Evening Star Newspaper, November 26, 1927, Page 6

s THE EVENING STAR With Sunday Morning Edition. WASHINGTON, D. C. BATURDAY...November 26, 1027 THEODORE W. NOYES The Evening Star Newspaper Company Bustness Office: St and Pennsylvanta Avo, |0:;1'!( gl'I,I\M !r'll l'.:ls'l‘ 1]‘.‘::0,; 3 o Office: Tower Builiin European Office: 14 Regent St.. London. Encland. [ Lt ‘The Evening Star with the Sunday morn ition i delivered by carricrs within he dity At 60 cents per wonth: datly only B cents per month. Sundave (niv 20 oo Pemonth, Orders may be sent by mal o lephons Main 5000. +ollection is made by carrier at end of each month. Rate by Mail—Payable in Advance. Maryland and Virginia. Daily and Sunda: 1yr $900 Bally Wl Sundar: .--1 5. 3001 Sunday only. 1 vr. $3 00 All Other States and Canada. Daily and Su $1200° 1 mo Daily only. $8.00: 1 mo.. Sanday onl! $300° 1 mo. Member of the Associated Press. 1a oo ation o Speaking Out of Turn. Richard D. White, | merican From Paris naval at bassy in Pa bid for membershi Out-of Tur of high-ranking Army an cers. Standards for strike, putting herself on Easy Street for life through a single effort of the pen. Not every one can do it. Dickens could not, nor could Thack eray, and they were successful writers, too. Scott labored a lifetime with debts before him. It would scem that most authors find themselves in the posi tion of everyday manufacturers of more material produc more they produce the more want to produce. There is a certain tang to success that no amount of loafing can dis credit. The plaudits of the world for any successful work distinctly worth while. Few men (or women) are willing to rest content with one book. Perhaps there more composers than one hook w author who can produce on h0d book is spurred on to write other. s a culmi it work which some which many call hard we —the they are 1re “one opera’ Iy n re There © proc nius, b wgiced to Despite all th M At every many brancl and and lucky enough t 1 buil's ip today h it one hit capable the pr fancy, to score to achieve a “knockout,” the need urther hitting may or - S, [ ean com THE EVENING STAR, WASHINGTON, D. ‘C., SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 26, 1927. THIS AND THAT this should be so. The popular con- ception is that the big fellow is usually not only robust and good-natured, but generous to himselt as well as to others. The idea that the unusually small man might be a close buyer, while fallacious in many cases more acceptable to general belief. Un doubtedly the men of great stature and girth make up for this peculiarity in | other ways wherein the average man i lacking. But according to the dealer in men’s wear the man with the im- pressive body is not inclined to open wide his purse-strings for its adorn ment. “We do not try to account for it—we just know it,” he declares. 'ts explanation must be left to a more inquiring and a more comprehensive mind. Christmas shoppers may find | in this trade conviction something of | |interest to themselves and to those | they iniend to rememl e Carbon Monoxide Dangers. Altho repeatedly is be <h warnings have been issued | during the past iinst the dangers of poisoning by means of an| wst, nothing but good | from the constant reminder | of the public of the perils of the dead- | just issued a bulletin to mo- | iting out that unventilated | with a motor running are| death for the human being. The bulletin follows: The Hudson River Tube o ! select organization are rather v the chief requir candidate must way or the other. Col. William members of the organi Admiral Magruder qualified trance by stating that the Navy carrying too much d spending too much money v sults, while Maj. ¢ chief of staff, criticiz the shacks in wl Army is housed. uncertainty about what Capt. White said, but the general tenor of his re- marks seems to have been that the American Navy should be second to none and that there will be no que tion about who wins the next war. Capt. White's application for member- ship, as it were, is now being studied | by the board of governors. Speaking at an Amerlcan Than! giving dinner in Paris, Capt. White evidently chose to voice his opinions about the strength, present and fu- ture, of the American Navy at a time when a similar discusston regarding the British Navy was in progress a few miles away across the Channel ‘The nature of this discussion in the British House of Commons did not concern the question so much of who would win the next war as it did the problem of who won the naval limita- tlon of armaments conference in Ge- neva. It has been consldered unfor- tunate, on this side of the water, that Capt. White should have talked about the prowess of the American Navy ‘when a friendly government was con- rducting a sort of post-mortem exam- ination on recent efforts to reduce the prowess of navies,, Capt. White should have chosen for his subject, “What Makes a Submarine Go Dow: ‘Why It Comes Up Again, sons We Have Learned From the Fight Between the Monitor and the Merrimac.” —— . The Prison Tragedy. #he Folsom Prison revolt ended Quickly after the first melee, in which guards and convicts were killed and the rebels had barricaded themselves #n the cellhouse and defied the au- thorities. The men were trapped hope- lessly. They had no food, and their ‘water supply could be cut off at any moment. Indeed, they were in danger of being drowned out by the introduc- tion of a flooding stream. Outside of the prison walls were nearly a thou- sand armed men, with machine guns, airplanes for aerial attack and gas bombs. The revolters had no chance whatever, and they recognized the fact and wisely yielded, after some negotiations over the telephone, which resulted in an agreement to give the ringleaders a fair trial. The total casualties of the flare-up ©of the convicts include eleven dead and more than thirty wounded, some of them perhaps mortally. Two of the dead are guards, the others prison- ers, and four of the wounded are guards. Six men are believed to have been the actual plotters and leaders of the revolt, and they will be charged with murder and tried, doubtless con- victed. It is more important to determine how the weapons were introduced into the prison than to punish the ring- leaders. Latest accounts indicate that the actual armament of the rebels was one pistol, an ax and a few knives. With these they overpowered the guards and obtained more weap- ons. That they had ammunition is tragically evident. Plainly, somebody smuggled the pistol and the cartridges into the prison. If that person can be found he should join the squad that s to be arraigned for murder. Greater severity may not be re- quired in prison administration, but closer watch upon all who enter as wisitors and upon the actions of trus- tles is shown by this tragedy to be essential. What happened at Folsom may occur at any other penal institu- tion. Rear | en- | was | over and | t ve- | all, the | nature of American still some —eee After Thanksgiving week has pass- ed. the less cheerful business must be taken up of considering a large num ber of things people wish had not bappened. —_—t- One of Henry Ford's greatest com- mercial achievements is that of se- ouring an unlimited supply of valu- able publicity gratis. ——— ‘Well Earned Rest. The world will think twice before eriticizing Anita Loos, author of #Gentlemen Prefer Blondes,” upon her announced determination to loaf the remainder of her life. She has enough money, as the result of the book, stage and movle rights, she says. ‘Writing a book thin in size but re plete with sage observations upon cer- faln brands of humanity as met to | by the nee they The day was | ion not o v » publ speedier and easier mes of per h travel ot facil between shore modation. Af ibit the tubes settled down to a reg lar serv ud figures just fi experin; u, n ed for t t eleven days show | has been For thi ght on Thur 1 291,432 ts of ope 10 on every way v t midnj tunnel us: and the net pr 1ged $3,000 a day. the daily expense of on being about $10,500. At thi rate liquidation of the enormous cost of construction will be effected within the period previously set. Some of the figures of the report on this first eleven-day period are of especial interest. Although, as stated, 91,432 vehicles used the tub there were only two arrests for traffic viola- tions within them. One fire was re- ported, but it was extinguished with- out appreciable delay to traffic. Four- teen cars had to be towed out, owing to breakdowns. Twenty-one cars ran out of gas and their drivers had to purchase fuel in the tubes at the puni- tive and admonitory rate of $1 a gal- lon. It is probable that with a wider spread of the rules regarding fuel supply the number of careless drivers, already very small in proportion to the it number using the tubes, will diminish, It is plain that these tubes, driven at enormous cost under the bed of the river, fill an urgent need. As time passes and the number of vehicles in the streets of New York and adjacent cities increases, the value of the short and safe route will appreciate. A question arises, however, in this con- nection regarding the possibiilty of such an increase in the daily traffic between the New Jersey suburban communities and Manhattan as to con- gest still further New York's garage and parking facilities. At present vast numbers of “commuters” travel daily by train and ferry. With the opening of facility for proceeding under their own power directly to the great busi- ness mart thers may come a heavy addition to the individual transport that will call for storage accommoda- tions in Manhattan. The solution of one problem may lead to the creation of another, perhaps even more difficult. —.— Those old time statesmen must at least be credited with putting their ideas into a form that made interest- ing reading, qualified to compete in public interest with the current chron- icles of crime. vehicle ion aver- was operal oo Financial reports are reassuring in revealing a condition of general pros- perity which prevents the fear that bootleggers have succeeded in acquir- ing a preponderance of the Nation’s available cash. e e el By withholding any effort to ex- plain the words “I do not choose” President Coolidge avolds the sug- gestion of suspicion in his mind that there is anything to argue about. e Size as Related to Self-Denial. The ardent analyst has uncovered a new angle on the male of the hu- man species, which, though as yet unconfirmed by the demon statistician, is said to be vouched for by those keen observers, the haberdasher and the wholesaler that supplies him. Their dictum is that physically big men are, in trade parlance, “cheap. They are not, as a rule, willing to pay high prices for extra fine articles of wearing apparel. Why this should be so they are not prepared to say, hut they declare that it is so. A well known Washingtonian In- troduced an out-of-town oversized friend to his favorite shirt, collarand necktie emporium, but the visitor was compelled to leave with his wants un- tisfled because the store did not and the proprietor stated that hufacturers did not make, the | fine things he desired of a size to fit him. Later, the " of the |0 local business man in- wberdasher the reason, ined that, now that the third person involved absent, he would say frankly that it was a trade truth that the big fellows s a rule, disinclined to be free spenders. “We do not stock silk shirts, for example, over a certain size,” he ex- plained, “although In the lesser-priced goods we keep them of dimensions to fit all comers. Long experience has taught our huyers, and through them the wholesalers, that it is the averag were, exhaust of an anto- oline engine often e due to carbon odorless he des Fumes from the mobile or other The da noxide colorle the fumes, in the engine has an amount of carbon | ed, but even under | ns the amount liber- | the air to a dangerous | ess there is abundant ven- | i gas | 1 When the | is bought for friend wife at| time, and stored in the eve, do not take at the party to see the sur- | nd how sweetly the motor runs. If a spark plug is not firing as it| should some bitter, cold night. do not | run the car into the garage and close | the doors to discover which plug it is. And on some of the freezing mornings this Winter when there is no alcohol in the car, do not run out before breakfast to start the motor to warm it up with the doors of the garage | shut to glve impetus to the warming- up process. Be careful at all times. Tt means a longer and healthier life. ———————— ts, beware! 1t is not likely that history can be tampered with in a way that will hopelessly prejudice the minds of young students. History is not usual- ly read with discriminating care until a mind has reached a certain ma- turity. o Human nature cannot learn by ex- perience. The fact that a prison mu- tiny is never successful does not pre- vent the desperate venture from being repeated. ——————————— Novelists question the dignity of George Washington. If George were here to speak for himself, he would probably glve them some characteristic utterances to think about. —— e Remus has friends who are work- ing hard for him. The fact that he still has friends in his peculiar circle of contacts would indicate a suspicion that he still has money. ——oee Rumania is again demonstrating that a small-sized country can under- take a remarkably large amount of politics. —————————— Having managed Italy so well, Mus- solini evidently feels prepared to lend @ helping hand to some of the sur- rounding territory. ————— A crap game that advances into the “wee sma’ hours” does not carry the assurance that “a pleasant time was had by all.” - SHOOTING STARS. BY PHILANDER JOHNSON. Unyielding Respect. Some very curfous books I see. I cannot read them all. A few of them appear to me To have a value small. The old-time thought I can’t neglect, ‘When all is said and done. I'll go on speaking with respect Of great George Washington. They who attempt the modern sneer At patriots of the past Display, at best, a jargon queer, Which s not made to last. The polished phrase I still desire, By which great good was won. Your honest words I must admire, Good friend, George Washington. Large Accumulation. “Have you any new ideas to offer when Congress convenes?” “There are so many old topics wait- ing to be threshed out,” sald Senator Sorghum, “it seems to me about the last thing we really need is a new idea.” Thumping Headache. The night club sounds a jazz refrain. Take warning! Only the bass drum will remain Next morning. Jud Tunkins says a man who finds fault with the breakfast is liable to give his wife the cue for an all-day monologue of her own, Removing the Edge From Scandal. “Have you been reading any of the startling theories as to modern mar- rlage?” “Yes,” answered Miss Cayenne. “What do you think of them?" “In one respect I approve. Those ideas will give the neighborhood gos- sips absolutely nothing to talk about that hasn't already been printed.” “He who hurts the helpless,” said Hi Ho, the sage of Chinatown, “learns to know life only as a picture of sor- row.” Marriages, id Cupid, In a humor fine, | ward in the way that time | marbi The District Health Depart- | . i the i it | mati |or “When wedding bells are sweet in tone, slzed man who grudges himself the least In the way of personal adorn- ment. Little men are bad prospects eay, Miss Loos did what many a per ®on has dreamed of doing. made @& “one-strike,” rather than two- for high-priced articles, and big men are just as ba Any one is likely to ponder on why Why can’t we use a valentine And let certificates alone?” “Thanksgivin said Uncle Eben, “‘was only & little early practice foh de gratitude 'most of us expects to feel on Christmus." BY CHARLES E. TRACEWELL. Other scenes of grade school days come to mind as memory floats back- ot do. me cannot make one “a child again, en for a night, but memory v turns the trick. Four distinet pictures stand out, might be labeled, “Miss Chatterbox."” “Old Man Smith inual ur rpetual those days grade s now understood, were heavier and more husk little foot ball, but that was not a ed school effort, being solcly a ghborhood teams. wctivities of bovs of older grade schools were contined most solely to marbles and tops. smo bovs did better playing . others at spinning tops. Our vement w in top: Wi good top spinner, as we re ng able to “whip” a top accor to 2 method of our ow Most whipping isted of tossi the top through the . to land spin £ on its point at a i system 1t stree cenes are humming hool athleti nknown. boys played a tempy top: al consid the right arm for 1 and the to slide spi the continue to spin riod of t oD whippe inee It t enjoye need add it ed th motor “horseless then, but they w carria 2 1 to do with the t of the principal of th en she caught some pupil in sort of an school w me class equivocation. We have forgotten tot: was all about, but no extent of will ever crase from our memory the picture of the & woman, or the intense indignation with which she uttered her classic remark. The various grades were lined up in the basem: eparatory to march ing upsf recess. As we re call, the boys were herded on the west on the east. rrand march was about to start, when something happened. We gret our inability to supply the e: details Anyway, pleture the es intent on getting They stand against washed wal Suddenly a short, fat woman darts forward. There was not a boy there who had any misapprehensions as to cither her shortness or her fatn Her position of authority “got her b as the modern saving is. “The lie!” she screamed. “The He!” These two words, with appropriate gestures and facial expressions, in a thousand different versions, shortly son y what it me white the | o | now i which | tal was graced even | * - | me the school by-word. The lie!” one boy would scream to anothel “The lie!” the other would roar. * ok ok ok “Miss Chatterbo: She was a beau tute,” in such marked cont cellent but not particul lady previously mentioned, quite won the class. Perhaps the fact that she was easy,” as the scholars said, had a it ‘deal to do with her popularity. One could do all sorts of tric | when Miss Chatterbox (which was| not her real name) was substituting for the regular teacher. One talked at will to the feller| in the next desk, got up and walked | around the classroom, sailed various | | paper ships throu space and caused uproars at not infrequent in 1l young “‘substi- st to the lovely that she idenly became hu teresting. For several weeks the | classroom was cagerly looked forward {10 by a group of boys and girls who | velished & bit of scholarly bolshevism | and then. The best part of it was that Mi Chatterbox enjoyed it, too. She ly helpless, in the face of the daily clamor, and merely smiled Th life & 1y | | A | | | o there who would not hav Miss Chatter- | box, but none got the opportu for one day, when the fun was height- In walked the reg punishme ders ipt ubstitutte. 1 after that boy of at its | r! Di out lar t meeted the disappear- No doubt she xperience with her day and ¢ 15 to offe nee of th zot marrie the American eration., * Smit ve shall call | “Old Man 1 diversion | him_here, e t hool days. nt distraction. ) supervisory prin- | sits to our particuiar | uncertain nature. | how anx- | s all of us to do room to look its everything to go Lvery in the class ain- | lly aware again that this was not | he real cla t a parade class for e special benefit of Mr. Smith. The best sport came, however, when |a few chosen companions were play- | ing tennis (during school hours) on the |court directly across the street from | the institution of learning. “Here comes Old Man Smith!” was the warning ery. Hastily the tennis game dissolved. would never do to let the solemn ial sce us at tennis when “arith- was the order of the hour. | Provably he would not know us, of hut hoys playing tennis at 10 ah, ha! wual training” is a picture that serves an article all to itself. It got its force from the fact that we were utterly unable to saw, to wield a plane or yet to hammer, Most of our “manual training" hours were spent on the tennis court, but the kind-hearted instructor, with divine common se, saw to it that we got a passing grade. Thanks, thanks, old man—to this day, thanks! was 2 1de ed, | His funct 1! made his v ding of a most As he came ious te our hest neatest, cip | L fe | | |1t off Glass Becomes As Nullification Is Debated A national debate in the pr has followed the recent statement by Sen- ator Glass of Virginia denying that the fifteenth amendment to the Fed- eral Constitution is violated in the outhern States and answering those who suggest that Southern critics of dry law nullification should turn their attention to the negro suffrage prob- lem. “The real moral Mr. Glass should draw,” contends the Milwaukee Jour- nal, “would be that not even a part of the Constitution comes into force un- less it is supported by public senti- ment,” while in the same vein the Brooklyn Eagle obser “What Mr. Glass and his associated casuists are doing is to stand for nullification where nullification suits their purpose, and to condemn nullification of the eighteenth amendment in commu- nities where public opinion is 2 overwhelmingly opposed to it lic opinion in the South is to teenth amendment.” Senator Gla: own Lynchburg News, “What should be learned by mo of those who prate about the inconsistency of the South in violating the fifteenth amend- ment, while urging observance of the eighteenth, is that the fifteenti amendment is not violated. Repe: edly challenged to point out a single violation in a single Southern State of the fifteenth amendment they cau- tiously take refuge in silence for a while, only to repeat the false state- ment after they get their second breath.” “The States of this part of the Union,” explains the Chattanooga News, “have various regulations of the right of suffrage; as have other States. Those, which place any re- tion, however, have all run the gauntlet of the Federal Supreme Court. They prescribe the same con- ditions for white as for colored voters. On the average, they are probably more liberal than are the ballot laws of most of the Eastern States.” * ok ok ok The Richmond Times - Dispatch wants to know: “If a State, seeking to protect itself from an ignorant and —in those days—vicious and venal electorate, enacts laws designed by its most_ patriotic citizens to save civil- ization, and in conformity with the thought of an openly hostile Supreme Court, why Is it not enough to s: that those laws are constitutional? “Who would contend,” asks the Charlotte Observer, “that a law jn- tended to develop an intelligent elec torate is mot a good law? It has worked to ithe benefit of the negroe: in inspiring them to secure an educa- tion.” The Hartford Times also declares that “while the wet nullifier h: claims moral support for his s ) pointing to the attitude of the South in this concern of negro voting, his analogy is not close, and in a I argument, totally untenable. were he correct in his contention Connecticut paper adds, “there would still be against him the maxim, Two wrongs do not make a right.,'” Senator Glass is right opinion of the Reno Evening Gazette, “when he says the fourteenth and fifteenth amendments were born ‘in the passions of the war' and that their enforcement would lead to the estab- lishment of an *Ethiopis in some of the Southern States Waterbury Republican argues: “There is no such justification for nullification of the ecighteenth amendment as there W for the fifteenth, since white civilization is not now threatened; nul- lification of the eighteenth amendment by wet States would seriously interfere with its enforcement by dry States— a situation for which the nullification of the fifteenth amendment offers no parallel.” paper, the * oK ok ok With a quotation from the Senator to the effect that “when a public man protest nst the sending of Ied- eral satraps to supervise State elec- tlons, for which there 1s no sanction of law, it s rather silly to suggest that such & proceeding would have precedent and parallel in sending prohibitlon agents under full sanction of the law to suppress the traflic in liquor,” the Spokane Spokesman-Re- view expresses Its opinion: “That is the law and that is the fact. There Storm Center is no analogy hetween the two cases, and it is stupid nator Glass sa to try to draw a forced resemblanc: cuse Herald ainst one of the solemn dicta of the Constitution that Senator Gla right of the and such papers as the Detroit New: the Worcester Telegram and Manches- ter Union take the position that Sena- tor Glass' argument is unsound. The Detroit News also refers to the fail- ure of Congress to reapportion is nul- lification of a_constitutional provision. he New York World, which gave v to the original attack tion of Senator Gla “Virginia, having been forbidden to deny’ negroes the vote because they are negroes, nevertheless denies ne- groes the vote because they cannot pass a literacy test so designed and so administered that it disfranchises the negroe £ * Kk ok ok “The power to determ tions the Birmingham lodged constitutionally with the States, ing in conformity with or at leas not at variance with, the Federal law. As the things has worked out, the fourteenth and fifteenth amend- ments have ceased to operate with the rigid effectiveness that their sponsors imagined they would operate. The fact that the Southern States have contrived—le- gally, to be sure—to outwit political marplots of the Thad Stevens stripe proves that th two amendments affecting the negro race in the South have in no small measure been de- leted to their original purpose, * * Under the sanction of the South’s laws—enacted, let it be borne in mind, by each sovereign State and validated the Supreme Court of the United States—the negro voter has been dis- couraged from voting, and even from attempting to vote. * * * For this reason, the Birmingham News is in- clined to think that it does not lie in the mouths of eminent Americans of the South, like the Hon. William Gibbs McAdoo, to find fault with his coun- men of New York, Maryland and A because Americans there striven to take the teeth out of the eighteenth amendment there.” * ok K X% Against arguments of this type the Asheville Times holds that “if it can be shown that prohibition is producing results anywhere that are compara- ble to the social and political demoy ilization that reigned in the South in reconstruction days, then the prohibi- tion minority would be justified in nullifying the eighteenth amend- ment.” The Times sees no such par- allel. The Roanoke World-News, de- fending the constitutional provisions of various Southern States, concludes: “Since the large invasion of aliens, without background of self-govern: ment, some. States not in the South have adopted literacy tests as a pre- requisite of voting, and others are planning to do so. The Massachusetts and Virginia laws in this respect are said not to be unlike.” —ae Denies He Was Judge In Arlington Election To the Editor of The Star: In_an article appearing upon the front page of The Evening Star of yesterday, November 24, entitled aud is Charged in Elections by Arlington Group,” it is alleged and charged that I served as a judge of clection in the Carne precinct of the Washington magisterial district on November 8, 1927. I desire to publicly deny this charge and to state that, although appointed, I declined to serve as a judge of elec: tion in sald Carne precinct and did not so serve as judge of said election or In any other officlal capacity in connectiom therewith. E. W. CUSHINY oo Nothing Too Good, From the Fors Wayne News-Sentinel. Atlanta friends of Bobby Jones have made him a gIft of a home. As long as Bobby pl#ys his present grade of golf, they sh give him a pull- man car or an ocean liner. iny { that He was, [{h THE LIBRARY TABLE By the Booklover ons are always wrong,” ward Wiggam in his book, “The Next Age of Man.” He qualifies this dictum by adding: “This does not apply to notions of art and religion, because in these fields taste and emotion are our chief guides. But popular notions about matters of fact and natural law, it they have never been tested and corrected by science, are always wrong. They almost have to he wrong. It is well-nigh a psycho- tozical necessity that they should be wrongz. This is because people in gen- eral ohscrve only the exceptions to the “Poputar notl says Albert E rule and they make a guess as to the | cause of the exception.” This is ari- |other way of saying that a minority frequently makes more noise than a majority. Some examples of popular beliefs which are, ording to Mr. Wiggam, altogeth: ng are that opposites tend to marry each other, that baldness is due to tight hats, that nandling toads causes warts, that bul- li always cowards, that mysteri- ous dangers lurk in night air (which is likely to be purer than day air) that there are equinoctial storms, that educating parents makes them’ pro- duce more intelligent children, ti pre-natal impressions of mothers may ause birthmarks in children, that w | mothers may produce musical ability lin children by singing and musical instruments in the preceding the birth of the persons of unusually minds are more likely t son become insane, playi mo chi | that t Q. What is the longest solo flight ever made by airplane?—A. G. M. A. On September 1 through tember 2! Sep- , 1927, Lieut. R. R. Bentley of the South African Air Force flew from London, England, to Cape Town, South Africa, thus completing the longest solo flight eve ade. The Moth plane which he used was na- ard in every respec h the excep- tion of enlarged petrol tanks. Q. Who keeps the flame burning on | the tombgof France's Unknown Sol |dier? What fuel u 17—A. S A. The association known as Flamme Sous I'Are de Triomphe” was | founded in 1923 with a to main- taining in proper order the tomb of | the Unknown Soldier and to quicken | the flame thercon every There are 5 soldiers’ associa belonging to this ition. A com- | mittee of 30 members presided over b; | Gen. Gouraud makes up the schedu A lots to each its | special day for q The fuel empl ganization is in no ex-soldiers hs complete {ian of the tomb is pai | provided by the comm | ay official. The rred to remain and his clothes Q. How high up on mounta there snow the year around?—.J. A. Ice and snow are found on hig mountains the around at | what is known as the snow enfuses are immoral, that dro f people have water on their lungs, that cannot reason with a woman, * K ok ok ncerning one of ptions, geniuses, Mr. Wig, ns to furnish ev “A little e that ordinary with each other's wive: and do all sorts of these popu immorality of am takes som 2nce to the con- imination eas folks run nd husbands stupid immoral s more often than do people of zenius. Men and women of talent and genius are the n and virtuous pe the *** The Ten Command not written by a moron. K Woods told me just the other day t he had been searching throughout all history for 25 immoral, dissolute men of science of first rank and failed to find them.” An attempt to name a number of immoral geniuses offhand might eas produce the names of Poe, Burns, Oscar Wilde, Byron, Aaron r, Shelley, Lord Nelson, Peter the reat, Catherine the Great, Louis X1V and some others. “But test yvourself and see how many famous men and women you can recall without a cy clopedia” whose noble lives and char- 8 eam from every page of hu- n history. Without the slightest effort I think of Moses, Isalah, Shake- speare, Lincoln, Washington, Hamil- ton, Jefferson, John Randolph, John Marshall, Roosevelt, Florenc ght- le, Joan of Are, Charlotte Cush- n, Mary Lyon, Harriet Beecher Stowe, Sarah Siddons, Plato, Aristotle, Socrates, Pericles, Cicero, Seneca, Martin Luther, Thomas More, Sir Walter Scott, Dickens, Thackeray, George Eliot, Faraday, Pasteur, Helm- holts, Bach, Mozart, Beethoven, Liszt, Edward MacDowell, Caesar Franck, John Milton, Dante, William the Silent, Gustavus Adolphus, Alexander II of Russia, Hegel, Spinoza, Herbert Spencer, Huxley, John Tyndall, Charles Darwin, Alexander Graham Bell, Robert Fulton, Louis Agassiz.” * ok Kk K Two recent romances of China which, whatever their deficiencies of style and characterization, never lag in.plot are Louise Jordan Miln's “In a Yun-Nan Courtyard” and Lewis Stanton Palen’s “The Red Dragon.” The scene of Mrs. Miln's book shifts often, but the most interesting parts of the setting are Yun-Nan and vari- ous places along the Yangtze River. So Wing, a man of many occupations, including music, banditry and trad- ing, is the main character. Mr. Palen’s plot concerns the activities of certain Chinese secret societies as they affect a young diplomat attached to the American consulate at Capton. A charming Russian woman who is in- volved with the secret societies plays her part in the adventure of the young American, E * koK K Basil King has joined Conan Doyle in the introduction of spiritualistic speculation into the field of fiction, with his volume of stories “The Spreading Dawn.” Each story tells of a spirit return. In oing West" a soldier killed in the World War comes back and makes his presence felt in his famil In “The Ghost's Story” a murdered man returns to the scenes of his life. *“Heaven” and “Abral n’'s Bosom™ show the immor- tal state of two people who have led lives of goodness and faith. Perhaps the best is the title story, of an old woman who passes to the spirit life so easily that she is unconscious of the transition and continues about her home, watching those she has left in the flesh. W Following Lord Byron and Emma, Lady Hamilton, Napoleon has been made the subject of a novel by E. Barrington, who is now known to be A L. Adams Beck of Victoria, British Columbia, author also of stories of the Orient. “The Thunderer" tells the romance of Napoleon and Josephine. Napoleon the military hero and politician becomes secondary. As a lover he does not appear heroic. From the time when he commands Josephine, mistress of the Director Barras, to marry him until he divorces her, their life together is turbulent. is frivolous, he is heavy and she is extravagant, ho is That extravagance of hers is a cause of trouble with her “in-laws,” the numerous Bonaparte family. They are continually starting quarrels with the naturally peace-loving Josephine, subjecting her to petty annoyances, and intriguing against her whenever they can gain the hearing of Napoleon. They are to a certain extent responsi. ble for his divorcing her. The novel is far indeed from being a great one. It is merely a decoratively served dish of scandal, not as well prepared as “Glorious Apollo.” * K K % The last didactic novel of H. G. Wells, “Meanwhile,” rather tiresome as a story, is a piece of pamphleteer- ing on the discouraging tendencies of the period between the World War and the emergence of England and the world into the light to pursue the way of peace and progre: In nearly all of Mr. Wells’ novels one character is the spokesman for Mr. Wells himself. This time it is Mr. Sempack. He is a philosopher of tolerance and is both sentimental and platitudinous. Tol- erance, or reasonableness, he says “is a rare thing, a hothouse plant. It is the last fine distillation of human hope. It lives in just a few happy cor- ners of the world, in libraries and lib- eral households. If you smash the greenhouse glass or turn off the hot water, it will die. How is it ever com- ing into the open air to face crowds and face millions? * oK K K All people who according to the cal- endar are aged from 8 to 80, but who in feelings are youthful enough to en- joy A. A. Milne’s “When We Were Very Young"” and “Winnie the Pooh,” will also take delight in Milne’s latest book, “Now We Are Six.” Like its predecessors, it is illustrated by E. H. Shepard. The hero, Christopher Robin, now @, decides to remain at that age. Here {8 his declaration: When 1 was One T had fusk bewun, When T was Twe I was nearly new, When | was Thres 1 handly Me. When [ was Four T was not miich more, Whon T was Five T was just alive. But now 1 am Six; I'm as clover as clever. 8o I think e Six now for ever and ever. ti snow line is the line showir | limit of perpetual snow. varying | the climate in different parts of | world, but situated at approxi { 1.000 feet abov level, at Ia degree 5,100 feet, 60 de 5,000 to t Q s o T Did the practi originate with M. he practice is not exc n havi been noted fent Scythians as f: time of Herodotus. Ne | ther was it common to all American ibes, as So often sSuppo: On th contrary, recent researches by F cate that it was confined the BY PAUL t wonderful what the are finding out by ording to the latest pronouncement_from a highbrow of the Wisconsin Univ Of course, Wisconsin is a “Progr State in politics, but _does s prove the embryo function of brains in universal application? Or was down” to the capacity of his audience when, in addressing the Institute of Arts and Sciences of Columbia Uni- versity last Tuesday, he used this language of “words of one syllable,” 0 to speak? “Success is generally due to a com- bination of lucky circumstances and outside influences. only enough brain to keep from stand- ing in the way of success.” (Brains are then a sort of modern traffic cop.) refutable, the Wise Man of the West adds: “Many have achieved success with- out any undue display of mental ac- tivity.” * Kk ok K Before any argument upon any sub- ject can proceed with intelligibility it is necessary to agree upon definitions. This pronouncement by the Wiscon- sin enemy of brains—this advocate of the skull-vacuum theory—uses some hard words, whose definitions need to be researched. (Outside of college one would say must “be looked up in a dictionary,” the word is “researched.”) “Brains: The principle regulating Standard Dictionary. for this ganglion: Yet all that only adds to con- 1f Jastrow is right, any clever surgeon who is skillful in grafting monkey glands and mechanical sub- stitutes for vocal cords might learn how to graft ganglions, whereby any- body with the price might buy more brains than any genius was ever born with. It's all a matter of ganglions and money. Live stock breeders may harp upon the importance of pedi- grees, but what have ancestors to do with our ganglions or even ganglii? Some years ago artists began using brains as “vehicles” in mixing their paints to produce brilliant color—not colors, but color, which is quite a dif- ferent thing. Turner used fresh eggs. Oil is cheaper. John Opie, the.Cornish artist, gave away the secret when a pedigreed, lordly fop got on his nerves by askin; Do tell me, Mr. Opie, what you mix th your paints to make them so bril- nt, don't you know?” > “Brains—just brains!” was the can- nibalistic answer. Some artists really do just that, though the practice is going out of vogue with the modern- ists. e S Now, to follow the lead of the Standard Dictionary (“see mind”), one may even get a glimmering of what Jastrow referred to when he said the ganglion was superfluous. It persists evidently from prehistoric ages, a vestige of what was formerly active, even in colleges. Anatomists point to other vestigal organs, including some- times vestiges of tails at the base of human spines, proving the evolution doctrine, How inspiring is the Jas- trow assurance that one today has no more use for brains than he has of a monkey tail to drive away the flies! That accounts, of course, for the im- mense influx of stiidents in all schools and colleges since the v There have been many explanations of this renaissance of erudition-seeking, but now . that we discover the vestigal character of brains the mystery passes. Not many days ago this col- umn published a learned thesis on the passing of hair upon the outside of the brain box and authorities were quoted to the effect that when a man or woman thought heavily it caused the nerve cells to heat, which de- stroyed hair and caused baldness and smooth faces. The theory that think- ing hard destroys hair is upset by Jastrow’s dictum that brains need not be exercised to bring wealth and great fame. Hence, with idle ganglions, we may look for better foot ball hair in all institutions of learning, e Much research discloses that Jastrow might cite many instances of financial success and even of other specialized success, which came without any evi- dence of a college degree, but what of that? The richest man in the world is Henry Ford, who despises history and gets his recreation out of fiddling “Turkey In the Straw” when most turkeys today are in ovens. Mr. Edison used to sneer at colleges. Mr. Darwin was a school dullard. Abe Lincoln never got a degree. The Learned Blacksmith was more erudite than most college professors. The world’s progress has never depended im- mediately and directly upon ‘“pure ience,” but rather upon the applica- laboratory research by “pr: tical” men when the “pure sclentist were utterly Incompetent to harness thelr discoveries with the practical problems of humanty. Does that prove the accuracy of Jastrow’s statement that “brains” are vestigal today? He qualifies his cess” with the adjective “material J::s as a sneer at flnancial vants often belittle the evening. | good are they to any- Prof. Joseph Jastrow simply *“‘talking One has to use Furthermore, by a logic that is ir- but among us savants ganglion of invertebrate animals.”— The same authority gives as a “See ANSWERS TO QUESTIONS BY FREDERIC J. HASKIN. ed area in the eastern United Staces and the lower St Lawrence region, about equivalent to the territory held | by the Iroquoian and Muskhogean | tribes and their immediate neighbors, { It was absent from New England and much of the Atlantic Coast region and was unknown until comparatively re- cently throughout the whole interior and the plains area. * * ¢ The | spread of the practice was the direct 1 ult of encou n the case scalp bounties offered by | colonial and more recent governments, Q. How does the Cathed t St. Divine in New Y the great European 1 of i k | wi AWy | be the t completed St largest cathec John's wi al in area an ville square fe 0 sq | id fo b the Haps- be due experi 1K Q. Did an went on 5 in 1189, wou througlh our Wish tion Burcaw? Can't | neip to you your daily probl | Our Bbusiness is to furnish you in u r | authoritative information, and e in- vite you to ask fact in which you ar your inquiry to The E formation Bureau, Frederic | director, Washington, D. €. us any question of interested. Send ening Star In- Haskin Inclose 2 in North America to a limit- cents in stamps for return postage. BACKGROUND OF EVENTS V. COLLIN of great financial of laboratory triumpt ‘e scientist,” relying u mortar and pestle and tes < lighted the world's darkness i Edison, or spread healing into the wilds and the siums, as has the Rockefeller Foundation? The scientific research required brains, but most assuredly great financial enterprise and organization are equally dependent upon similar ganglions, in accumulating capital requisite in dis- tributing the results of research to the furthermost ends of the world. An eminent educator remarked recently that Henry Ford's wonderful “material success” was due more to his genius for organization and administration than to his engineering invention of the automoble. * kK k In belittling the value of braing in “material success,” why not consider the national appreciation thereof, as indicated by annual investments in their development along both lines? “Material success” gives humanity the power to lessen the hardships of life by substituting what are called “luxuries.” In the last census year, 1920, we invested §750,000,000 in train- ing brains in the common schools and high schools, while by our *“material prosperity” we spent the same amount, plus two billions more, upon “luxuries.” President Lowell of Har- vard points to the shameful fact that a motorman upon an elevated train in New York is paid more than are many college professors, and he adds bitterly, “Which is the more impor- tant, to mind the train or to train the mind?” That seems like quite a paradox to originate in an institu- tion of learning, similar to one which believes that brains are out of date, in the “‘material” vocations. There is no more important influ- ence in America supporting the spread of higher education than is the Car- negie Foundation, but was that vast capital accumulated without real brains, foresight and comprehension of problems of industry? * K ®k % Why must savants isolate them- selves from human problems, and live in an unreal world, where forgetful- ness of umbrellas and meals fis habitual? TIn a newly published book, “Natural History of a Savant,” by Charles Richet, of France, appears this confession: “There are many kinds of savants. One variety studies palimpsests, hiero- &lyphs, extinct languages, ancient his- tories. As for writing of modern his- tory, especially of cotempor: his- tory, it is not really a matter of science, for in affairs of our own time personal appreciation—which has noth- ing to do with science—holds a pre- ponderating place. The preparation of a treatise on Etruscan origins is the work of a savant, but one need scarcely regard as a savant the his- torian who recounts such incidents as those of the treaty of Versailles; which nevertheless is almost as difficuult as to descant on the records left by the Etruscans.” 5 In parallel strain, is it not of equal \‘.‘lh{e to civilization to “make the dirt flly”; in digging the Panama Canal as to trace the “canals of Mars” or to organize an automohile industry which gives employment to hundreds of thousands of industrial workers and equips millions of men with “giant boots,” giving longer stride to every- body than Jack the giant killer could boast—is not that equally the work of “brains” as the lecture of the pro- fessor upon the habits of ptorodactyls? _True, the poet. James Shemdan hhm:!wl?s tlé"reed with Jastrow, when @ declared, a hundred yes , in “The Hunchback”: Mo “I abhor brains as T do tools; tney are things mechanical.” And every body knows that “a poor workman always complains of his tools. (Covyright. 19°7. by Paul V. Collins.) UNITED STATES IN WORLD WAR Ten Years Ago Today. S he success Frersh War Cross conferred on the 15 American officers and men Wwho were cited with their company by the French general commanding the sec- tor where the Americans were sta- tioned at the time of the first German raid on November 2-3. * * * Senate leaders favor formal declaration of war against Austria. * * ¢ Ameri- can Army officers, back from France, predict end of World War some time in 1918. * * * Grand total of 260, 479 men have enlisted in the Regular Army since declaration of war in April. * * ¢ Government estimates place cost of war for present year, ex- clusive of loans to allies, at $12,316, 000,000, or $33,740,000 a day. * ® * Orders {ssued for Army to guard water front plers from which troops and supplies are sent abroad. * * * Cotton reaches new high record price of 30 cents. ® * ¢ Terrorstricken Germans, on U-boat captured by American destroyer, line up along narrow deck with hands upraised. shouting “Kamerad!” All are rescued 4 landed at American flotilla base. * ® * Allled envoys stand ready to quit Russia if that nation enters into separate peace megotiations with the central powers. the * . 4 ’ '