Evening Star Newspaper, November 21, 1927, Page 8

8 THE EVENING STAR With Sunday Morning Edition. WASHINGTON, D. C. MONDAY. November 21, 1927 .. Editor THEODORE W. NOYES. 5 il The Evening Star Newspaper Company Business Office 1th St. and Pennsylvania Ave. New York Office: 30 East 42 St. Chicago Office: Tower Building. European Office: ¢4 Regent St. London. England. The Evening Star with the Sunday morn ng edition is delivered by carr the city at 60 cents ver monib: 45 cents per month: Sundavs (nly per month. Orders may he sent by ‘mail or Telephone Main 5000, ¢ ollection 18 made by carnier at end of each month. Rate by Mail—Payable in Advance. Maryland and Virginia. Daile and Sunday....1 vr. $200: 1 mo. Daidy_only VrL G007 1 mo Sundas onl J1vr 830001 mol All Other States and Canada. 1yr. $1300: 1 mo. $1.00 1vr. £900°1 mo 1vrl $30001mo. Daily Danly Sunday nd Sunday iy only { Member of the Associated Press. | The Associated Press is exclusively antitled | to the use for republication f wll nlws die- patches credited to it or not atherwise cred- | ited in thie naver and also the tocal rews published herein. All rizhts of nublication of special dispatches herein are also ieserved. = Lump-Sum Inequity. After a careful study of the matter, | the Detroit Bureau of Governmental | Research, an independent body of | municipal finance experts, has reached | the conclusion that the city of Wash- ington is unfairly taxed and will lend its aid to the movement in progress | here to secure from Congress at the coming session an equitable readjust- ment of the fiseal relations between the District and the Federal Govern- ment. The conclusions of the bureau are that the Government is not bear- ing its fair and equitable proportlon of the cost of maintaining and devel- oping the National Capital and that there is ample evidence that the tax- pavers of the District are carrying an undue burden in meeting the require- ments of appropriations made on the lump sum basis. A striking fact of the situation is that until a delegation representing the Washington Board of Trade ex-| plained the matter to the Detroit bu- reau the officials and experts of that organization were under the impres- sion that the United States was con- tinuing to pay at a fixed ratio of forty per cent of the total District costs. The fact that without any repeal of the substantive law to that effect Con- gress has been for several years limiting the Federal contribution to $9,000,000 has not been appreciated by the country. When it is made known there is protest against this inequita- ble change. 1In virtually every instance that the | situation regarding the fiscal relations | between the Government and the Dis- trict has been fully set forth to resi- dents of the States the response has been identical with that of the Detroit bureau. For many years there was, it is assured, a feeling in some | parts of the country that Washington | was unduly favored by equal-propor- tion contributions to its maintenance by the Federal Government. But as the peculiar situation of the District has been understood, its limitation of area, its denial of industrial develop- ment, its dependence upon the activ- ities of the Government for the great er part of its actual employment, and especially the extent and character of its municipal equipment required by the fact of being the seat of Govern- ment, this feeling has changed to one of sympathy with and support of the arrangement originally made in 1878 and later changed in detail, whereby the Government shares in the cost. The change from the fixed ratio to a lump sum coincided with a period ot expensive and important develop- ments in Washington. Larger annual appropriations were necessary. Cer- tain items of municipal improvement and expansion, delayed by the war, were at last being authorized by con- gressional enactment. A program of school constructions, rendered impera- tively necessary by the growth of the community and the tardiness of pro- visions, was adopted. For the first time in many years the appropwiations were approximately adequate for the annual necessities and provisions for immediately prospective needs. The departure from the substantive law establishing a fixed ratio, without re- peal of that law, was not justified. ‘The result was to throw an excessive burden of taxation upon the shoulders of the property owners of the District. The restraint of the ratio upon too liberal appropriations was removed, and although the Bureau of the Bud- get has held down the estimates some- what—in some cases severely—during this period, the net result of the change has been to put an annual load upon Washington that it is not | prepared to ca 1 | the Nation’s most famous highway, The price of the new flivver will in- clude a series of flving lessons, and | the transatlantic pilot hopes eventu- | ally to put an entirely new and ad vanced class of aviators into the a There have been plans an nounced for the construction of small, | safe airplanes, but none of them so far has horne fruit. Chamberlin, | however, seems to have withheld his announcement until he was ready to hegin work, and appears to have the | jump on the field. The distance rec. | ord holder has proved that he knows ‘ airplanes from A (o % and the ship [that is turned out hy his company | will undoubtedly embody all the fe: tures that he has found to be neces sary in his long flying experience. So the new Chamberlin plane will be awaited with interest by a public new Iy awakened to the possibilities of | viation. | | The Dirt Is Flying. | Work starts on the first of the new | iovernment buildings in the Mall-Ave- nue-triangle today. Actual digging be- gan this moining on the site chosen for the new Initernal Revenue structure. | nd though no ceremony attended the | event, the occasion is worthy of com- memoration. For this is the first ac. tual operation toward a development | that has been man; in templation and preparation, and that will, when completed, transform cen tral W ington completely and give the Government for the first time in its existence an adequate housing for its work. Recollections many | | o vears con- | are revived by the chug-grunting of the steam shovel on | the Internal Revenue Bureau site of | the early efforts to secure authoriza tion for the acquirement of an ade- quate and appropriate space for pub- | lic structures. Despite the fact that a definite plan had been provided long. long ago for the emplacement of the Government buildings, it had been | ignored, and structures were dotted | about here and there, with no relation- ship and without regard for public convenience. Meanwhile a vague con- templation of the triangular space be tween the Avenue and the Mail, stretching from the Capitol to the Treasury, as a proper location for the future Government constructions was entertained by some, and at last the proposal came to a focus for a brief perlod. An appropriation was made | for the purchase of the five “squares™ at the western end of the triangle, and it was contemplated that three public buildings should be there placed. The land was bought—and nothing was done toward its Even with this area in the possession of the United States, when the time came to erect a new home for the De- partment of the Interior this area was | ignored and the building was placed considerably to the west, out of all re. | lationship to the already existing Fed- eral housings. | ‘While some mistakes, such as that | of the Interior Department, have been | made meanwhile, the delay has not | been disadvantageous. For it has re sulted in the adoption of a project of constructions that eclipses any hereto fore proposed and undertaken. It i not properly to be measured in terms of cost, for land or buildings. But rather is it to be measured in terms | of utility and heauty. The structures that are to arise on the great mile- long site will be monumental and har- monious. They will be conveniently | placed, and will be designed with due regard for future needs. They will af- | ford convenience of access and will be adapted in their locations to the mod- ern traffic requirements. This great project, which starts to. | day with the first throbs of the stear | shovel at Eleventh and B streets, will | do more than provide the Government with facilities for its administrative work. It will create in Washington a true Federal center, linking the ex- ecutive and the legislative branches. | It will redeem Pennsylvania avenue. use. trom a condition of decrepitude and unsightliness caused by the long hesi tation on the part of Congress regard ing the best plan for housing the Fed eral operations. It will actually save the Government money by concentrat- | ing its activities in public buildings in- | stead of, as in so many cases today, in privately. owned structures at high rents. So today is a memorable occasion. Several years must pass before the results appear. But they will not be years of anxiety or despair. For the sound of the steam shovel today means that now at last the ideals of the Capital makers are about to be real- ized. | | ———e—e A vast amount of American wealth is absorbed by sport. Being forbid- den to flourish in politics, Croesus must find some way to utilize his funds in a wholesome and exhilarating The peril to Washington in the lump sum lies particularly in the fact that | there 1s no guarantee of its mainte- | nance, even at the disproportionate | figure now set. It may be reduced at | any time. Bearing no relation what. ever to the total of the appropriations, it is an arbitrary approximation of the Government's liability. It leaves wide open the possibility of excessive ex- penditures and at the same time it discourages the District in secking im- manner. Sportsmanship depends on good faith and honorable intention. | It is something well worth cultivating | in any civilization. ——————— Speed in 1927. As the year 1927 nears its end it is | apparent that one of the most amazing | features of the dying year has been | the great strides made in speed of | transportation. Speed, it might almost | be said, has been the dominant factor | provements, The District's case for a return to the fixed ratio principle is strong and | 1s well fortified by public opinion out side of Washington. This testimony | of the Detroit Bureau of Governmental Research is a valuable addition to the | plea for equity which the citizens of | the Capital will present to Congress | when it convenes next mogth. e A loss to human progress will be ncurred it Lindbergh ever decides that he likes his banquet evening clothes better than his aviation togs. o A Flying Flivven Clarence Chamberlin, holder of the Jong-distance flying record, is organ- izing a company to build aerial fiiv vers. According to the announcement of his plans, the new Chamberlin plane | will embody every safety feature known to aeronautical sciencel Tt will have a capacity of two passengers, will be powered by a seventy-five- horsepower motor, able to take off | twenty | <peedboat. Probably one of the year's B in the development that the year lms; brought. Aviators at a hundred miles | an hour and more have placed New York less than two days from Paris, 4 motorist has driven from San Fran | cisco to New York and back again in lexs than k, and the Englis Channel has been crossed in less than minutes by a new kind of aw most remarkable developments, how ever, was given its first public test yesterday at Cold Spring Harbor, Long Island, when a fantailed boat, con- structed along the lines of an aqua- plane, streaked through the water with twenty-four people aboard at better than sixty miles an hour. The new eraft was driven by Mrs. Willian Leeds, th mer Princess Xenia )f Greece, and fully met its inventor claims that practically no difference in speed would be noted, no matte how heavily the boat was loaded. To prove this contention, which is of the | policies which TH NING aboard, and developed sixty-three miles an hour with twenty-four peo ple swarming over her decks. The world's speed record for hoats s around eighty miles an hour, but | this record was made with a small eraft in which both the pilot and the an sat practically on top of twelve-hundred-horsepower mechani the two motors. The hoat was structed for racing and could be used for no other purpose. The importance of the new inv apy herefore, when it is realized that ths thirty-eight-foot fan tail hundred horsepower and twenty-fous people aboard, skimmed through the water at sixty-three miles and hour. Desizned by Johnnes Plum, a former attache of the Danish legation here. the new craft has in one test proved that it of the hydroplane with the load capacity of s rent with only five comhinos efliciency the erdinary displacement power boat to he no reason why pplied to larger startling ad- water travel demonstrat loaded the craft's speed Wiy re duced, and it for him to prove its seaworthy qualitics. It is within the hounds of reason to believe that with this and other inven- tions in the next few years the se surface passenger would allow himself slightly more than two days for the antic trip. - Finder's Reward. There appea tha fan-tail principle, craft, will not vance in long distance The inventor has already ed that even when heavily is not apprs only remains mark now A stipulated reward for the return | of lost articles is being made into law in France. 1f the Senate follows the action of the Chamber of Deputies on the measure, each pe lost article will be rewarded with five per cent of its value. No longer will the finder have to take chances on the generosity of the 1+ he will merely collect five per cent up to one hundred thousand franes and two per cent above that figur Although the proposed new law ma seem to be putting honesty on a com- | mercial basis, there is no reason to be. lieve that in application it would work out that wa tried in the United States. A definite reward is desirable for the return of | lost articles. It stimulates the finder | in his efforts to locate the loser, a xd; pays him for his time in o doing. j There have been many cases in which greater rewards than five per cent have been paiff, but there have been just as many in which the un grateful owner has refused to pay any- thing or offered such a pitifully small compensation as to make honesty seem of no account. The new French statute will put the transaction be. | tween finder and loser on a business. | like ba and will eliminate the pe sonal element between the two par ties. Probably the only person who | will be able to see no equity in the | measure will be the loser of a five- thousand-dollar bracelet or watch, and on the return of the treasure has with A magnificent gesture handed the | finder a five.dollar bill, R Chinese women no longer bind their feet. Turkish women have thrown away their veils. The step in civilized progress is important, though not very great. Clothes do not make the wom- | an any more than they make the man i s Having held so many important | positions from time to time, the ad.| mirers of Herbert Hoover see no rea son why he should not add the United | States presidency to the list. o The Teapot Dome discussion has a way of drifting into matters that re- semble “the flowers that bloom in the Spring,” not in merriment, but in hav- ing nothing to do with the case. oo A true pessimist is a man who be- lieves the pretenses of a deliberate | “best seller” to reflect biographical truth in its insinuations. oo Trotsky is still oscillating between | the rolltop desk and the soap box. | He is the world's greatest political | in-and-outer. on returning a lose B Bolshevism is one of the political | started as a promise and became a threat. ——— SHOOTING STARS:— BY PHILANDER JOHNSON. Mythology Santa Claus is drawing near, Doing what he can, Helping out for human cheer; So's your Congressman, Santa is supposed to be Mighty in his plan, To protect us in our glee. So’s your Congressman. As for power to reckon with, As results you scan, Santa mostly is a myth. So’s your Congressman. Mistakes. “Of course, you have made mistakes, like the rest of humanity.” “No doubt.” answercd Senator Sor- ghum. “But 1 have heen fortunate in making them when the vote was so large they weren't easily noticed ‘Weather Distribution. Moderation’let us seek, Avoiding all bravado. Let's have light winds throughout the week, | And cut out the tornado, Jud Tunkins says people refuse to imitate the saints they profess to ad- | mire. Even Santa Claus can’t make | whiskers popular. Excess Baggage. You have a fine mint patch.” So they tell me,” answered Uncle Bill Bottletop. “I have the assurance | of every bootlegger that it is one of | the best.” “Then it has value?” “None whatever. What person is | g0ing to add to the burden of hard | drinking by toting a sheaf of mint along with the hip flask?" longer Social Reg: “The kid glove is no spicuous in social life.” “No. agreed Miss Cayenne. boxing glove has superseded it.” con- “The utmost importance in marine design, 'A lazy man,” said (Uncle Eben, “Is and land with only a short run, and | the fan-tail was run at sixty-five miles | allus industrious once in a while, an’ will be both stallproof and foolproof. an hour with only the pilot and fuel dat’s when it comes to fault l\n"lp 7 especially con- | v, and it might well be| | deed f { English will find plenty in it to pr | prospect that Senator David A. 1 | Wadsworth. STAR. WASHINGTON, D. €, MOXDAY, NOVEMBER THIS AND THAT BY CHARLES E. TRACEWELL. ! | | | | | | Many men come to the conclusion that they have been wasting their time on those wha do not count This is a sad but necessary de cision which must be made if the! individual wishes to sive himself fro the fire of petty criticism, unwante snggestions and unmerited “kiddin weh person will have to make own list of thosa who do not count in his life, in the chion 1l he comes to a letermination as to the real interests in it. As a young man he lancies cvery thing. hecause he has not yet at such mental strenzth him to buck epinions of lows. A I his same 1t arrive 1lows his fel nowever, in man chen to himself Moss time surely the life of almost he willin.z that certain activities please him: that others do not. that some draw forth his entire ability; that others arve on something of a hors to him In businoss, in aports, in in every one of the varied of his life, e will coume to an capable conclns to “hose in which he persis < in setting picas ure, and into which, therefore, he can’ put the best of himself, without undue friction. In such lines he does his both as to quin and quality: in such activities Le shines to the hest of his natural ability: i such eceu pations he brinzs forth the best that is_in him, botn for him Wl for others. readin; activities v s nes hest work, * %k It is even nore yvoung man in business to come to a fixed determination to thes: who do and those who 9 not play a real 1y important part in his life, in order that he may fi mee and for all, the fist of those who, in the past, have | received an undue :harve of his at tention. The average man, perhaps, will he | somewhat astonished, if he goes to the trouble to think this over in a per- fectly abstract manner, to discover the large number of men and women whom he has accorded an equal place in his life with those essential to it, | vet who do not at all deserve such| a distinction, . Nor is this the worst of it—not only have such persons not deserved at- tention, but such recognition actually harms the one who has extended his | recoznition to every Tom, Dick and Harry who chooses to worry him. This hoils the problem down to its crux: In the modern world, with its | manifold activities, every one may, in- | must, divide his acquaintince oughly into two groups—those who help him and those who worry him. In the group of helpful persons will come his real friends, his pleasant ae- quaintances, his superior officers in business, his real friends in business - all those, in other words, who like him and who help him. In the list of those who worry him may be included fake friends, "th who merely use him, those who pes- ter him with unwanted advice as to his conduct, those who invariably dulge in criticism and those who in- fliet perpetual **joshing” upon him. This is but a brief outline of the pleasant and the unpleasant sides of that great picture which may be called “Your Life and Mine,” framed in with one’s occupation, four-square, solid, hung by the cord of avocation on the wall of the living room of life. | WASHINGTON * 1ecessary th for or President Coolidge's specch hefore | { the Union League in Philadelphia was one of the shortest, hut one of the hest, he has delivered in a long time. me authorities rank it with the Lindbergh welcome on June 11 as Coolidgeian oratory at the peak. It's the kind of state paper that will bear 2 second reading. Admirers of good se. Students of literary finish will profit from a study of its terseness and stac ato sentences. cual, the speech | oristles with epigrams. Politicians who serutinize presidential statements mainly for information find the Phil- adelphia address notable principally for what they consider its accurate forecast of Mr. Coolidge's first mes sage to the Seventieth Congress. The | [U'nion League was supplied, in effect with a table of contents of the report »n the state of the Union, which the | President will submit to a joint ses. sion of both houses, prospectively on Monday, December 3. Georze Harvey says Coolidge’s writjng swyle is “Mad- igonian.’ Y * ¥ k Xk The Right Hon. William Lyon Mac enzie-King, prime minister of Canada, who is Washington's honored guest his week, is descended on his mater- | nal side from, and named after, late William Lyon Mackenzie, C: M. P., famed in Dominion history as| “rebel”” In 1837-38 the imperial| sovernment at London put a price of 5,000 pounds on his head, led the Upper Canadian rebels, Papinean commanded the' insurgents in South Canada. The rebellion | smashed the notorious “Tory compact” | 5f that era and prevented the e (ablishment of the Church of Eng-| and as the state church of Canada. The Canadian premier's ancestor fled to Buffalo during the rebellion and r mained in New York State five Later he returned to what is now the ity of Toronto and was elected its first mayor. Canadians think it not an inappropriate circumstance that it was the grandson of the ‘“rebel’— Prime Minister Mackenzie-King—who represented the Dominion at the im- perial conference in London last year, when the right to absolute self-gov- srnment for the overseas Dominion was recognized by the mother country x ko % Everybody at the War Department | and in the Army is gratified by the d, n, of Pennsylvania, will seniority to the chairman ship of the Senate n ary affairs committee next month. Two lame ducks having been created by the 1926 senatorial elections—Wadsworth of New York and Cameron of Ari —~teed moves up just behind Senator Warren of Wyoming. But as . \Warren has his hands full running the appr priationg committee, his. younger col- league from Pittsburgh will inherit the chairmanship vacated by Senator | Wadsworth. Like the latter, “Duve” eed soldier. He served in France | from 1917 to 1919 as a major in the, 311th Field Artillery, and achieved a Qistinguished fighting record. The sol- diers will have in Reed as vigorous; a friend on the military affairs com mittee as they always had in “Jim" Itepubl mount by e e To this writer comes a blatant let- ter from Chicago, in which the follow- ing comments occur: “Our American politics are pretty rotten. I was once | told that the average Congressman is about on an equality with a street car conductor, so far as his intelligence and good intentions are concerned. 1 am sorry to say 1 feel that the Senate has degenerated (o about the same | status. What we need in this country is a firstclass upheaval, because con | ditions in our polit m municipal to Federal, are a mess.” The author of these lamentations ahout the im- purity of national politics is an asso- ciate of Samuel Insull in the Tlinois publie utilities combine—the plutocrat who unblushingly confessed to the Senate slush-fund ‘committee that he | workers who spend part of their time | Almost | chalant, sayv “Uh-hub, OBSERVATIONS BY FREDERIC WILLIAM WILE. | find | fulness and self-devotion. | bia I Senators and 10 Representatives will 21, 1957 | attention to count in_ his life? | much, that is the The point is that| be allowed to occtpy do, nor will they con- | it, once a man comes Why should one those who do not They count strange parados. they should not the place they mue to hold to himself. Every husiness, for instance, has personnel divided into two (althongh never =o 1 the books) those cmployes who mind their own | husiness and who believe in allowing | others to do the same. and those pay classes | and ability in_harassing others. Since this does not constitute an | administrative matter, each employe’| will be forced to work out the prob-| lem for himself. He will find no aid, | except now and then from some wise | old fellow who has been throt the | fire himself and has come out whole. | Yet a man commonly hesitates to| take such personal problems to others. | There is something in the good ex of every man which makes him to be his own executive in such /| natters. It i personal problem d must be so handled. Take the lar { persons who on ndul Sty criticism always they are usurping authority, since generally they have no right {o voice criticism. This does not stop them, however, in the least. They are the first to detect imagi flaws, and the loudest in the claiming of them. There is no of in the world that does not possess one or move of these pests, gadflies to the minds of the more serious workers. What shall be done? 1f one says but a word rey it is taken up. handied about, twisted and distorted, until the vietim wishes he had re mained silent. Silence is, indeed, zolden. To reply to the constant criticizer is to waste time upon one who doe not count, a | ing in | | n * * % To be forever rveceiving tions as to one’s work from those in no position to command is to waste some more time. | Arsument upon the matter but | provides the gay fellow with exactly what he is looking for, an opportuni ty to further sugwest something for <ome one else to do. Never for him self. of cours Tvery newspaper man knows the chap who insists on telling him not on what to write, but exactly how to write it. The same thing holds true in every other activity. There Always some one who can tell every one else just how a thing ought to be done. The busy grandstand players at the ball games have their counte part in every husiness. The thing to do is to smile pleasantly (as one c¢an), | light a cigarette, be extremely non-| and promptly | forget it. There is no other remedy. | The last specimen to be considered | i * | | {is the man who indulges in unneces v persifiage, commonly “kidding™ in the vernacular, at the | expense of a fellow worker. Serious men of marked individuality are the victims in most cases of the man who wil his employer's time to “kid another. Usually jealousy is at the hottom of all such petty viciousness, The best treatment of it is to ignore its mani- festations in so far as e. The tent perpetrator of such me is simply anotifer one of thos who do not count. called i financed the Smith senatorial primary campaign to the tune of a quarter of a million dollars! | * ok %k ok Who says Japa into Ameri growing up to nese youngsters horn citizenship aren't be good Yankees? Three Japanese hoys of Hawaiian birth have just won all the prizes| offered in the public schools of Hono- ilu for the best essays on the United States Navy. Two of them are eighth grade pupils, and one is in the sev- enth grade, First prize went to Isao Nakayama, whose piece declared: During the last few years our Navy | has progressed in everything. By the help of the Navy v is ca rving on a great commerce with v eign nations, without any trouble. herefore, the Navy is very important nd is of great help to the United States.” *x xw Admirers fn Washington are fa vored recipients of copies of a speech delivered by John liams in the National Milita ark at Vieks burg, early this Autumn. The forme ator from M ippi unveiled a tue of Jefferson Davis, which the State presented to the Although the silve at is now in his seven- ty-fourth v he thinks the Davis sration is one of the hest things he ever did. “Whatever faults of tem- perament or policy his critics may in him.” said’ Williams, “Jeffe, <on Davis_indubitably possessed the virtues of sincerity, loyalty to friends, principles and a cause; cour- age to endeavor, fortitude to hear defeat and suffering, unvarying truth- If these be sardinal foundation virtues n to possess or to admire other men, during this earthly exis ence, as I think they are, they were all intact in Mr. Davis.” * ¥ X ¥ Over in a corridor of the White House oftices they've piled up some filing cabinets, with alphabetical in- dex-plates affixed. Two files in juxt: position bear these respective legends: “Penn” and “Pie.” (Copyright. 1927.) —— e Single Virginia City nd in Declared Solution To the Editor of The Star: I note the article in Evening Star from the pen of Donald A. Craig re- garding the future of Arlington County. I am sure that any movement to return Arlington County and _Alex- andria_back to the District of Colum- will \prove a failure. Here we have the rights to select our own Rep. resentatives, and in Virginia twe | stand in the way of any movement to part with Arlington County now, i. e.. | return the county as part of the Ied: | eral District We have many things in Virginia that we will be required to surrender if returned to the District. My humble opinion 15 the real solution of the situation is to organize one city on the south side of the river, from Falls Church to Alexandria, inclusive, and in time this will be done. This would at the present time place this section, if organized, into one city, third place in Virginia_cities, according to 1920 | census. and the present estimated population of Arlington County. THOMAS R. MECHEM. s Many Driving Cars Now. rom the New York Sun. In Bible times the swine full of devils n over a cliff instead of a | assumption | searcely | programs | ablea | overwhelmingl Chance for Distance Asked by Radioist - To the Editor of The St It all 1 knew was what T read in the papers, I'd have a very much misinformed opinion of the forthcom- ing request of the Federal Radio Com mission to WRC, as contained in your ditorial, “An Unpopuliv Reques i today’s Star. The ecditorial was hased upon the that few Washingtonians can get the West Coast on their sets hat few are interes in the pro- wrams of KT, KOA, or even WEBH and those that are stay up until 2 or for hetter “fishing.” Also that the programs out by the two farge local stations, together with the several that one with luck may snag out of the air hetween the two, | sufficient for these same A of Washingtonians.” That if were to shut down at 11 prac e to put it a e jority WRe tically all of them would ha out the milk bottles and night. in so far as radio Tecoption was weerned, excepting, of cour the and bloated owners of proud tuhe sets I have set T ean when WRC a two-tube zet a station WMAL are broadeasting. Their ve gmood, but I'd like to take a crack at others without wait ing for WRC to sign off at 11:30 or 12 rthermore, 1 have bagged KT, KGO, KFON, CYL, KOA, and over ofhers on my two-tube set. My only experience with “eight-tube sets has been in looking through store windows at them. Il readily admit that the West Coast stations came n poorly, frequently distorted, were never dependable, and put out no hotter programs than Iastern sta tions. T had a lot of fun logzing them thongh, and had to sit up nearly all e frequently waiting fe n ons to sign off. My main plaint s re to sign off at 11 = n stations could he which eannot now be logged the non-selectivity of my set. probably is true of the majority inexpensive sets which can got ne: stations easily when local is off, but 't when loeal is on. Let sign off at 11 except for the broadeasting of exceptional pro- rams. md that if WRC a g received due to This of RT JOHN MUZZY. Hadio Fan Defends Early Closing of WRC/ the Editor of The Star, Your editorial in last Thursday eve- ning’s edition relative to the proposed closing of Station WRC at 11 pm. certainly succeeded in getting a *rise” ut of me, It is probably a fact that 997% of the programs of WRC which are put on after 10:30 pm. consist of dance music_exclusively. Very few people listen to such stuff for the music value of it. as it has none. Now that the novelty of dancing to radio music has worn off, and now that dance music by phonograph must be immeasurab better to dance by, I think that the a tion of the Radio Commission wa; wise, There are hundreds of good radio sets in this city and there are hun- dreds of fans who yearn for a chance to fish for long distance sta tions. My own location is a fair ex ample: T am so near WRC that I can- not cut through them for WJZ, vour editorial said could always be lone. Neither can I get WEAF direct. in other words my di nseless from 40 to 100 when WRC is on the ir. T presume the fans here are as nu- merous, in proportion, as in Chicago, where by united action they were en- to compel a silent nizht—one whole evening a week when there is not one of the 50 or so local stations operating. The fans here have not asked for a silent night. much as we would like it. We realize among other things that this is the National Cap. ital and that events of national im portance are occurring here evening and should be broadeast. Please think it over again—whether the fan with from $30 to $200 invested in a zood radio set is not entitled to a quiet hour before midnight to try it out for distance. C. E. CURRIER. Protection Urged For South’s Heroes | To the Fditor of The Star: Referring to the article in vour Issue of November 17, over the signature of Kdward S. Steele: So long as the issue has heen reopened. I wish to do ny mite by way of keeping the records straight. Of minor importance to some of us is the proposed cognomen of the hand- ome structure now in process of con- struction across the Potomac. con- necting our Capitol with the resting ! place of the former service men of our splendid country who have died for their convictions: but to those of u of the Old South it is of major im- portance that the memory of our heroes e protected against defama- tion. There is error in comparing the vespective responsibilities of President Lincoln with those of Gen. Robert E. Lee, for the one, as political leader of his party, shaped his par while the other. as commanding gen- Al of the forces of the Confederacy. was responsible only for carrying out the mandates of his superior, the President of the Confederacy. Gen. Lee is in need of no defense 5f his actions eitheir as a statesman, a warrior or in his personal character —an_impartial_world gives him full credit and no adverse criticism—he did not labor for the perpetuation of slavery, as Mr. Steele would impress vou with. On the contrary, being the man he was, and. along with the hest thought of the South’s leadership, a firm believer in constitutional States rights. there was but one course left him when the time arrived for per- sonal determination, and that was to throw his whole influence and ability into the cause ngainst opnression and in support of his heloved State, LOUIS H. MEARF Human R(‘suhs?dd Prohibition Criterion To the Fditor of The Sta One of the insurance companics re- cently submitted a questionnaire to the executive officers of the number of clubs and like organizations if the eighteenth amendment had e erted a beneficial influence on the in- dustries with which the® recipients were acquainted. Every one reported in the airmative. The stood to 11; the 2 to 16: the ex- women's clubs i men’s lunch clubs, ecutives of sales organizations. 22 to 1: the country clubs, 152 to 36, and the State Chambers of Commerce, 33 to 8. 1t is by the actual human results of prohibition that it will finally be judged. If, as these hard-headed cos- raopolitan groups of observers say, it has heen helpful, it will survive all the sneers, slurs and condemnation of those who oppose it. On the other hand, if it brings human hurt in pov- erty, sickness, debauchery or crime. all the arguments and moralization of a million campaigners cannot avert its speedy destruction. MRS. R. E. TRICE. pedestrian. IR Some Relief Precious. From the Cleveland News. Cost of living can't he considered wholly unameliorated, now that the rate for a telephone call to San Fian- cisco s going down to $7.75, oo Intuition a Big Asset. m the Toston Herald In taking to the hrook, how does the fox know that the hounds a trailing him by the scent of his foot- prints? 1 many 's policies | Clive Brook ma Q. Is A. He was married in 1921 to an | actress who had heen playing with him in London. They have a six- vear-old daughter. Q. Please give me concerning _the origin Seouts?—W . A. Girl Seot the Amer ters of the -Girl Guides of Furol were orzanized in 1912 by Mrs. Juli- ette Low friend and associate of Sir Robert of all scouting, who ur | ¢pired the undertakin Q. What is the ind what country produces the gv | est supply?——1". D. A. Quinine extracted hark of the cinchonm tree. duces nearly nine-tenth bark. information of the Girl ed and in- urce of quinine at- from the Java pr of this of the factory performed by cent is nov QO Wh tahor in Japan women ?—s. D, 4 \. Fifty-six per cent of the factory Jabor in Japan is now performed by per women. Q. When was Noah Webster. American lexicogripher, born? he take any part in the Revolution B € Te w October 16, Revolutionary the Did s horn at Hartford, Conn.. 1738, and served in the War in 1777 Is more type of grape By preparing j different varietie | in the United {inz the juice of two. | varieties” it is possible to secure | fery wide range of variation in the haracter of the resulting products. [ Theve are. however, three distinct. | d classes or types of these uices, corresponding to the three i grapes grown in the three | ‘grape-growing distriets of | the United Sta These are Northeastern type, prepared from the native Euvitis or bunch grapes, especially from the Northe: ipe (Vitis labrusea): type. prepared from the European Apes (Vitis vinifera) of the Pacific Coast grape secti eastern type, made from the native Museadine grape nd Vitis munsoniana) of the South- castern States. than one dis- juice?—A. W. D. ices of the many of grapes grown tes and by blend- three or more | a tine there ern fox n a fish drown in water?— i s A. The Burean of that fish can he asphy c wlarly if the water contains chemi- cals or is heavily polluted. which would cause a lack of oxygen suffi- cient to make the fish suffocate. b heries say ted, pa Q. How Is Turkish coffee made? —D. M. A. In arder to make coffe as served in Turkey only the darker grades of coffee, sstich as pure mocha, he used. The coffee is made much stronger than in the United States, bout one large cup of coffee to three cups of water being the formula. coffee is placed directly in the v 1nd the whole brought to a boil. is then sweetened to the consistency of sirun. but no eream is put in it | Q. Why are there so many laundries throughout the N. 4 City of Troy,” N. Y the hirthplace of the coilar, euif, an shirt industry, was practically home and for many vear: center of the steam laundry busine of the country. So general is recognition of this fact that the Troy Jaundry is still retained by hun- dreds of laundries in the United States land is even seen abread. rried?— taden-Powell, the father and | the Western | ns, and the South- | (Vitis rotundifolia | should | The | Troy | United | d the | was the the ame | ANSWERS TO QUESTIONS BY FREDERIC ]. HASKIN. How ma lose in ac planes did K A. The United States 289 planes. There wer planes brought down b Q. What airplanes did Amer- m? How many Ger- we bring down?—J. Q. I man W st in action rman Americans. was Tom Paine's salary when he was editor of the Pennsyl- vania Magazine?—C. D. | A. Thomas Paine was editar of this | publication for 18 months. His salary was § vear. Moncure Conway has said that probabiy no person ever | before or since has produced so much zood literary work for such meager | compensation. | Q. How often may flax he planted {on the same land?—E e, Any other crops may be nlante on the soil where flax has heen there should be an inter 1 of at seven vears' duration before | planting the land in flax. | Q What HPomb of 1 Westn stel 1zain the in is the inscription on the Unknown Soldicr Abbey?—F. H. A. “A British warrior, name and {rank unknown, who in the presence lof the King of Enziand, was here buried among the Kings of England, representing all the British warrio: who gzave their lives for King and country in the Great War." of mount ctions” Q. What is the probable Tohn D. Rockefeller's bene | A. The Rockefelle proximate henefactions of John T sr.. have amounted to ap- one-half billion dollars. In 1926 Mr. Rockefeller individually presented $200.000 to the Euclid Ave- Church, Cleveland, Ohio. “oundatio 1926 =ity of nue zave Toronto, to the Leland The Rockefeller year distributed Rockefeller, jr., 000,000 for Roci $11 Canada. and ford Unive 0,000 sity. ng the S90. John D, in 1926, dona about public benefactions Q. What is the of each of the Great Lak The maximum for Lake Erie is 210 Huron, 802 foet feet; Lake Superior, 1,008 feet; Onfario, 738 feet test *depth <0, J. H. recorded for Lake 838 Lake depth feet. Q. At what time are the furs of the iy and red fox the best in southern pnsin?—A. | A. They become prime during the atter part of November and remain | 5o until the end of December. Q. What is the meaning of the | names S Schuylkill and Susquehanna “M. J. T. ¢ A, Schuylkill is of meaning hidden stream. named because the first explorers passed its mouth without seeing it. Susquehanna is from the Indian Suck- lllmnnv- meaning water. Q R Duteh origin, nd was so How long has thel Iy _electrical shov i A. These exhibits have been given for 21 years. with only one exception, {1918, when the Grand Central Palace, New Yerk City, was used as an emer- gency hospital. | | y This is a special department devoted solely to the handling of queries. This paper puts at your disposal the serv- iecs of an extensive organization in Washinaton 1o scrve you in any ca- pacity that relates lo* information. This service is free. Failure to make use of it deprives you of benefils to which wou are entitled. Your obliga- tior is only 2 cents in stamps inclosed with yonr inquiry for direct reply. Ad- ldress Tihe Evening Star Information Burcan, Frederic J. Haskin, director, | Washinaton, D. (. ‘Marcelline’s Ti'agic Last Act every | | | As the world that laughed at the antics of Marcelline now feels the | tragedy of his death, many pause to wonder whether the mirth he has attered is ever shared*by the fun- maker himself. The clown's | brinzs back happy memories and his ! death by his own hand to escape the h: her fate of starvation might so easily, many feel, have been averted. The Bingham Press is especially moved by the thought that while “he had made millions happ not one to make this clown's smoother or soothe his aching heart.’ The Press tells how “kneeling as if in praver, he was found—dead from a pullet in his ewn hand and asks, “Are we =0 soon forgotten? N orl Tribune suspects that thoughts that eame to Marcelline on the afternoon that he shot himself ange ones. He knew al- continues that paper. “what that a clown who heen eady,” his death revealed stops clownins “Our pity goes out to any one whe thinks he is_‘down and out' at 53.° declares the Rock Island Argus, which states that “for some reason clowns reserve most of their merriment for public performances. Several | bered among those who have | their own lives. The ‘make-up’ often | hides a broken heart.” The Waterbury Republican remarks that “he expe- rvienced to the full the forzetfulne of the public,” suffering until “the combined load of disappointment and imminent poverty became greater 1 he could bear and he rang down the curtain upon the tragedy of his life.” The New York Sun, tells the sto of how Fred Thompson and Elm Dundy built the Hippodrome, where elline, succeeding another famous Slivers, achieved his great suc ti rresting coincidence, vs the Sun, “that both of gifted performers died self destroved, thus addinz, to the u of the plan for the wie the tragedy of suicides by twao of conspicuous personages of s @ days.” | | CEE R and vowr ehildvel it mueh o of ¢ parents have you your hout hec “Mayhe you and thousht ally, doe Whtt asks UNITED STATES IN WORLD WAR Ten Years { an forces thrilled by hevoic private by voung As amember of a patrol had lost his way and in_a shell crater crawled out several Is through a hail of enemy machine gun five, got him and led him back. * * * ‘Americans train for ambush fights in No Man's Land; 160 men lay in wait all night for Ger in front of German wire entanglements, but they do not appear. * * * U-boat sinkings show startling increase with British merchantmen sunk during the past woek. * ¢ * Iield Marshal Haig preaks the Hindenburg line in one of the greatest operations of the war. In smashing attack along a 32-mile front, his army penetrates the German defenses for a distance of more than 5 miles at its deepest point, less than 3 miles fiom Cambrai. ve than 8,000 Germans taken prisoners and many h guns taken. Hundreds of tanks lead prise attack, viewed by n. 1s a_guest of British com- * * Washingtén officials the wreatest blow it since the wa an big allied di to lieutenant. the soldi | spent nisht Lientenant hundred mander. consider it the Germans and look for follow. name | amid his circus costumes must. have | has few friends left.” | re num- | taken | Reveals Irony of Clown’s Career the Savannah Morninz News. “Do they just go on clowning forever and ever, refusing to grow old, kept voung by the very age of their jokes and the 10 laughs they have made to grow where only one grew befcre?” And the News wonders what, would | have happened “if he had broadcast an appeal for 10 cents apiece from those whom Marcelline had made to laugh: would the lauzhers have said |that they had long azo paid for all | their laughs when they bought circus tickets?" A more positive view of this same ion is held by the Newark Eve- i News, whicn states that it is “too-had all those lauzhing children of two decades ago did not learn in time of the plisht of their cld friend. There might hava peen no need of that_trosie exit.” The News also {recalls that Marcelline was man who lived much alone. a student of his work, sensitive, proud.” that “once rich, as the stage counts Then he was poor and grow- . The sweep of life trod upon over him. and he took the im- memorial wav out “Perhaps there is a lesson some where in it.” says the Waorcester Telegram, with the added conclusion that “if there is, it must be that the man who relies upon public acclaim }alone for his welfare is in xreat peril.” The Utica Observer-Dispatch sxpresses a similar opinion, with the added statement: “Fun is poked at our cinema stars and Kings of sport who are not unmindful of the main chance and have their profitable side- lin But these celeh have learned the lesson which the tragic suicide of Marzelline onlv emphasizes wnew.” Yet the Nashville Banner is impressed by the fact that “during the years of his obscurity the kindli- ness of the heart of Marcelline never failed him. 1> would zo as an_un- Known to visit hospitals, especially t where children were patients, them for hours at a time.” *ohoxox Journal and amus misfortune, to the “a striking if of the tragedy ughter and fun.” rnal and Courier e of the most in stories and dramas ve heen huilt upon the theme of the Pantaloon, but none can poignancy the true tales of characters as Slivers This story Providence superfluous reminder 1a w owing line " to illustrate the sadness he wd the clwn's life is told by the ow Redford Standard: “Susan Meri weather reiates the near escape from nervous breakdown of Dr. Durand, | famous neurologist. The daugh- tor, sensing his danger, persuades him {to attond a performance of the clown Irimaldi, at whom all Paris is laush: ing. Next v the doctor is consulted by one Henri Le Febre, a victim of tortured nerves. ‘Rest’ the doctor pre- seribed. “There is a clown, Grimaldi.' he said, ‘who is convulsing Paris. Go to sce him—he will help you—make vou laugh! To which Le Febre re- {plied, ‘I am Grimaldi “It is painfully serious work, and nerve racking.” ‘asserts the San An- tonio Evening News, “this business of being funny. Mark Twain was of somber, brooding nature: life's bur- dens rested heavily on _Artemus Ward's shoulders; Eugene Field and James Whitcomb Riley were solemn enough back of the scenes; so were Dean Swift, Richard Steela _and Charles Dickens.” The Little Rock Arkansas Democrat adds that “it is a strange quirk of mature that makes tragedians of clowns and—quite often —clowns of tragadians.” *Recognizing this point of view, the Portsmouth Sun, nevertheless, comments: “Maybe But the reporters wrote that Mar- Icelline was broken in finance and in- capacitated by rheumatism. He chose. the suicide. yroute.” and Mav A story