serv- ices of an exlensive orpanization in Washington to serve you in any ca- wacity that relates to information This service is free. Failure to make use of it deprives you of benefits to Vwhich yow are entitled. Your obliga- tion is only 2 cents in stamps inclosed with wour inquiry for direct reply. Ad- |dress Tie Evening Star Information Burcan, Frederic J. Haskin, director, Washington, D. C. BACKGROUND OF EVEN BY PAUL V. COLLINS, for iron could never have heen made into swords. The Damascus sword was so highly tempered that a skilled wordsman could cut with it a bar of iron without dulling its edge. So- lled iron workers made (of steel) great scyvthes more than a vard in lenzth, that cannot be done with iron. Terra cotta utensils and house dec- oratiol ages and ages ago. Glass was used for building houses and decorations 3.500 vears B.C., and at the age of Christ glass was used in Rome for a greater number of things than it is today anywhere. The art of weaving was learned <piders ages ago. Copper dates back into the Neolithie age, though it was not very useful ntil ;alloys made of it bronze, 1,000 ears B.C. The preacher said in the Bible, “Of the making of books there is no end,” but paper has not heen supposed to have been made until the Chinese produced it a century after Chri Yet, in 1877, there ‘was found in Egypt a library of 100,000 documents made in 1400 B. all on paper. These are but illustrations of the antiquity of some of the things we Amevicans dream were our own in- ventions or were modern discoveries. * o o % On the other hand, the ancients missed many devices and inventions Wwhich have revolutionized civilizaticn. They had their great agueducts for leveling the stream of water and car- rying it from mountain springs across valleys to cities. But they knew noth- ing of water running up hll, under pressure in pipes. Not nntil the si teenth century (in London) was water conveved in pipes. and a century later the same principle was adopted in Boston, So the world made little progress in production during its boasted pe- riods of Grecian and Roman su- premacy. or throughout the thousand Yyears of the Dark Ages, or even in the Renaissance or the Golden Age of Louis XIV or the Victorian Age. 1o waited for onr Franklin to link lightning with ele-tricity. for our Howe tc sew the unending seams of clothing and leather, for our Yankee Whitney to produce, the cotton gin an . make the cotton plantations pros- perous, ‘for our Edison to harness the Franklin electricity and lit ally “en- lighten the world” with its incandes. cence. It waited for our McCormick to harvest srain bv machinery in place of the sickle of Boaz. and for other labor-saving farm finventions which now enable a farm population of half the percentage of our farefathers feed the ~Nation and ' export surpl When virgin soil lost its fertili science reached up into the unfathom- able and inexhaustible ether and ex- tracted nitrates. or hammered upon the door of rocks and found phos- phate, ard, by selecting seed, learned to produce two ears of corn where hut one grew before. And in recent vears, how the sciences have advanced with their chemistry and medical discover- ie: trom * K ok % Are we skeptical of the even dls- tribution of the benefits of modern progress? Look into the average home and note that it is lighted by tie pressing of a button, rather than by a smoky candle; that it has hot nd cold water under pressure—un- known to ancient emperors. Note that it has electric power for sweep- in,, for sewing, for laundering. The ancient kings stood fn joggling char- iots pulled by horses or hy human captives: today the day lahorer goes to his job in an antomobile, and in the evening turns a knob upon a hox and listens in to a concert thousands of miles away, or a speech in a Euro- pean parliament. A quarter of a_century -ago, the average insurance carried by Ameri- cans was $111_per capita of all the people; today the policyholders—those people who are foresighted enough to carry insurance at all—have increased their holdings from $830 each to $1.333. They could hardly do that if they were not increasing in pros- perity. A quarter ‘of a century ago, Amer- incident to motor propulxion. But fought gallantly until overwhelmed by rby ves. | not to fancy, as Richard de Halding And r";"":h' same course our fathers have |joq was the createst debtor nation in with all the devices for this purnoss there has been some the tunnel might in the case of a fire become a place of danger ard death o its users. Accordingly a test of the matter was arranged. An old auto- mobile was soaked with oil and at a point about one thousand feet from | one of the entrances was set ablaze by a torch. An alarm was sounded by . & tunnel police guard which brought Y| other guards from their stations four ~ “Bundred feet distant, who, with Av uneasiness lest | of planes predicted for 1928 production will he put. It may be tha® commer- [ cial lines will be established regular | passenger and express services be. tween citles, Assuredly the conditions here are conducive to dev:lopment. The broad spaces, the activity of husi- ness. the generally safe fiyinz condi sheer force of numbers. It was hand to-hand fichting. briefly and flercely waged with pistols, grenades, knives and bayonets. * * London news. | papers are giving prominence to dis- patches from Waghington and Paris which predict the creation of an allied zeneral staff to coordinate the con- trol of operations on all fronts, * * Government makes public three lot. tions all go to make large scala com mercial flying practicable and promis- ing of returns. The coantry has been thoroughly “sold” to the idea of trans. portation hy air. The explo'ts of this ters sent to Ambassador Gerard by German soldiers protesting against the massacring of prisoners by Ger- mans, Wholesale slaughter of help. less Russians and Killing, of captured Englsh is charged '2 | wel picked up the distress signals.” The was in its infancy and no n Juntington Advertiser remarks that it would be difficult to determine the greatest invention in the past third of a century, but unquestionably with those who go down to the sea in ships the radio outranks them all. L Radio is the greatest blessing of all time to those engaged in mari- time travel and commerce." \ The variety of nationalities repre. sented In the response to the SOS and their service are noted by the New Orleans Item, which adds: ‘“These ecircumsiances are another nial to the expan A ham had, but to careful observation and repeated experiment. ~And the portolani drawn by these Italian sea men of Venice and Genoa put a foun dation down for the medern science of navigation. These portolani were drawn by fact. Our current civilization and the minds of most of us are like the world of Richard de Ialdingham and the Italian seamen; fancy and fact oper ate side by side; we are partly real Istic and partly romantic. Portolanl must win over Mappa Mundi it we are ‘effective. . ) The third volume of Romain Rol- land's _tetralogy he Soul 2 chanted.” is called “Mother and Son. {n it Annette, having refused to marry her child’s father, has bronght up her son alone. When the World War :omes, Marc is adolescent and Is be- inning to drift away from his mother. The turmoil of the war and the changes it works in Mare's character bring them together again. Rut the story of this volume Is lost in M, Rol- land’s main purpose—an unqualified attack on all war. Specifically. all the governments Involved in the World War come In for their share of his denunciation, * k x * the world; European investors owned $5.000.000,000 of the property of the * United States, including its industries, When any one looks with awe at our great Steel Corporation and won- Now these alien investments here ders at our skyscrapers, made possi- ble through steel and American in- was used thousands of years before Columbus discovered America. implement has been found under the foundations of the Great huiit 3,000 years B.C., and it is con- ceded that iron could not have eut 'Qnao great stones of the pyramids. T now vention, let us not forget that steel|e: A steel ! our industries? Pyramid. {a [ mentioned in the . Bible {but it's on its way. amount to only one-half that sum, while American investments abroad xeeed £12,000,000,000. The distribution of the products of In 1909 labor received 68.7 per cent of the gross, while man- gement received 314 per cent. Now labor gets 77.3 per cent and manage- ment gets only 22.7. illennium has not yet arrived, 2§ s Colling)