Evening Star Newspaper, December 30, 1927, Page 8

S THE EVENING STAR With Sunday Morning Edition. WASHINGTON, D.C. FRIDAY......December 30, 1927 THEODORE W. NOYES. . The Evening Star Newspaper Company Business Office: 1h St oand New York Offce Chicage Office Enuropean Office Rate by Carrier S Breains & Tha Fvening and thin the City. g, 43¢ per month el G0 per month (when e on! The Sanday ool Collect m. Orders may e Main 5000, Rate by M Daily and Dutr an and Su Sunday only Al Other States and Cana Daily and Sunday 1 Dailyonly 1vr Sunday only 1y, _'::Iemher of the Associated Press. e Associated Press is ox-]aiiels entith 10 the Hge for renunlieation of all newe cia: dited 10 18 a1 mot thersies naver and” wlan o 100 SR.00° 10 3 400 1 mo —_— The Community-Chest Plan. | A brief news item in Thursday's Star, dealing with a meeting held under the auspices of a subcommittee of the Washington Council of Social Agencies, | indicates excellent progress toward a much-to-be-desired goal. The subject before the meeting was that of the co- operative financing of Washington's multifarious welfare agencies on the so- called “community chest” plan. The community as a whole will re- Joice to know that the matter of the) Joint financing of local welfare e ganizations is being carefully canvassed by a group excellently equipped for the task. It will rejoice the more to learn that the investigations which are being conducted seem. so far. strongly to in- dicate the entire feasibility of such a plan for Washington. It becomes increasingly apparent to both the welfare agencies and to the public upon which they are dependent | for support that some drastic change | must be made in the present system. There is no question but that this sys- tem is wasteful of time and energy and money. There is no question that the community as a whole is not supporting the legitimate welfare activities essen- would be as good as ever for the warm- ‘weather sport. In more northerly places these con- veniences for public skating can be more readily provided than here, ow- ing to the longer prevalence of freez- ing weather. In Washington the al- ternations of severe cold and compara- tive warmth occur in short order, and 1t is seldom that the ice holds good for {as long as a week at a time. Owing to that condition it is the more neces- sary to provide all possible facilities. | in circumstances to prevent fatal acci- | dents. The tendency of the young people to “go skating” whenever the tempera- | ture drops below the freezing point is not to be controlled by mere warnings. Parents are naturally kept in a state of keen anxiety on this score every Winter, as theit children fare forth | with their skates seeking frozen sur- | faces. It is impossible for the authori- | ties to break up the ice on ponds and Istreams that will not bear human weight, as a precaution against dan- gerous ventures. The Star gives ade- quate notice of the condition of the ice and informs all skaters whenever the skating surfaces are safely strong. »1In the absence of such notification it | is dangerous for any to venture on the | ice. | The flooding of the tennis courts may be a feasible method. It is as- | suredly worthy of consideration and | trial. E—— Sound Financing. Ill-advised tampering with Govern- ment finances is a dangerous thing. Secretary Mellon, in his letter to Sena- tor Smoot, chairman of the Senate finance committee, concurring in the plan of Republican leaders of the Sen- ate to postpone passage of the tax re- «uction bill until after March 15. clear- ¥ Gemonstrates the unwisdom of flying In the face of Government estimates of expenditure and revenue when the re- may bring a deficit. The House of Representatives has put through a tax-reduction bill which would lop $290,000,000 off the revenues of the Government. Mr. Mellon has urged that tax reduction should not ex- ceed $225,000,000. He feels, and has made it quite plain in his letter to Senator | Smoot, that the passage of the House bill as it stands would be unwise and might lead to an embarrassing situa- tion which would demand an increase in the tax rates later. An increase in tax rates in peace times would be tial in a modern city, and that this burden is being carried by an increas- ingly reluctant minority. There is no question but that the interminable suc- cession of entirely meritorious and. un- der the present system, entirely inevita- ble drives, campaigns and appeals is tiring the patience and stultifying the generosity of all concerned. The community-chest plan is the ob- vious antidote for this condition of af- fairs. No longer experimental—it is an established success in about three | hundred communities throughout the Nation—it involves a no more intricate program than the combining together of the public, which works through a representative committee, and the local welfare agencies in a united effort to raise such funds as are needed for those ‘works of charity and welfare essential to modern urban existence. It is frequently said that this plan—a proven success in section of the country—cannot be made operative in ‘Washington owing to the peculiar char- acter of the National Capital. The ar- guments behind this bald statement of opinion are left to the imagination. ‘The local community is, though with difficulty, meeting its welfare obliga- tions. That this should be more pos- sible under an antiquated, inefficient, extravagant and annoying system than under one which guarantees modernity, efficiency, economy and satisfaction is not credible. All that is necessary to insure the success of the community-chest plan in " Washington is the whole-hearted sup- port of men and women in whom the community as a whole has genuine con- fidence, and the enthusiasm of the local agencies. Present indications are that both of these factors are available and that, for at least a sizable group of the more important agencies, the chest plan will be adopted next year. The Star would be pleased to be recorded as among the first to lend its unqualified | support w this movement. —————.— When the turning of a new leaf for January 1 comes under discussion, Vice President Dawes is naturally depicted in imagination as & man somewhat in the attitude of Hamlet, with & copy of the | Senate rules in his hands. e B The welcome aiting him in every part of the world may account for the fact that Lindbergh is one of those trav- elers who never show signs of home- tickness .- Bkating Perils. A young man was drowned the other | day while saving the life of & boy in| the cansl above Washington. They had been skating, the ice broke, and | the younger lad was barely rescued, his life, however, being spared at the | eost of snother. This tragedy calls at- tention 10 the fact that there are few facilitles for skaters in this region, and suggests that messures be adopted 1) neure safe skating whenever the tem- perature falls 1o & sufficiently low point for the formation of “holding” ice ‘There is one especially satisfactory plece for public skating in the city, the basin emst of the Lincoln Memonial This shallow “lake” may be frozen quickly, and with so little water depth thet there ie no rick i the ice whould bresk. But unfortunately there 1= seldom & sulficlently protracted period of cold westher W permit the freesing even of this surface. ‘e olher any, that on which the canal drown g occurred, the busin was opened L the public for sksting and hLad W be closed In s ehort time because of the sottening of the ice, es the tempers ture rose It hise been suggesled that effective Fruting ponds mey be made out of the tennis eourte n the parks. By sur- younding them with low banks of earth snd Dosding them with & few lnches wf water, fromen surfaces can be pro duced that will withstand all weights @ud. I broken, will not cause disuster It would require only & small expend: ture 1o provide this facility. ‘The courts would not be injued. The low esrth Ceme wround them could be quicgly re- harmful to business and discouraging to the individual. By postponing action on the tax bill until after March 15, the Senate will be 1n position to know what the in- come tax returns for the year 1927 are. It will be in a better position to know. too, what the expenditures of the Gov- ernment in the fiscal year 1929 are to be. By that time many, if not all. of the annual supply bills of the Govern- ment will have been passed. By that time Congress will have whipped into shape legislation for flood relie? and flood prevention. The Government will be in a position to say whether the esti- mate of a $252,000,000 surplus for the fiscal year 1929 is too great or too small. Prom an administrative point of view, Mr. Mellon says, there is no reason why the tax bill should not be delayed until after March 15. Adjustments of taxa- tion under new rates can easily be made after the returns and the March 15 payments are in the hands of the Treasury Department, he asserts. If that be the case, the arguments in favor of postponement seem to be unanswer- able. The advocates of greater tax re- duction than that declared to be safe by the Secretary of the Treasury, with his present knowledge of Government finances, will be in a position to know, along with the rest of the country, after March 15, whether they will be driving the Government toward a def- icit by continuing to insist upon a greater paring of the revenues. —tee Funny little nicknames for atrocions criminals, such as “the cat” and “the fox,” appeal to the egocentric love of notoriety. The patient public must soon realize that it is hard enough to punish eriminals without making pets of them. Only the e.thusiasm attending a hop-off is known. The grim and tragic suspense of the overseas flight that falls s unobserved and only too soon forgotten. D e Privilege Abusers. The police evidently are not greatly concerned in compelling users of public hack stands to conform to the regula- tions. At least there has been no ap- preciable improvement in conditions since The Star called attention to the overflow of taxicabs at practically | every stand, with the consequent snarl of traffic and the loss of parking spaces for the owners of passenger automo- biles. Today, in the morning rush hour, there was a solid bank of two lines of taxicabs parked abreast from ‘Twentleth street to Dupont Circle on Massachusetts avenue, some of the cars being headed into the street and re. ducing the width of this arterial high- way by nearly twenty feet. Traffic at this point 18 very much congested dur- ing rush-hour travel on sccount of the convergence of streets at the circle, and | &n almost impossible situation is cre- | ated when the public carrers encroach on street space. ‘The Mayflower Hotel hack stand is an- other instance of abuse of the privi- leges granted hackers by the Commis- sloners. Bometimes two and three deep, Jutting far out into the street and blocking traffic almost altogethier be- cause of the car platform in front of the hotel, these drivers bring about congestion on one of the widest and busiest arteries in the city, Not only do they park two und three abreast, but i there is no policeman in sight they usurp public parking spaces outside of the huck stand, and when questioned us 1o this practice wre ugly snd dis COurveous. These are two of the danger points of the oty which are created solely by the ubuse of privileges, Hack stands are designated and the number of cars W be contained 18 plainly specified Yel there is seldom & Lime when there are not more cars on e stand than regulations permit, or taxicabs cruls ing around on the outskirts, their driy ers Wooking 1or opportunities W sqiiesz . Botl the Dupont OCirele and the Mayflower stands are large, and are situ- yred W s BRODE W49t oyl A8 vb wigs thoroushisres sid Uiere should be no interference with traffic because of them, but the old motto, ive an inch and take a mile," seems to have been adopted by the hackers. Just why the police allow this situa- tion to exist is a matter for conjecture. It is such a palpable violation of hack- ing regulations that it would seem im- possible that the department was not fully cognizant of it. It looks very much as if the motoring public must turn over its rights on the public streets to privately owned concerns, and that bus lines, streei car lines and taxicab companies would have undisputed sway in the traffic management of the eity. —— o @ Athletics and Long Life. Statistics compiled by the Metropoli- tan Life Insurance Co. show that college athletes have a better prospect of long life than the average man. This is interesting, in view of the fact that much emphasis was placed, some years ago, on the danger of the so- called “athlete’s heart.” Overdoing. whether in foot ball, base ball or track, or studies, is not to be commended. One of the happy features of modern educational life is that older heads have banded together to take the danger out of athletics, and to direct the healthy young men and women in our educa- tional institutions in the proper use of the various games. The statistics, as presented to the convention of the American Student Health Association. showed that college base ball players have the highest death rate and foot ball players the lowest. There would seem to be no particular reason why this should be the case, un- | less it is that base ball is continued over a longer stretch of months. The danger of athletics, in the life following student days, is that, in the average | business, the muscular system docs not receive the amount of work to which | it has been accustomed. The former athlete who will keep this in mind will have a better chance of living long, evi- dently, than the man who sat in the | grandstand. Most persons always have felt that this must be true, else our sys- tem ‘of athletics was in error, and such compilations will bring cheer to them and encourage them to elaborate, not minimize, those courses of physical in- struction which bring the entire stu- dent bodies of institutions of higher education into play. It would be a melancholy state of af- fairs, indeed, if the average aviator could not hold his mount any better than some of our distinguished eques- trians. After all, there is a satisfying element of “safety first” in horseman- ship. e Congress may as well be prepared for the statesman whose idea of a happy new year is to start another investiga- tion, ———ee A bull fight expertly conducted is possibly something like a prize fight not nearly so dreadful in the actual ex- hibition as in the broadcasting. c——— Expert forestry will soon find a way to keep the old Christmas tree from becoming merely & bit of fuel on the funeral pile of pleasures past. A hand- some evergreen is easily preserved in pot or tub to serve as a holiday pur- pose from year to year. And even when its size demands transplanting into the open it may still be a reminder of bright lights and happy hours. st John D. Rockefeller is still referred to as the “oil king.” He is entitled to leisure and has rcared an army of bright young men. Any kind of a king shows wisdom in knowing when not to attempt too much autocratic domina- tion. —————— Treaties made in the course of Euro- pean politics have involved complica- tons calculated 1o make new treaties constantly necessary. ] SHOOTING STARS. BY PHILANDER JOHNSON, Reliable Chronology. ‘Twas the night before Christmas—1 heard the old song That is echoing still, though the years have been long, Since nights when the stockings were hung up with care, And as youngsters we knew Santa Claus would be there, It's & year before Christmas; then six | months or so— Then just a few weeks as the days come and go; And this influence great we are bar- gaining with Appears for all time & benevolent myth Fleeting Responsibility. “Do you believe all the things you say?” “Belleve ‘em!" Borghum. “1 ci History Repeats Itself, Here u passing tear And thers a smile 5o gay — And so this glad New Year ‘Will go the same old way. exclatmed Senator | 't even remember ‘em " Jud Tunkins says we wish a friend “Happy New Year!" to show our own gentality—and then leave him to take his chances, “We read much,” sald K1 Ho, the sage of Chinatown, “and are troubled chief); In declding what to forget,” Movle Luminary. Twinkle, twinkle, little star, BUIl we're nsking who you are “Though your art 1s small, By Thus Your Press Agent 1s a Wonder! ANl for the Best, “What did you give your husband for iristinas?" “A patent clgar lighter.” "“Does 1L work 7 “No. But \Us all for the best. T'm afrald 1 gave him & box of tertibl cIgars for Christmus & Burikg When eggn were 00 cents per dox 1 voiced w glad “Hooray!” The only difficulty wus, “The heus refused Lo lny, “A man dat gets busy tellin’ all 1 knows,” suid Uncle Ehen, “Is mighty o' 10 show hisself up foh not know | much i de fust place r—.es _FRIDAY, DECEMBER " THIS AND THAT BY CHARLES E. TRACEWELL. Are elderly women the only chari- table persons? It was noticeable during Christmas week that the great crowd of happy young people who thronged a certain busy thoroughfare mostly passed by the lonely beggar on the sidewalk. “Don’t pass me by, he importuned, from his place at their feet; but, man and woman, they passed on. It was only an occasional elderly woman, in neat black, with white hair showing beneath a black hat, who stopped and leaned over to drop a coin in his hand We watched this spectacle for full 10 minutes, and during that time no person under the age of 60 years. the least, paid any particulal tion to the man on the sidew: ‘The thought camc® that increasing years must add to the store of pity which most of us have so little of, and that the charitable giving of alms is something that most persons do not m very much interested in. ‘There was no_ escaping knowledge of the beggar. He was exactly in the middle of the pavement, where every one, coming from either direction. had to_walk around him. Yet most persons seemed to find it convenient to overlook him, both from hysical and menta standpoint. es clutched in wreathing their faces, youn women strode on, their silken stoc ings gleaming in the sunshine. Young men paid no more attention to their poor brother underfoot. But any one who might have been inter- ested would have seen, now and then, a person in the sedate clothing of age detach herself from. the crowd and hurry back to drop alms, in the name of God. * ok ok % How many have read or heard the story of Brother Juniper. “one of the most chosen diseip! and first com- panions of St. Francis>” It is to be found in the “Little Flowers,” in th translation as edited by Cardinal Man- ning. Since it is impossible for any one to better the simplicity of telling of the Italian, we present verbatim the chapters from the life of our char- acter, who contrasted so strongly with tlose of us who pass beggars without so much as a look “Brother Juniper was so full of pity and compassion for the poor ¢hat when he ny one poor or naked he im- mediately took off his tunic, or the hood of his cloak. and gave it to him. “The guardian therefore laid an obedience upon him not to give away his tunic or any part of his habit. A fev: days afterwards, a poor half-naked man asked an alms of Brother Juniper for the love of God, who answered him with great compassion, ‘I have nothing which I could give thee but my tunic. and my superior has laid me under obedience not to give it. nor any part of my habit, to any one. But if thou wilt take it off my back I will not re- sist_thee.’ “He did not speak to a deaf man: for the beggar forthwith stripped him of his tunic, and went off with it. When Brother Juniper returned home, and was asked what had become of the tunic, he replied, ‘A good man took it off my back, and went away Wwith it’ And as the virtue of compassion increased in him, he was not con- tented with giving his tunic, but would | give books, or cloaks, or whatever he { could lay his hands on, to the poor. “For this reason the brethren took care to leave nothing in the common rooms of the convent, because Brother Juniper gave away everything for the love of God and to the glory of His name." Perhaps the Christmas story of Brother Juniper shows that brave fel- low at his best. well clad arms, | = | yond two of | “Brother Juniper was one Christmas day in deep meditation before the altar at” Scesi. Now this altar was very fairly and richly adorned, and, at the desire of the sacristan, Brother Juniper remained to keep guard over it while he went to his dinner. “And as he was absorbed in devout meditation, a poor woman came and asked alms of him for the love of God. To whom Brother Juniper made an- swer, ‘Wait awhile, and I will see if I can find anything for thee on this grand altar. Now there was upon the altar an exceedifigly rich and costly of gold, with siver bells of T said Brother Juniper, re a superfluity;’ so he took a knife and cut them off the hanging, and gave them to the poor woman out of compassion. The sacristan, after he had ecaten three or four mouthfuls, be- thought him of the ways of Brother Juniper, whom he had left in charge: and began exceedingly to doubt whether, in his charitable zecal, he mig costly altar. “As soon as the suspicion entered his head he rose from the table, and went into the church to see if any of the ornaments of the altar had been re- moved or taken away: and when he saw that the hanging had b eut and the bells carried off, he wis be- measure troubled and scandal- | ized. | rother Juniper, seeing that he { was very angry, said to him: ‘Be not | disturbed about those little bells, for 1T e given them to a poor woman | who had great need of them, and here they were good for nothing but to | make a pompous display of worldiy | vanity.’ * ® X ¥ | “When the secristan had heard this, | he went with all speed to seek the | woman in the church, and throughout | the city: but he could neither find her {nor meet with any one who had scen | her. So he returned, and in great wrath took the fringe and carried it to the 1, who was at Assisi, saying, gencral, I demand justice on Jumper, who has spoilt this ng for me, the very best I had in the sacristy! * * ¢ And the guardian answered him: ‘It is not Brother niper who has done this, but thine { own folly; for thou oughtest by this time to have known his ways: and I tell thee, I only marvel that he did not | give away the whole hanging. Never- theless, I will give him a sound correc- | tion for this fault.” The general, in the presence of the | chapter, proceeded to do this, the story continues. and raised his voice until it became hoarse. Brother Juniper, who “delighted in reproaches, and rejoiced when he received a good humiliation,” | had but one thought, how to find a remedy for the general's hoarseness. After his reprooi, he concocted a hasts pudding, and went to the general's cell | in the night. The latter, not liking the | disturbance at such an hour, bade Brother Juniper to begone, saying that he would not cat. The story continues “Then Brother Juniper, seeing that neither persuasion nor prayers were of | any avail, said. ‘Father, since you will not eat the pudding which was made for you, at least do this for me: Hold the candle for me, and I will eat it “And the general, being a devout and kindly man, seeing the piety and sim- plicity of Brother Juniper, and that he had done all this out of devotion, an- swered, ‘Well, since thou wilt have it 50, thou and I will eat togethe: “And so the two ate this hasty-pud- ding together, out on an importunate charity. and were more refreshed by | their devotion than by the food.” Thus ends a genuine Christmas story; and may we all profit from it. WASHINGTON OBSERVATIONS BY FREDERIC WILLIAM WILE. Vice President Dawes has written the introduction to “Europe’s Economic Sunrise,” by Edward Price Bell, dean of America’s foreign correspondents, and for nearly 25 years London representa- tive of the Chicago Daily News. The book is a survey of the constructive forces contributing to the rehabilitation of the war-shattered Old World. “Eco- nomics is not an easy thing to under- stand,” writes Gen. Dawes. “It is about equally difficult and important. We are in ned alike of its knowledge and of its principles, for we live by economics; it bears upon the daily lives of every man, woman and child in the world.” Mr. Bell's treatise, which is published privately by his paper, consists of a series of interviews had by him with world statesmen and of articles written by him from European capitals during the past year. He dedicates his volume “To the Proposition That in All T partments of Human Affairs the Big Idea Is Better Than the Big Stick." o ox o An “all-star, all-American” cabinet is the latest. Under the inspiration of the annual custom of selecting a team of champion foot ball players, the In- dependent of Boston has just chosen a cabin resentative of the best tal- ent that ever served the Fed 3 ernment. ‘The Independent's cabinet includes a Vice President, but not a Secretary of Labor. Here it is: President, George Washington. Vice President, Theodore Roo: velt. Secretary of State, John Hay. Secretary of the Treasury, Alex- ander Hamilton Secretury of War, Elthu Root. Secretary of the Navy, Willlam C. Whitney. Attorney General, Roger B. Taney. Postmaster General, Amos Ken- dall. Becretary of the Interfor, Franklin K. Lane. Secretary of Agriculture, James Wilson Secretary of Commerce, Herbert Hoover, CR Gavin McNab, San Francisco lawyer who has Just pi . was called the man who e son to the presidency in 1916, In his capacity of Democratic campaign man- ager in the Far West, it became Mc- Nub's specinl duty to carry the Coast region for the Wilson ticket, und Call- fornin in particular. As all the world remembers, 1t was Californin's electoral college vote of 13 that decided Hughes' defeat. ‘The State went Democratie by the narrow margin of 3,806 in a total 1 of roundly 1,000,000, Some day laps & blographer of CGavin Me- b, us canny and lovable a Beot sy cver set foot on American soil, will tell of the role he played in the historio episode which kept Hughes and Hiram Johnson apart in California on the cve of the 1916 election. No man of our time was & greater master of English expression_and pungent eplgram than | MeNab. They lost nothing i foree and beauly because of the Beoteh bury which marked them CEC Herbert M. Lord, divector of the Dudget, will be placed upon the retived list of the United States Army with the rank of or ral, i A bl o that end just introduced in the House s enucted Wnto v, Presented by Rep resentative W. Frank Jumes, Repub- Niean, of Michigan, of the military af fairs committee, 1t provides for giving Lord a major general's status, tnstead of thut of & brigadier general, with which he retired in 1932 ‘She objeot of the James bl 15 o see thad Clen Lord 1 i reccipt of wdequate pay when the tine comes for him to leave the Budget Burean. Lord’s present sals i 1'0 000, It 15 made up of & vetired Bulletproof Vest From tie 50 Paul Ploneer Pr Chicagoans &re wear Br'.rnu which, to be comblet g, should hm‘um & wllowance of 84,500 a year and 50500 as budget director. As retired major general, Lord would re: eeve L0000 w year, When the crowned hisads and other Fulgrs of the worly Vsl one w”h‘ custom is for the host to bestow some elaborate token of csteem upon his ex- alted guest. King George and Queen Mary presented the President and Mrs, Woodrow Wilson with some distinguish- ed gifts in 1918, as did their royal col- lcages in Rome and Brussels. If Pres- ident Coolidge could pick his own pres- ent at the hands of President Machado in Cuba next monuth, it's an easy guess what it would be—a box of Hava rs. Not everybody knows _th " is & habitual smoker. He con- fines himself almost exclusively clgars. be seen protruding from the breast pocket of his coat as he sits at his desk in the White House offices. Three or four stogies a day are about the Presi- dent's limit. He uses a long holder. work are his favorite smoking times. e leaders of @ certain great party was | asked to engage in & debate by radio { with an equally outs | of the opposing party. The idea was that they should discuss the Issues that divide the Republican and Democrat partics. He declared there aren't any L N Washington early in the new vear will have a political weekly periodical, called “Politics.” It has been founded and will be edited by Harry N. Pric for many years a well known politics reporter i the National Capital. He says that Politics will be strictly inde- | pendent and non-partisan, and tackle | the men and matters of 1928 wholly on the basts of their merits and demer- \ts. Price was one of President Hard- | ing's newspaper favorites, and during the Ohloan's regime Price was frequent- |y an administration mouthpiece. He enjfoys & natlon-wide acquaintance among politicians of both parties. R A Thers 1s & steadily mounting under- current of Democratic sentiment in favor of the nomination of Owen D. Young of New York for the presidency He 15 particularly strang in certain Southern sections resolutely opposed to Al Smith, Young himself is an enthu- stustic supporter of Gov. Smith—a eir- cumstance which suggests that the lat- ter, In certain contingencles, might ae- cept the electric industry magnate as a compromise candidate for 1938, Some the real author of for payment of German He and Dawes are bosom friends, Pipes and rare books are pas- sions they share in common. Half the Young 18 & business captain in Broadway, and the rest of the me he's w farmer on his ancestral es- tate i novthern New York. There he vecently vestored, i modern style, the little red schoolhouso he attended as & ad Young was Dawes plan TePATALIONS, (Convrieht. 1087 v av-— In the Hoodoo Class, Viom ths New York Sun The alrplane carvier Langley, on which & serlous aeeldent occurred. was bullt as & collier and served in that cupacity under the name Jupiter. She was n sister ship to the Cyclops, whose disappearance i March, 1918, 18 one of the great mysteries of the sea, and another ship of the same class. the Orlon, broke hes back 1w gale oft the Virginin Coast lnst year, These three ahips were bullt in 1912 v - . Getting Away With the Bacon, v e Topeha Capital Politiclans at - Washington are ve ported wa setthing down (o the conclu slon that the Hepublican contost will nartow down to v, doesi't t hen - oanventions are deadlocked by two candidates, tl\lfid&nm olten NOV YUne away hurt the authorities have always sald that Owen | the | ht not do some damage to the | to | A brace of them can frequently | After meals and after the afternoon’s | | | and bed a Socrates. | | there anything prettier The other day one of the eminent | | only are the tree butchers devastating | anding spokesman | | The tree butchers are also laying the | growth encouraging floods. | | come effective January 1 | opel 20. PHILOSOPHIES BY GLENN FRANK Every great epoch of progress has gone through three stages: First, the destruction of false ideas. At any given moment the ground is cluttered with a mass of false or obso- lete ideas. ‘This fact becomes espe- | cially important in the march of social progress because the average man is always from 20 years to a generation behind the soundest thought of his time, except in the field of his specialty. Second, the groping search for new and better idea There is always.an intellectually ac- tive minority at work on the issues of | existence— individual and social. This minority throws up a medley of ideas —some mere guesses, some magnif cent gains. The wheat must be sep- arated from the chaff. Third, the preaching of the valid new ideas. ‘The inertia of the social mass and of the individual mind is great. A thousand vested interests cry out| against all change. Evangelism must follow exploration or the work of the pioneers will be but the private sport of the curious-minded. These three stages of progress call | for three distinct social servants: First, the crusading critle. It is hard to be hospitable to the muckraker; but the muckraker's mis- sion is eternal. If it be true that the | average man is always from 2 to a generation behind the best thought of his time, clearly he needs gadflies to sting him into awareness of what is going on. Every organization needs a faw gadflies who are a nuisance to the | administration. They are unlovely fellows, these muckrakers, but we need them. Socrates would have been the bane of a modern college dean, but any college could well afford to board Second, the responsible philosopher. The philisopher is never a popular figure, because he rarely shares our | sharp dogmatic partisanships, bul without him we swing from blind re- action to brutal revolution. We must learn to tolerate men who can see be- tween and beyond our bitter campaign fights. | Third, the preacher. The temptation of the scholar is to keep the new truth he finds stacked in the warehouse. It shocks h sense of scholarly dignity to see h: discoveries hawked in the marketplace by the popularizer. But the social use- fulness of scholarship depends upon its translation into the common tongue. We must both breed and bear with all three of these servants of progress (Copyright, McClur JUSSE—— SR Appeals for Saving | Of Christmas Trees! To '+ P )t The Star: Why all the publicity for one Christ- | mas_tree, when thousands are killed | yearly? ¢ Recently the Chevy Chase cit entered the first page of all r due to some overenthusiastic cutting down a very old tree on a § posed to be private ground for the cof munity tree celebration Christm: { —rightfully, as such an affair should | never have occurred. | Year after vear thousands upon thousands of trees are chopped down just for a few days' affair, and thou- sands never even sold due to the mer- chant buying or cutting down than he can sell—if there is a: more sorrowful than to see hugs of discarded trees, some spruce, that have not been sold. It 1s not only the huckster or the wagon vender who goes out into the woods and chops down fine pine, cedar | and spruce trees, some not as old as | the Chevy Chase tree (but a sapling | soon becomes a full size tree), so t age should not enter into the m: as it is & tree with a heart, just as you and I, that has been torn down and | then on Christmas day becomes trash 10 be dragged to the dump. | The tree celebration is & very pretty one given 1o us by our forefathe an artificial tree decorated is ju pretty as a live tree, o many people have done who planted Living cedar trees on their la: namely, to decorate the trees with hghts etc., and in that way bringing cheer to passers-by, and not only for the peo- ple within. I hope that your paper will encourage the buying of more trees and planting them, thus having & tree not one day but all the vear, and to deco- rate them on Christmas. The large trees of the old days are | not used any more, but thousands use small trees due to small apartments. | A tree is just as dear to the writ & human being: like an animal dumb, but trees can talk in their own | way, like an anin If former Gov. Pinchot (who has ! done so much fine work to prescrve S5) wants to do some good for here is & fine chance for him with Christmas trees, as not our woods of fine pines, cedars and | spruce, for future generations, but are also endangering the supply of lumber soil bare from which shrubs of under My suggestion is to encourage the planting of trees, the use of artificial | trees and, if live trees must be used. for the authorities to make every one who sells trees have a permit and allow them to cut only 10 per cent more tree: they sold the previous ves think you will find this w; stopped. If the trees that remain unsold ea year could be used for lumber, it » | opening ANSWERS TO QUESTIONS BY FREDERIC J. HASKIN. Q. When is a man too old to be a jockey?—C. L. M. A. “Jockies usually start their careers from 12 to 16 years of age. They serve as jockles until about the age of 35 ihe age when the average man begins to gain in weigl Q. Who is now England’s prime min- ister?—M. M. B. A. Stanley Baldwin is the prime minister of England. What wero the ca: Battle of Manila Bay A. About 350 Sp and 1.700 officers an One American was killed wounded. ialties In the H. B. Q. Did the Indians use salt in ‘h food before the coming of the W man?—L. M. B. A. Not all tribes of Indlars we accustomed to use salt, the difficulty of procurinz it, sence of the habit, a repugnance for the mineral, or for it is not always poss was eaten as a con instance of its use as a preservati being its addition to yeast to pre putrefaction. The desire for pre sumrddln a or vegetal food is eaten. as the diet is more and substance. . and decrea more of animzl Q. When was Africa disc T l‘“n'v of Afri the Ph the modern world, how to the voyages of Prince Navigator. percussion cap in- ted about 1805 and Q. How long tn use? A H. T. D le palatial houseboats were e Ron v 5. W used by been 1 earl; . and came to enth ce: Where are th x ion Range’—G. O. A T ! moun and southeast of classed Te is no Alberta and Montana—whers s tlocks of trumpeters are still known to How often should s wateh be —N. T. P. A. A watch should be cleared and re- oiled at suitab 18 months. ’ Q. Why does it take longer for milk . H Q. How many ai es does the 1 er cgency fn the rpitie as many free In stions @s our Wa sonal diréction of Frede By keeping im comstaat pass ive informe hest order. Submit youwr ¢ the hig ¢ taff of erperts whose On Army not be so bad, but with exception of a | ¢ few trecs, mast all on sale here are too | small to plane off for lumber. Th heartrending part of this tree kill- | g carnival every year is to see the ash | wagon dragging {ine trees to the dum The joy that comes to & ¢ mas morning with the o tree i3 something that should nev stopped, vet there are many ways this | can be taken care of, as in these mod- | ern days many changes have come about, yet there 1s as much, if not more. | joy today than years ago. Think of the child when these trees are Killed: when | they grow up they also want to enjoy | the beautiful Il\h‘s‘ as we do, ALLEN V. D. FORD. UNITED ST. IN WORLD WAR Ten Yours Ago Tode ‘The ban on disclosing the identity of troops in_the Pershing expeditionary forees I Europe is removed 0 new and revised regulations tssued tonight, to be- * e Den partment of Justice announces that 1t s st aside February 4 for registra- ton of the half aullion unnaturaliscd Germans 1 the United States as a means of minimizing the danger trom enemy svmpathizers in o the United States. Al nales over 14 must supply four photographs and have (et toger printa recorded. * ¢ ¢ Roview of war | or 1917 shows balanees o favor of France, with three big affensives to her | credit and 1o noteworthy defeat. (e WAl Acoession of strength due to the | Russtan collapse 15 recoghieed a8 bound 1o have cansiderable bearing on futire atlons. * * ¢ In heavy fighting SOULH O Cambral, the Clermans pler the Butiah lines and gain two salients 11 AN attack on & Smile front ¢ ¢ ¢ Marcont fa appointed Ttalian high com. misioner (o the United States | p RS Do Twice as Much Work Peom (he Hastow Transrint Acoording 1o @ repart of the Tndus trial Fatigue Rescarch Board wen av Swioe a2 shrang ay wamien, bt it does | N Alter the fact (hat W many cases & | 118 Strang enough (0 40 twice &8 . | entty Brg when wing Q E however, the Provid he West P tion tha s at A sold dler whove ¢ picked youth of the { e cannat recon acceplance of a tale w some of his am the el can quartel with him “To_the man wha runs reads.” 1 the opiton of Ator SWS, T Seems has the best of the aig sohoal 18 Tun o G ing (A e se and every cadet ought (o be Wy AN equaliy 150 fE a3 oppaTianity to cerned The Fart Worth Reewnd e AbO (ks that W the e o would draw the conclusion that \won ot ALY Passesses 6T AWMt o Mat Times finds WAL iy R ¢ herishad deatry ahould be IR h o ONAVY Y Ao @ diolate whas oo thé Avmy hat e wule CRCRE The Philadelphia Bvenng Wi APPrOves the applicatin of the (e year vale, but i CAN T the action of the Nmval Academy autharities in e guastian At & tiwe DAL Dave & play . 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