Evening Star Newspaper, December 27, 1927, Page 8

8 THE EVENING STAR With Sunday Morning Edition. WASHINGTON, D.C. TUESDAY.....December 27, 1927 THEODORE W. NOYES. .. .Editor r Newspaper Company The Evening Stai Business O ning Star with the Sundas morn- is’ deiivered by carriers within 3t B0 cents per montn dayy eni . 20 cents per mionth, elephone Mam 5000 Collactio caruier at end of each month. Rate by Mail—Payable in Advance. Maryland and Virginia. §IIIY and Sund: arlr only unday only All Other States and Canada, Raily and Sunday 13r.$1300:1mo. 81 T 1Ve &R0 1 me Daily onls ... no Sunday only .. 1yl $4.00:1mo. Member of the Associated I’ress. The Assocfated Proes ia exclisvels el 0 the use for republication of cil 1ew atches credited to 1t or not other ted in this paner and also the I . published herein. Al riehts of publication & epecial dispatehes herein are also reserved 00 a3e More People—Higher Cost. The Census Bureau announces an estimated population for Washington of | 540,000 But this figure was arrived at | as of June 30, 1927. and today it is nearer 545,000 The latest actual head | count made by the Census Bureau was in 1020. Basing annual increase in | population on the average annual in- crease between 1910 and 1920, the esti- mate for Washington's population in 1025 was 497.906, a figure which ex- ceeded the head count by the Police De- i RN rest have died from disease, due to the long lapses of time between visits. | Strict rules now require frequent rounds | of the cells, and it is evident that they are observed faithfully. In this case the | unfortunate man would seem to have | been possessed of a determination to end his life, and he watched for his chance craftily. The only way in which he could have been prevented from the deed would be to keep him constantly under observation, It is not feasible to station a policeman in front of each cell for such a purpose s station houses are now constructed. This case, however, emphasizes the need of a frequent inspection of the station house cells, under the prevailing | rules. It is not safe to remit in vigi- | lance. The prisoners are often in & | deeply despondent mood and should be protected from the reaction of self-con- demnation and shame as far as possible | In the ideal station house the cellroom i3 | should be so constructed as to permit a full view of each compartment from a central position. so that every inmate | may be held under unremitting observa- tion by a single guardian. Many of the police stations in this city are old and of obsolete design. Even the newer ones are built according to a pattern that does not permit such supervision. It would be well to consider the adoption of a general plan of construction that will reduce the chances of death in the cells during periods of observation. vt The Jury System. Reaction from the remarkable ver- dict of the jury that recently acquitted George Remus of the charge of murder, on the ground of insanity, is reported from Cincinnati, where the bar associa- tion is planning to conduct an inves- partment, which set it at 472072 While these are at best estimates only they supply, nevertheless, an index which has been proved trustworthy and shows Washington's growth. It has/ been a healthy growth, originating in | normal conditions and due to no arti- ficial stimulation. It has not been un- | | wieldy, but has been absorbed by the | city from year to vear without undue ‘ stress or strain. One of the interesting phenomena noted in the growth of cities, howerer, | is that larger populations not only in- crease, as would be expected, the cost | of municipal maintenance, but at the same time increase per capita cost. Since 1920 Washington's population has increased more than 100,000. In 1922 the District Commissioners were antici- | pating for this current fiscal year a budget slightly in excess of $30,000,000. The estimates for the next fiscal year already point to a budget in excess of $40,000,000. In the same period the as- sessment of Washington realty has in- creased more than 100 per cent, with a tax rate that has followed a rising, in- stead of a falling, curve. The latest census estimate places Washington as thirteenth among the cities of the United States, thus moving it ahead of Milwaukee, which now re- verts to Washington's position of four- teenth city in 1920. It is interesting to note, however, that while Washington's population exceeds that of Milwaukee, ‘Washington's average weekly bank clearings are $27.530000, as against | Milwaukee's $44,048,000, a comparison which affords interesting contrast be- tween the money circulation in an in- dustrial and a non-industrial city. Increased of course, has not alone accounted for the sharp rise in the cost of municipal maintenance. 1n the years since the war many dollars have been spent which should, in nor- mal conditions, have been rpent during the war. The city has not only been and their Capital will likewise increase. This cannot go ahead indefinitely. Every day brings new evidence in sup- of Washington's contention Shat fiseal burden must be scientifically and equitably distributed. Every year of delay will bring more hardships. ———ete— A Full Confession. Hickman, the kidnaper and slayer, has “come through” with the full story print, but the document, as closed, brings out clearly the fact that i Hickman engineered alone the entire | ghastly affair, and that the kidnaping #nd killing of little Marian Parker will g0 down in history as one of the most revolting crimes ever committed. Cre- @ence was never placed in this fiend’s story of an accomplice. It was & typi- cally flimsy alibi of a trapped felon, and it was freely predicted that sooner or later Hickman would “come clean.” Persons of his ilk have neither the imagination nor the mental facylty to manufacture and stick 0 & plausible @etense, and the confession, made 1o of- ficers of the Los Angeles Policc Depart- ment as the special car was pounding over the rails toward the scene of his erime, was not unexpected Throughout the Nation the public was elated when news of the capture of one of historys most dastardly criminals | type of veniremen. tigation of the trial and the circum- | stances in which the jury was drawn.! The verdict rendered in behalf of Remus is not the sole ground of ob- jection. Following that judgment. the members of the panel petitioned the | trial judge in behalf of one of the de- | tense witnesses, who has been indicted for Dérjury at the trial. and has also petitioned the probate judge in behalf of Remus himself. cinnati, but that of the State, will prob- ably take action at meetings soon to be held looking to the reform of the jury system in both jurisdictions. It is |a serious reflection upon the Cincin- nati panel that the present demand is for some method of obtaining a higher One civic body, the Cincinnatus Association, has begun an investigation of rumors to the effect that instead of a uniform drawing for jurors it has been customary to call only a certain group, and that fre- quently juries have been composed month after month of “repeaters,” ver- itable professionals. This last-mentioned condition of re- current service on jury duty is not pe- culiar to Cincinnati. Indeed, it pre- vails in most other communities. Jury service is not an agreeable task and is avoided whenever possible by people who are most competent to act in such ca- pacity. Men and women of affairs and business who are capable to judge the questions of fact raised in important trials are loath to sacrifice the time involved in attendance, especially in protracted cases. And most cases are protracted beyond reason nowadays. The prolongation of judicial proceed- ings due to the invocation of involved technical questions, the stretching out to inordinate lengths of examinations and cross-examinations of witnesses, the extended speeches and arguments of counsel, the wrangling over points of law, all make for delsy and not for jus- tice. In these circumstances it is not surprising that the average jury in this country is composed of people who are not in all respects competent to judge impassionately and without prejudice and without sentimentality the ques- tions of fact that are submitted to them. So many wretched examples of mis- carriage of justice have occurred in the United States during recent years that & feeling has developed that the jury system is a failure. This is not literally the case, however. Incompe- tence in the jury box is not the rule, though the exceptions have been of the | kind to bring grave discredit upon the system. When specific cases arise, as | that in Cineinnati, the remedy may be found in a revision of the local laws. But nothing can be done to prevent morbid or maudlin manifestations on the part of jurymen so long as the trial procedure itself permits the inter- jection of psychological elements that tend to evoke those reactions on the part of the “twelve good men and true” who sit in judgment supposedly on the facts alone. ——eatr—e. “Leave to print” has never yet ele- vated any particular copy of the Con- gressional Record to the position of a | “best seller.” e wee | The Passing of “Yes."” A commentator on colloquial Eng- | lish, writing recently from London, has called attention to the fact that the | word “yes" is gradually disappearing | from the speech of both the British and American peoples. The decadence of the simple direct affirmative in wae broadcast. The public now awaits with equal injensity of interest the re- aseuring news from the jury room of eonviction and the grave pronounce- ment of the presiding judge, “You shall be hanged by the neck until dead” Then, and then only, will the American public be satisfied that justice has been eone et O 0 An admiring public refuses v regard President Coolidge's determinstion 1o soandon &n official career as & matter for holiday celebration g Death in the Cell. No bleme, it would appear, attaches 0 the police of the sixth precinet sta- tion house for the suicide of & prisoifer in & cell yesterday afternoon. The man hed been arrested in the moming for intoxication end wes held during the dey. He was visited from Ume 0 time. At wbout five-thirty o'clock he ssked for & drink of water, which was gven Lo him the members of the precinct staff went w the cell W observe him and found him hanging from & beam by his bell, which he had fastened securely enough 10 hold his welght when he jumped off bis cot. He wes dead when found. 1n some previous cases of cell suicide there hus been negligence in nol main taining & wsoners. Bume pereont held undes - Western speech has for some time heen | nnted, but now it appears that in Eng- | 1and, o0, this word is becoming oh- | solescent. Home observers of speech | tendencies have marked the substitu- tion of othsr sounds for the direct | derivetive of the Anglo-Saxon “gen” ‘lor “yea,” which is the basic note of approval or sgreement in the English | speech. “Yep," “yen,” “yesh' “yah and the altogether MMogical “ur-uh” have come into emmmon use through | slovenly decadence of utterance “Bure” 15 & common misusage. Locul fsms of other sorts mhound. such ws | “you bet.” and sometimes the spirit of affirmation runs to such lengths as 1 get you and "0 K" Now in Great Britain it appears that attention has heen directed 1o the fart that “yes” 18 becoming obsolete in com mon parlance. “That’s right” i fre. | quently heard and “quite” has a dis- | tinet vogue. “Precisely” is also being | adopted as sn udequate wffirmation o wetly “hese changes are inevitable tn any speech. ‘They are. &s & rule, the result of language poverty. of smull individual vocaularies. ‘The person of few words few in variation though not in flow Not only the bar association of Cin- | | piloted him safely through the traffic. | When they reached the opposite curb the considerate young man was re- Ten minutes later one of | correspond with the Americanism “ex- | Civilization.” is prone 1o try 1o eke oul his meager supply with slang and corruptions, The speech thet become persistent and v, elose-enough watch over | result is the formation of habits of | up de old question of how THE EVEN the same effect of monotony as de- pendence upon the old stock. After all, the important thing is un- derstanding, and while there may be |, some to deplore the use of inelegancies and vulgarisms there will be no indict- ment of either the Brigish or the Amer- fcan people on the score of verbal vagrancy so long as they make their meaning clear. “Yes" is a very im- portant word in any language, and if its substitutes are adequately significant they will pass muster. —rate Unappreciated Kindness. Kindness is not always rewarded. Sometimes the elderly man or woman for whom the motorist courteously stops his car to let them pass rewards him with a malevolent glare, and sometimes the person for whom the pocketbook ov sheaf of papers is retrieved on a windy day grunts inaudibly & begrudging thanks. A young man in Indianapolis has had the doubtful privilege of being the recipient of the most peculiar form of appreciation for kindness on record. Walking with three companions, this 1ad observed an old man confused by traffic at a busy intersection. “T will go ahead and help the old fellow across the street,” he said, and approaching the stranger he offered him hisarm and b warded not with thanks or indifference but with a bullet through the heart, dropping dead on the sidewalk. The old man was promptly arrested and could give no reason for his act. It has often been said that there isa lack of respect among the younger gen- eration for its elders. This is to be de- plored, but a few rewards like that ac- corded the Indianapolis boy, or even some of the milder forms practiced by persons who have no sense of appreci tion. furnish the only extenuation that | could be granted youth. In many cases vouth is anxious to be courteous and considerate, but. unfortunately, it is often snubbed for its pains. B Praying Motorists. Two automobiles were in a collision on the Black Horse Pike in New Jersey. Both drivers were taken before a re- corder to explain the accident One of them asked permission to pray for divine guidance as to the fixing of blame. After listening to the prayer the other motorist, deeply impressed, walked up and asked to shake hands, and the two erstwhile belligerents | strolled amicably out of the courtroom arm in arm. It must have been some episode such as this which brought about recently 8 “pray instead of pay accident pre- vention week in Denver. Instead of being arrested for traffic offenses, motor- ists were sent to church for their sins. But, strange as it may seem, Denver's praying week Was ngt a success from a traffic standpoint, ahd was soon aban- doned in favor of sterner treatment of offenders. The New Jersey case, how- ever, would seem to bear out the theory of praying motorists, but in the ma- jority of cases, when it comes right down to hard facts, it would appear that the only persons who have need to pray on the streets nowadays are the pedestrians. et Everybody admits that the Santa Claus chatter is nonsense. Yet it is de- licious nonsense which helps the End of the Year to forget much that is sadly serious. ———— A Kkiller succeeds in commanding ex- traordinary attention for his personal career. He should be considered as & pernicious specimen of a species and not as important identity. et One of the greatest services that can be rendered to aviation would be a | of authoritative “Dont's” for A handsome war bonnet was present- ed to President Coolidge out ‘West. But he refuses to wear it as an evidence of aggressive political impulse. et The peculiar pipe favored by Vice President Dawes is never to be mistaken for a pipe of peace so far as the Senate rules are concerned. e SHOOTING STARS. BY PHILANDER JOHNSON Day After. ‘Twas the day after Christmas. The turkey's & wreck. The sleigh of old Santa’s a far-distant speck. The presents enliven the girls and the boys, Though a pain in the tummy quite often annoys. The dinner was good, and, with manner sedate, We first asked a blessing, then cordially ate., “Twas the day after Christmas. doctor drew near And straightened us out for a Happy New Year. The Not to Be Ignored. “You have often said a statesman should not care for mones.” “He should recognize its power,” sald Benator Borghum, “and beware of it nevertheless.” Precoeity. Here's a child of two or three He seems rather fond of me. Boon he'll gel to nine or ten And I'm very sure that then When his elders come Lo view we'll wonder what he's going o do. He'll hand them out a fearful slap And hint that Grandpa is & sap. Jud ‘Tunkins says success depends not %0 much on enlightening thought as on knowing Just when Lo pass the hat No Argument. did the traffic o “What you?' “1 don't remember the details,” sald Mr. Chuggins, “But T unhesitatingly admit that he was absolutely in the rght.” i sald Hi Ho “diselose the fact that of much jewelry con- httle toward praction cop say “Excavations, the sage of Chinatown, the wearing tributes very Same Ol Btrife. Had & Merry Christmas Huppy New Year next And then in Congress folks arine Who quite forget the text “Happy New Year,” said Uncle Eben oo & foiendly wish, But it keeps bringin be happy £..ugh worried,” VG STAR. WASHINGTON, D. C., TUESDAY. DECEMBER 27. 1927. " T s = BY CHARLES E. TRACEWELL. What better time than the magic period between Christmas and New Year to consider what many feel to be the most wonderful time of the year, the outdoor gardening season? Very soon, now, the annual seed cat- alogues will begin to arrive. This is an annual blow that pleases millions, one bearing harvests of mental joy. A seedman’s catalogue, many be- lieve, is outside the regular category of such _publication: Here is an old friend, from one's favorite house, bear- ing colored invitations to the great out of doors. What colors, too! Surely no tomato ever grew quite as large or quite as colorful as this one, but the honest seedsman says his do, end one is forced, nay, is willing, to take him at his word. Calm reflection tells one that his own garden will do well if it presents him with tomatoes half that large next Sum- mer. Yot, anticipation, in a frame of mind, whispers that one be able to do quite as well as the pic- ture, that the seedsman is truthful to the last detail. that he simply knows how better than most. e i forgiving great factor in any occupation, is it not? One cannot fmpugn the veracity of the seedsman's pictures without first knowing just how the grower did it. 1t is only natural that the producer would take a picture of the largest to- mato that he could find on his vines, | and certainly only just that the artict should make as fetching a painting as he_could. In like manner, manufacturers of baking powder portray various bakery products in all the glowing colors they can, as samples of what can be done with the aid of their product Here in the street car ad, for in- stance, one has a chocolate laver cake that causes every mouth to water. Such cakes, every one knows, are baked; thers can be no doubt of it The hungry male, making his way il | homeward, sees the painting of a bowl | of cream of pea soup, and after he gets there nothing will do but that the maid be sent to the grocery store for a can of the product The gentleman has tried that very soup before, but he cannot get that tempting green color vut of his mind. It haunts him. “Cream of pea soup, yum, yum," he says, smacking his lips. “I must have come of that for dinner." * ok % ¥ 1f the home gardener could only do as the seed house does! It he could have such rich soil, to begin with, and if he could fertilize it as well, he might be able to raise sucn tomatoes as are pictured on the cata- logue covers. Too often both the desire and the ability to grow banner crops are lack- ing. This would be well enough, if the gardener would not complain of poor results. Yet nothing is more common than that the amateur gardener expects too much of his seed or plants. Nature is wonderful, there can be no question of | sesses such a that, but it cannot make up for lack of cultivation, lack of fertilizer, lack of water when badly needed. Even na- ture, prodigal nature, is unable to force roots through stone, in most instances, or to cause plants to do well if too closely crowded, or if grown close to rank-growing vines. These are some of the factors which every home gardener, whether flower or vegetable, might profitably muse over in this holiday time. * % While the bright Christmas wreaths and other decorations are around us, it is interesting to speculate what flowers will be given the honor positions on the front and back covers of the forth- coming catalogues. The secdsmen must arrive at this through their conventions, for often enough most of the annual catalogues feature the same flower. One year it was the aster. Last season the scabiosa appeared on the front of many of the catalogues. This Winter we expect to see the dahlia prominently displayed. The Summer of 1927 brought forth some of the most beautiful dahlias in the history of floriculture. Even ama- | teurs not, particularly interested in the After all, the “knowing how" is a | dahlia were forced to admit their beauty. The splendor of color and the tre- mendous size attracted the attention of | even the indifferent, so that next Spring will witness the planting of thousands upon thousands of tubers by those who never grew this flower before. Then, too, there are fashions in flow- ers as in everything else. These vogues come and go. no one knows exactly why. except that they are aided, na- turally enough, by the various flower associations. We predict that 1928 will be a * oo “dahlia year.” * At this time. too, the gardener mav find it profitable to consider calmly what may be termed the essential flowers. First of all. there are roses. The world has never seen. and prob- ably never will, a better flower than the rose, for the perfectly good reason that nature never grew one. Lilacs are elementary garden factors. No shrub is prettier. and none pos- lower or fragrance. The smell of the lilac is the very fragrance of Spring. Peonies are vital. Their georgeous. unequaled blooms come home to the soul. Petunias are indespensable. as are | zinnias. One may not have many of either, but should have both of them | to some extent. They make any garden | better. | A few irises strike the carly color | note for those who may not consider the tulip a garden essential. The tulip 1s beautiful, but hardly comes within the category of which we speak. To be essential, a flower must be an indispensable element in the garden. without which the garden is not as| | minis | nis w complete as with it. Perhaps every gardener will have his own ideas as to what is essential and what is not: few will question. however. the place of the six mentioned. Time has made it secure. Meter Readers, If Dry Spies, Would Travel Difficult Road News that a gas and electric company in Rhode Island had ordered its meter readers to report the existence of stills on private property recently stirred up a storm of protest in the press. the thing came out, however, the order has been rescinded and the United States district attorney in Rhode Island has explained that it was not directed by him, but was inspired by legal complications in which the head of the flluminating company was called before the grand jury because of a gas meter connected with a huge distillery producing 900 gallons a day. The Providence Bulletin quotes the district attorney as stating that “the Government did the obvious thing of calling the gas company officials before the grand jury,” and that the company was “facing & very serious question.” But the country already had spoken on the subject of meter readers and stills. “If meter readers are to smell out our cellars,” queries the Milwaukee Journal, “what is to prevent them from becom- ing general moral guardians of the com- munity? What is to prevent the grocer boy and the butcher’s helper from join- ing the law enforcement ranks? What is to stop the formation of a general tradesman’s deputy police force? Only one thing—the plain, ordinary, every- day common sense of the American peo- Similarly the Hartford Courant “What the reader of electrical meters may overlook, readers of gas and water meters may find. What all three may miss may be discovered by the ashes and garbage collectors. Then the laundresses and window cleaners may be pressed into service, not to mention the Carpenters and plumbers. * * ¢ How reminiscent this all is of that declara- tion adopted by the Second Continental Congress and forwarded under date of July 4, 1776, to a King of England whose emissaries had forgotten there was any such thing as the Right of Castle.” .o “There is absolutely nothing to be sald in defense of operation of illicil stills,” observes the Teledo Blade. "and yet this plan is of coubtful integrity. since it virtually would enable law en- forcement officers to conduct a search of private premises by proxy and with- out legal authority of a search warrant. ‘This peculiar system of esplonage cer- tainly will stimulate the business of bribery and it will be of little avail in the effective enforcement of prohibition If the meter reader cannot be induced to forget convenlently about anything unlawful he sees, meters will be moved or new locations will be found for stills and stocks of liquor.” M “It sets up an army of snoopers, it opens the door to blackmail and térror- {sm.” in the opinion of the Albany Eve- ning News, which declares: “The com- any can have no right whatever to ake such action. 1t s unfair to con- sumers, it I8 unfair to its emploves + e % The United Staten Supreme Court’s decision in_the Gambino case has held that New York Stale troopers cannot search automobiles without warrant. That will end one And there must be an immedi ANy @AS-cOompany — Snooping Rrooklyn Daily Eagle agrees that, “ex- tended, the system would, of course lead to any amount of blackmail." and (hat paper also remarks that the sys- t#m “would be without search warrant as required by the statutes of the United States and by the National Con- stitution “The work may be legitimate™ con- cedes the New Orleans ‘Tribune, but Wich spying certainly violates the spiri® of the constitutional guarantee of the sanctity of the home " and of the meter Teaders that paper sava “They don't express theie opinion of the order. ‘The company ordered them not to talk Such spying is distasteful to the aver age man. Publicn of the orde cortain 1o make thelr work harder and | unpleasant.” RO The Springfield Unian feals that the readers “may not relish the idea of acting 88 spotters on the people whose patronage ensbles the company which employs them to pay thelr wages and Incidentally, disburse dividends to the stockholders. Even the upright and impeccable stockholders of - the com- pany may oblect (o having their own cellars, 1f nol other people’s. snooped over by thelr company’s newly oreated SUI snitfers “Peity tale-telling only be futile as well ws unpopular,” avers the Grand Rapids Press, which eites the conten Hon that “what & man drinks and makes 10 diink in his own home, with- Since | | [ the central pow out selling to others, is held to be a matter outside the sphere of enforce- | Unless gas readers witnessed | ment. actual sale, the alcoholic content of A cellar would be none of their business | | truer proportions and deeper signifi- under Federal law.” The Boston Tran- script advises that “if the object of the present tactics is to enhance disrespect for law, it may prove overwhelmingly | successful,” and that “if the Govern- ment seriously intends to enlist the public utilities among the forces of prohibition, it should announce fits policy frankly and note the popular re- action.” The need of a “far wider public senti- ment than now exists in favor of ob- servance and enforcement” is seen by the Columbus Ohio State Journal, but that paper believes that “to create an army of spies, to poke around the cel- lars and attics of private citizens, in- stead of increasing the volume of sup- ?onm. public sentiment, would reduce t very greatly.” L With a different view of the matter, however, the New Bedford Standard states: “Suppose, instead of finding & still in the cellar, he found a counter- feiting outfit—would he be denounced. if he reported that, for doing police work, and being a snoop and spy? The ques- tion answers itself—of course, he wouldn't. Referring to & Rhode Island legis- lator who spoke heatedly of “the rights of the people to be secure in their homes,” the Worcester Telegram asked “But it a still-equipped home ‘secure’ at the best? So many home stills blow up while in operation, or blow up their beneficiaries after operation, that doube | as to the security prevalling must exist.” | 'And the Telegram raises a further ques- jon : mysterious apparatus as a still by one of those meter readers who read & chay of, say. $11.32 into a happy home which has been vacant for the month of the reading be regarded as evidence sufficient to convict?> Can Fed- eral authority feel confident that meter readers, having read both meters and stills, may not mingle the two charges s0 inextricably as to render their disen- tanglement & task beyond even the powers of the 500,000 or so clerks in the income-tax division?” ‘D STATES WORLD WAR 4go Today UNIT 1 Ten Years “And can the identification of | | it that | ing in the telling. This qualt | in childish simplicity. Official Washington is cold to Teu- | ton peace offer and there is little like- lihood that the President will modify Attitude toward the central powers. President’s plan ment operation of railroads causes rail- road stocks to soar and stirs up wildest trading in_ rails_witnessed in - many s * * * Rallroad men and financlers welcome Government owner- ahip At this time as gUATANteeing & re turn on the capital inv v pursuing ralding band of Mexicans across the Rio Qrande, kil 18 of them. hear they are inspived by Germans and draft evaders south of the border * ¢ ¢ One of the heaviest alr raids ever attempted by Austro-Glermans on Ttalian front comes to grief when nearly half of a fleet of 3 stroyed with an extensive list of kil or wounded e Germans la two violent assaults in Verdun sector after heavy shelling, but are beaten off by French, leaving many dead behind them * * ¢ Using Bussin ax a club s hope (o force the allies 1o enter peace negotiations, .o . 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Its writers are clearly of the new biographic dispensation. @ )lding strictly to the exactitudes of history itself, they have, within such firm set- ting, exercised the art of the novelist. By way of this art the individual be- comes paramount. It is the man him- self upon whom the keen use of drama centers. It is upon him that the spe- cial character and quality of his period play—shaping his mind. directing his interest and ambition, deciding his nat- ural career, linking him, in return, to the large movements around him and through these identifying him with the activities of his country. This explorer | —tfirst one, then another—is a hero of prime adventure whose metes and bounds are identical with the spread of England in her own high hopes and plane and accomplishments. “Capt. John Smith" is a story that | comes specially close to Americans Identified. brilliantly, with the early sailings and landings along our Atlantic Coast. Smith is as clearly a part of American colonial history as is the stanchest colonial himself. ~Made for robust and colorful deeds of daring is this John Smith, “explorer, adventurer and liar.” Of a quality to hold drama to its highest pitch of suspense and interest, whether he is seeking life among the Turks in Eastern Europe or is pursuing it along our own coast deal- ing with the Indian, organizing and ad- ring new settlements, or nosing vy into the interior of Virginia. istic and self-confident, he sees to his personal heroisms lose noth- is the one, no doubt. that attaches “liar” to his other titles. as it has to many an- other famous man. runs to self-laudation any time and place. Optim! is not confined to 1t is part of the | temperament_of almost every achieve- ing person. To dramatize his attitudes and action is the instinct of such. Even his seeming modesty is a role projected We have all suffered such heroes with as good grace as friendship requires. Romantic egoist. { this John Smith, just another one of the big Smith family—and not a real “liar” at all. From all manner of available sources —some new, some old, but all recast to cances—Mr. Chatterton has drawn for this absorbing story of Capt. John Smith. The material, especially in the later part of the picture, is more or less familiar. The manner of the whole, however, is quite new. New in its co- herency. in its concrete movement. in its definitely stated relations to the life of the times, in its sweep and color and heroic gusto. In the beginning Mr. Chatterton gives & most impressive pic- | ture of the early surroundings of Smith. “John Smith was fortunate enough to have been born at that time when the Elizabethan effulgence was not vet dim- med but still increasing.” Elaborating this thought. he sketches the sixteenth century, that of adventure, bursting with zeal “to go forth and do something exciting. and from this wild eagerness a_new attitude to life was created.” Fishermen were no longer willing to dabble in the waters of the Cornish Coast when their hearts were away toward the West Indies. “Thus ambition took the place of content- ment, expansion Was more attractive than dull routine. and sea many an adventurer Was made, many a John Smith. In more ways than one that outreaching. ex- panding sixteenth century, influencing men to adventure, rousing mightily the spirit of that older one. Those earlier | discovery, Outfaring. nvention. science | in its marvels applied to the daily bust- ness of being alive. And now, as then, Imagination that | " In this stir of air | Q. At what age do oysters yicld the best, pearls?—R. P. F. | A. Oysters yield the best pearls at about four years of age. Q. What do the French cail radio?— D. W 'A. They speak of the T. 8. F. This stands for telegraphic sans fils, which | means telegraphy without wire, Q. What kind of tree is the smallest in this country?—8. 8. D. A. The Alpine willow, which does not exceed six inches in height, is the smallest tree in the United States. Q. What per cent of the business of this country is done on the installment plan?—L. J. J. | A. The Chamber of Commerce of the United States has estimated that the amount of installment sales has | | reached the sum of about $5,000.000 000 annually. It also estimates that 17 per cent of the entire amount of consumer ' go0ds sold at retail are disposed of in th manner. The Farmers' Loan & Trust Co. estimates over three billion dollars' worth of automobiles, washing machines. vacuum cleaners. phono- | graphs, furniture, pianos, jewelry and | radio apparatus are sold on the install- | ment plan. a3, Are the m;'.inr'»fi of Congress us- | v natives of the v - L i the State they repre A. Members of the House of Repre- sentatives representing the Southern States are usually natives or at least born ‘south of the Mason and Dixon l,vn;" v?\;‘n:»mhm;xmb«n Ty frequent- y ose who have come from ot parts of the ¢ s building the 3 I 3 .'-A;;nnd annual meeting of | rican Historical Assoeiati il open at the Willard Hotel tamq:n:ll morning. Concurrently there will be sessions of the Mississippi Valley His- | torical Association, the .Agricultural | History Society. the American Catholic | Historical Association, the Biblioghapk ical Society of America and the American Political Science Association. With all that concentration of his- torical wisdom centered in the Nation's Capital. it is no wonder that Congress has fled to the “tall timbers” and that Mavor Thomdson of Chicago lies low, like “Brer Rabbit." to awa. . rge 11T and the fallacies of e { 1" and his little cherry tree. Ofc!rg:::. doubt as to William Tell's bow and ar- row and Barbarie Fritchie's garret win- dow will be forever dispelled by the highest American authority on_histo: and Dr. Muzzey will be indorsed unmis- takabiy as the greatest patriot Nathan Hale—if Dr. Muzzey re bers the latter character in our Na- tion’s drama. * 2 x % | In recent decades there has devel- | is enticing and patriotic, whether it be |true or myth. These opponents are j positive that any historian who de: I!he details of Washington's cherry tree story either need to learn mare about cherries or know less about the Father | of Our Country. The very skepticism | | shown by such s appears to the | “fundamentalists” of American patriot- ism proef that the cotemporaneous sc: { entific historians are bribed by Engl to write propaganda to undermine America Do coliege professors. in writing or teaching American history, confess to the allegations of their treasonable conspiracy? Not they. indeed' For them it is no proof that they love America less. when they become inter- | | national in their outlooks. They pride | themselves upon being biased.” like | the husband who found his pestiferous | wife fighting the bear, and praved that the battle might go now for the bear | |and now for the wife. He was so un- | biased! So the mode! n seeks | both sides of every co: between his | country and that cow enemy, and {by so neutralizing one side by the | other he boasts he thinks that he is un- | biased in stating only “fact: { Nothing prevaricates qu | rageously as “facts | falsely grouped or hat |ed. or grossly or ign !preted. And no X |tated a line which was through his own . however * | biased™ he believed s the reporter is tory statements of weigh their cred: youth is rLang to the bait of satling the | 33 skies, seeking Arctic and Antarctic dis- | cover: drawing amazing secrets from the earth, plumbing the seas for its mysteries and possibilities. _Certainly a new Renaissance is emulating the spirit of that olde one. Thase earlier storics, therefore, like this one of Capt John Smith, are. in motive power and % neral effect. the fresh stories that court often {: Managing the whole story. The veriest are being lived today in the marvelous | world of & new science of such clear kinship that these older tales take on new life, new form, new meaning, new inspiration L SKETCHES ON THROUGH FRANCE TO FLOR- ENCE. Henry W. Nevinson and Montgomery Carmichael. E. P. Dut- ton & Co. Two authors and an artist take part in this recollection of travel. And the artist, certainly, plays an equal part to that of each of the writers. The three | hi together illustrate, very completely, that much of the joy of traveling by the book route lies in the Ilh!\s of the travel writer. Here are three distinct moods, each contributing to turn & new face toward the reader. The first writer Henry Nevinson, 1s a poet as well as a wayfarer. And, reading here, one is preity certain that only a poet should travel about the carth. The face of the countr needs such inter pretation as the artist alone can give 80 do the monuments to civilization cathedrals, fortresses, roads, bridges Al of these demand a fine poetic feeling to deliver them over into the decpes appreciation of the one who travels by way of book In this respect Mr Nevinson fs as satisfying as 1 the artist A K Hallam Muirray who at every turn, is an hand with sketeh or colored pleture to Muminate some point of the text in much the feeling that time itself has spread aver thix or that of historie n along and through France to e A genial humorist, too, is My an, LEhUNE Up many A streteh of mile or Many & monument of tme with LA smiling commentary on this or that of its outwoarn significance 1 is he Who secs the ghosts of long-gone xen | erations walking beside him. wha hears their voiees telling of the old davs that they used t know. A beautiful journey under this guide one makes, stopping AU AN sorts of shrines for (e oy of ve membering back 1Nt past centuiies Montgomery Carmichael the third one I the partnership. is & wiiter of an- other sort. & man of another sart True, his wark 1s mare purely of the “akeleh” vaviety than 1s that of My Nevinson But apary from this i marked by an effect of study, by the Veach for exaol Weaning. for niceties and precisions of fact that, in a meas ure. (ake away from the glad and buoy ant spirit of travel that Mr. Nevinson Tas Nimselt sa surely created i the st part of the ook However, 1t i » e fourney thioughout. well warthy alt the tine that travel readers put wpon it It is by virtue | to agree ment of bound to means | Truth THE OLD ROAD | even less” b Greek or Latn | that lifts hum above confess story is colored. in spite of own prejudices or his o | tations. ~ He A CSAr Te | of anctent or medieval news, and w ihe tells of the Aw Revolution, maybe he 1o be unb: | ing the tssu the “mothe on both sides | “tacts!” when | Fmerson said toary ts o give v hour and tts duty present - | ply with that defuitt alleged “facts { number of men n batel the march. the tesult of ar the spirit of braver fioing patriotism of those us i facing the | liberty and progres® that quickeneth, the nothing and sel Do precedad g fight for Tt is the wpiy flash profitedt .. At the last meeting of the American | Historical Assocration, held at Cotan Dus. Ol (he (OWINE - Saalitions wer adopied. but ne newsaper published them. hence the DOWSIMPers must be 1y nst teaching only historical there has been i progress eral years an agitation condueted | DY COTEAIN NOWSBARRLS, PATYIORE st eties, fraternal arders and pihers ags A number of gehont text hooks W Tory and i favar of afficial censansivg and H Wheteas, this propaganda has wet | WD Sufficlent suceess (o bring adout | L RD ACUEE CCNEIOVeISY 1R B Citles, but the passage of - censansiap | laWs 1 aeveral States Therefwe ! He 1t resalved by (he American His- | rical Avociation, upan the revom mendation af 1 conmitigy s ity LWaching i the sohoals Angl e s ex coutive couneil. That genuthe and w ligent patiotism, ho lss than the | Pepitremants of honesty and sound | Chalarship demand that lext-dook wiiters e W v BACKGROUND BY PAUL V. COLLINS. ANSWERS TO QUESTIONS BY FREDERIC J. HASKIN. Q. How much excelsi it xr;hor wil & cord A. It is estimated that one eord of 1d T excelsior wood will 3 2000 pounds of execelsior this often varies from 1450 by o pounds per cord. TSI 2 Q In auction bridge should + dummy place his trumps on ?:fl - the first lead has been mads No cards should be until the first lead has been n'.’ g Q. Please list son natural beauty located gimta M. T A st places ae G r1ed ot liss would Rocks Mounta, O cer Gr. , " South Bra andoah, Potomac and Ohio e aver brier, Shen: Gen. Rohert tharounh eduration of peopls is the prosperity of the X words of the distinguished general are none the lesy than irhen he spoke they Washington Information Bure one of the greatest ngenciea trr + distribution of free educational data in services are free to paper. Al you need s uour query, together it stamps for return pos The Evening Rtar Information Frederic J. Haskin, Director, ington, D. C. - OF EVENTS true o ur rea present a truthful pietu: ould, there: upon grounds of pa upon grounds of fa. determined by spec: | consideration of th sciences, of a spirit of willingness to face un are far more important ob; the teaching of special inte of particular events: and :ore\'er well meant. to foster ogance and boastfulness and ind:s- c;;r.x‘:;:‘:: - ?b:p of m:cr.lid‘hm' Iy terd to promote a pseudo-patrictism; and . Be it further resolved. That in the on of this association t. phe‘d; charges that ma. ing scholars are engaged in treasonabie g{omxnd: and that tens of thousands 24 erican school teach: e Salvare v 00l teachers and offi- g‘.a;& treasonabie of children is inherentl) o obviously absurd: and 6 “Be by eachers w advocated cerem P caskets of dead soldiers ar Spangled Banner. It a general of the Army— of covering the with the S chancsd as well as s ent and heard | ondary schools of n ussds through 8 vas propagand:st Iate was Wit Mrevey WAL L AN Pt of Meaion) was M Austra n against Frav War was wit » And OuE Mst WAl was W Wl Kupe. But the Wiwwaan ool e our twe wais o MO LhAl & QenTWIV AR With (UeAl Brtaim The shourdity and ooc-vded ness af the statesmen of Wiseonws = R 110 Baght i lakent A8 A teaasn WA st ShouN Belittle Amwiican PALHOHSI DY warpang facts and seering at ¢ Brea the damls ) BN e rheuious [ e N QR L