Evening Star Newspaper, January 9, 1928, Page 8

T e —————————— THE EVENING STAR With Sunday Morning Edition. WASFINGTON, D.C. MONDAY.......January 9, 1928 THEODORE W. NOYES. .. .Editor The Evening Star Newspaper Company Business Office. r st 42nd Chicage_Oftice: Tower Building European Office’ 14 Rezent St. Ensland by Carrier Within the City. ar. 150 per month - iening and { whe: S nd: The Surday Star Collect Sunday Star avs) . " ronth. v st ion made at the end ¢ f ' ach ail cr telephsas Orders max be sent i hy Mam 5000 Rate by Mail—Payable in Advance. { from want and lack of susienance have from public charity. This was a shock- ing spectacle and despite some altera- tions in the law since its enactment it still prevails and is still a cause of shame when the supposedly beneficent purposes of the retirement act are con- sidered. Some of the pittances that are doled out by the Government in the name ot annuitics—annuities paid in fact from moneys contributed by the employes | themselves—are so small as to cause a feeling of wonder that more deaths not occurred since the law was enacted and the unfortunate victims of the Government's departmental houseclean- ing were swept aside. Whatever weight may be given to the arguments of various claimants for par- ticular changes in the annuitant scale, Maryland and Virgini aiie mm1 Sund: 1yr, s Sundas” oty * 1 All Other States and Canada. §am and Sunday ST 5001 mo | | v | 21'r onir anday only <3001 Member of the Associated P"ress, The Associated Press 1s exctisitels on 1t 20 the use for repubhication of a'l news die | Ratehes Sadiied 0t or ot 1 23| BT (b maner and st 1) pihiched Rerein A1 riehis o St everiai Arsgaiches hewin am R VT The Nicaraguan Campaign. | One thousand United States Marines @are sailing today for Nicaragua. With them goes Maj. Gen. John A. Lejeune. commandant »f the Marine Corps, who 1= to survey the situation in that coun- | try and determine the methods to be ! adopted and perhaps the numb:r of | men to be required for the complotion ©f the campaign against Sandino. the = governmen: and has in war on the United States by his attacks upon its soldiery. These forces of the United States are in Nic- | aragua for a legitimate purpose. th. maintenance of order in that countiy. | They are there at the invitation and | on the request of the recognized gov- | emment. They are there in pursuance of a policy maintained by this country to establish stability in the smaller re- publics of Central America and to pre-, vent the development of chaotic condi. tions menacing not only to the peace of those lands, but to the interests and properties of Americans located there in business. There is no purpose to oppress the people of Nicaragua by imposing upon them American military rule. There is no intention to intervene in the | political affairs of that or any other Central American country. It is z\'i-l dent that Sandino is not representative | ©f a recognizable fraction of the people | ©of Nicaragua. He is a disappointed as- | pirant for the presidency. who has . taken to arms, has been outlawed, and | 'nmuekmgmmupapflpflzov-] ernment in the hills. He has adopted | 2. the zeal of his “republic” a repre- sentation of a soldier in his uniform, leaning over a fallen American Marine, grasping an upraised machete in his | right hand and the Marine’s hair in | his lef:. i There are evidences that Sandino is | supplied with arms and munitions from sources outside of Nicaragua. The sus- picion is entertained that he is being | used by interests inimical to the United | States to embroil it in a veritable war | for the purpose of showing that this | country is engaged in an aggressive policy. The interests that are, as it is | believed, thus maintaining the rebel | ¢hieftain wish to see the United States | ¢ prevented from any forn: of interven- tion in that region in order that they may themselves exploit those lands | for their own selfish purposes. As long as’ the Monroe Doctrine is maintained as a fundamental policy of | thil.floramum it must be prepared | to protect mot only its own interests, | but those of other goveraments in the | area which has for a good many years been beset by internal troubles due to eonstitutional failures and to the lack ©f a sense of responsibility for the I aintenance of order and stability. Critics of the present policy of the United States in this respect do ndt as- mail tife Monroe Doctrine, but question | the means by which it is maintained as 8 vita' principle 2flecting the Western | Hemisphere and protecting it from ag- | gressive actions by European powers The spectacie of American troops en- | #AgIng in a campaign sgainst an alien people for no specific advantages is not ‘pleasant, but it is a necessity arising from the relations that have for more | than a century existed botween the | strongest republic in the Wastern Hem- | isphere and t weaker ones that are | now, thanks to the wise, restrained and | vemperate courses of this Government, | steadily developing 1o secure independ- | ence and efficient organization. ——t e A man who has been found insare | by & jury imes makes the mis. ke of try; boast of the fact as | an evidence of his higher intelligence ! Raise the Minimum Annuity. Efforts are being made w0 secure the enaciment st the present session of Congress of an amendment v the Fed- eral retirement act wiich will increase the minimum of snnuities paid W re- | tired employes of the Government. ey - eral organizations of annuitants are st work in thix interest proposing some- what different forms of corrective jrgis- lation. Unfortunawiy there is no con- gurrence by these groups, which are eeeking the smendment of the law, und the result it thst the committees of | Congrese which will consider the ques- ton and the 'wo houses themselves will be compelled U determine the ments of the varying end somewhat eonflicting claims | In 2l this there i one outstandirg prineiple, however, which should e Tecognized and which should be writ ten o eny smendstory leg:lation which may be enmcted. That is that the minimum of retirement pay should be incressed W & point 8t which the snnuitant can subsist decently upon the slipend grauted by the Government in recognition of long and faithful snd eMcient services rendered 1o it | 1 | | | { | & benefit L those who reach the point ©f superannuation. It haes, however worked out in Meny cases e & penaity 800 & hardship Men snd women who were sull capsble of doing efficient vork were by aufomstic applicstion of the Jow wrested from their positiont 056 placed upon the retired lists with snnuties v small thet they could not | poreibly meintain themselves snd were forced o seek mesistance from thelr Jom) iex end friends, end in pome Cases of good wor | the public pri . would b razed. but in a mistaken spirit | tunately comparatively little damagel | rivals. The United States Government | cease ! cience, planted love in the most remote The retirement law was intended s | WHCeetors of munkind, Long ages before | heed should surely be given to the pite- ous plea of those who are at the lower end of the roster, that they be taken out of the class of alm: ven the status of ri respoeting beneficiarics of real Govern-- ment bounty. bestowed in recogn < and lifclong servic: eSS The 0ld Printing Office. The Government's neglect of its own interests was never more graphically illustrated than by the fire which oc- curred yesterday in the old section of the Government Printing Office. where flames did damage to the extent. it is estimated, of $10000. and menaced | property worth several millions. That structure, where the blaze occu:red. has baen repaatedly condemned as unsafe It was erected in 1870. and was for a long period us he sole housing of hment. inadequacy was proved at least thirty- five vears ago, when it was found to he Its | Eternal.” | will say that eugenics is eternal? | the genuinely wise scientist who takes | unsafe for use by a large number of | o consideration all tpa. has hap- improve a herd of cattle; by l! science which, in the final analysis, i8 never entirely applicable to man. Cattle are cattle and men and women are men and women, with mating instincts on quite different planes. A learned priest with scientific lean- ings once said that for fifty years he had been marrying his young mutually en- gaged parishioners and that, as far as he could sce, the results would have been just as good had he put the names in a hat and drawn them out, or. better, had deliberately paired them off him- self. He was wrong; his trouble was that his experience of fifty years seemed { long to him, whereas he should have been considering time periods a million times as long. 4 For what reason does one suppose the Creator implanted in the minds and hearts of them that are but little lower than the angels the faculty of mutual | affection, understanding. sex attraction —all the components of what we call love™? It was no idle gesture on His part, nor did he mean it to be super- seded in time by eugenics. There is something about that age-old instinct supcrior to any science; what the race may have missed physically it has gained spiritually and morally. The heritage of a child born to congenial, loving and happy parents may be con- sidered greater than that of him whose immediate forbears were more nearly perfect but less in love. “Do you love her devotedly?” asks Nature. If the answer be effirmative 1 her advice is “Then marry her.” Inside | the | Lincoln placed on the finger of his weading ring which Abraham bride were carved the wor Who will dispute it? “Love Is Who Never workers and dangerously incapable of | Pened on this globe since it began to | supporting the weight of machinery and materials of printing. A move was made to replace it with a new structure. but Congress was unable to | the vehicle decide upon the site and several ses- sions were spent in maneuvers in favor of particular plats of ground before | cool off and its inhabitants to warm up. Eugenics is splendid when used as a steering wheel or a set of brakes on of love. But it can never the motor. R Lindbergh has to exercise great care function as finally agreement was had upon the | In 1anding so as to avoid hurting any arca adjacent to the old building. There | O in the crowds of his admirers. In after further delay a new printing of- | SPite of military agitations the traffic fice was erected and the personnel and | COP IS the great and outstanding figure the machinery were moved into it. was then expected that the old bulidine | of cconamy it was retained as a ware- | house after some strengthening changes | were made and as such it has beer | used ever since. It | ©f our present civilization: one whose | responsibilities appear to be due tor unlimited expansion. — e American literature has not greatly | improved since the custom of leaving | the discussion of crime and its penalties | v xDer! The ordinary rules of satety woud | BFEIY 1o the expert discretion of the have required the demolition of this | (Fained police reporter was abandaned. building long ago. It should have beer removed immediately upon its vacation | by the working force of the printing | office, and the space fllled by a new. | substantial structure for storage pur- | poses. But not until a very short time ago was provision made by law for the ! substitution of a mocern building for | it. That process has dragged alorg until the fire of yesterday comes as a reminder of the danger of delay. For- ' was done, but that fact is due lnl efficient firefighting work and not to any qualities in the structure itself. The present building program of the Government will correct many cond:- tions almost as bad as that at the old | printing office, which it is to be hoped | is now at the end of its career. As the | new structures arise on the Mall-Ave- | nue triangle they will accommodate of- fices that are now housed in provisiona! buildings, some of them of the most | fiimsy and inflammable character. wit: immense quantities of records that arc | daily exposed to destruction. In somc | of these offices the working files of the | Federal administration, papers that can never be replaced, are under risk of | total loss. In addition there are the | older, permanent files, historic records accounts of great prospective value as future research is reguired, which arc eventually to be housed in an archives building. itself proposed many years | ago as one of the urgent needs of the Government service, and yet existing only on paper and in somewhat nebulous form. | A business organization that neglect- ed its affairs on this basis would bo hopelessly distanced by more up-to-date is not in a competitive career. It has its own obligations and responsibilities, which in many respects, however' effi- clent it is in the main things, it some- times neglects unul disaster occurs to jar it into action. s T —— Polar exploration involves privatior: | and hardship. Dr. Cook's adventgous career compels him W regard such things as among the least of his troubles. The man who undertakes o | enjoy notoriety as a substitute for hon- est fame 13 likely to leave & melan- | choly record of ili-requited toll, e Eugenics Overeulogized. ‘ Purther than most goes the director | of the pathological laboratory of the | University of Michigan in his boosting of nics. "I regard,” he declared in | his address before s Eattle Creek race | betterment “sentimenta; | and emotional factors as mating for | race degeneration, 11 the race 15 1o im- | prove, the choice of w lifemate on the basis of Jove and rex attraction must Young men and young women | must be taught to pick out the best | possible sex partners wceording o eugenic laws " Vithout wishing 1o cast aspersions on | any particular learned man, it must be | sated 1hat it is the tendency of many | seientists 1o keep their eyes ghied to | their microtcopes n little 100 long and o ezclusively. ‘They fal sometimes 10 pote the whole world and it known history “Reproduction 1s the aim of existence,” they declare. True enough n one sense, VLot reproduction we vould get nowhere. But is existence an | “nd or a means an end? Mother N ture, or the Creator, or whatever one | may wish W call the supreme omnis- conference, s contents | sole | eugenics were hewrd of, mates sought one snother out on the basis of love and have done, on the whole, pretty well “This i intended ws 1o disparagement of eugenics, which 15 & common -sense proposition. A knowledge of its funda- mentels never haymed any one in mak- ing his or her choice of & Nfe partner | A price war tells me but tils science should hes complement - a1y 1o 8nd never supersecsive of the mating Inetinet I ———— ‘The political banquet to be conducted on a “dollar a plate” schedule is an- other of the late W. J. Bryan's ideas that did not work out with accuracy. I A long career of patient service is often followed by séme extraordinary irresponsibility. The Thames is an- | other good old river gone wrong. ——— ‘The mere fact that an invitation to speak on some public occasion has been accepted is often of more significance than the speech itself. — vt The difficulty in conducting a con- ference is again revealed by the ob- stacles in arranging for an Army-Navy foot ball game. R ) Nicaragua will have practical assist- {ance in fast work in turning over a leaf for the New Year. SRR e E e 5 SHOOTING STARS. BY PHILANDER JOHNSON, Then and Now. 1 bought an auto long ago. It was propelled by steam. The wild caprice that it would show Seems now a horrid dream. | For when I pushed the lever small To get a forward start, It backed me up against a wall And almost broke my heart! It bucked and stamped and shook and | growled And then burst into flame. In protest vain, 1 stood and howled, “Dear auto! Fie for shame!" And when the water gauge proved fraii While steam around me rolled, I thought that skyward I should sail Just like a prophet oid. Now traffic signals are unfurled. 1 ride serenely gay. that the world Grows better every day! Publicity. “What is your opinion of George Washington?” “Most respectful” answered Senator SBorghum. “You can't deny the pres- tige of a man who has succeeded Ir placing his picture on everything from a two-cent stamp o & twenty-dollar bl 0 Prosperity. My radio! My radio! A songster strangely hollers And for five mintites’ work or 50 Takes $7,000 “A man who talks in his sleep” sald Jud Tunkins, “is Nable to live in con- | stant fear of & lucid interval” New Line of Experiment. We hear about synthetic gold Let the good work begin! Too many persons have been sold Upon synthetic gin. “Better be an wrcheologist,” said Hi Ho. the sage of Chinatown, “and tive | In the fascinations of the far past, than one who lives in the disappointments of yesterday and loses courege for to- morrow.” Moliday Greetings. To Banta Claus } wrote & hne It brought ne gift to me. 1 next sent out & Valentine, It also proved N. G “Belfighness,” sald Uncle Eben, “is bable to leave & man wif only one friend, an’ him not very entertainin’ '’ r-ome sess He Wanted the Whip. Vrom e Philadelubia Tnauiser A buggy pu' up at auction in lowa brought a first bid of 10 cents, and was flnllrv knocked down at 20, We have an idea the purchaser wanted the whip for something or other, v—vee Two Kinds of Diplom ¥rom the Borton Heraid Uncle Bam has earned the credit of aintioducing two kinds of diplomacy ney. You cen multiply and shirteleeve and alrplans, HE EVENING STAR, WASHINGTON, D. C. MONDAY. JANUARY 9, 1928 Perhaps there is no more popular col- loquial expression than that of “catty remarks,” as applied to seemingly harm- less comments which nevertheless carry hidden fire. ‘Women, through popular association with cats, are supposed to have almost a monopoly upon such usage, but it is a common observance that many men alco possess the ability. ;i To wound delicately, as it were, with- out entirely unsheathing one’s “claws | this is the essence of the catty remark. ‘The Smiths, for instance, are invited to dinner at the home of the Jonses and all goes well until the dessert is served. Now, Mrs. Jones, who prides herself on her ability as a cook. went to par- ticular pains to make up a fine batch of frozen custard. Ice creams of various sorts are her specialty, she will tell you. When i comes to making an ice, or a sherbet, Mrs. Jones thines. When the guests scated themselves the hostéss had the satisfying feeling that when the frozen custard came on the table, they would all open their eyes, as well as their mouths. Never had she made a better freezer full. It was perfect, she told hersell with a modest glow of pride. When served in dainty saucers, the custard did, indeed, appear to be the very perfection of frozen desserts. Qf 2 full, rich yellow color, showing the presence of plenty of eggs, the dainty made a tremendous eve appeal. Mrs. Jones covertly watched Mrs. | Smith as the latter too: a spoonful The guest leaned back. critically. “Why, it tastes just like frozen cn { tard, doesn't it?"” she remarked, gavly. ¥ ok ox % Nothing will ever be able to convince Mrs. Jones. of course, that what Mrs. Smith said was not a catty remark SN tard!” she said, indignantly, to Mr Jones, after the guests had departed. “It was frozen custard—and she knew it Mrs. Jones. purchased herself a re- markably fine hat during the Januarx sales at a shop where coats had been reduced in price, but where hats hadn't. It was a beautiful hat, too. no doubt about that. Even Jones admitted it. 2s he opened his pocketbook and tox out several large. bills to pay for it. Credit Jones with being an unusual with the old type of humorous tales in which the males alw resented the price of their ladies’ hats. Jones rather prided himself on the i ability to pick a good one, and he never shied at the price. In fact, it rather tickled his vanity that he could go into a millinery store and unerringly select the highest priced chapeau in the es- tablishment. ‘This time the honcrary head of the Jones family picked what he sccretly termed a “lollapalouza.’ It was a “knockoui” on Mrs. Jones' pretty head, and Mrs. Jones realized it So it was not without some honest pride | that she put on the hat the very first chance she got. and went around to call upon Mrs. Smith, her dear old BY FREDERIC as well as Ameri- Washingtonian: vell Tepresent- | cans who can v L n ed in the British “Who's Who for 1923. the eightieth annual voiume of the world’s first compendium of the great and near-great. A copy has come into this obscaver's hands. Coolidge, Dawes, Hoover, Mellon, Al Smith, Borah, Persh- ing. Sims. Hughes, Houghton. Kelloge Herrick, Schwab, Morgan, Taft, Gerard. Harvey, Ochs, Ford and Sinclair Lew:s are among the Yankee notables sand- ‘| wiched among Britannia's luminaries. Among the absentees are Lindbergh. { Gertude Ederle, “Jimmy” Walker and “Big Bill" Thompson. Mary Pickford is there—perhaps because she’s put down as having been born at Torouto 35 whole yeers ago. Vice Prestdent Dawes appears to have an English title—"C B appearing after his name. In % glossary attached to the book, “C. B is defined as “Companion of the Boih or “Confined to Barracks' President Coolidge lists among the offices he hel during the pas' 30 years the presiden: of the Nonatuck Savings Bank at North- ampton, Mass. Grorge Bernard Shaw winds up his “Whos Who" autobi- ography thus: “Diet, vegetarian. Recre- ation, enything except sport.” * xox Dr. James Brown Scott of the Car- negie Endowment for International Peace will establish a record when I accompanies Mr. Coolidw: to Havana .this week. It will be the second occa- sion on which he has gone abroad with a President of the United States. The other was when Dr. Scott was attached to President Wilson's peace mission to Paris. No other American, according to the records, has been a member of our two executive entourages whose ways have been wended beyond the national borders. Dr. Scott has recently been weighted down with a couple of addi- tional academic honors. The University of Parls made him a doctor of the Sor- bonne, and a few days later he crossed into Spain to receive an haporary doc- | torate from the ancient University of Salamanca. .. Boles Penrose, who was United States Senator from Pennsylvania continuousiy from 1897 to 1921, 15 soon to be honored by having a bronze statue of nimself erected at Harrisburg The State Legis- lature has just voted $20,000 for the purpoce. The statue will stand in Capi- tol Park, in the midst of which P State’s gorgeous Capitol dominates the that once made the welkin ring with charges of wholesale graft ure has given the sculptor, 15 to g“fl”"!‘:fl"lll helght-—a dimension which every good Pennsylvania Republican feels 1s none 100 towering for the man who bossed the tron hand for nearly a generation. P Ogle County, T has a stangely | magnettc attraction for Republican poli- | tictans IUs long been the seat of the | magnifcent fariy estates occupled by | Prank O Lowden'and Mys. Ruth Hanna McCormiek —candidate for Congress- woman at large from the Pralre Stat Now comes Henry IL Rathbone, Cor gressman st large from wnnounces that tract on the Rock River and adjacent 10 the Blackhawk Trail, in Ogle County | Lowden will be Rathbone's' neighbor st [Oregon, 101, only 3 mile. away Mrs | McCormick’s place fs about 12 miles from Rathbone’s newly acquired prop erty. Distanes, in the Jatter case, is not | without 1ts enchantment. The daughter of Mark Hanna is a primary opponent [9F Dot Rathbane and Congresemat at Large Yates in Ilinois thin Spring. Out of the three-cornered yace only nominees can emcrge vietors. Rath- | bone's Washington friends suggest he [ mi/ be casting an anchor to windward in arranging betimes to build a new home far, far away from Capitol Hill! R To the conductor of this column late- ly have come several inquiric. as to why the Gonstitution happened to hit upon Il‘ years ax the period of residence a i his to have o his eredit to be eligible for the presidency. The n- uiries, of course, relate to the charge | that Herbert Hoaver 15 thus “disquali- | ficd” -~ which constitutional authorities (ke "B Borah, by the way, deny Fhe Conatitution was not satified uniil 4 years after the Revolution begian Ihe outhreak of the War of Independ- ence brought to the colonies a hoat of soldiers of fortune trom all parts of the world Ernest MeCullough, well known New York engineer, 1s authority for the u!nllllllhnl hat in order to assure full nghts to foreign-born men active Niinois, and THIS AND wonder it tasted like frozen cus- | type of man, at least not in conformity ! landscape—the granite and marble pile | Penrose’s | figure, according to the instructions the | mmonwenlth with an | he's jJust purchased a | two | THAT - BY CHARLES E. TRACEWELL, friend. She wanted to ask Mrs. Smith about a question of child training. “What a pretty hat you have on!" ex- claimed Mrs. Smith. “Is it new?" “Of course she knows it's new.” breathed Mrs. Jones to herself. Aloud. | and with a beautiful smile, she replicd. “Oh, yes, T just got it toda “So nice!” murmured Mrs. Smith, giv- ing it the once-over. (The “once-over, by the way, is a very expressive collo- quialism, and particularly well suited in the present discussion.) Mrs. Jones had the satisfying fecling that Mrs. Smith was “taking in” the smooth, fine quality of the felt. and the tailored character of the creation. “Is that one of those $5 hats thev are advertising?"” innocently went on ?h‘ Smith, landing with crushing ef- ect. And so we have another of the just- celebrated “catty remarks.” At least Mrs. Jones felt it came within that category. “Why, anybody could see it 5Nt a $5 hat,” she stormed, upon | getting home. “She knew it wasn't 2 5 hat. She knew where I got it, and ho knew that the ad for the $5 hat: was by another store.” * K oK Gentlemen sometimes get credit for making catty comments when they are entirely innocent. as recall the queer episode of H. Hansom Gearshift. Gearshift was invited to dinner, and Wwhen his cup of coffee was served, after he had taken a few sips, he asked, with childlike blandness, “Is this tea or | coffee?™ | Now, no gentloman invited out 0 | dinner ought to a uestion of course. He ougl s of ctiquette, or something. Anyway. he onght not to be in such a state of | doubt, or, if he is, he should keep his mouth shut—preferably by taking an- | other sip. | The brew was somewhat weak, how- | ever, and Mr. Gearshift wanted ‘o, know. He had an inquiring mind. He | couldn't make out whether he was | | drinking tea or coffee. and he thought | | ! 1t would do no harm to ask. As a mat- | ter of fact, he didn't think at all. | just asked. One ought to think, of course, all | | through life, and especially when one i1s dining out. Blessed thinking, val- uable in most situations, is the essence | ot politeness when installed over the | cup and saucer of a friend. After all. what have the poor cats done that this term. “catty.” should be so freely used? The big Wel ' says, “Like or pertaining to cats. espe- ly in their stealthiness or treachér- ousness.” The house cat, however. is a siraight- | forward animal that lets you know in no uncertain terms what he thinks. Th: transference of the cat’s physical stealth- iness, which arose out of his meces- | sity for stalking prey. to the covered mental stabbings of human brings. applied in conversations, is essentiai unfair te the animal. / A sense of humor is the saving grace. both in the administration and the re- | coption of “catty remarks.” After all perhaps 50 per cent of them are mere- Iy lack of tact, that essentially feminine virtue which few women, and fewer men, possess. He WASHINGTON OBSERVATIONS WHLIAM WILE. in the independence movement before | the war, and at the same time protect ' the young country against a President who was a mere adventurer, th found- ing fathers adopted the 14-year rule, L N Democrats in Tllinois, according to word reaching Washington, are think- fing of nominating the bearer of a fa- | mous name for the next United States senatorship from that State. He is Carter H. Harrison. many time. mavor ¢ Chicago and namesake of a father who himself occupicd the chief magis- tracy of the Windy City term after term. Harrison'’s candidacy 15 men- tioned in connection with the election that will be necessary if Col. Frank L. | Smith is booted out of the Senate The George Brennan wing of the faction- torn Democrati> party o! Ilnot the camp (hat Harrison trains But the latter would capitalize th in a senatorial contest He sa platform. if he makes the race. would be that of a “moderate wet” and a foe of ‘the “corruption in politics” with which the name of Samuel Insull, Col Smith’s “angel.” has *n associated. * 2. | The Canadian government has in- Pvited Frank B. Kellogg. Secretary of State, to t Ottawa and return the alls late made in Washing'on by Viscount Willingdon, governor genera! of the Dominion, and Prime Minisier Mackenzie King. The .alk across the border is that the “premier” of Pres:- dent Coolidge's cabinet may come to | Canada arounc about February 1 There are stll some diplomatic ques- tions pending between Cinada and the United Stat The St. LawrencesGreat Lakes waterfvay project is the most im- - portant of them. It appears not to have been decided at the State Depart- ment. as yet, whether the Secretary will make the proposed trip or not. but he 15 understood to be favorably dis- posed toward the idea. . ox o The first woman to aspire to a Fed- eral radio nissionership has ar- rived in Washington. She is Mrs L cils M. Balch of Ilinots, a member of the National nman’s Party. As the wife of a naval surgeon . Balch has seen the world. For a long time she lived in the Philippines She comes from old-time Middle West- ern political stock. Her grandfather was & cotemporary of Stephen A. Doug- las and a close friend of Melville W Fuller. Mrs. Balch hopes to have the solid backing of the Illinots delegation. and is going to make a vigorous cam- PAlgn to become the first lady of the air 1CoDYTIEhE 1078 ) UNITED STATES IN WORLD WAR Ten Years Ago Today, The pay roll of Uncle Sam's nghting S oW amounts to the stupendous | total ot one hundred million dollars w | month. The disbursements to 300,000 | ofticers and men of Navy alone total, | | $17.000,000. * * * OMcinl Washington | doubts very much it President's speee.y on war aims will draw any reply from | [the enemy now, but it mav hearten | Russia. *° * " Support given Presi- fdent's speech by British labor heartens allied camitals ~ London and Paris ap ! plaud his vigorous statements. * « { Shipping Bowrd votes (o expend $1,20n . | 1000 at once at Newport News and ex. | Ltend similar policy to other yards rder to speed up production ¢ ¢ o Kalser, posing an humanity's champion | tells @ delegution of Poles he has al. ways upheld the principle of peaceably co-operation of peoples B o Cosoperation in Bumps, From the Fhiladelphia Tnauirer A standard height for automobile lhumprn 15 new being advocated. A further development of this idea would 1D to Ialat o the helght of podestrians [ being standardized 5o that the bumps [y be standardieed. Let's have tull | aperation, | | v No Santa for Liguor, o the Flabadelnnia Wi And 11 you have a gift boo have heen hesitating to-open 1t uld be well to keep on hesitating When I comes o Hguor these days there am't no Banta Olaua, } ment of the Lea 4 president of the B | draw | the character of the | of the death | tndustiy Film Céhsorship Urged. Striet Federal Supervision De- clared Needed to Protect Youth. To the Editor of The Star: i Because you believe in being fair and | in the freedom of the press, 1 feel con- | fident that you will give me space in which to reply to your editorial crit- | icism of my statement that motion pic- tures, when not properiy regulated, are a school of crime and a menace to world peace. i Your criticism, based upon a very | bricf newspaper repori, assumes that 1 | mentioned Hickman. the brutal young | murderer, as a proof of my statement. | I used him as an fllustration of the | statement of an eminent psycholog st who agrees with me as to the demoral- izing effects of evil pictures upon the young. He says the thrills of the mo- tion picture stimulate discharges of the | endocrine glands and weaken the child | <0 that he becomes subject to the suz- | gestions of the films These suggestions lie dormant for a while, but later, when | called into action by <ome simiiar sot of | circumstances, 1ap into the ehild’s con- | sciousness, dominate his activities aid impel him almost. irras In the debate in New o attention, rely ciman statement that he attonded motion pic- | tures daily, but that though he said he was not nsane, he felt somehow impelled to commit his erimes. i May I cite a few of the reasons which indicate that many people realize th- evil effects of motion pictures upon children? The League of Nations 1924 called the International Film Con gress at the suggestion of its Depart- | ment of Child Welfare, to safeguard the | children from evil motion pictures. At that congress. in September, 1926, Judze Rolict of the Children’s Court of Paris. | in behalf of the Child Welfare Depart- gue of Nations. pre- sented a resolution that in each nation | officcs for control or prelininary cen- <orship should be esiablished to prevent exhibitions of demoraiiz.ng films, In July. 1925, the International Pricon Congress i London adopted resolutions ANSWERS TO QUE STION BY FREDERIC J. HASKIN. The answers to questions printed | here each day are specimens picked | {rom the mass of inquiries handled by ! the great information bureau main- | tained by The Evening Star in Wash- ington, D. C. This valuable serviee i« for the free use of the public Ask anv question of fact you may want to krow and you will get an immediar: reply. Write pleinly, inclase 2 eents, in stamps for return postage. and ad- dress The Evening. Star Informatior Bureau, Frederic J. Haskin, director Washingion, D. C Q. How much money is spent for food in this country in a year?>—J R A Tt is estimated that $22,000,000.- 000 is spent on products that eome {rem grocers, butchers and confec- tioners. tiel Ses is meani by home nomis T. A. D A Home economics Is organized knowledge which treats of food. cloth- ing, shelter and household manaze- ment in their physical. econom social aspects as related to the welfare of the individual. the fam.l and the community. Q Was Fra Diavolo a brigand or a monk?—N. R. A. Fra Diavolo was a2 monk. but was< xplled on account of misconduct. He bocame leader of a troop of Q ceo- Q. When 25 bonk ed in New York City?—H. T D later May nent in mational pobit: blirhed the fust i calling upon a1l nations more strictly to | oy’ 1°G o e enact and enforce national censorship aws and to enter into iniernational agreements for the proiection of young people from the evil in certain motion pictures. Six States, inciuding New Yorl Pennsylvania and Ohio. and 140 cit and towns have so-called censorship laws to protect the young. and no State has yet repealed its censorship law. In 1017, Mr. T. P. O'Connor. the sh Board of Film | Censors, whose salary i d by movie indusiry. the trade against the large number of crime films. In 1925, he renewed his protest and said: “This question of ‘crime’ as a main theme for films has boen further ac- contuated of late by a tendency to pre- | sont stories in which sympatny is_ex listed for the criminals and in wt they are made out to be cither the vic- tims of unavoidable circumstances or | of carly environment and as such to be !held more or | their social delinquencies. loss irresponsible for | There is an invariable tendeney. in such ms to hold up the recognized author- of the law either to odium or to ridicule, a procedure of which the con- stant repetition cannot b2 considered to b2 in the bost interests of society.” Edward A. Ross, pro almost fill ver has there been a generation $0 much in revoli against theiur elders I 1 sel{-assertive, eritical. Thery the arrival of in the boy’s life at least two or three vears stimulation from the films."” A brief glance at the film estimates in the Educational Screen. d a board of fair- ded persons, will convince most people t tures are not improving mora prominent lm porsonazs T that there is a b assented to recently en- films, ane v are consid- 15 not due the business ering stmilar laws. merely to jealousy which Amerrean s undoubtadly away from othor nations fto Amcrica, but to the fact that they as- sume that what they sce in the films represents American life. 1T there a grade of mors their own and resent t! | people shall be brought level America ought to feel responsible for il which she nds abroad. By a Federa! super she exerts over nd meat business. she cou ictures abroad which would feslings aganst us WM. SHEAFE ClHASE Superintend-nt of the Interna- tional Reform Federation c———— Schubert Centenary. Honor This year, 19 centenary of the most remariably ! pastic musical gen over known. Schubert was born in Vienna. and tved there at the same tme as Becthoven. In instances th the musical compositions that Bee- thoven loaked over in his last illny ‘Truly. Schubert has the divine fire.” were his w Schubert was one of the torch bearers at the pageant funerai of the great compaser the year before, !and they rest quite close to each other n the little cemetery at Waring Schubert's Life is the episode of pov- erty. privation and struggle Necessity Was ever at his door. Unlike Beethoven, recognition of his genius came slowly”! His enrly musical studies were desultary. {y and intwition filled the gaps b e » I8ft no tournal ¢ e linked nentlv uns the amut of human emotions and, through the' superelement of muse projecis these with power, sincerity and telicity, Schubest's spring of nspiration was ceaseless. He composed at whitesheat and what came from his facile pen he often tassed aside and forgol, onlv to DLegin anew. In his short, poor 31 years oft living he compased more than 1,000 works. Between his 10 symphonies and the 650 songs. publi:hed and unpub- lished, are interspersed operas. ora- | LOFI0S, CARLALAS. Miasses. SUINE quartets, Plano works and shorter forms of vart ous kinds. OF his svmphonies the greats est are the one € mar and the one in B omimor. known as “the Un fntshed,” strongly gupping and appeal R, salistying abo BKe the famous Venus di Milo, i ity Incompleteness I Bchubert compased sometimes on poor librettos, 1t was becawse he could g6l N better at the time 10 again he 15 cniticlged for diffusencss. 1L was | because his inapiration and («-umm\’ apilled over the brim and went into by-paths. But even the latter are so often full of loveliness Sehubert 18 best dnown to us by his songs. From the particular emotion he awakens (he universal appeal. the gify of the supramely endowed creative wentus. He plucked the heatt from words and wove about them the gosa mer of melody, Schubert 18 distinetly A melodiat with & wealth of harmony And unusual moadulation for background changing ever with feeling andy mood Like Keats and Snheltev i Wi ature his art s the exponent of rae and lmped beauty. And Sehubert lngens OUF memary with peeuliar aftaction oe. Chlse, 1L may be he awakens i the Numan heart subiective states of Kine dred beauty, often latent and sub- merged. He pierces the upper stiatum 4 Q. Is there such a thing as a doms- tic insect?—F. W. A. The honey bee i domestic insect, and s the o known. Q. What will brighten a silver metal- lie h!”-!;: O'B. A. Rubbing with a sponge dipped in alcohol will brighten it 26 men: F-1, in 1918 1920, 3 men: O-5. 1 1924, 32 men: S-4. 19 Q. Where will t ie . Sh convention be held in 1928 -J. §. M A. It will be held in Miami, Fla. May 1. 2 3. Q. How large is the Ukraine?—E. A. Ukraine has a territory of 174 sguare miles, 001.8 di with a population of 26.- | It constitutes the southwes! of Eusopean Russia and is the hest and most densely populated part of the whole empire. It is a great wheat- growmg districi and Odessa is a_mos* important grain-shipping port. There are also large dep: of gold and iroa Q. How United St torical Co Sinc2 high sc! 1 ny school childsen in-the enter the National Cra- H S. 23 pupils in more thaa 17.000 hools, publie, \ hi the United rticipated in the Seconda Oratorical Contest. which nter upon its third 5 onal <cale and its fifth vear national- Th~ estimated total A since 1923 is seven million secondary -cr:;mx ils of 19 years of age or under. Q. Heve the eivil and eriminal laws cnacted in Fussa since the revolution ever been codified?—R. E. D. A These lax re codified in 1922, Q. Waat are les Avoines”?— M. D ine- Indian tribe tion ncar the Wolf B Q. When shoiuld salt b2 added to cookiag? -B. T. C t 1o add salt st pefors 821t nas a Q Whew and how was terranan A terranean errat ocs epoch. befare the f laatic Ocozn, eng alonz a Lne of ia The extent of this ocean diminished gradually du ing the various eras until at pre: the Mediterranean is all that is le Q e monly used refe to black tea served as the Russiane serve it. mot to tez grown in Russia. A recips follows: Take 1 quart of water and add 1 tablespoonfu! of black Cevl India or China tea. Put on in ¢ boiler znd allow to simmer slowly ¢ 3 Place in another vessel a burch of mint and 2 lemon cut in see- tons. Pour in a glass of water and €00% to boiling po with the ation of half_the globe n tea’—V. E. will keep ed hot or Q. When did China and ‘Germany adopt their new flags’—F. M. M. A. China adopted a new flag when she became a republic in 1912 new flag of Germany was adopted at the Weimar convention in 1919 ribe the decoration of the is a six-pointed Tmed by two enzaged triangles. tea ing 2 jewelsd cvs: and surm: ed by Fortress zrad. R sia’>—R. P. M. " A It. was built from the:plans Dom. Trezz: n 3-40, e b2ing faced with granite in the r Catherine II. I: comtamns the Sta Q!?I"Ied’li of SS. Peter 2n ? d time 2s the foriress. It was rebuilt 1753 and altered under Nicholas L Rorval Air Poree ain formed? Give some ation concerning 1t’—R. N tion for defense amalzamatio Scrvice and It s th E > Ar he Roval Fiving Comps Tepresented in the gow oy s formed in Jan control of Forge. as well partments for an air council tary rol tite press reacw maads {or a prompt and eT=: of by »1aas lem. wh ans have act lower valie Members of Cor s of the coun mphis Comm §rasp of the s that it is the respol ederal Governm h the valley ress m other LSSISSIPPL IS A [ the Detroit New should b. e Government needs should b* provi locally and Government _sho be saved dY States contiguous to the & ¥ spith tures of the cons dn these things. the whale cost borne by the Federal Trea The Los Augsles Tumes that “the country should barden of the cost, and Government as such should consummate the plans fo trol ndue infuen to bear by the flood States, and w 1o taxation upo A od for a Nation ™ .o oa A story about the experience of fam- ihes hving along the Atchafalava River Who on the day after Christmas were compelled to leave their homes by broak m the reconstructed levees. told by the San Antonio Express, which ‘hus emphasizes the responsibelity of | the country North, East and West for | what happened “The muddy waters which formed that garden spot into a late morass, and wiped away the and possassions o { brated m s Aside hy ) © Mississipy the slpes of the Rocktes and the Al leghenies, from - Kansas plains and Qiinois prairies The pasition taken by a large maje- 1y of the members of the United States Chamber of Commerce 15 accepted as impartant by the Rloamington Panta- Eraph. The measures whish it wen tons as having been doied nclude the following: “That the Federal Gove erament showid heveatter pay the en tre eost of constructing and matntain- IR WOEKS ecassary to control foods of the lower Misstsippi River That the B L L B AL Of What is material commonplace. peo- Ae and toiches e Iner R of ROKE FOr sueh Awakening and vea liuas o we arve gratetul A Heethovenns centenary of last vear | was eelelrated I every town and hame | let throughout ihe eivibised workd, so i ! AL probability will & siniar homage de Vet Frane Sehubert wha stands se IEh W the niche of fame as civatine autist, OTTO TORNEY SIMON. . Misuissippl River system mee:mesrn:csxdmerz:mx' natural resouress. If less may ha bien made of thess résousces than was possible. that is no fa providencs which mable advantag: Nation. And sources great penl t nomic pk Altention says the Scher and a somt effoct 0n Sizaal = da ons. It s dasedd sole- gable miver subject to agg food condy S 18 1o de mught de se pomt of fortunes m M oequity and ) Scores Critic of Plans For Capital Industry T 1he Nibtae ot I Fridayy ¢ nus Ol ex- prosses the dew carcenate, if Bt se WHO adel o make Waah- x The xdea watens of S TepuEhAnt 10 the os- this genileman Yet N niative from lowa and Aokt de acquainiad with the deawt'- Ml power development of the Mussis: APt At Kenkuk Wheat this project was Degun 1 1910 FTASS WAS SOWING W the Strewts of (hat Town: the ooy systes Was Like that m Topnerville: what ther was of & Bghung astem was httle det- ter AR of whieh Das given way o & thiivig emmunily and & power de Velopuent that & as fne & ught as owr’ Kev Bridge i Georgetown. 1AM Qule would gratity his gests Mmoarverate” et him go after hoee DO allow ane-half of our Union Sta 1 L0 Il while WRNORSES ate packed e sandines it the other st et b N WP those responubie S hah ORI Poves Lo M She madi Wiconsn avenue How about i IMOUING VARS ERAL AR O A o b WL DATIOWE weets® Thea there clurehes W he VietnRy of et Whowe Dells are tolled al wogodly B AL AR gt And can aathing de doee 10 Chngreasonen who o home when here b Wik for tham o d W e ! 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