Evening Star Newspaper, December 7, 1927, Page 8

3 —— THE EVENING STAR, WASHINGTON, D. THE EVENING STAR With Sunday Morning Edition. WASHINGTON, D. C. WEDNESDAY. . December 7, 1927 THEODORE W. NOYES. .. .Editor The Evening Star Newspaper “ompany Business Office: 11th St. and Pennsylvania Ave. New York Office 110 East 42n1 St. Chicago Office. Tower Huilding European Office et varl'm St.. London. England The Evening Star with the Sunday morn ing edition is delivered by carrie the city at 60 cents per month: d: 45 cents per month. Sundaya only J4n month O may he sent by m lephone Main 5000 Collection is ma carrier at end of each month Rate by Mail—Payable in Advance. Maryland and Virginia. Datly and Sunday .1 vr. $9.00: 1 mo. Daily ‘only’ : 1vr S6.00°1mo Sunday only’ v, $300° 1 mo All Other States and Canada. Daily and Sunday.1yr. $1200: 1 mo.. §1.00 Daily only_.....1yr. $500:1mo. Sundav oniv... [ 1vr. $100:1 mo. Member of the Associated Press. The Assoctated Press 1s exclust to the nse for republication cf atches credited to it or not ot ted in this paper and also the published b, r The President’s Postscript. With the same economy of words that marked his statement of August 2 last in which he announced to the country that he did not “choose to run for President in 1928, Mr. Cool 1dge yesterd restated his desire to be relieved from the duties of that of- fice upon the expiration of his present term. Addressing the national Re- publican committee at the White House, and adding a postscript to his prepared speech, he said: This is naturally the time to be planning for the future. The party will soon place in nomination its can- didate to succeed me. To give time for mature deliberation I stated to the country on August 2 that I did not choose to run for President in 1928. My statement stands. No one should be led to suppose that I have modified it. My decision will be re- spected. After I had been eliminated the party began, and should vigorous- ly continue, the serious task of select- ing another candidate from among the numbers of distinguished men available. ‘There should be no misunderstand- ing as to the President’'s meaning. Two words employed by him in the postscript statement have a specific ignificance of finality, “decision” and “eliminated.” The President has gone as far as it is possible or permissible to go in announcing what is actually a refusal to be the standard bearer of his party next year. The manner in which this second statement was made emphasizes this conclusion. Copies of the speech to the national committee had, in ac- cordance with custom, been prepared | and distributed in confidence. With- out doubt the nature if not the con- text of the President's address had become the subject of quiet comment and the absence of any refcrence to the statement of August 2 had been noted. ' Echoes of this observation had presumably reached the President's ears. To counteract any effect that might have been created by his silence upon the subject he appears to have added the words which leaves no doubt whatever as to his meaning, his desire and his hope. Yesterday’s postscript is entirely consistent with the statement of August 2 and with the President’s at- titude since it was made. He has dur- ing the intervening four months mani- fested on several occasions im- patience with the disposition to re- gard it as leaving the way open for his nomination by “draft.” He has, almost publicly, rebuked persistent advocates of his nomination and he has deprecated a movement for a “chain letter” demand for his candi- dacy. The postscript leaves the situation as it was upon the appearance of the statement of August 2. The Repub- lican field is open. There is no lack of candidate material; while only two “hats are in the ring” formally, there are several definite movements in be- half of favorite sons and favored pos- sibilities. There may remain the hope in some quarters that the selection of a candidate from among the list of present availables will be attended with such difficulties that the conven- tion may turn to Coolidge and make an “irresistible demand” upon him for further service. But in the face of yesterday’s explicit injunction that his decision be respected there can be no movement to that end in advance of the convention. —_———————— The Reminiscence Club still enjoys listening to stories of the good old days when the reassemblages of Con- gress represented an increase of popu- lation visible to the naked eye. —————————— Reapportionment. Future historians and commentators upon the development of Government in the United States will have a sub- Ject of interest and importance to dis- cuss in the failure of the Congress to respect ard abide by one of the funda- mental prescriptions of the Constitu- tion under which it was created and by which it is governed. This is the third clause of the second section of the first article of the Constitution, as amended by the fourteenth amend which provides as follows: Representatives shall be appor- tioned among the several States ac- cording to their respective numbers, counting the whole number of per-{ sons in each State, excluding Indians not taxed. * The actual enu- meration shall be made within three years after the first mecting of the Congress of the United States and within every subsequent term of ten vears, in_such manner as they shall by law direct. The number of Rey resentatives shall not exceed one for every thirty thousand, but each State shall have at least Representative. This clause established the decen- pial census as a means of determin ing the apportionment of the lower branch of Congress. The enumeration was for no other purpose. It has been faithfully conducted ever since and until the present decade it has been made as the Constitution directs the pasis of that apportionment. Ever since the census of 1920 was taken, however, Congress has neglected to revise the apportionment and conse- quently the House of Representatives is established in accordance with the census of 1910. Repeated efforts to | publican leader of the House, Repre | vides that | terprise. j tion to sportsmanship, a quality about secure the enactment of an apportion- ment law have been defeated through wability to agree upon the necessary vevision, which would entail some ! losses to certain States and would grant increases to others. Amnouncement is made by the Re- sentative Tilson, that a determined ef- fort will be made at this session to pass an apportionment bill. Several measures of this nature have been al- ready introduced, varying somewhat in details. There should be no ques tion of enactment. Congress has in- excusably fafled in its duty for sev- cral sessions. The census figures have been available for its information and uidance since 1921. Several elections awve occurred in the meantime, and much important legislation has been enacted by Congres:cs organized upon a non-constitutional basis. The anom- ly has been apparent and is now so flagrant that there will be no public tolerance for further obstruction or delay It is true that the Constitution pro- the enumeration may be made “within™ every subsequent term of ten years after the first, and that there is no specific requirement for e immediate reapportionment under that count. But the lapse of six years and more from the census, compassing as it has in this case one presidential clection, in which the electoral vote was based upon the census of 1910, fourgeen years earlier, is certainly an unwarranted stretch of the margin granted by the fundamental law in the revision of the scale of repre- sentation. — e Commerce vs. Common Sense. Objections to architectural mistakes on the mnorth side of Pennsylvania avenue, on the south side of which the United States Government is pre- paring to expend millions of dollars in a carefully drawn plan for beau tification of the American Capital, have been founded on good common sense as well as patriotism. The ex- pressed determination of the United Cigar Stores Co. to proceed with the erection of its two-story building at Fourteenth street and Pennsylvania avenue, therefore, comes as a dis- tinct surprise. The proposed building at this point has been described by the Commission of Fine Arts as “rad- lcally and fundamentally unsuitable to the location” and a “detriment to the appearance of Pennsylvania ave- nue, both present and future.” While there had been hope that the corpo- ration would compromise with the Fine Arts Commission, all such hope is apparently lost, for the company declares that it has no intention of changing its plans. If the die is cast, if the plans for this building as drawn and illustrated in yesterday’s Star are to be com- pleted, it is a misfortune that will extend its blight for years to come. It not only accentuates the failure in the last Congress of the Shipstead bill, which would have prevented what has come to pass, but makes necessary the immediate considera- tion of the same bill or one like it. The Shipstead bill would give the Commission of Fine Arts power of approval of plans for buildings ad- jacent to or abutting on Government- owned property. As drawn, it was not entirely satisfactory. But with some changes, possibly confining its restrictions to buildings on the north side of Pennsylvania avenue, it has been planned to have the measure or one like it reintroduced at this ses- sion of Congress. In the meantime it had been hoped that the United Cigar Stores Co., a far-flung organ- ization with many valuable holdings throughout the United States, would voluntarily fall in with patriotic Americans who are now concentrat- ing their efforts on making the Cap- ital beautiful. There is reasonable ground for op- position by private property owners to governmental supervision over the appearance of their buildings. But the north side of Pennsylvania avenue presents a peculiar situation. Across the street the American people are investing millions of dollars in beau- tifying the Capital. This investment of public money should in no manner be hazarded or threatened by the whims or commercial ambitions of those who are fortunate enough to possess land which faces the area under development. Whether any method remains by which the inten- tions of the United Cigar Stores Co. may be changed remains to be seen. It they are not changed, the com- pleted building will stand as a monu- mental illustration of the necessity for that very type of governmental supervision and control which is the bane and nightmare of private en- —r——————— The portly and benign figure of Santa Claus adorns public places in in- creasing prominence each December. It symbolizes good cheer and has es- caped retirement along with numer- ous images; such, for Instance, as the picturesque, yet sinister, cigar store Indian. —————————— Sportsmanship. Gene Tunney, that amazing young man, has a few words to say in rela- which the world admits he knows a great deal, being one of the finest ex- ponents of it. In presenting seven medals to be contested for by amateur pugilists of Stanford University next Spring, the heavyweight champion wrote to Harry Malone, under whose ausplces the contests are to be con- ducted: You and T know there is no sport in the world, properly indulged in, that can develop, with the ease box- ing does, manliness, self-reliance, courage, character and sportsman- ship. We also realize the heritage professional boxing has fallen heir to, but have the discrimination to d tingaish between fine, clean, health- ful boxing as conducted in a univer- sity and the sordidness which some- times accompanies professional box- ing. f?l)l\flgc and professional boxing are entirely two different things. It is true they are related, but one of the relatives has, unfortunately, degen- erated. This degeneration has fol- lowed the elimination of sportsman- ship. The public at large is respon- sible for this condition, for evidently the public admires more the killer in stinct than real, clean sportsmanship. Sportsmanship is the thing that will make boxing in your university suc- cessful. Perhaps the champion had Mr. Jack Dempsey in mind when he penned those feeling words anent the pub- lic's liking for the “killer instinct.” Surely the public at large does have a hankering to see a knockout punch, and this much the public readily and sheerfully admits. This feeling, how- ever, i8 no new thing, but is as old | as humanity. As long as boxing re- mains a public spectacle, the crowd will“yell for a knockout. This is exactly where the more re- fined encounters of the gymnasium shine, for in these amateur bouts there are smaller crowds of specta- tors and an entirely different atmos- phere, one in “hich 1, clean sportsmanship” inay flourish, un- marred by the cruel but easily under- | stood clamor of the crowd for knockout. —_— e Distorted Humor. A queer sense of humor is evidently possessed by the young swain who | appropriated several of the District's | traffic signs for the adornment of his | girl friend’s apartment. This espe- | clally comical piece of work was dis- covered after the Traffic Bureau offi cials had hecome very much concerned over the disappearance of several im- portant signs, placed at intersections to protect the public. An enterp: policeman was assigned to the case, and in invading an apartment on N street collected several “stop” “sehool warning” and ‘“no parking” | signals, which he removed to the sta tion house and then informed his su- periors of the facts. This bit of buffoonery ts liable to be well remembered by the youth who perpetrated it. Traffic officials are de- termined to carry the matter to the limit, and it Is proper that they should do so. This lad, it undisci- plined for his distorted sense of values, might get into very serious trouble later on, and it is well to check such impulses at their inception. He is probably the kind who in a Hal- loween prank wanders along the street, stopping every now and then to let the air out of the tires of parked automobiles, or if he is driving a car on a slushy day and sees an attrac- tively attired woman near a big pud. | dle, drives through it at great speed. | It is a lot of fun to watch the dis- mayed expression on the face of the recipient of the mud bath. It all comes under the head of humor, of course, but it is the kind of humor that demands the attention of the police. | ————— Italy may find some cause for worry unless Mussolini makes plans for the systematic education of an understudy. A dictatorship, aside from the more or less idle threats, is a job involving long hours and physical wear and tear. S The time of year has definitely ar rived when it is in order to move the suspension of the weather man from the “Don’t Worry” Club. oo Every statesman must expect to ex- perience a certain amount of difficulty with constituents who imagine they elected him to play Santa Claus. ———————— Jury service is a,patriotic duty and ill-requited. It is a great mistake for any man to expatiate on its possibili ties as an Investment. One difference between the older and the rising generation is the impression of Bandmaster Sousa with and with- out whiskers. wmen L AR Lindbergh has his little accidents: not serious, but enough to show he is human like the rest of us. SHOOTING STARS. BY PHILANDER JOHNSON. To 8. Claus, Dr. We find that Santa is no myth, He is a force to reckon with, Whose potency is made quite clear ‘When Christmas greets us once year, And every time you speak his name You know he contemplates some claim, Because he keeps accounts with skill And will send in his usual bill, Looking and Listening. “I suppose all you statesmen will be glad to see one another again.” “Yes,” answered Senator Sorghum. “We'll be glad to see one another, but in a little while we won't be so re- Joiced to hear one another.” No Compromise. Each human being sings this song ‘With unabashed delight: “What I do not believe, is wrong, And what I do, is right.” Jud Tunkins says folks have got back to the place where a stocking hanging by the fireside is big enough to hold the most generous Christmas gift, if neatly written on a check. Study and Performance. “Is your boy Josh learning to be an aviator?” “He's takin' lessons, answered Farmer Corntossel. “We're consider- able worried 'bout when he goes up alone next week to show whether he has really learned anything.” “Ancestors ought to wear beards,” sald Hl Ho, the sage of Chinatown, “to conceal cynical smiles at the new generation,” Ultimate Aspiration. They peddle drink that's very bad And into scandal run— The man who makes us truly sad Is he who packs a gun. We're starting many a moral storm To stop life's rougher fun, Some day perhaps we will reform ‘The man who packs a gun, “De gift of eloquence is valuable "cordin’ to de size of de audience,” said Uncle Eben. “It’s easier to address a congregation dan it is to 'splain things to a traffic cop. B Hollers Early for Eats. From the Los Angeles Times. A suburban man says he's heard lots of people speak harshly of kid napers, hut he wishes his would nap a little late on Sunday morning, Particular About Others. From the Ohio State Journal, Senator Borah may not be a candi- date, but he doesn’t seem to like any one that is, and that looks a little suspicious. P Service Minus the Ring. From the Boston Herald. | book this is an ideal volume to select, | out becoming interested in it. THIS AND THAT BY CHARLES E. TRACEWELL. Do you know who is the “most dis- tinguished American writer’ Probably no two persons, offhand, would agree on the man, but Prof. s v, scholar of impeccable tes, says he is Ralph Waldo Emer- This statoment is contained in the | preface to Prof. Perry's “The Heart of merson's Journals,” published by zhton Mifflin Co, last year. ointing out that hitherto no tion from the 10 stout publis volumes of the “Journals” had 1 in American, the compiler has heen undertaken by the | present editor, with the consent of | n's surviving children and | with the co-operation of his publishers in the belief ths ingle volume edi tion of the “Journals’ will now be | welcomed by the ever-widening circle | of our most distinguished | of reader American writer, * ok k% If one likes to browse around in a her for personal use or as a Christ- mas present for that difficult person, the man or woman ‘“who has read everything.” Probably every family contains one | such reader, perhaps a boy or girl who has gone through the approved (and sometimes the unapproved) list of reading, for whom the selection of a new book is a task, indeed. “I do not know what to get for him—T would like to et him a book— but he has read everything!” Our tip to get such a preclous youngster “The Heart of Kmerson's Journals.” He, or any other book- fover, will get many quiet hours of enjoyment from it. There are none too many books which one can read piecemeal, as it were, here a little and there a little. This is one of the really good ones. We defy any one with a wholesome reverenca for American literature io start looking through this book with- Here are the thoughts of a real man, set down honestly, without fear or favor. Emerson kept his journals for 55 vears, from 1520 to 1875, whereas the Wesley and of John Quincy Adams cover only a slightly longer period of time, as Prof. Perry points out. ‘The latter says of the journals: “Emerson once deseribed his diaries as his ‘savings bank.’ Here he jotted down poetical or rhetorical phrases for future use; he garnered his| thoughts—gleaned from saunterings in the woods or by Walden Pond—know- ing that some day he should need them for a hook or for a lecture. ‘“He indexed his long row of manu- script volumes carefully. From them he drew the material of his addresses, and the addresses in turn served as material for the finished essays. Singu- larly interesting are the first prose drafts of some of his famous poems, like ‘Each and All’ ‘The Two Rivers and ‘Da But whether the fi sketches were prose or verse, medita- tions upon human life or analyses of himself, they all went into the ‘savings bank' as reserve capital for the hour | of need.” The arranger of these selections truly says “there is a certain fresh- ness and charm in these original jot- tings that is sometimes lost in the smoothly finished paragraphs of the published essays. * * * In literary quality, then, and still more in auto- biographical interest, the present vol- ume is believed to challenge compari- son with any book that Bmerson pub- | also be | ehronalogical lished in his lifetime.” is quite a claim, but perhaps s will admit the justice of it, after reading at random in the 339 pages of this volume. It is not sacrilege to say that most Americ today honor Emerson theoretic rather than actually; in other we while they admit his greatnes: do not read him personal many a home library cont; of his works. “The Heart of Emerson’s Journals™ will stir to active son who merely r 1 rather tiresome tas days. Here one finds the man him self, with all his failures and suc cesses, not the dress-parade writer of Thi most reade ns a set ls the es: of high s as The charge that the disjointed in character, smooth, is a true one. Emerson had that he did not find casible to marshal them one by one s written works. 1 He believed that the reader could jump over some of his points as well as he could, and he perpetually hon- ored those who honored him by read- ing his works by going on the sumption that they knew as much as he did, and were fully as able to grasp his arguments as he to make them. Perhaps no writer ever down” less to his readers than Emer- son. One has to possess some mental muscle to read him, either his poems, collected addresses or the immortal essay: He offers no y reading.” If Prof. Perry’s claim is true, that the one-volume collection of material from the journals offers comparison with anvthin nerson himself pub lished, it is certainly so that the aver- age reader. even one who honestly res for Emerson, will find the col- lection a great deal easicr to read, not only because of its short selections, covering such a range of topics, but use of the autobiographical interest. Prof. Perry has done a notable plece of biography at the same time he successfully compiles always a difficult task. a By giving a able, and carefully not- | famots commonplace. heoks ot Jatm | INE the chief events in Emerson's life, as he goes along with the quotations, the compiler creates a living interest in the mind of the reader. * ok ok ok Wha son! Even as a boy of 18 d the courage to analyze himself very pointedly, and the integrity to “work himself out of it" into success and the honest happiness which ac- companies achievement. Think of the man who was to do so much, writing: “In 12 days T sh which T count a m any other educated many vears and lost so many da 1 do not say acquired so little, for by an ease of thought and certain loose- ness of mind I have perhaps been the subject of as many ideas as many of mine age. But mine approaching ma- 1 Has ed so able thing. person 1 | turity is attended with a goading sense of emptiness and wasted capacity. He continues: “Look next from the history of my intellect to the history of my heart. A blank, my lord, I have not the kind affections of a pigeon. Ungenerous and selfish, cau- tious and cold, I y tic; have not sufficient feeling to speak a natural, hearty welcome to a friend or stranger, yvet send abroad wishes and fancies of a friendship with a man I never knew.” He knew his faults and tried to correct them, a man’s size task for any man. WASHINGTON OBSERVATIONS BY FREDERIC WILLIAM WILE. The Old Guard dies, but it never surrenders. In the present cruel war, those who refuse to capitulate are the Republican leaders who today insist that Calvin Coolidge is still a candi- date for renomination. To them, ap- parently, the English language is merely a_random collection of mean- ingless phrases. They are devotees of the Talleyrang school, which holds that words are but contrivances for concealment of thought. The Presi- dent’s latest bombshell—his eleventh hour statement to the Republican na- tional committee at the White House yesterday—is, to most men, about as Plain an avowal as he or anybody else could make, He speaks of the “can- didate to succeed me.” ~He refers to himself as “eliminated.” He urges the G. 0. P. to busy itself with the sele tion of “another candidate.” He means that he is out. * K K K C. Bascom Slemp, erstwhile of the White House and author of “The Mind of the President,” reads the Coolidge mind—despite Tuesday’s developments —as being still open. So does that| other persistent pillar of the draft- Coolidge church, Senator Simeon D. Fess of Ohio, who was recently spanked for his apostasy. Messrs. lemp and Fess proclaim that if Cal- vin Coolidge is sufficiently urged the party’s invitation will not be rejected. They are determined to go on preach- ing that gospel until the President be- comes 200 per cent unequivocal—until, for instance, he says, “I will not run for President in 1928.” A sage Wash- ington political commentor opines that a well known region famed for its tropical heat will freeze over before anything of that sort is forthcoming. SCoolidge is irrevocably out,” this au- thority observes, “but he has an in- hibition against the future tense in stating his own intentions. * K K X mediate effect of the President’s el 18 undoubtedly going to be the unleashing of presidential booms all over the map. Friends of Herbert Hoover, in particular, will clear for action on _intensive lines. The Secretary of Commerce When- ever henceforward he avows himself a “andidate can no longer be charged with “disloyalty” to his cabinet chief. Hoover today probably has more widely diversified popular strength than ~any man in the fleld. It stretches literally from New England %o California and f{.m the Great Lakes to the Gulf. Hoover will not have a walkaway. His most formi dable rival is Dawes. The Vice Presi- dent will be the eventual heir of the Lowden strength and of the Hughes strength as well. The race down the convention home stretch, as most view it today, will be between Hoover and Dawes. Other candidacies will have their places in the sun, but, as snows themselves would melt in June, are doomed to evaporate. * K K K Reconvening of Congress resembles nothing in the world so much as a class reunion at college. Though the recess separates statesmen from one another only for months, they glad- hand, back-slap, elbow-grease, and even hug, like long-lost fraternity brothers who haven't mingled for decades. Such scenes were enacted all over the House and Senate this week. They're lhe trifles that prove afresh the real comradeship which exists among politicians despite the recrimi- nations of elections and debate. Some of the heartiest welcomes are ex- changed between present and past members of Congress. Lame ducks, by tradition, are permitted to float around the ponds in which they once quacked. As birds once of a feather, “ins” and_ “outs” flock together. Frank B. Kellogg of Minnesota, Wil- liam Alden Smith of Michigan, Gilbert M. Hiteheock of Nebraska, Thomas P. Gore of Oklahoma and Richard I Ernst of Kentucky were some of the Bomehow there is not quite the same ring ia “till divorce us do part.” ex-Senators who trod familiar boards the day the new Congress assembled. The House of Representatives is a much “chummier place than the Sen- a vails in the lower chamber was breathed in characteristic terms by Speaker Longworth in his second in- augural addressed to “Gentlewomen and Gentlemen of the House,” The Representa from the first Ohio district Mr. Speake House is in session, but “Nick" all the rest of the time. There was a meta phor in Longworth's pretty little speech of acceptance which harks back to his days at Harvard. his joy at “rowing in the same boat with that fine 0ld veteran of a hundred political battles—Henry Allen Cooper.’” While the Speaker was at Cambridge in 18871891, he pulled an oar in the Crimson eight. One of “Nick's” prize stories relates to the Chinese diplomat, who said he'd never seen the Harvard | crew row at New London, because he was coxswain of the Yale eight. * K ok K There were some sights for the gods in the Senate on Monday, when members led newly elected or re elected colleagues down the center aisle. arm in arm, to be sworn in. Per- haps the strangest combination was that of Hiram W. Johnson escorting his elongated fellow Californi n, Sam uel M. Shortridge, to Dawe ment-seat. There’s little love lost be- tween the gentlemen from the Golden Gate. If Hiram could have had his way last year, he'd have chaperoned somcbody else to the desk where oaths are taken. The Wisconsin twain— “Young Bob” and former Gov. John J. Blaine—also conjured up pungent | thoughts. The leadership of the La | Tollette organization is said to be coveted by Blaine, and he is charged With corresponding designs on Sena- tor “Bob.” Senator Brookhart of l(? a should have been under the wing of his colleague, Senator “Dan” Steck but the two Hawkeyes haven't spoken as they passed by since Steck ousted Brookhart in the celebrated 19 e- count contest. Brookhart invited an- other Demacrat, Stephens of Missis- sippi, to give him away at the Senate altar, * ok ok ok A practical joker who palmed him- self off ay *“Al Smith, jr.” created considerable excitement at the Capitol the day Congress convened. Fe was wandering about the corridors, ap- rently confused, till he stumbled across a newspaper man who offered to escort him to the Senate gallery. The young man thereupon identified himself as “Al Smith, jr.,” and id he'd come down to see the New York governor’s boy friend, Judgze “Bob’ ‘Wagner, sworn in as a United States Senator. Then the youth imparted he was going to do odd jobs around Sen- ator Wagner’s office for a month and “learn the ropes.’” ‘Wagner's oflice was bombarded all day with requests | for corroboration of the story, but the | Senator regretted he had to spoil it. “Young Al” was not in Washington, (Covyright. 1927,) s Convincing As the Camera. From the Ohio State Journal, Life grows more and more complex for our great leaders of political thought, and we can't think of any thing that presents graver difficulties than to have been misquoted when | you said it over the radio. e Liberties With the English. From the New York Herald Tribune, A young man recently ran all the way from Boston to New York. He ‘was probably chased by citizens who had overheard him split an infinitive. e e Cooking the Goose. From the St. Louis Post-Dispatch. The congressional cook book is out. It probably tells how many a Con- gressman cooked his ‘*"‘» 7 WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 7. although | ling many a per- | ool | vrote | “selection,” | a man was America’ Emer- | 11 be 19 yvears old, | The spirit that traditionally pre- | when the | He spoke of | judg- | 1927. PHILOSOPHIES BY GLENN FRANK “What is your opinion of pacifism? | A reporter asked this question | across my desk recently. He had been sent by a metropolitan new paper to investigate the status of mili- {tary training in the university com munity with which I am associated. 1 tried to tell him that I could not grow greatly excited over the merely hful propaganda eitherof the milita- | rists or of the pacifists, for in the long | run these competing propagandas tend to cancel each other at, while war ind peac e determined by a vast | variety of causes that go on working now silent and now shrill, in a dis dainful disregard of the hot preach | ments of the propagandists. War is not the product of mere war- | madness or the military mind: the | | roots of war go deep into a thousand | | soils, obscure as well as obvious. I have just finished re 4 Turner's “Causes of War” and “The | New Revolution.” Mr. Turner surveys { the 61 wars which have harassed hu- | | manity from the disasters of the Span h Armada days in 1588 to the Lo-| rno settlements in 18 ing the £ each of these 61 wars. His d to an analysis of the | general causes of war under five| | heads, v | st uses. | rs may arise from disputes over | homeland or colonial; over over high vs for trade or travel by land or | sea, over | over to W mater - rights in the de- velopment and control of backward countries, ariffs, and an endless ist of economic issu | scond, dynastic causes. Wars may arise out of disputes over the hereditary right of royal houses | to rule, disputes between rival princes or between people and prince, and the varied disputes that may center about the interests of ruling or aspiring dy nastic houses. Third, nationalistic causes. Wars may arise out of the hot headedness induced by sentimental pa- | tism, by pride of race, by pride of ousy of a neighbor peo v lawlessness and it. ling A ruthlessness of the Fourth, religious causes. Wars may arise out of conscientious | but misguided devotion, out of the | clash of creeds, out of fanaticism, out of intolerance, out of persecution, out of the rise of science and the liberal- ism resulting from it that seems to | threaten intrenched religious beliefs, out of the willingness of devotees to | suffer martyrdom, and =o on. Fifth, sentimental causes. Wars may arise from the vision of a leader who seeks to enforce his vi sion upon others, fror hopes that may or may not he well founded, from sym- pathy that may lead to intervention in other lands, from eager dreams of emancipation, and so on. The causes of war are varied; the conquest of war must come by equally varied means: war cannot be conquer- |ed by the simplified preachments of those who simply hate war and would like to see it conquere If tomorrow the pacifists could gag {all the militarists. the race would still plunge into periodic wars until we hieved a more intelligent administra- on of the common affairs of the world. (Copyright, McClure Newspaper Syndicate.) - Heroism of Aviators In Alaska Praised To the Editor of The Star: I noted the account in The Sunday Star of November 27 of the achieve ment of Air Pilot Russell Merrill and | Dr. Haverstock, who went to the rescue of a schoolteacher in an Indian llage in Alaska who had accidentally shot herself and brought her 115 miles by airplane through a freezing gale to_the hospital at Anchorage. Russell Merrill is the pilot of the reguiar air passenger seryice from | Anchorage, Alaska, and a most effi- | cient one, from all accounts. Some day, perhaps, we shall read that he has | made a non-stop flight around the | world or some other equally wonderfal | accomplishment ‘with a plane, He is | from Des Moines, Towa, and is a big, | rangy chap like Lindbergh and looks just as capable and level-headed. The planes carry passengers across the mountains to Nome, 1,000 miles |away, an eighthour trip, and to | Bristol Pay, a_three-hour trip. The | fare is one dollar per mile for the e. 17 more than one passenger is rried, the rate is divided among them. While the writer was at Anchorage a few days in the past June as a tourist, Merrill brought from Nome as a passenger a woman dentist in a hurry to reach her ill mother in Cali | fornia, and_took an official of the | Atlantic & Pacific Co. to Bristol Bay | to the salmon canneries of the firm, saving both weeks of time. The article also stated that they used a dog team to carry the girl to the plane. 0 words can express my deep ad- miration ahd affection for the hus As dogs they are in a distinct clas such affectionate, intelligent creatures, serving man joyfully and with the ! highest devotion to duty, and not at | all_vicious and mankilicrs as many writers have painted them. These few | lines are written with the idea of ad- | vertising Alaska—the great country- | and the generous, hospitable Alas a wee bit, Alaska is far away from Washing- | ton, D. €, and the Alaskans are not given to bragging very much. They are too busy standing by their job of | holding the last frontier, and develop- ling it for Uncle m, to v much. One can never forget the soul-stirring beauty of Denali—the Big One, Father of All—(Mount McKinley), gleaming, | snow-covered, under the midnight sun, like “the Moonlight Pearl of Bombay against the distant sky, or the inde- scribable purple color of the moun- | tains at midnight up along the Yukon River, and the wild roses in the world | growing in Alaska. Alaska lays spell of encl on all who visit her shores hope to go back again some day, cause here in this great lonely land one feels he can surely find the magic | spring, at which one may drink and forget his sorrows forevermory ISABEL MELL ———————— Help for Jobless In Washington Urged To the Editor of The Star: There are now a good many men in | this city who are unemployed, but are | willing ‘and ahle to work if work could | be found. Some of them have families | dependent upon them. These state- ments can be verified by inquiry at employment agencies. I believe that useful work for these | men could be found in Washington if | the attention of the public were di- | rected to the extent of unemployment | that exists and to the necessity for | diminishing it as much as possible. | Some of the methods available for pro- viding work for more workers are: sliminate overtime work during rush periods by hiring temporary | help. Make contemplated alterations and repairs on buildings now instead of ‘“'sometime.” Buy products of Washington indus- tries, Other methods may readily occur to any who will give the matter of our | local unemployment consideration. C. F. RANDOLPH. e Ancient Oracles Discounted. From the Boston Herald. For possibilities of meaning yes and no, tho anclent oracles at Delphi and | Capitol dome, of which there | versity? | “Quarreler? ANSWERS TO QUESTIONS BY FREDERIC J. HASKIN. Q Hoggmany window the Capit8] in Washington? A. Not counting the window are there in there are 679 windows in the United States Capitol. Q: How many breeds of rabhits are there?—T. E. M. A. There are 18 breeds of domestic rabbits ) National bit Feder being distinctive in type. In some instances there are 1l varieties of a breed, alike in but with a wide r in color Thes breeds varieties are divided into two sep ses, or groups, known as “utility d Q domestic s Hopkins Uni- | How old is —A. K It was incorporated August 24, | 1867, and was opened for instruction | in September, 1876 Q. Into how m leather divided? A. Shoe leathers two classes—bottom leat {eather. The bottom part including the outsol nd ¢ r, are cut leather., The vamp, quarte and tongue, comprisi parts, are cut from classes s shoe | divided into | er and upper u How may pewter be cleaned?— R e X A. Th is a sc metal, very fine scoure uch ne whit- ing, rouge or fine rottenstone mixed with oil, should be used on it. and only Q. Which Louis was known as the D. was sur- | A. Louis X ¢ | “the named “Le Hut Quarreler.” hich mear When was rst establis The constitutions Delaware, Maryland na, all adopted in 17 1 the earliest declarations gislative authority in favor of the liberty of the press. With the adop- on of Article I, amendiag the United States Constitution, in 1791, the principle of a free press and free speech was for the first time written into the organic law of an important nation. Q. Where was the built?>—C. N. A. London was the first city to feel the need of subways. A two-track un- derground railway from Edgeware to KKings Cross was begun in 1853. Q When were aki uniforms first worn by our Army?’—A. E A. When volunteer troops called for the Spanish-Amer it was found that the heavy blue uniform was too warm for serv- {e in the tropics. A service uniform of khaki cloth was therefore intro- duced. In 1902 the whole dress regu- lation of the Army was changed. edom of the | first were Q. Is it true that only half the moon is seen from the earth?—N. A. L. A. Strictly speaking, it is not true that only one side of the moon is | combined per cent of the moon's surface. | words to the effect that moon’s rotation in her orbit is not uni- form, therefore two small strips of surface in addition to the regular plane are visible from the eartl These portions of the surface run fre pole to pole on the east and west side and become alternately visible. I ause the moon’s axis is not perpendic Jar to the orbit a portion around th North Pole is visible during one-hal \nd the corresponding portion arour the South Pole during the other hal ¢ her revolution in her orb 4 effect of these variations that we can see altogether about 5 On i1 per cent is at all times visible fror the earth. Q. Did Lafayette scendan R. A. A. Lafayette left a son, George Washington Lafayetts, and two daughters. Q. What is the origin of the expres- " or “onery”?—B. S. Iy it was a corruption of rdinary.” It now carrics leave any d- A. Origi the word * the idea of “mean, low. Q. T know a man quite well, but do not know his wife. In sending him a Christmas card should I add he name?—C. V. A. Greeting cards should be ad dressed to both husband and wife. Q. What aviator flew his plane through the archway of the Eiffci Tower?—T. R. M. A. On February 22 or 23, 1926, a Frenchman by the name of Leon C lot attempted to fly through the arch way of Eiffel Tower and was killed in this effort. It is said that this attempt was instigated by a remark from an American friend, who said to Callot 1f the Eiffel Tower were in New York some Amer- ican would have flown an airplane through it long ago.” Q. Who wore the seven-league boots? L. H. A. Hop o' My Thumb wore the seven-league boots. Q. Can cocoa be substituted chocolate in a recipe?—H. P. H. A. The Bureau of Home Economics says that one-half cup of cocoa plus one-half tablespoon of shortening is equal to one ounce or one square of for subway | chocolate. Q. When was the New York Phil- harmonic Orchestra formed?—R. E. J. A. It began its concerts in 1842. The Philharmonic Society of New York has been described as “the oldest or- chestral body in continuous service ‘n the United States devoted to the per- formance of orchestral music. What do you need to know? Is there some point about your business or personal life that puzzles you? Is there something you want to know without delay? Submit your question to Frederic J. Haskin, director of our Washington Information Bureau. He is employed to help you. Address your inquiry to The Evening Star Informa- tion Bureau, Frederic J. Haskin, di- rector, Washington, D. C., and inclose visible from the earth's surface. The 2 conts in stamps for return postage. All parties concerned seem to find cause for satisfaction in the report of Charles E. Hughes as special master for the Supreme Court in the mat- ter of diversion of water from Lake Michigan to the Chicago drainage canal. Chicago welcomes the vindica- tion of its right to divert water under » War Department permit, while other communi on or near the Lakes see victory for their point of view in Mr. Hughes' holding that no vested interest has been created for the Chicago sanitary district, which is operating under a revocable license, and_that final authority over the whole thing rests with Congress. “If it is entirely convenient,” ob- serves the Chicago Daily News, “for the sovereign States of Wisconsin, Minnesota, Michigan, Ohio, Pennsyl- vania and New York, together with the numerous choleric lake cities rep- resented by those sovereign States, Chicago graciously will accept their apologies now instead of later, since they must be thoroughly ashamed of themselves, in the light of Charles s Hughes' report on the lake water diversion case, for the disgrace- ful and baseless charges they have made against this *" The Daily News declares that “Mr. Hughes de- scribes in vigorous language the shocking results that would inevitably follow should the complainants have their way and so shut off the flow of lake water into the sanitary dis trict’s main drainage canal. * * * In short, the complainant States in the pending suit are asking that con- ditions perilous to the point of ruin be forced upon Chicago. * * * Tt re- mains only for the city’s detractors to acknowledge their fault and join with Chicago in bringing about, through right congressional action, complete restoration of lake levels by the simple method long advocated by Chicago’s engineers.” * % %k Xx “It is not a victory for Chicago in the real issue involved,” asserts the St. Paul Pioneer Pr however; merely transfers the fight to prevent 1z0’s appropriation of water from he Great Lakes from the purely legal jurisdiction of the Supreme Court to the broadly discretionary authority of Congress,” while the Milwaukee Jour- nal draws the conclusion that “these States are justified in insisting that War Department engineers the full authority conferred on them to get this lake diversion reduced and finally stopped.” “Lake Michigan does not belong to ago,” declares the Detroit News. zs to all the people of the United States, and they, through Con- gress, can determine how much water Chicago can take. Is that a victory for Chicago? It is a victory for the peo- ple of America, a victory for common sense. * * * It remains to be seen whether Chicago is greater in Con- gress than all the rest of the Union. We don't believe it.” “I Chicago crows over this victo says the Duluth Herald, “it will crow prematureiy, for neither the War De- partment nor Congress will ever per- mit any diversion that imperils the channels of the Great Lakes highw nor will they violate the international treaty that protects the rights of (V n- to this water.” The Madison Wis consin State Journal states that the report “disposes of the Chicago con tention that the flow of water throush the drainage canal is nobody’s busi- ness, and in that particular is a victory for the protesting States. On the other hand,” continues the Madison paper, “he finds that the present water diver- sion is satisfactory and legally au- thorized under the power of Congres: which makes the immediate practical effect of the decision a vindication of Chicago.” Chic “It_belon EE Condemning Chicago’s “arrogance,” but admitting that “there is no doubt that the report constitutes an impor- tant victory for Chicago's side of the the Kalamazoo Gazette con- t is unthinkable that if the issue brought squarely before Con- gress that body will place its approval upon any Chicago scheme which in- volves the further damaging of lake harbors, the continued lowering of water levels and the wholesale injury All Lake Interests Pleased By Hughes’ Report to Court | sress or administrative officials acting under the authority of Congress have sole control of the diversion.” The Green Bay Press-Gazette concludes that “the Lake States emerge with their demands that Chicago be com- pelled to stop its unauthorized and ex- cessive theft of lake water satisfled. Their rights in this respect are en- forceable. Demand that “Congress should at least compel Chicago to pay for the damage it has done to other and greater interests by footing the bills for any compensating works which it may now be necessary to build” is made by the Toledo Blade, while the Portsmouth Sun would compel pay- ment of damages to Canada. The Manitoba Free Press states that “Can- ada will now be able to make its pro- test to the Government at Washington against the effect of the Chicago diver- sion upon Canadian shipping and waterways.” The Grand Rapids Press points out that “even if Congress thought it all right to steal the Great Lakes from their present American users the fact would remain that the Lakes are only half ours to steal.” The Jackson Citizen Patriot also calls it an “international question.” The Buffalo Evening News remarks that “it remains to be seen whether Chicago will be able to muster greater strength in Congress than the States that are protesting against the with- drawal of 8,500 cubic second feet of water from the Great Lakes system.” * K Kk K The Ann Arbor Times-News con- cedes that “there must be something in Chicago's claim that diversion of the lake water is necessary if its drain- age canal is to function properly, else a disinterested referee like Mr. Hughes would not have made recommenda- tions which, when analyzed, mean a material victory for the Windy C That paper, however, adds that “Mr. Hughes held that the Chicago sani- tary district is operating under a rev- ocable license, and while it is effec- tive as such, it created no vested rights and is at all times subject to review.” “Whils Chicago is hailing the opin ion as a victory, the city has not been given a clean bill, by any means,” says the Louisville Courier-journal. *T fight for immediate reduction is the moment lost. In the past the ¢ has followed the lines of least ance in solving its_sewer probler | Using the waters of Lake Michigan, it has created an artificial river. In the future it must resort to expedients used by inland cities. Charged wit! being a water thief, it is on proba- tion.” The Rochester Times-Union feels that “Congress, which Mr. Hughes finds has ultimate authority with re- gard to such diversion, should find a way to make Chicago speed up a pro- gram for construction of modern sew- age-disposal plants.” UNITED STATES IN WORLD WAR Ten Years Ago Today. President signs declaration of war on Austria-Hungary after Congress ses the resolution with but one di senting vote. Italy is jubilant over action of this country. * * * One of Pershing’s aides together with a num- ber of United States Army officers who have been at the front return to this country to act as instructors at the various training camps. * * * Two Americans are wounded by bombs dropped by German aviators in raid on a French town. * * * Maximilian Harden, well known German editor, asserts “only a miracle can bring peace. Either Germany must be crushed or our enemies defeated. There fis no alternative.” * ¢ ¢ Men who fought in France call scene of Halifax disaster worse than a battlefield. Bit- ter cold kills those trapped in theg ruins and heavy snow prevents aid traing from reaching city. Bluejackets from United States warship furnishing first aid and a hospital is established on board ship. * * * Council of Na- tional Defense announces plans for of Great Lakes commerce.” The New York Sun finds that the report “by Dodona had nothing on the *“choos and ‘“approve” statements at thel White House. — no means grants to Chicago a blanket right to divert from Lake Michigan all the \\'ller# sees fit”; that “Con- reorganization to do away with ad- visory committees, and places at heads of various sections experts who Wwill sever their connection with private corporations. el