Evening Star Newspaper, November 30, 1927, Page 8

THE EVENING STAR With Sunday Morning Edition. WASHINGTON, D. C. WEDNESDAY . November 30, 1927 THEODORE W. NOYES. .. .Editor ‘The Evening Star Newspaper Company Business Office: w4 G In A, icago : Tower Building. ‘Euroj Office: 14 St., London. pean Office. Regent i The Evening Star with the Sunday morn- % edition s delivered by carriers within iy ‘mail or r month 1 nrl"ll‘"?!r 6“[3:!“!“%5('1: l‘| ly. 2 s Tonth, it hone Main 5000, Collection is made by carler'at ond"of sach monih. Rate by Mail—Payable in Advance. Maryland and Virginia. 0 5 $000: 1 mo. 78e F:."! Ty Sundnr v 3001 1 mo: A8 junday only’ 211 vr. $3.00° 1 mo.. 25¢ All Other States and Canada. flv and_Sunday.l vr. $12 00: 1 mo. $1.00 F' v Sty ueday- 3 ves M8 00: 1 i Al i1mo. 75 ndar” onis [yrl $400i1mol 35 Member of the Associated Press. The Assoctate) Press is exclusively entitled 0 the ‘use for reput on of all news dis- patches credited to it or not otherwise cred- ted in thie naver and also the local rews hed herein Al +ights of puhlicat herein are also re Bright Enfranchisement Prospect. Positive assurance that the move- ment to secure national representa tion for the disfranchised District | Columbia in Congress and the elec- toral college s stronger than ever is given by meetings held in this eity yesterday. At one of these meetings contact ~wce established between the Citizens' Joint Committee for National Representation and repre- sentatives of the National Council of State Legislatures, charged with the duty of reporting to. their organization upon the merits and equities of the District’s claim for enfranchisement. | At the meeting of the National Representation Executive Committee of Citizens plans were laid for con- tinuance of the campaign to secure the adoption by Congress of the joint resolution proposing a constitutional amendment empowering Congress to admit the people of the District to participation in legislative and elec- tora! proceedings. Especial encouragement results from the evidence of a sympathetic interest in the District's aspiration on the part of representatives of the States. This is particularly so in view of the fact that when Congress has adopted the joint resolution it must be submitted to the Legislatures for their ratification, the assent of three-fourths of them being necessary. Evidence appears that there is no dissent in this quarter from the funda- mental principle of the District’s claim to full citizenship. On the con- trary, it would appear that the feel- ing prevails that a grave injustice has for these many years been done to the residents of the Capital in de- nying them the basic prerogative of eitizenship, participation in the process of making their own laws and levy- ing their taxes and in summoning them to war in the country's defense. Immediately upon the opening of Congress next Monday the joint reso- tution proposing the necessary consti- tutional amendment will be intro- @duced in both houses. Shortly there- after arrangements will be made for hearings before the judiciary commit- tees of the two houses, at which the District’s case will be presented. It is expected that at those hearings pleas will be made not only by representa- tives of the District, but by repre- sentatives of the States, asking for their fellow citizens of Washington the same American privileges and rights that are accorded to those who dwell beyond the bounds of the Dis- trict. Steady progress has been made in the evocation of favorable sentiment in Congress and in the country at large for national representation for the District. Though some years have elapsed since the movement was put upon its present basis of sincere and determined desire by all Washington for this form of enfranchisement, it is felt that the goal is being neared. Adoption of the joint resolution by this present Congress following fa- wvorable reports from the two commit- tees before which the case will be ergued may be reckoned as a possi- bility. And in view of the recent man- itestation of sympathy for the dis- franchised District on the part of the representatives of the people of the country at large, their formally elected legislators before whom the amendment is eventually to be placed, fts ratification when thus submitted ay be confidently expected. —e——————— 1t is many a long year since the question “Is marriage a failure?” was yegurded as a shocking incident in lit- prature. o ‘What Will Mr. Coolidge Say? Announcement at the White House Yesterday that President Coolidge will @ddress the Republican national com- gnittee when it meets in this city next week has led to the deduction that he may take that occasion to amplify his statement of last August to the effect that he does “not choose to run for President in 1928, ‘There is no positive basis for this, however. Noth- ing in the present statement made at the White House indicates the trend of the remarks the President will make to representatives of his polit- fcal party. They will be meeting here for the purpose of making the ar- rangements for the next Republican pational convention, to be held, pre- sumably, in June, in a city then to be chosen. The specific business in hand 43 to provide for the nomination of a presidential ticket for the campaign of 1928. The President may not #choose” to talk about his own posi- gion in the matter. Indeed, the logic ®f deduction is that he will not deem §t necessary to amplify or in any way 2o touch upon his August statement, finless he feels that it is incumbent fpon him, in view of the persistence ¢ demand for his candidacy, to be $nore explicit, either in elimination of Bimself or in recognition of the pos- Bibility of his being “drafted” for'duty Bgain. There are many matters upon Which the President may talk to ghe national committee members next Week without touching upon per- nal questions. He 1is the h L the party by virtue of bis fice. It is within his prerogative in that capacity to discuss the party’s prospects, its claims for public ap- proval, its campaign necessitles, the issues that may be declared. Yot a discourse of that character could not in the circumstances fall to have its implications of a personal nature. Nothing has been said yet regarding the question of publicity. The as- sumption is that the full text of the President’s statement or address to the national committee will be given forth. It would, indeed, be unfortunate it 1t were not, if it were left to be the subject of further speculation, perhaps to filter out to the public mind through the medium of the rec- ollections of those present, who, it can be almost definitely assured, could not possibly all be bound and held to secrecy. For this address will be of great public importance and in- terest, and in all the circumstances it is virtually imperative that it should be “spread on the records™ in complete text; whether for the final settlement of the question ngw uppermost in the public mind or for further disputation depends upon its character. ——— . A Grand Gesture. Russia again startleg the world. The regime that has succeeded to the old czarist government in Muscovy has apparently an infinite capacity for sensation. It goes on from ew treme to extreme in a series of ex- traordinary performances, consistent with the fundamentals of the hypothe- sis of national administration upon which it is founded. The latest move in the Soviet pro- gram is made at Geneva, at the ses- sion of the preparatory disarmament commission, to which Moscow sent a delegation, after much backing and filling. Today M. Litvinoff, head of the delegation, proposes an absolute disarmament for all nations, the dis- bandment of all armies, the scrapping of all navies, the dismantling of all fortifications, within a period of four vears. To this end he suggests the holding of a world disarmament con- ference to be held in the Spring of 1928. The first reaction to this proposal is that of skepticism as to the good faith of the plan. Russia has not yet cleared itself of suspicion in the minds of the other nations of the world. Recollection of subversive movements, aimed against the estaklished order in all other lands, conducted under the auspices, if not specifically by the government at Moscow, is too fresh to permit confidence. The echoes of the Chinese turmoil, induced by Rus- sian influence and under direct Rus- sian guidance, are still reverberating. Disclaimers of official responsibility have not absolved Moscow from the blame for such disturbances. Moreover, it is known that upon the army in Russia the Soviet govern- ment relies not merely for propaganda but for the maintenance of the estab- lished order in Russia. It must, of course, be conceded that Litvinoff and his colleagues at Moscow are fully aware of this fact, and have taken it into consideration in proposing the disbandment of armed forces in all countries. Is it to be concluded that they are confident that Soviet Russia can now stand unsupported by its “red” army? Taking into consideration all factors the first impression to be gained from this announcement today from Geneva will be that Russia is making a grand gesture, with no expectation of effec- tiveness. Suspicion is already voiced that the move is made with the pur- pose of effecting a bloc at Geneva, with Russla and Germany as the nucleus of a combination of powers to oppose those of Western Europe. There are certain ties between those two Eastern European governments. There are certain elements of hostil- ity between them and the other conti- nental powers. No likelihood of an absolute and complete disarmament such as Rus- sia now proposes is to be considered as possible, even granting perfect sin- cerity. In view of the dissent of Great Britain to the naval limitation plans of the United States a few months ago, due to that power’s claim of imperative need of commerce-pro- tecting sea force, it is plain that at least one of the major factors in European affajrs will not consider so sweeping a project. France is not at all likely to concede the possibil- ity of a 100 per cent disarmament. Italy, with as yet undefined but well recognized projects of expansion, is in no mood to enter a conference which would be’bound by the agenda to consider seriously a program of ab- solute surrender of all means of mili- tancy. The dream of all advocates of world peace may be visioned by this pro- posal. But even they will be checked in their enthusiasm by the recollec- tion of the age-old warning: “Beware the Greeks bearing gifts.” ————————— In establishing a naval ratio, the afterthought may be introduced in connection with a prudent spirit of forethought. —————————— Tornado Relief Funds Needed. Fear is expressed lest the public subscriptions to the fund for the re- habilitation of the sufferers from the tornado which struck Washington nearly two weeks ago will not suffice to meet the necessities. The estimate of the total requirement, made after a careful survey of the situation, placed the figure at $25,000. With this money, it was computed, adequate assistance can be given to all whose homes were destroyed or damaged and who were not capable of meeting the obligation of restoration and repair. Some delay was met in the announce- ment of the public subscription, but when it was finally launched there was for the first few days a generous response. Now the subscriptions are dwindling in number and in size, and the total of a}f gifts up to the close of the count yesterday was somewhat less than $7,000. Probably if decision THE EVENING STAR, WASHINGTON, D. C, WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 30, 1927., THIS AND THAT BY CHARLES E. TRACEWELL. necessary to meet the requirements. It must be assumed that Washingto- nians do not fully appreciate the neces- sity, else they would be more prompt and liberal in their gifts for the succor of their unfortunate fellow citizens. It must be remembered that many of these sufferers from the tornado are home owners, striving to pay for their dwellings out of their slender means. Some of them lost nearly everything they owned. Their resources were ex- hausted. Not only were their walls wrecked, but their household goods were ruined. The Red Cross is care- fully supervising the reparations and it is to be confidently assured that every dollar given to it for this work will be carefully expended and limited in application to those who' are in actual distress. R The American Pie. The question of the American pie versus the British tart is agitating London. Ever since the days when “the Queen of Hearts, she baked some tarts, all on a Summer's day,” ‘Eng- land has been proud of her apple edi- fices. Now it seems as if the ubiqui- tous apple pie, as invented in New England, is running the apple tart a close race for first place in the hearts —and stomachs—of Britishers. If an American may take the attack of the London Evening News as typical, he may believe that the tart is becoming a poor second, for this is the way the News discusses the situatio “American pie breeds dyspepsia, dys- pepsia breeds restlessness, and rest- lessness begets a feverish but none the less formidable material progress. The American apple pie is the sheer gastronomic equivalent of an incen- diary bomb.” For an American to learn that the beloved apple pie is the “sheer equivalent” of anything but an | apple pie is “to laugh,” as Americans sometimes say. The apple pie is sim- ply the apple tart adapted to mnew conditions. Conditions are different in this country, and the apple tart evi- dently believed in the old adage, “When in Rome, do as the Romans; do.” So the apple tart became the apple pie and has so remained to this day, boldly, defiantly, proudly, and, if one may believe all signs, trium- phantly! —.— Much study has been devoted to making prisons cheerful. It has not availed to prevent the more or less transient residents from being anxious to check out and be on their travels. —————————— That the tariff will be a campaign issue may be regarded as well assured. There is no economic controversy in which the tariff cannot be made to figure as an important factor. —— e Henry Ford starts up his new auto- mobile factory just in time to cheer the hearts of many workmen who were beginning to wonder whether Santa Claus is a myth. ——————— ‘There are still people in the country who resent vaccination. No fellow creature is entirely friendless; mnot even a germ. A tempestuous convention might do worse than to consider the nomination of Herbert Hoover as a first aid ex- pert. ———————— Sudden riches are sweet, but no dis- creet juror will permit himself to boast of them. AR D Too many marriages are calling in | not only the minister or the justice, but the foreman of the jury. ——— v SHOOTING STARS. BY PHILANDER JOHNSON. Holiday Temperature. It's almost time for Santa Claus Once more to come around. And, while we give our kind applause, Bid happiness abound. As I prepare for Christmas 'dny. I have decided that T'll throw my overcoat away And wear my old straw hat. Future Opinion. “We should not speak slightingly of our forefathers. We, too, must hope that one day we will be respectfully remembered as forefather: “Yes,” answered Sepator Sorghum; “some of us will be remembered as forefathers and some as four flush- ers.” Consistent Performer. Enthusiasm never fails. He takes the crowd by storm. ‘We're cheering for the Prince of Wales, Still riding true to form. Seen, But Not Heard. “Children should be seen and mnot heard.” “And so they are. None of them can sing or recite, but they can all dance.” Jud Tunkins says you can read all kinds of crime story, but a cook book with an old-fashioned recipe for mince pie is likely to get you into prohibition troubles, Banished Repose. “Does grandfather still sit by the chimney and doze over the news- paper?” “He sits by the chimney, but he doesn’t doze. The crime news is so exciting that it keeps him awake all night.” “A revengeful thought,” said Hi Ho, the sage of Chinatown, “is a weary waste of time that might have been valuable.” , Coming Commuter. The foot ball player goes again To strive with might and main, The practice will improve him when He runs to catch a train, Chances, “A young man has as many chances in life as he ever had.” “More,” answered Miss Cayenne. “But there are all kinds of chances and he has to be discreet in making’ to call for public ald in this matter had been reached more promptly there would have been no such slackening. Indeed, it may be expected that the full amount requested would have been given in short order. The point of importance, however, is not that the call for public aid was delayed, but that the need remains, that approximately $18,000 will. be his selection.” “Nature is called superior to art,” said Uncle Eben, “but a hawk ain’ got much chance racin’ an aeropla: What Price Glory in Youth, From the Boston Herald, ‘What of it! A horde of gictory- frenzied college boys would fyil up the North Pole. b Why the world does not change when we do is always something of a mystery, one which we often re- sent. A man becomes ill, but his friends remain healthy. A storm hits the neighborhood, but the remainder of the city does mot mind it a bit. Everywhere one finds a strange apathy in the sufferings and mistor- tunes of others, as well as a queer in- difference to such happinesses as may visit one. One's joys and woes are strictly one’s own. It will not do to expect too much interest from others, al- though there remains the easily un derstood feeling on the part of most persons that others should take an interest in everything. We speak, of course, of the indi- vidual. When it comes to a question of groups, modern civilization has done better by humanity. Great relief organizations, s the Red Cross, are the fi spond in case of calamity. Here the mass consciousness of humanity speaks out, puts itself into action. Those who suffer together will find that the world recognizes their ex perience. The calamity is large; one can overlook it. He who bears his cross alone, how- ever, does not always have the spot- | light of attention put upon him, or find himself buoyed up by the kindly words and acts of others. * ok ok % Nothing in the everyday life can be more harassing, for instance, than a severe headache, yet it is common experience that no acquaintance can grasp what our colored friends pic- turesquely term “The misery in the head"—when it is in some one else’s h ery footfall seems twice as every touch more forceful, every sound magnified, when one has a headache, especially’ of the variety usually termed “sick.” "Then one should be in bed, but often finds life remorseless. Duty calls. Work must be performed, whether one’s head aches or mot. So the sufferer goes down to the office, only to be met by the utter indifference of the world, or at least such part of it as he personally comes into contact with. Not a soul is interested in his head- ache. No one can sce it, or smell it, or grasp it. A headache has no handle by which others can take hold of it. Unless one has it himself, a head- ache is only a name. Often, alas, it becomes a matter for jest! Perhaps this lukewarmness on the part of the public toward one's pet headacho Is tho cruelest blow of all. One could forgive the bus driver for hitting every rut and bump in the road from home to the office. Equally one is willing to overlook the fact that every pedestrian one sights on the way down seems sur- charged with good health. How the healthy beggars strut as they swing down Connecticut avenue! Listen to that brute whistle! Willingly one could wring his neck, as the saying is, were it not for the fact that the bus is whirling along out of sight of him. This motion gives no mental relief. Every street corner shows scores of lusty persons, fit for treason, strata- gem and spoils, who seem never to have suffered from such a thing as a headache in their lives, One wonders if these exuberantly healthy persons know what a cold is, or how miserable a human being can no | feel with a toothache, or just to what extent the whole bony framework of the body can ache when one is getting the grippe. * ok ok ok And now, at the office, the martyr receives the cruelest wound of all, beside which the crass animal spirits of the walkers is as nothing. Here no one puts much stock in his headache. If he were visibly pale, they might belleve him. It he were afflicted with the blind staggers, or showed any inclination to go into a coma, or some other such small symptom, kind fellows would hasten to ease his aching brow. 1t he foamed at the mouth, six gallons of water would be poured over him instantly. A dozen large hands would pound upon his back at a moment’s notice, if he gasped for air and indulged in awful coughing. Doing nome of these things, man with a headache is plainly of luck,” as the vigorous langu: the day puts it. “Hello, old man, how are you?” greets Jones, whacking him over the head. “You got a headache? gpu just think you ha Forget it! Did ou_ever try forgetting it? You ought to try forgetting it. You only :hink you have a headache. Forget Bill Smith Is another one |have a headache? say, did | try a dose of Easeem? It will brace vou up. Run over to the drug store, they'll fix you up.” * oK ok K Despite the fact that every one knows he must not expect too much credence from others, or too large a share of their sympathy, he never- theless harbors the belief that the world of men ought to be tinged somewhat by his own experiences. This is why mankind reveres the {large ceremony of public mourning, when some one man, singled out by |life and events, is given the atten- tion at his end which every one be- lieves should be the right of every man, Thus men, in honoring one, vicari- ously pay homage to all those count- less ‘millions who will make no ripple in_the active world when they pass on. Life is a queer thing of seli-interests and community interests. The hopes and aspirations of mankind are first individual, then shared by the group. The trouble comes in co-ordinating the two. This is an individual task, just as {life itself is individual. Some men solve it Dby themselves, others need help. Some have the solution placed |in their hands by a kindly fate. Those with a sensitive mental fabric experience the most difficulty along the way. Just as the skin of one man is more tender than that of another, so the mental make-up of one is more delicate, more impression- able. Such a person will find his sorrows | multiplied, but he has some gain in an equal increase (it is to be hoped) in his joys. Life has a way of evening up. Those who put up with much shall gain much. One of the best gains of life as one goes along is to come to a humorous | realization of the situation he is in— | that he is one amid millions; that he | must not expect too much interest or | sympathy from others at large; that | he must approximate the poet's brave | picture and, to some extent at least, | be master of his fate and captain of | his own soul. the out of “You WASHINGTON OBSERVATIONS BY FREDERIC WILLIAM WILE. Now that President Coolidge pur- poses addressing “a few remarks” to the Republican national committee at the White House next week, specula- tion will run riot in the meantime as to what he'll tell them. The betting odds in political Washington strongly favor a pronouncement to the effect that Mr. Coolidge is definitely out of the 1928 race. No_intimation forthcoming from the White Hous: to the character of the President’s intentions, but everybody expects him to remove all doubt about his political plans. for such a clarification. The national committee is the board of directors of the Republican party. It is en- titled to know what the titular chief of the organization-means to do, ¢ not to do, with reference to the quadrennial contest just over the horizon, By all the signs of the political zodiac, December 6 will mark the date, and the east room of the White House the place of the opening of the 1928 presidential cam- paign. The G. O. P. and its aspiring favorite sons, East and West, should know exactly where they are “at” thenceforward. It is an open secret that impatience with the present un- certainty is on the increase. * k kX There are bound to be those who will keep on saying that Calvin Cool- idge can be “drafted” for renomina- tion, no matter how much he clari- fies and amplifies the “choose” crypto- gram when he communes with the national committee. It is already pre- dicted that unless he couches a with- drawal in cast-iron, copper-bottomed and alrtight form, the movement to make Mr. Coolidge run will go on. On one point opinion is fairly unani- mous—that the national committee- men and committeewomen will be sent home leaving little question as to the President’s earnest preference to retire from office on March 4, 1929. Whether, on the impending occasion, Mr. Coolidge will divest himself of an- other 10 words as terse as Willlam Tecumseh Sherman’s celebrated ukase remains to be seen. What the hero of Atlanta said, under somewhat sim- ilar eircumstances, was: “I will not accept if nominated, or serve if elected.” RN When he reports to the Seventleth Congress on the state of the Union next week, President Coolidge informs White House visitors, he will refrain from discussing a considerable num- ber of subjects of national importance. They are being left out because thei inclusion_would make the President’s message longer than he cares to have it. He prefers to ignore them, for the time being, rather than dismiss them with passing and inadequate mention. It is, of course, within the Chief Executive's prerogative to address Congress whenever he pleases. So many momentous issues confront the country, both at home and abroad, that the nmew Congress will probably hear from the White House in the form of special messages before the long session is ended next year. * oK Kk At one of the Washington clubs, famed for its brains, a group of local university professors, assembles for luncheon once a week, more or less abandons academic dignity, and pro- ceeds to enjoy itself. The members foregather, as one of them puts it, in a state of non campus mentis. * koK X ‘There’s nothing new under the sun. To this observer comes a copy of the National Intelligencer of Washington, dated August 21, 1817, indicating that the question of whether the United States should have a big Navy or not was as acute 110 years ago as it is today, The Intelligencer reprints an editorial from the Boston Yankee, dealing with current agitation over naval appropriations and the fear that some zealot, at the head of the Ameri- can fleet, might turn it ipto an engine It will be the natural forum | of ageression. Said the Boston Yan- kee , let us have a Navy large enough to operate something on the fears of others, but not to subdue them. Tet the magnitude of our forces consist rather in the marine we can create on a given emergency than in a permanent establishment. Let tho jealous champion of our rights be the lord of the soil, and not the hired mercenary. Then we need not fea# that foreign powers will en- croach en American rights.” * K K ok The Republicans in the new Senate are going to m the debating powers of three men who failed of re-election last year—Pepper of Pennsylvania, Wadsworth of New York and Lenroot of Wisconsin. Their disappearance | very materially decimates the fighting strength of the G. O. P. in the Senate wing of the Capitol. The best Re- publican debaters there are all in- surgents—Borah, Norris, Johnson and the rest of them—and they’re found battling ainst the administration about as often as for it. The Demo- jcrats are also minus a tower of | strength, upon whom they long were accustomed to depend, in the person of Oscar W. Underwood of Alabama. * koK % | Ome of the facts developed by the |attempt to bring about Federal inter- | vention in the bituminous strike is that it’s cheaper for operators to buy soft coal than to mine it in their own fields at present cost of production. The meaning, of course, is that in the non-unionized coalfields bituminous, on account of a lower wage scale, can be cut, shipped and marketed at less than it costs unionized mines to pro- duce it. This, at least, is adduced hy the administration as the reason why the bituminous industry “must adjust itselt,” and not seek salvation in makeshift remedies from without. The official view is that coal, like a good many other industries, is = going through a period of reconstruction; that both producing and consuming conditions are radically changed, and {that operators and miners alike must face the new facts and make the bes of them. (Copyright. 1927.) UNITED STATES IN WORLD WAR Ten Y -ars Ago Today Announcement permitted today that | National Guardsmen from every State in the Union have arrived in ¥rance. Not a man lost out of all those who have sailed from America to the front. Rainbow Division got away quietly during week of October 15. * ¢ « This brief dispatch covers a large troop movement that has been in progress for several weeks. The next stage will be actual occupation of front line trenches. * * * Work of American Army engineers on British front calls forth highest praise from tish authorities. The men worked in shifts 24 hours a day and no such amount of track had ever before been laid aleng the front in so short a time. * '+ * British lost 120,080 men during November, a 56 per cent increase over October’s total. * * * Coming session of Congress likely to authorize two more Liberty loans between February 1 and July 1, 1918, for a total of §8. 500,000,000 * * Hoover protests delaying shipments of food to give coal priority, and takes vigorous stand against railroads’ order {ssued at Fuel Administrator's request. * ¢ ¢ Gen. Pershing reports five more deaths in American forces. — White House Heirloom. From the Boston Transcript. Probably after the next President has been elected and taken possession of the White House, of the poli- ticians will still be defini- af the u_ever | PHILOSOPHIES BY GLENN FRANK I can understand religious fanati- clsm by itself. . I can understand raclal fanaticism by itself. I could even understand a fusion of the two if the religion in question were a primitive religion with a tribal god. I confess, however, that I am at a loss to understand the attempt that is made from time to time to drive Chris. tianity and the cult of racialism abreast, for whatever else Christianity may or may not be, it is, in its basic philosophy, non-racial or trans-racial. One of the distinctive contributions Jesus made to the spiritual future of mankind lay in the fact that In the higher realms of the spirit He wiped out the frontiers that divide races. In order to do this He had to pay the price of becoming a renegade to the orthodox patriotism and the ortho- dox religion of His countrymen. To him the Kingdom of God did not mean, as it meant to many of His cotemporaries, a religious monopoly, with Judaism as the only stockholder; He flatly denied any Jewish claim to special priviiege: He said that He had never found among Jews such faith as He found in a certain Roman cap- tain; He ventured the prophecy that heathen would come from the ends of the earth and sit down with the He- brew patriarchs, while some of their own sons would find themselves in the discard; and one day he did the impol- itic thing of setting up a Samaritan 1s a model of decency and chivalry He had not found in Hebrew priest and Levite. All this, we may imagine, was rath- er bitter medicine for the 100 per cent Hebrews of His time. . With one magnificent gesture Jesus internationalized what had been until then a racial religion. One would imagine, therefore, that Jesus woulg be the last figure in his- tory any one would think of relating even indirectly, to race consciousness or race discrimination. And yet, from time to time, the in- credible attempt is made to unite the non-racial religion of Christianity with the cult of racialism. I find it difficult to helieve that Jesus, the Jew, flouted His own race in order to flatter even the Nordics. And although my own ancestry has been, for as many generations as I am able to trace it, white, Protestant and Nordic, T cannot quite concur in !_,heumile:‘mlttent attempts to convert Jesus into a mere press age: Pilgrim Fathers. ’ SCthe (Copyright. McClure Newspaper Syndicate.) r——— “Do Not Choose” Held Applying Only to 1928 To the Editor of The Star: The much-discussed announcement reads, “I do not choose to run for President in nineteen twenty-eight.” These 11 words, punctuation being dis- regarded, are spoken of as 12. Doubt- less in the author’s mind they were not only counted but weighed. The state- ment, to the last word, is fraught with meaning. We should not, then, con- sider that the vear mentioned is not particularly significant, as though the sentence stood, “I do not choose to run for President.” Nineteen twenty-eight is “without prejudice to the generality” and is to be strictly construed: it does not touch on 1932 or 1936. After four years of Democratic rule or eight years of Re- publican rule, Mr. Coolidge might be found responsive. This next campaign is not his choice. For all its simplicity, this Delphic utterance has proved somewhat per- plexing. In its uncertainty it is thus true to form. Furthermore, it is tru to form in being prosodical; an fambis pentameter is followed by an jambic trimeter. Is there an invitation here to bring out and match this quality of verse and thereby elucidate the ad- verbial phrase? The words are final, decisive. But may they not be read in the light of some implied preceding lines? As who should say: Of some still spot I'd be a resident, One or two terms to wait; T do not choose to run for President In nineteen twenty-eight. NEAL H. EWING. Alien Quota Urged For Latin America To the Editor of The Star: Mexico’s recorded immigration into the United States last year was 67,939, This does not include those smuggled over the border to escape the head tax. Britain’s quota, including Ulster, is 37,007; Germany's, 51,227; Irish Free State, 28,567. These are the three highest quotas under the Johnson act. Iingland is the land that gave us ou: democratic institutions. The popul: tion of all three above mnations, like ours, is largely Nordic, Britain's being overwhelmingly so. Being thus i minded, they fuse easily into our ¢ zenship. The Mexican inflow is nearly 100 per cent peon. The very word ‘“peon- age” means very. = Though we fought a Civil War over one color problem, most thoughtful Americans agree we have not vet solved it with justice. Can we afford to inject an- other serious color problem into our population mass? The worst element herein is the dif- ferential birth rate. 1f Anglo-Saxon families average 3 children and the Mexican peon ones 7, one Ameri- can couple will be. represented in the fifth generation by only 243 children. One Mexlican couple in the same time will be represented by 16,806 children. Thus American culture will disappear. Greeco and Rome both decayed through not grasping this biological law about such differential birth rates. The remedy herein is the Box bill, acing Latin America under the quota. C. M. GOETHE, President, Immigration Study Commission. Figures Are Cited To Uphold Dry Law To the Editor of The Star: The liquor apologists are continually complaining that prohibition was slipped over by a measly little minority of hair-brained zealots who know less about the practical affairs of the world than a canary bird knows about calculus. An _interesting questionnaire was submitted by one of the insurance mpanies to the executives of clubs and like organizations, asking whether or not the eighteenth amendment had had a helpful effect upon conditions in the industry with which these execu- tives were acquainted. The affirmative vote was overwhelm- ing, and prevailed in every group. The figures were: Factory emploves' clubs. Men's lunch clubs. . . hers of Womenis ¢ Country clubs . Sales executives " Totals ..... 1t will be seen from this that the lowest vote was 2 to 1, the highest was 22 to 1 and the average was over 4 to 1. There is not a practical man or woman in the United States that does not know that drink reduces the reliability and the dependability of any man who uses it, except in the most abstemious manner, and even when used then it does not help or make a man more industrious or more depend. able or more efficient, Every trained executive knows it. Every laboring man knows it. Every other man who {8 not economically cross-eyed knows it, . CHARLES ANSWERS TO QUESTIONS BY FREDERIC ]. HASKIN. Q.BW;mt is a recessional building?— A. The ‘recessional building” is a term applied to the new style of archi- tecture, seen, for example, in many of the New York structures. As the building increases in height, the width of the floors is reduced, so that seem- ingly the building tapers. Q. How long have perfumes been used?—N. E. T A. They were known in earliest civilizations. The Jews of the Old Testament used perfumes in the form of incense in their temples and taber- nacles. Their women, as well as the Egyptian, Roman and Grecian wom- en, used perfumes and cosmetics. It is probable that the perfumers’ art originated in Arabia and that the products_ were carried to Egypt, Greece, Rome. and Palestine. Q. How large is the Regal python in the Washington Zoo?—W. F. W. A. Approximately, it is between 26 and 30 feet long, weighs abowt 120 pounds, and at its largest point is 9 inches in diameter. enough rice for its own use?—A. W. A. Although the Orient produces about 97 per cent of the world’s r crop, the United States now grows more than enough to supply its own needs. Q. What are the leading mineral products of Oklahoma?—E. M. A. Petroleum, zinc, natural natural-gas gasoline. Q. What does the ending ‘“ham” mean inp English names? How is Burham pronounced?—H. F. B. A. The termination “ham” is fre- quently found in British surnames. It means “home” or ‘“residence.” The English. pronunciation of the Burnham is “Burum.” Q. Does the United States grow VN gas, street United Q. How many operated passenger in the an Electric Railway Association says that the number of passenger cars operated by electric raflways in the United States is ap- proximately 75,000, Q. What was the Indian name for the island upon which Columbus first landed?—H. C. B. A. On his first voyage to the New World, Columbus sighted land and disembarked on the island called by the Indians “Guanahani.” Columbus named the island “‘San Salvador,” but it is generally identified with Wat- ling Island, one of the Bahama group. Q. What is being done in the United States for the preservation of quail’—S. E. P, A. During the vear 1926 the De- partment of Agriculture issued per- mits for importations of 37,134 qnail | from Northeastern Mexico, mostly for liberation in Southern States. Q. What R. A. B. A. A Scotch verdict is the same as ‘“not proven,” which in Scotch law is the verdict that a charge has not been proved and operates as a verdict of not guilty. Q. What is the value of the stock of gold and silver of the United States?—D. F. S. A. On January 1, 1926, the total gold stock of the United States amounted to $4,408,696,000. The total silver stock amounted to $827,568,000. Q. From what State did Matthew Thornton,- one of the signers of the Declaration of TIndependence, come? —A. D. 8. A. Matthew Thornton was born in l{glflnd. He represented New Hamp- shire. is a Scotch verdict?— Q. What kind of vinegar is used in making horseradish?—C. L. T. A. In keeping horseradish white when put in bottles, it is essential that white wine vinegar be used. Cider vinegar always darkens horse- radish. Q. Have the payments to Colombia growing out of the purchase of the name | Panama Canal Zone been completed? —A. P. V. T. A. In March of 1922, the United States paid Colombia $25,000,000, and $5,000,000 a year from that time until 26, when' these payments termi- nated. Q. Are there any genuine kangaroo shoes sold in America? Are kanga. roo skins scarce?—W, H. T. A. There are plenty of genuine kangaroo shoes sold in America, par- ticularly in higher priced lines of men’s and women's footwear. The supply of kangaroo skins always seems equal to the demand. Q. What is a calorie?>—D. L. W. A. In physics the calorie is any of several thermal units, but the word is used most commonly now in dietetics as meaning a unit to indicate heat or energy-producing value of food; also the amount of food required to pro. duce it. Q. | how | G. In tapping trees for maple sirup, many places should be tapped?— Tapping only one place on a tree prolongs the life of the trec Large first-growth trees may be | tapped in two and sometimes three places without injury, but it is disas. trous to tap in two pl gether, in order to coll the two in one cke Q. What was the “Devll’ - | ment”?—C, H B, Gy A. This was a nickname given 1 the English Parliament which met at Coventry, England, in 1459, It at. tainted the leading Yorkists, ces mear to- t the sap from Q, Whers was Lucy Stone born?— | "A" This Amertcan reformer | prominent. “advocate ot womans rights was born in West Brookfleld, Mass., August 13, 1818, and died at | Dorchester, Mass., October 18, 1903. Q. What is th ue of the | skinks which gt e st re trapped A A. As a source of fur, kunks are an lmvm!"dnl asset to the country, They 27N to the trappers of the | United States about $3,000,00 3 prni ,000,000 an | _Q What kind of sand is fire sand! _A. Fire sand is a highly refractor silica sand, especiall éuxmhlsm;}): manufacture of fire brick, for lining furnaces and ladles usc d to contain molten metals, for making molds and for other refractory products, Jews fought in the ,‘\‘pwno;m Services during the World ays that n were in Army, d Marine Corps. The total h casualties was from 13,000 to 14,000, including 2,800 who died. 'Q_ Is i‘t correct to say “He is stop- ping in Washington this Winter" ?— W. D. R = Instead of “He js stopping in shington this Winter” say ‘He is | staying in Washington.” To stop is | to cease moving or acting; the reverse of start. “I shall stop at Baltimore on my way to Washington” is cor- rect; but “How long will you stop?” |is as unreasonable a question as “How long will you start?” The proper question is, “How long will you stay (or remain)?” Q. What is Japanese wax?—C. A. R, A. It is a fat, resembling beeswax, obtained from the fruit of certain species of Rhus which grow in Japan, especially Rhus succedanea. It con- sists chiefly of glyceryl palmitin, This is a special department devoted solely to the handling of queries. This paper puts at your disposal the serv- lices of an extensive organization in | Washington to serve you in any capac- ity that relates to information. This service is free. Failure to make use of it deprives you of benefits to which you are entitled. Your obligation is only 2 cents in stamps inclosed with your inquiry for direct reply. Address The Evening Star Informa- tion Bureau, Frederic J. Haskin, dircc- tor, Washington, D. (. Proposed Combine on Sugar Fails to Excite Americans The new agreement for co-operation among the sugar producers of Cuba, iermany, Czechoslovakia and Poland is viewed calmly by the American press, though there are some expres- sions of anxiety over the possibilities involved. “The Cuban sugar defense,” says the Philadelphia Evening Bulletin, “professes to be free of any purpose of price exploitation in its scheme of controlling production, but seeks mere- | Iy to accomplish a stabilization under | which production can go ahead with some assurance of safety. Its spoks man recognizes the fact that experi- ence in wheat or cotton has shown that no scheme of restriction of pro-| duction is likely to do much to raise the price of any agricultural product of such wide distribution. There wives view the situation with alarm.” That “there is no likelihood that an international sugar trust will be formed” is the comment of the San Antonio Express, which suggests that “both the cane and the sugar beet are grown in too many lands to allow of such a scheme. Cuba merely seeks,” continues the Express, “to maintain the price slightly above production cost, in order to avoid business stag- nation.” ‘The Express, reviewing_the situation in the United States and its possessions, says: “Louisiana, Porto Rico, the American Virgin Islands, Hawaii and the Philippines devote a great area to the cane, and for the current sugar year their agsregate production may reach 1,850,000 tons. Sugar beets are grown in many States, whose output has been esti- mated at 810,000 tons.” * X X the _Indianapolis News that “combined, the sugar in- terests in the four powers can, if they co-operate closely, dominate rather extensively the world market. In case Holland decides to bring Jav- anese production into the arrange- ment, all the principal international exporters will be tncluded.” The News continues: “While spokesmen for the plan say no exploitation is in- tended, and_that the arrangement is really of value to consumers, because ruinously low prices would cause planting to be curtailed sharply and soon bring about an acute shortage with excessive prices, it is not of rec ord that representatives of consum- ers were asked to help administer the new control program. * * ¢ The trend toward centralized authority over raw materials is persisting in rubber, cof- n. sisal and various other prod- uets. The subject promises to take on added, rather than dimintshed, fm- portance. n view of the heavy supplies of sugar,” according to the Providence Journal, “any appreciable rise in the price of the commodity would be re- zarded with suspicion.” Certainly the to 1t is agreed by United States would feel offended if the Cuban government should later use this newly formed Furopean al- liance in any manner detrimental to the sugar consumers of this country. No objection can be offered to any reasonable proposition that will; cure the present indisputable troubles of the Cuban planters. But the remedy must not be permitted to become a matter for more serious dissatisfaction unstabilization.* Xl Leader finds it im- ms to be no occasion for house-| are on the way and in some cases al- ready in operation. This whole sub- ject is of intense interest and signifi- cance to the United States,” the Lead- er adds. “Mr, Hoover long ago saw the trend and pointed out the mean- ing of it. American business will find the way to meet the developments,” concludes the Leader. * ok ok % Emphasis is placed by the Canton Daily News on the fact that “Amer- ica is, of all countries, the heaviest consumer of sugar,” and that paper argues: “With I than one-twelfth the population of the earth, we con- sume more than half the world's out put of sugar. And we produce only one-fifth of the quantity which we consume. When the chief sugar-pro- ducing countries form a combination to fix pric America is deeply touched in its pocket nerve. In the case of rubber, such a commodity con- trol threatened for a time to im- pair the friendship of the two great English-speaking nations. * * ¢ We have long permitted ourselves to he taxed terrifically for the special hene- fit of our own sugar producers. Being hit by your own home folks and being hit by outsiders are, however, senti mentally two very different things. These national and international trusts, backed by governments, are the newest development of this age of organization, It puts government into business in an unprecedented meas- ure.” * ko * % In reply to the tariff argument, the St. Louis Times states: “In Colorado, Utah, the Dakotas, Michigan and other States which might be named, sugar corporations exist but only as re- finers and marketers. The sugar beet itself, however, is produced by indi- vidual farmers, and the seizure of the market by low-priced cane sugar (which would be inevitable if the tariff were effected) would mean that this group of American farmers (and it is a very considerable group) would be absolutely eliminated, and their fields would become simply idle acre: * ok ok X “The sugar situation will bear watching,” advises the Chicago Daily News. “It is significant that the im- mediate effect of the public announce- ment of the plan to apportion sugat exports was to advance the prices of shares of sugar-refining companies. The sugar industry is entitled to fair profits and living wages. It has been in urgent need of stabilization. In Cuba the situation has been particu- larly critical, and an emergency law was passed giving the President of the republic power to control produc- tion. * * * The United States has a great and growing beet-sugar in- dustry to foster. A forelgn combine in sugar might have the result of greatly increasing American produc- tion of that valuable food, it intelligent use were made of the opportunity. The necessity or desirability of hav- ing an adequate domestic supply of cane and beet sugar is emphasized by several papers, including the Kala- mazoo Gazette and the Martinsburg Journal. The New Orleans Item states that the cartels of trusts, popu- lar in EW,,".em now to be ex- tended to‘one of ac {:wlu in which lfll‘n X > ly con- cérned a: ,"‘_"'I". agaln be sreatly. FER. L ctipizisr vt s