Evening Star Newspaper, December 26, 1927, Page 8

s ® THE EVENING STAR With Sunday Morning Edition. WASHINGTON, D.C. MONDAY.....December 26, 1927 THEODORE W. NOYES. .. .Editor The Evening Star Newspaper Comp: Business Oftice and Penns 110 East 11th St New Y. C! Office European Office The Evening Star g edition 1e delive: the city at 60 conts 45 cenis per month per month_ O telephone Main 3000 ¢ cartier at end of each month. Rate by Mail—Payable in Adv. Maryland and Virginia. and Sunday ‘\r |0.00: 1 mo. 1vr. $3.00: 1 mo i the Daily Dailr Sunday onl All Other States and Canada. Dails and ¥ 1yr. $12.00: 1 mo. $1.00 Al on o 1 Sunday only s1001 Member of the Associated Press. P! o 1y Radical Folly. Bombs were exploded on Saturday in branches of New York and Boston banks in Buenos Aires. About a score of people were injured and much ma-. terial damage was done. Investigations have so far failed to indicate a reason for the outrages or to disclose their perpetrators. It is believed. however. that the explosions were the work of radicals, sympathizers with Sacco and Vanzetti. seeking to express their con- demnation of the execution of those men several months ago. It is by no means illogical thus to | assume a motive for the explosions despite the lapse of time since the executions. strangely and without reason. After the two men were put to death in Boston there was some fear lest there be assaults of this character in mani- festation of incendiary anger against the American institutions of justice. Precautions were taken in certain places to prevent attacks, but as the weeks passed they seemed needless. Guards were placed in one of the two institutions in Buenos Aires and have been maintained there ever since. They were present on Saturday when the | explosions occurred, but were soon to be withdrawn as superfluous. It is futile to seek to probe the mental processes of those engaged in this murderous futility of revenge. They cannot hope to change the course of | affairs in this country. They are ter- rorists of the Russian type of pre- revolution days. In a muddled sort of way they appear to think that if they persist in their sniping and bombing thew may in some fashion bring about & change. They do not realize that the Russian revolution was not effected through terrorism. The Czarist govern- ment did not fall because of the plot- tings and crimes of the Nihilists, but through its own weakness and the treachery of those who were relied upon for its support. The war under- mined it, and when the crash came it went like a house of cards. Terrorism did not cause the French | revolution. It marked it after the revolution had been effected. France suryived it because a nation cannot be destroyed. Just so, Russia will survive. Extreme radicalism is a mental per- version which manifests itself in vari- ous forms and the most ineffective is the resort to murderous means of vengeance or propaganda. Every bomb that is thrown by a radical, call him | anarchist, or nihilist, or communist, or thug. strengthens rather than weakens th- structure of a government founded upon the basic principles which form the foundation of the United States. This outrage at Buenos Aires, | » stupid gesture of hatred for American institutions, mainly serves to strengthen the determination of the people of this country to resist all efforts at sub-| version, direct or subtie. Christmas Toys. Christmas is past, but costs are now being figured and it is estimated that Old Santa spent more than two hun- éred and fifty million dollars on toye | for the kiddies. This represents a huge | sum, but it iz certain that two hundred and fifty million dollars’ worth of hap- | piness pervaded the homes of the tiny | recipients. Throughout the year chil- | dren look forward to Christmas time In the stocking or on the tree or in & little pile of packages in a corner of the room they gleefully find their al- lotment from Santa. Dolls and books, toys and ministure houses provoke gur- gles of joy as they arc unwrapped 1o meet the fascinated gaze of their new owners and not a single one of the col- lective Banta Clauses begrudges his con- tribution o the two hundred and fifty million dollars’ happiness fund —r—e It seems that President Coolidge has succeeded in making it clear that his “I do not choose” speech was a final starement and not merely the begin- ning of & oy argument » - many years old Friend Santa clude some intelligent books on reforestation in his holiday giving The Police Trial Board Although Ma). Hesse has ordered s change in the personnel of the polic: triel boerd on the theory that the “in- Jection of new biood” will ficial resuite n Wi In ne [ in .- work bene- there that sgwon the Commission- ere thould svudy the setivities of the | bosrd with & view W drastie changes Under the law creat- ing the trial board the Commissioners have sole authority w sppoint are not Lmied ss % the number of men who mey compose the board nor 8e 10 the appontment of civilisns or police officers senlences meted they cannot N composition hy inerense them the bosrd, end in this B the cause of the feeling of Qlssatis- faction that & strong in Washinglon Meny of the penaltics imposed by wie bosrd have been so lght end so entirely inadequate that the taxpayer has wondered how discipline could be mainteined 0 the department. There have even been some cases when & policeman hiss been convicted 11 court, yet the trial bowrd has merely yepri- mended biin, Of course, there have been sume instances of perjured Lesti- The radical mind works | = & strong feeling | They | While tiey can modity | lare able to see beneath the surface and render a correct verdict, but it is unfortunate that the board's penalties in the majority of cases fail to punish the policeman-defendant in a manner commensurate with his misdeed. The trial board is now composed of two police captains and an assistant corporation counsel. The major of | police does not scrve, nor does he have | anything to do with the findings of the board. Suggestion has been put | forward that one or more civilians be appointed in order that the public may be represented in the discipline of the ll"nlk‘t‘ Department. It is generally a citizen who brings a policeman before the body, and it is well argued that the citizenry shonld have representa- tion. Criticism af the board has become more widespread during recent months. A committee of the Washington Board of Trade has directed attention to the inequity. in so far as the public is con- cerned, of a situation in which a policeman can get away with almost anything and receive only a gentle slap {on the wrist by the police disciplining body. In view of these circumstances it might be well for the Commission- ers to give the matter close study to the end that a solution will be reached | which will have the approval of all | Washingtonians. i e Christmas and Crime. | Is New York's underworld reform- | ing? Or have its denizens been driver. | out by the drastic laws now in forcs there? Have the Manhattan crooks {and gunmen migrated to Chicago as a | more profitable and tolerant field of op- i erations? These questions are prompted by the extraordinary record just an- | nounced. For the period of twenty-four hours, from nine o'clock Saturday night to nine o'clock last nizht. not 2 single felony was committed in the city, not one prisoner was taken to police headquarters. The hand of the law was laid upon only one person, and he was taken as a material witness against a fugitive wanted for a crime previous- ly committed. Perhaps the answer to the questions just propounded will be found in the fact announced some days ago that the police were under instructions not to | make arrests except for grave crime. | A moratorium was declared. The un- derworld was in a way put on honor to respect the occasion, and apparentiv it kept faith. It is now to be seen whether there will be a reaction. The Baumes laws undoubtedly have driven a number of the metropolitan evildoers out of the jurisdiction. The possibility of life imprisonment for comparatively minor offenses has had a wholesomely deterrent effect upon the conduct of those who live by their wits and who have small regard for human life. Yet, of course, it is not conceivable that the whole of Manhattan's lawbreaking fraternity has gone West—or East or South. ‘There are some indications that Chi- cago has suffered from the effect of the | drastic laws in New York State. So grave is the situation there that there is a proposal that the aid of the Fed- eral Government be sought to cope with the criminal forces, particularly. the gangs that, despite the fact that they are often engaged in internecine war- upon the general public. New York’s record is not to be taken too seriously as an evidence of purifica- tion and reform. It may mark a tendency, but there still remain ele- ments of disorder and destruction Crime promoters, the professional fences who are relatively immune from molestation, are not terrified by the Baumes laws, and there are always enough venturesome, reckless, ll-bal- anced young people to furnish the per- sonnel of the criminal army. The real problem in crime prevention is the catching of the people who not merely guarantee a market for stolen goods, but who actually, it is well known, are the instigators of raids and burglaries. e e - It has been proposed to place rein- deer on the market in competition with beef. A sentimental obstacle arises: What person cherishing an early belief in Santa Claus would want to eat a reindeer? e If Henry Ford continues to announce reduced prices, he may show up some | Christmas day as a competitor of old Santa Claus himself. e o European war clouds hover in the same old places. Politics, after all, | involves temperament as well as the | purposes of statesmanship | B | Wasted Christmas Trees. When Christmas eve was growing dark, Baturday, great piles of evergreens were 1o be seen throughout the city, stacked high in bundles, or displayed with branches spread, on vacant lots | and along the curbs at vantage points As Christmas dawned, there were thou- sands of these trees still awaiting pur- chasers who would never come. The vendors had departed, sbandoning their | wares. They had sold part of them, perhaps in some cases had sold all but a few. But in the aggregate there were many that went to waste. No count can be made of these weated trees, They | represent & wanton destruction that cannot possibly be compensated The spectacle presented of these sur- | plus Christmas trees s & sad one, They are fine growths, some of them fifteen or twenty years old. They have been ruthlessly cut for the market and the market has not absorbed them. They | cannot be put to use now. They are of Wttle or no value as firewood. A few of them may be taken by people who | need fuel, and chopped up for the sake of their branches and trunks, but the greater part of them will lie on the refuse piles, slowly rotting, 8 nulsance and & problem What has happened here has hap- pened, likewise, elsewhere, Tens of thousands of these trees have been sac- | rificed, not for use, but for waste. Bome- body hus overestimated the market There huve, perhaps, been heavy fin cial losses, In the cutting and trans- portation of the surplus trees. ‘The wholesalers, maybe, have made some profite, in selling W middlemen and W the vacant lot vendors, and & few of the Intermediate wgents In the (rans- action have possibly clesred a gain Nature has been the heaviest loser, however, It 18 easy to say that there should be fare, are primarily occupied in preying | | THE EVENING STAR, WASIINGTON, n. C, MONDAY, DECEMBER 26. scribe the effective remedy. There is a demand for Christmas trees, and it is desirable that the individual cutting of trees at random be restrained. But somehow there should be a closer meas- urement of the requirements of the market, so that this waste, which has been increasing year by year, may be reduced. The sad spectacle of dead trees that can never be put to use, that can give no pleasure to anybody, that cannot be turned into value, should be lessened. B The Fifth Attempt. Mrs. Frances Grayson's amphibian airplane, the Dawn, is lost somewhere between New York and Harbor Grace, Newfoundland. Starting out last Fri- day in Winter weather, despite the ad- vice of those who could see no object in a transatlantic flight at this time of the year, Mrs. Grayson and her crew of three were forced to land before their first objective was reached. A wire- less, caught through the stormy Win- ter gales, apprised the world that the Dawn was down. but no details as to its location were given. The odds against crossing the Atlan- tic by airplane during Winter weather are almost prohibitive, and in view of the repeated failures of Mrs. Grayson's ship during the Summertime her latest venture verged on suicide. If she is found, and it is earnestly hoped that she will be, her backers should immedi- ately withdraw their support, because if death does not win this time it surely will sooner or later. Last Summer M Grayson made four starts for Europe from OIld Orchard, Me. Three times gasoline had to be dumped quickly in order to pre- vent a crash, and the fourth time the ship barely limped into port after en- gine trouble had developed four hun- dred miles out. The result of the fifth attempt is still in doubt, but it is cer- land where it was forced down, its four occupants are suffering agonies from the bitter cold weather. Intense ambition to be the first wom- an to cross the Atlantic by air has evi- dently caused Mrs. Grayson to close her eyes to the fact that her plane is unwieldy and cumbersome, that it is incapable of carrying enough gasoline to feed its two motors on the long ocean jump except under the most fa- vorable conditions, and that ice forma- tion on the wings of a plane will bring it down as inevitably as a stalled motor. ‘The whole world, of course, is wait- ing anxiously for word of her rescue, but there is a strong feeling that meas- ures should be taken to prevent her from adding her name and those of her crew to the long list of air fatali- ties. Science-advancing flights are one thing, but personal-publicity flights are another and the public has no patience with the latter. ——————— It has been common to refer to a dastardly criminal as “the Cat” or “the Fox.” Cats and foxes are rather clean animals with dependable traits of char- acter. It would be proper, though in- elegant, to refer to the perpetrator of an atrocity as “the Skunk" and let it g0 at that. T Some of the Christmas cards hav: sounded rather operatic. In improv- ing artistic quality there is danger of sacrificing the simple sweetness of the folk song. B R Bombs in Buenos Aires were meant to spoll a holiday. The underworld. while opposed to legitimate industry, never permits itself to rest. - One of the interesting experiments of current civilization is the apparent effort to capitalize Moscow as headquar- ters for all kinds of bad news. ———e e One of the best of Christmas gifts is a holiday season which begins on Sat- urday and does not end until Tuesday morning. ——— . Lindy's mother likes to fly. It is a wise parent who knows how to partici- pate with intelligent enthusiasm in the interests of youth. - It has been easily made clear that a few bullfights more or less have noth- ing to do with international friendships S SHOOTING STARS. BY PHILANDER JOHNSON. Play Toys. Father dear can't romp around, With the girls and boys Yet he finds a glee profound ‘Mongst the Christmas toys. Jumping facks may cheer the scene, Buch things he'll forget. Bome one gave him a machine To light a cigarette. | Pather dear does not aspire Drums or horns to play. This new toy he must admire, Busy night and day. Plashing to a glow serene, It dispels regret. Pather has a new machine To light & cigarett Complicated Question. “What do you think of prohibition? “In my part of the map,” announced Senator Sorghum, “it begins to be a question of grammar, It's largely o misnomer Distribution of Rest. Old Banta swiftly fades from view To sleep beyond the snow. 1 wish Priend Letter Carrier, too, Could doze six months or so. Jud “Tunking says however handsomne the Christmas card, the handwriting on the envelope means more than the pic- ture ineide. Cost of Chatter. ‘That talk was cheap we used to say. But that was in another day A well established rumor states ‘That telephones will ralse thelr rates “He who knows 11l of his nelghbor, sald Hi Ho, the sage of Chinatown, “should keep silent, lest he show how easy It may be to have knowledg: without wisdom " Competitive Melody. We sang & Ohristmas curol. It was an honest shout. But some one sang & ragil The chorus drowned 1 'splses & tune, out, sald Unole THIS AND THAT BY CHARLES E. TRACEWELL. Great is the man who can re- cefve direct criticism calmly and profit from it. Greater is he who can be told some- thing along the line of his specialty— something which he does not know, yet will be willing to look into it. One has but to think back over his own personal experience to realize how little any one relishes either direct crit- feism or advice, and especially how scant s the attention usually paid to the man who insists on coming along wiih unasked-for suggestions. The history of industry is filled with many classic examples of the man who peddled a new invention to some flour- ishing concern, only to be rebuffed. He tried to “tell them something, ' only to be met with an amused smile. So what did he do? He went away, of course, and either founded a concern of his own_or persisted in his search for a manufacturer with a desire to look into things. They say that the inventor of a new sort of soft collar hawked his idea and patents before the great manufacturer of stiff collars, and, being turned down {Int for his pains, went away to another irm. This fairy tale of business ends hap- pily. of course, as all good fairy tales should. The firm and the man made a “hit” with their product, so much so that the collar-wearing habits of the Nation were largely changed. They tell a tale of a man who devised a new type of breakfast food. He took it to a producer of such things, and the Intter couldn't “see” the idea at all. according to the story. Today the prod- uct appears on many millions of breakfast tables every morning. . Now why did these hard-headed business men, naturally keen on mak- ing all the money possible. turn down these fine ideas—ideas which proved themselves time and time again—in the hands of others? It was not because they were not astute gentlemen. or because they were Bath et it o SRR RTIGAL for ob | L s Ly (gense Of S1E WOre, No doubt, what caused them to shy from the good thing was simply the dis. like of the average American to re- ceive what he construes as pointers on his own specialty. Especially does this factor operate when a man or a firm has got to a cer- tain point of success. There is a certain bullheadedness to success, either group or personal, which tends to stultify the man or the firm. There are some who feel that the most successful manufacturers of the phonograph did not go forward with their invention as well as they might have done, but waited until the art and science of radio showed them how to improve their product. The old motto, “Let well enough alone,” has held many a man and many an institution back in the march of progress. Surely both firm and man are to be forgiven, for progress is not a plain road, nor are the components of the parade always sct down in a program: of events. Life. industry—these interlocking factors, each teeming with the other— these can take care of themselves. It is with the individual that the matter has its best application. EEE. 1t 1s possible for every person to take himself aside, now and then, and seri- ask himself: After all, are you hide-bound? “Are you geiting to be one of these fellows who refuse to listen to those who attempt to tell them something? “Do you resent it when Bill Jones comes to you, in the line of duty, with a tale about something you have not heard about? “Instead of expressing the desire to look into the matter at oncé, do you begin to throw cold water on it? “Do you declare, 'Oh, we already have that!" or by some other phrase or sentiment attempt to preserve the at- mosphere of infallibility? “Are you really sccretly amused at what others attempt to tell you, when they show a patent desire to set you r about something? "Has it never occurred to you that they may be right, and you—astonish- ing enough—be wrong?" wae e The man who so cross-examines him- self must keep in mind, of course, that possession is nine points of the law. . He should not allow every person with an ax to grind to throw the thing into his machinery, or to veer the bark of his endeavor purposely from its course. One’s elaborately built-up machinery would not long survive such a course. any more than his personal ship of state would make its harbor if he changed his route at every one’s sug- gestion. Here, as everywhere, it is essential that one use all the common sense that he possesses. There is a fine line be- tween taking all suggestions and taking none. Here is where experience plays its | large part, if one believes in the advis- | ability of keeping a really open mind. The open mind, to be more than & mere phrase, must possess the desire | and the power to reccive, first, ecrit- icism, and second. suggestions. The experienced man will fight against the feeling that arises, almost instinc- tively, to reject advice, to resent crit- feism. 1t is the newcomer to life, the young mdn, who mostly is the victim of this inability to test out the new, to profit by criticism, to look into suggestions, even if he thinks he knows better than the one who suggests. This feeling. this resentment, is given to us in youth, by a kindly Providence, in order that we may plunge ahead, carry the fort by vim. Prudence, which accrues with ma- turity, demands a brake on vim, a slowing up of the headlong propulsion of youth. This brake, however, must be upon resentment. Resentment at the other fellow is one of the little-regarded brakes Upon progress. So a brake upon a brake, then, needed, if one is to approach the ra of* those great men who receive crit- | icism calmly, and who profit from it. !and who can take suggestions with | thanks. is WASHINGTON OBSERVATIONS BY FREDERIC WILLIAM WILE. America's greatest engineering achievement—the construction of the Panama Canal—is to be immortalized in the movi Louis B. Maver of Los Angeles, the “producing” partner of the Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer combina- tion, has just left Washington after discussing preliminaries of the project. He plans to make the picture an Amer- ican epic comparable with “The Birth of a Nation,” “The Covered Wagon.” “The Big Parade” and other screen masterpieces. The Panama Canal pic- ture is to be given the picturesque and pertinent title of “The Glory Diggers.” It will portray the history of the big ditch across the Isthmus from the earli- est inception of the project to its triumphant conclusion. Engineer, sol- dier, sailor and civilian will all have their meritorious places in a “picturi- zation” destined to rank among the classics of the silver screen. “The Glory Diggers” will, of cours all-American production. learned a lot about the relative merits of picture makers when he was build- ing “Ben-Hur.” Italian architects and artisans worked 11 months to con- struct the arena for the chariot race scene. It had to be done all over in California—and took 28 days. ER I A Democratic favorite son from the Southwest, Will Rogers of Oklahoma, will be one of the speakers at the Jack- son day harmony dinner in Washing- ton on January 12. He is relied upon to contribute comic relief to an other- wise serious occasion. Rogers got a vote or two for President at the Democratic national confusion in Madison Square QGarden three years ago. CEE Robert F. Wagner, Democrat, of New York, is believed to be the second native of Germany to be elected to the United States Senate, the first having been Carl Schurz of Missouri. He was born in the Province of Hesse-Nassau in 1877 but was a schoolboy in New York City Many Germans have sat in the Hou of Representatives. Canada Is rep sented by a native son—James Couzens, Republican, of Michigan, while Eng- land can lay elaim to Frank R. Good- ing, Republican, of Idaho, as a states- man who first saw the light of day in John Bull's tight lttle island. The House contains several Canadian-born Representatives, including Sproul, Ro- publican, of TIllinols; 8Sinclair, Non- partisan Republican, of North Dakota, and Sutherland, Republican, of Alaska Rerger, Bocialist, of Wisconsin, hails from Austria-Hungary, and Sabath, Democe! of INlinols, from Czechoslo- vakia. “Big BIll" Thompson of Chi- cago 18 certainly asleep at the switch, for Martin B. Madden, the Windy City's veteran and able Congressman, who was born in England, is re-elected as regularly as elections come around. CEC R Bpeaking of “Big Bill.” as plenty of people do, though not always in polite terms, the star rejoinder to his appeal for members of his “Am Irst League” comes from President Clarence C. Little of the University of Michigan “My only regret,” he wrote Mayor Thompson, “Is that the literature you sent me contained Washington's Fare- well Address instead of your own.'* Prexident_ Little was recently a caller at the White House He conferred with President Coolidge about ways and means for co-operation in farm re- search between Btate universities and those agricultural colleges which are vegularly in receipt of Federal Ald W ! Alben Johnson, American newspaper man now stationed At Ceneva to “eaver” the League of Natlons, is home on leave. He brings a good story about how 8. Pinkney Tuck, United States consul at Cleneva, handled the Bacco- Vanzetti situstion there last August Having heard that Communist sympa« thigers were golng to hold a demonstra ton In front of his consulate, Tuek de- cided to participate in it He rigged Bimselt up In mob garb and presently was marehing on the consulate with the “manifestants.”” 1L wisn't lnn1 be- fore he found himself figuring in their ebullitions. “Down with America!' they shouted. “Long live Haoco and Vangelti!” And then, “Lel's got the wull” Wheremmon Tuck en, let's get the sooundrel! Iy didn't try uwnd th N osoon came Lo an end with Tuck, the consulate and the Bta and Biripey all intact, o i R ter boost has been given the governor in a long time than that just bestowed | upon him by Newton D. Baker of Ohto. The former Secretary of War “admires Al Smith and knows his nomination would be one entirely creditable to the Democratic party.” Baker added that he would not oppose any action by the Ohio delegations to support Smith at the convention. One brother Buckeye certain to enjoy no backing from Baker is Gov. Vic Donahey. Some of Baker's deadliest epigrams—at the making of which he's a master—have “Honest Vic" for their hero and inspiration. L Senator Clarence C. Dill, Democrat, of Wagington, who has introduced a constituiional amendment to prevent & President from serving more than elght years, can claim to be one of the very original Coolidge-won't-run-again men. Many weeks before the I-do-not- choose statement, Dill predicted that the President would soon abdicate. The Spokane statement predicated his prophecy on two factors—Mr. Coolidge's reverence for tradition and his political sagacity. *xowx Mrs. Mabel Walker Willebrandt has Just possessed herself of a writing desk for her living room. such as any lawyer in the land would be proud to own It's an exact replica in mahogany of the first desk used by the justices of the United States Supreme Court when it was organized nearly a century and a half ago. The Assistant Attorney Gen- eral, on one of her rummaging tours through the Capitol, heard of the old desk and arranged with the veteran cabinetmaker (a woodworket, not a pol- itician), who looks after congressional furniture, to build her a duplicate. It is a small, roll-top affair of conserva- tive, but picturesque, pattern. »xox e “Joe” Crail, one of Los Angeles’ Rep- resentatives in the House, comes mighty near to writing the most amus- ing mutoblography in _the new Con- gressional Directory. It reads: “Born At Fairfield, Iowa, on Christmas eve, 1877, along with' his twin brother, Judge Charles 8. Crail, dean of the Superior Court of Los Angeles. They resemble each other in appearance, have always dressed alike, and are pleased to be mistaken, one for the other. At the outbreak of the Spanish- American War, both enlisted as privates Joe was made a corporal, and Charles, a sergeant, in order that they could be told apart by their chevrons.” (Covyright. 1097.) - ibmarine Safety Suggestions Sought To the Editor otgThe Will you please print the plan below given, that it might start some one to thinking who has the natural ability to do things along this line? 1. Modify present and future sub- marines by providing the necessary grappling connections, 8o that a quick, strong connection may be made for lfting 2 Modify existing pontoons or de- slgn a lifting pontoon, providing a dry npartment therein to accommodate a charge of chemicals (to be determined by Government chemists), which, upon wetting in the confined chamber, will quickly generate a high pressure, this pressure to be permitted to escape nto the pontoon, emptying it of water (when submerged) through one-way vilves, thereby creating buoyancy. ‘To illustrate this action, suppose (he diy chamber contained caloium carbide, which, 1 have read, will quickly develc upward of 400 pounds pressure. Surely the proper proportion could be ascer- talned to meet the requirements of a pontoon of given dimenston. An electrical device Lo start water trickling nto the dry compartment could be de- vised and operated from the bridge of surface oraft Now, suppose auch a battery of pone toony were In readiness at the torpedo atation upon receipt of the news of the disuster o the B4 They oould hav Immediately been diapatohed (ot soone, and WILh & minimum of assists ance from avallable vessels been sub- | merged. attached o the wreok, and, {when all were secured, bring up the Cdivers and press the button on the ! yvesoue ship, "1 bell mueh could I.\:vo boen the #-4 ar: Hons | it PHILOSOPHIES BY GLENN FRAN ‘The publication statistics of America would suggest to a man from Mars that we are a race of book lovers. The fact is, however, that, by and large, we are a race of book lookers rather than a race of book lovers. | On all hands a passion for reading | s evident. | This passion for reading ‘seems to bear no particular relation to any passion for literature and learning. The crude mind cries, “Gimme somethin’ to read!" as avidly as the cultivated mind noses about for dis- tinctive books; reading, regardless of what is read, has become a favorite device for killing time, most of us have caught ourselves, when time has been hanging heavy on our hands during a long train journey, reading | away for hours in advertising columns about things in which we have had no interest whatever, just because we had exhausted everything in the paper | or magazine in which we were inter- | ested. | There is a vast amount of reading | that bears the same relation to in- tellectual hunger or interest that gum chewing bears to physical hunger; it is a device for killing time and keep- ing restless nerves occupied. I have a friend who is very intelli- gent and has a hearty dislike of the pse and pretense of the man who is | always reading, not for love of litera- ture and learning, but in order to accumulate dinner table chatter. The other evening I watched him listen amusedly to an artificial intellectual | indulge in a superficial discussion of | Carlyle. | “Well,” he said, “I never got far| with Carlyle. When we were young | married folk, Jane made me read to| her every evening from some great writer. It was ‘culture or bust’ for us in those days. And, you know, I soon found that I could read Carlyle'’s ‘French Revolution’ to her for an hour or more while I dozed. I learned to | | | | | frequently makes personal Q Have Americans gnvested much money in Mexico?—N A. According to a published repogt, American investments in Mexico Tn 1926 aggrregated $1,339,061.000. Q. Why are the Holland tubes in New York so-called? . 'W. A. They are named after the engi- | neer who designed them, the late Clif- ford M. Holland. Q. Are the British coal mines as well equipped with respect to machinery as tEhr» mines of the United States”—L. R. A. They are not; although the cut- ting machine originated in England, over 80 per cent of the coal mined is still picked out. The amount of coal produced in a year per man has fallen off 62 tons since 1875. Seven men ars covery as six did 12 years ago. Q. Does the Prince of Wales leave his agents?—D. W. E. A. On the contrary, interested in the smallest the prince is details and inve tions of his properties Q. Are elephants used for plowing in Africa’—E. T. A. It is reported that elephants are trained to the plow at the Belgian Congo government schools at Api, and that a pair of well trained elephants can plow two and a half difficult acres in half a day. child born in Cheyenne?—M. H. A. The mayor of Cheyenne, Wyo. says: “E. J. Smalley claims to be the first male child born in Cheyenne. He is now living in this city and is con- nected with the Department of Jus- tice. Mrs. Mary A. Davidson. whose maiden name was Mary A. Edwards. was the first female child born and do it automatically. Jane would knit away without noticing that I was; reading in my sleep. It pleased her and I didn't mind.” | In jest, my friend created an accu- | rate symbol of much of the reading that goes on in America. | It has been said that there is nothing | printed that some one will not read. ‘The quantity of reading in America Is very great. How to improve the quality of read- ing is a great challenge to the forces | of adult education. Reading as stimulation must take | the place of reading as a sedative. If all the book lookers in America could be transformed into book lovers, the whole tone and temper of our civilization might be lifted. (Copyright, McClure Newspaper Svndicate.) oo | the first child born in this city. She country with more tants?—A. M. J. A. There are 1320 cities ha population between 2500 and 5.000: 721 cities having a population between population between 10,000 and 25.000: 143 cities having a population between 25,000 and 50,000. a population of over 50,000; making a total of 2787. Q. How long have oysters been can- ned>—F. G. S. A. They were canned as early as 1820, in Baltimore. Q. How many men went with Comdr. Byrd when he flew over the North Upholds Citizens’ Need of Permanent Market To the Editor of The Star: | The excellent editorials appearing | recently in the columns of your valu- | able newspaper regarding a permanent location of the Farmers' Market were | most timely and certainly to the point. | And as the official head of an organiza- tion that has taken a most keen and active interest in this most impomnl‘ question, we approve your attitude in |{ suggesting that immediate provision I shauld be made for a permanent home or location. for this very important unit | of our local food supply. | I feel that it would be a waste of | funds to give this market a temparary location on the Mall, as has been sug- gested, and which would mean an ex: penditure of $50,000. This area, it I must be realized. is at present covered With grass and weeds, and would | in a short space of time be re-| duced to & muddy, objectionable place, due to the inclemency of the weather that is bound to come, while the over- | head sheds give but little protection. So it would seem that those advocat- ing this temporary site for the farmers | gave but very little consideration to | this most important factor to both buyer and seller of this produce. However, if the farmer must be pro- | vided with temporary quarters for the | sale of his farm products, I would like to call attention of those having this matter in charge, to an offer made to the Board of Commissioners some six or eight months ago by John S. Blick. chairman of Convention Hall Market committee, in which he, as & public- spirited citizen, agreed to give, free of charge, space to the farmers in and around the market he represents to use until such time as Congress should pro- | vide a permanent place for them. As this offer is still open, why not make use of it? The farmers are perfectly willing to go there, according to som= 400 signatures I have. Just why the farmer should be used as a convenience, and battered from pillar to post. to await the otiers’ pleas- ure as to location of units of the market, is rather hard to understand The farmer tells us that he is not inter- ested in railroad or boat transportation. he does not use either of those agencies in getting the products of farms to market, for many fears ago he realized the value of the motor truck in that capacity. What he does want, and s demanding. is that he be placed in a lo- cation convenient to the trading public, as any other progressive man would de- mand, and which is of vital importancs to him in the operation of his farm A. J. DRISCOLL, President, Mid-city Citirens’ Association. - Quotes From First Issue Of Star to Prove Point To the Editor of The Star: In the Interesting announcement in | The Evening Star of the 16th instant relative to its seventy-fifth anniversary A statement was made that it fist publication office was a building on Sixth street south of Pennsylvania ave- nue. In a complimentary notice in the | Washington Post the next morning the question was asked. “Was it not on SIXth street north of Pennsylvania ave- nue?” In the passing years acourate state- | ments become historie facts. In order that overy one may be fully satisfied as to the above historie event and loca- ton, 1 find this statement in the pub- lisher's notice at the top of the thind | page of the first issue of The Daily dvening Star of Devember 18, 1832 | “Office of The Daily Evening Star, SIxth street south of Pennsylvania ave- nue.” A perusal of these four interesting pages of 78 years ago Wil be st Aignifying and nteresting WASHINGTON TOPHAM | | e et | A | have equipmient that will mare suvely | do the work, and they are right But, | (o my idea, too mueh valuable time is | Jost i assembling it and getting ready We have wonderfully equipped five- fighting apparatus which in the past has falled o sa cities, whereas slmple fire extinguisher, operated along the same principles advocated here, would, had 1t been handy, have done more good than all the fre-fighting equipment of & hall-dosen elties. 0’ gourse, other safety devices should Arrangements for fresh aiv and lght in could and ahould be pro- e submarine tragedio are the most ‘l.uu-nhh that 1 can imagin not the | stinctively restores | Senators.” Pole?--R. J. Z. A. Only Byrd and Bennet flew over the Pole. but there were 54 men in this Arctic expedition. Comdr. Rich- ard E. Byrd and Lieut. Floyd Bennet flew over the North Pole on May 9. 1926. The flying time from Kings Bay to the Pole and back was 15 hours 21 minutes. The plane used was a Fok- | ker tri-motor monoplane called the Josephine Ford. Q. Is steam visible>—W. C. A. Steam is invisible. The white cloud of vapor commonly called steam is vapor of water suspended in the air and formed by the condensation of the true steam gas coming in contact with the cool air. Q When was the first temperance society organized in America?—C. E. A. The first temperance soclety was organized by 200 farmers in Litchfield | County, Conn., in 1789. Q. Is there a good example of Byran- ! tine architecture R. C. A. There are three beautiful exam- in Washington?— required to do the same amount of re- 1ga- Q. Who was the first male white ing a | 5,000 and 10.000: 459 cities having a | nd 144 cities having | composed of minute particles | ANSWERS TO QUESTION BY FREDERIC ]. HASKIN. 1 ples of modified Byzantine arch!tseture in the city—the Shrine of the Sacred Heart, 8t. Matthew's Church and the Franciscan Monastery. g Q How tall s Lindbergh uch does he weigh?—P. 8. e A. Col. Lindbergh s # feet 3 tnenes in height, and upon the eompletion of his transatlantic flight weigned i85 pounds. 5 | m | Fo | . Q When were the ar the statue of Venus? A. It is not known | cumstances the an | ven s broken off T B [ the s arthed | the arms could be found. | Q What are the best conductor of | electricity’—E. H. 8, = = Burea of Standa e best conductors | e silver, pure coppe | pure zine, Swedisn the entire management of his estates to | Spring and v seasons for oute is not nece for it the Summer or becomes a; is between 60 degrees and 8 grees F. Painting can be do; ed buildings at t weather is best Q. In Bible h companion of Dai the fiery furnace wit What were the: A. The three persons the fiery furnace were Mesach and Abednego. | add one-half teaspoo: solved in a tablespoon! and then pour the hot quarts of freshly popped corn, st till each kernel is well coated. w it can be molded into bals or any described form. The dark pop- | corn balls are made by using New | leans molasses and the light-colored ones by the use of maple sirup. Any | good sirup or molasses can be used | Q What was the composition of | the bronze used by primitive pecpies | during the so-called Bronze Age. and what is the distinction between bronze ln:b{m?—l. R.lh & a A. It was an alloy of copper an tin. Bronze has continued in very ex- | tensive and general use down to the | present day. It resembles closely brass which is an alloy consisting mainlr, & not exclusively, of copper and znc. Q. Is there a simiple way to make a mahogany table heatproof?’—H. P. W. A. Continued rubbing with linseed oil gives a finish on mahogany that will not be marred by hot dishes. Q. To whom was Disraeli married*— N.G. E. A In August. 1839, he married t: | widow of Col. Wyndham Lewis. The resources of our free Infor— tion Bureaw are af your service. You |are invited to coll upon it ey 0ftem e |you_piease. It is being maintaired dy The Evening Star s vou. What guestions con we enswer {for you? There is mo charge ot eli | except two cents in stamps for retura postage. Address your letter to The | Evening Star Information Burecs Frederic J. Has Director, Weth- ington. D. C. Notable Faith in Senators Revealed by Mexican Case Public indignation as reflected in the press over the publication of documents purporting to show that Mexico plan- ned to use $1,000.000 or so to influence ! four United States Senators is tem- pered by a feeling that the incident at least served to emphasize the coun- try’s faith in men like Senators Borah, Heflin, Norris and La Follette. As the situation is viewed by the Omaha World-Herald the Mexican public funds to ‘buy’ these were closer to Mexico Cit! , Capitol at Washington. It is not alto- gether a bad ¢ sensation once in & while that we know nstinctively isn't true and couldnt be. The mere fact that we know it ine our faith and re- v wilting cor 0CTACY “There are men here mentioned.”™ says the New York Evening World, they don't believe i | _The Indianapolis | ther, “To charge a govern: which we are at peace brider, and American Se: having been brided—or | and other and reputabl | 2aving sold out—on proof convincing and ¢ “Whatever | money may have been abstracted from | the New York Sun | Mexico hope to gain by corTupt four Senatars? & thieving Mexican hope o Mud peculation by falsi book with entries so | would odviously lead The whole mess is hudd curtain of apparent it <0 attem: “that no sane person believes would be | capable of being nced officially by all the money the world. charges answer themselves.” Roanoke World-News declares that it they had examined the rolis of the Senate to find four men in whose hon- | had full faith, it d to match these n Transeript also | the country thinks “the m stories could not have picked four Sen- | ators whose personal IMtegrity was fur- ther above suspicion ™ “The prompt and emphatie denials from these Senators.” according to the | Syracuse Herald, “were wholly super- | °© fluous. 1f none of thers Sad uttered & word of contradiction, e American public would prompily have exculpated fhem. " "The Twsadena Star-News adds that “many charges affecting their | honesty and patriotism would have to | be proven bevond reasonable doudt to | have any general belief among the American people.” N “In & world full of cynicism, espe- | " observes the New Or- o note the | colleagues (o alleged N ment documents’ purparting o show that nearly & millian and & quarter dollars of Mextcan money had been given to the Senators. Nobody believed it The gentlemen who published these entertaining documents now swear that UNITED STATES IN WORLD WAR Ten Years dgo Todav Proaident Wikon formally an- nounces Nia deciaton 10 take possess sion and asswme contral of the rail- oads 0f the Country at noan tamarrow and I iy proclunation hames Wil Ham O MoAdoo as director general of vatlionds. ALl rattoad exeoutives are | 1o retain thelr positions and earnings of Wads At guATARtend o & satstAe- | tory basis * ® ¢ Prosident pavs M | Gen. Bliss extrnontinary compliment by ANROURCIE DS devision to santine b | w3 chtef Of staft despiie his having veached relirement wge. * ¢ * Lage conalghment of Red Owvss bandages. palsaied i transtt between Twlede and leveland, wre burned ¢ ¢ * 1R steamshipg, ® number of them Maded With _animunithon, are w New York havbor through of eoal ‘h‘ b Nfl\:.u ml‘l‘)‘xu” (\;‘s\u\um adopta resahition callig Wpan Seeretary at Yo 10 DUt et tae A Dy for W fraine o respansible for the | & Y | proved to be when a: WSPADET OF QIFRNI Dl LAt hat o Fort Wa el furt st have gained time when Col L the \ §% e e & hoay was pe rperies, thing to de sad adou WAL A W and rresponsitidis “The story was Wl partienda .y persons who had ¢ Chattaroogs Ington Leader s mams o determ who formed this ences were behind 110 The Suvausad ews views “the whole thing s Bke wnother of those soared-up are made out of ! New York Svening Bt o he Mexican goverment and People are delug mimiurmed Al dar Ui men, we ought to koow o hey ught t0 Rnow 1. AL a tme w08 § A greal amdassadur i seeking W A Dew bridge of gt will beiweat W DALONS suoh misunderstandngs gdy © e clared up A posuble ayanation of the mye. fory is afferwt by the Cinclnna e Star: “Psudly grafters of amdiiows oo p