Evening Star Newspaper, January 10, 1928, Page 8

i {__ With Sunday Morning Edition. " WASHINGTON, D.C. TUESDAY......January 10, 1928 THEODORE W. NOYES. ...Editor “The Evening Star Newspaper Company ininess Office: 11th St, and Pennarivania Ave, New York Office: 110 Eg Chicage Office: Tower European Office. 14 Regent St London, England, Carrier Within the City. SIAE enday Sige 43¢ Per month Rate hy The Eveni dndays) Sunday’ Riar 60c per month AB8e per month o Rate by Mail—Payable in Advance. Maryland and Virginia. $0.00. 1 mo. 00: 1 mo. needed for the first units of the great building group, or for park develop- ments incident to the setting of these structures. Now comes the need of legislation for the new municipal center for the Dis- trict. The Federal bullding program contemplates the eventual taking of the present District Building, which fits into the general scheme of architec- tural treatment, and s, moreover, lo- cated in close connection with the now evolving group of Federal housings. The District must have more space. It is already congested and has been com- pelled to spread outside of its headquar- ters building. Agreement has been reached that the best plan is to pro- vide ample construction area in another part of the (ity, and a site has been tentatively settled upon, on the north side of Pennsylvania avenue between Third and Sixth streets. There, in an | area large enough to accommodate & | roup adequate for the present and fu- | ture needs, it is proposed to establish | a municipal center that will redound to | the credit of the Capital, and will suit- ~!'ably provide accommodations for the All Other States and Canada. Dailr and .1y, $1700- 1 mo., §1.00 220001 ma A 0y Fro $400:1mo. 3 Member of the Associated Press Revising a Policy. ! Prof. Raymond Leslie Buell, research @irector of the Foreign Policy Associa- | tion. comes forward with the suggestion that President Coolidge proclaim. either a message to Congress, | for this coun- | try based on the promise that befors | intervening & Latin America the United States will consult the gov- | ern board of the Pan-American | Union. Prof. Buell adds that the| Tnited States “need not be bound by | the advice of this board: its only obli | tion should be that of consultation.” He | Ppoints out that in response to demands | from the outside world the United | Btates may at times be forced to resort | to intervention. But he does not believe that the United States should remsin | the sole judge of the necessity for in- tervention. Criticism of this country would be lessened, he believes, were re- | sponsibility for making the decmum: divided between the United States and | the Pan-American Union. It is not believed that the American Government will find any great merit in such a suggestion. The policy of | the United States in Central America bas been dictated by necessity, and is | not founded on sentiment. It has been ! pursued not with the idea of escaping . eriticism, but with the aim of protect- ing our own interests and the interests | of foreign nations which, by modern | interpretation of the Monroe doctrine. | must keep hands off. Our interests in | the Caribbean are not confined to the investment of American capital, but ex- | tend to the protection of trade routes | and strategic points necessary for the | pational safety. Our policy has been pursued with the hope that commercial | development and the stability of govern- | ments in Central America and the Car- | fbbean ultimately will void any need | for further interference. Until that time has arrived the United States will | find it necessary, in the face of bitter | eriticism, to enact the role of an em- | battled peacemaker; a role which at dimes assumes the aspect of dictator- 8hip. And its position in the world pro- hibits the United States from seeking to divide responsibility for its actions, | It must choose its own course. { There is not much comfort in Prof. | Buell's suggestion of the Pan-American Union as an agency upon which the | Tnited States may lean for support in | @etermining its pan-American policy. ‘The governing board of the Pan-Ameri- unvmonumdeupufmemnun‘ Becretary of State, the director general and the dipiomatic representatives of the American republics in Washington. Buch a board is not constituted for the Qiscussion or decision of pan-American political questions. The success of the Pan-American Union in the past has been due 10 its assiduous avoidance of political questions. Once it leaves its | chosen field to enter the feld of inter- national politics, much of its value will be Joct. Its aim in the past has been to perfect agreements. It would become 8 enfice medium for disagreement. If the time has come when the American policy in Central America must be dis- cussed by Latin America, let there be called & special conference with that object in view. It would be unwise to Jeopardize the success of the Pan- American Union, or of the forthcom- | g conference of American States in %avans, by attempting to make of + @ther an open forum for the airing of views regarding the merits and de- merits of the foreign policy of the United Btates. B “There 18 perhaps to0 much inclina- tion 1o magnify capita] punishment into ict's activities. Let this plan be adopted quickly, and the steps taken at the present session for the accomplish- ment of this work. Otherwise there will be delay and doubt and loss of money. The experience of the Government in paying a penalty for procrastination in | the matter of taking the Mall-Avenue triangle should cause a determination to proceed expeditiously with a work | that must eventually be accomplished | and were better and more cheaply and | effect done now. Motorist Solvency. Advocates of compulsory financial | liability for motorists will find encour- | agement in the rapid spread of the plan. Massachusetts has rounded out its first year with a drastic compulsory insurance law, which has proved suce cessful from every standpoint, and ways and means are being discussed in many States to adopt a similar law. New York is the latest to take up the cudgels on behalf of the innocent victim of an insolvent motorist's carelessness or recklessness. In a message to the Leg- islature, Gov. Smith urges that a com- mission be appointed to delve into the various means of assuring financial re- sponsibility for every driver of a motor car. The governor was actuated in his request by a report of distinguished members of the judiciary system of the | State, which reads, in part, as follows: Only seventeen per cent of the per- sons taking out motor vehicle licenses in this State carry insurance covering damages inflicted by the motor vehicles operated by them. As prudent and solvent owners are most likely to carry insurance, careless and insolvent own- ers are most likely to be found among the eighty-three per cent who carry no liability insurance. It is a natural re- sult, therefore, and a common expe- rience, that after all the delay and ex- pense incident to a suit for injuries the party at fault is frequently found Judgment-proof and withou. means. In that paragraph is the significant and pointed reason for the enactment of a law for financial responsibility for motorists in every State in the Union and the District of Columbia. The cau- tious and responsible motorist inva- riably carries insurance, but the care- less or reckless one sees no necessity for it, and when the latter type is involved | in an accident the victim, if he is in- jured, pays his own hospital biils, or, if he is killed his funeral expenses are paid by his survivors. It is & regrettable thing that opposi- tion to compulsory financial liability is 50 widespread among various interests. A striking aspect of the matter is that the very individuals who are opposed to the plan would not consider for a single instant being without liability in- surance themselves. The plan is op- posed by automobile interests, because they believe it will offer a sales resist- ance; insurance interests oppose it in some cases because they believe it will eventually be a State proposition; while national motoring organizations oppose it because it adds to the cost of operat- ing an automobile. But the individuals who speak for these organizations are, with few exceptions, possessors of liabil- ity insurance in their own names, prac- ticing, therefore, not what they preach, but what they believe is best for their own business interests. Booner or later every motorist in the United States will have to demonstrate financial liability for accidents he may cause before he is allowed to purchase # license tag. This protection for him- self and others will add but a sma! sum o the cost of owning and operat- ing an automobile, but will do a glant's work for justice on the highways of the country, « Public opinion will not tol- erate much longer the reckless, careless and the insolvent. It will demand, in | these days of teeming millions of auto- mobiles, that they be operated by cau- tious, sober, reliable and solvent drivers. o & pocial event when it should be re- garded purely as &n economic incident. | The Triangle Taken at Last. At last the Mall-Avenue triangle bill has been pasied by both houses of Con- gress and goes v the President for wig- mature, whicn will undoubtediy be giv W it, thus mak.ng it & law, After mal years this project of securng all the lend lying south of Penneylvania svemue between the Boal White 1t w wcoom, ernment will aog hed. The Gov- , by irect purchase ©: by condemnation, every parcel now | ton of President Lincoln, which occur- | private hands and will | remaning n provesd with ine development of the Wwhoit ares £: & general bullding site, Wit park setungs 107 the eparimentsl 854 Duresy SUructure: 108l are U wrise within 3t This 18 w1 of & lung efton of the i It i the direct result ol & Wosd Constraction progrem, mak.ng provisien virtually st one Utne for e existing and o Cietely prospective needs of Ui Unied Blater in the muter of housing for Federal seuvities, Bub for the enact ment of the genersl public bullding Wl wuthonzing U expenditure of fifly willion Gullsrs n Weshingon for such eonstructione. 't is Likely Lthet thie moet Betistectory sction would Lot now Lave been vaken Under tie bl ss it pesses Congress the Government will sl once soguire &l the yemaining Jencs, end may pro weed Vo Tese B8 rapialy B8 le deeme desirable NG necessary Uie present Blructuses standing Upon Uiem Gors A mesn et sll of Lie bulldings will be destroyed el once Certain of tnem will slend for some Ume, perhsps Bor seversl yeare, pending the comple- o ban o pais Lox Lae wew si L ¢ Gurden and the | setisfactory outcome | - Ishould be w strictly nationsl i Oklahoma s & comparatively young | Btate and exceedingly vigorous. Bome | promoters might attain rapid prosperity if it were possible to organize exhibi- tions and sell & few acres of ringside bz, The War Museum Bill. General approval is given *) the plan o establish a war museum in the old Ford Theater Building on Tenth street, which hat been the property of the Government ever since the assassina. Il'd int. A bill W that effect 18 pend- | ing in Congress and has received the | wssent of all o whom it has beer, re- {ferred. The District Commissioners | have indicated their indorsement of the { project, though, neturally, they are dis- inclined W sesume respormibility for Lhe measure if there I any purpose W place wkuy part of the cost of the establish D ment upon tie Listrict. “This mu ttu- | ton, created end maintsined by the | United Buates “The bullding itself 18 of merked Lis- | wric interest. It was & place of public | envertwinment for w long period prior | W tiie tragedy which was enscted with- o0t walls. It was then tken over by |the Government, and, after certain | transformations, became & buresu of | Lk War Depariment, in which the rec- ras of the veterans of the Civil War were kepl. In 1893, during the prog- ess Of pumie Necessary repalis and al- terutions, the siructure collapsed in Tis | purt wnd & score or more of e cler- | cul workers were killed sud many others | | were injured, Afier this sccident the walls were restored W full strength, and the building has passed through va- un | THE EVENING. STAR, WASHINGTON; D. ©. VT‘U'ESD'AY.‘ E EVENING STAR [Others will go at once, as space is|no particular value as & housing for Federal offices. 4 Across the street from this building is the dwelling to which the dying President was taken and where he pass- ed away, mourned by the Nation. That bullding was ligewise later acquired by the Government, and in it was housed for many years an important collection of souvenirs of Lincoln, espectally relat- ing to his death. The “Oldroyd col- lection” has become famous, and now it, too, has been purchased by the United States. It has attracted many thousands of visitors, and so numerous is the attendance that it has been found to be necessary to limit those ad- mitted at one time, owing to the weak- ness of the floors. It is proposed to re- move & part at least of the Lincolniana to the structure across the street, when it shall have been developed .s a mu- seum of war history. This structure is a landmark which should be preserved for all time, and ! the passage of the pending bill, provid- ing for the establishment of a Federal museum in it, is to be strongly urged as & means to that end. e Postal Partnership. In estimating the service rendered to the public by the postal organiza- tion of the country, especially at the time when the volume of mail matter is magnified many fold, it is well to remember that the efficiency of the mails is dependent to a great degree upon the co-operation of the mail- sending public. The postal business is really a partnership between the distributers and the people who write letters and send packages. The latter must do their part. not only by early posting in times of unusual pressure, such as the pre-holiday season, but by careful addressing at all times. A very large percentage of the so-called misi~kes and errors of the Postal Serv- ice i due to inaccuracies and illegi- bilities in the marking of mail matter. Postal employes perform some won- derful feats of deciphering and deduc- tion in the handling of badly addressed mail, but they cannot do the impos- sible. They cannot supply missing words, or names, or numbers. They cannot read the minds of those who drop into the boxes letters or cards that are addressed to the wrong cities. If all mail matter were carefully and accurately addressed the number of mistakes in delivery would be reduced to a small minimum, practically neg- ligible, If every letter were addressed in legible fcript or print, as well as accurately, the chances of perfect de- livery would be practically one hundred per cent. The idea of postal partnership can- not be too strongly impressed upon the mind of the mail-using public. While the postman is after all simply a mes- senger, he must have the right direc- tions or he cannot be expected to dis- charge his errand satisfactorily. The business man who sends his office boy out with a wrongly addressed note cannot blame the boy if he fails to make a perfect delivery. He should regard the mail carrier in the same light and take especial pains to give him accurate directions. — o Eminent actors occasionally read chapters from the Bible in churches as supplementary to the sermon. There could be no better way to call attention to the Bible's poetic beauty as well as its teachings. ————————————— ‘There is never any means of knowing when celebrity will next arrive. The little Thames asserts importance in the disaster news threatening competition with the Mississippi itself. —ete— A successful candidacy on the part of Charles Dawes might bring about a movement in diplomacy to use fewer cigars and cigarettes and more pipes. e For a man who-has no airship Gov. Al Smith manages to monopolize & re- markable amount of the American pub- lic’s admiring attention. e — High costs are illustrated by the fact that a story once in the “dime novel” class now sells for anything from two to four dollars. A country that can least afford a war frequently appears most eager to start one. SHOOTING STARS. BY PHILANDER JOHNSON, Cory Evening. Good Uncle Elderberry sighed, “To be well read I've always tried. Up to the fire I pull my chair And open out each page with care, Just for a comfortable start, I learn the muiders all by heart, And then I read romances queer, | Or of what fights are drawing near, | My eye now takes & promenade | To gather wisdom ready-made— I don my hat and grab my stick And cry, ‘Call me a taxi, quick!’ Take me where Jazz can reign secure, I've had enough of literature!” Ineligibility. “Why don’t you try to assume -~ pre- eminent place in the annals of fame? “What would be the use?” asked Bene ator Borghum. “Even if T bought my- self an airplane I shouldn't be able to fly 1" Rate War. A rate war's threatening, we hear, Htrange possibilities draw near, T guess U'll wait another day. ‘They may be giving things away, Promises, “Didn't you say you would love, honor id obey “Yes,” suld Henrietta, “But if yon and 1 are golng W discuss unkept proms | 1ses, there is w record wguinst you in- | cluding everything from fur coats sond | jewelry o sn engagement for Juncheon " “If there were no such thing as luck,” sald HiI Mo, the Bage of Chinstown, “some of us would never wucceed In crossing the motor-crowded atreet alive” Antidote, | The news depicts & world whose woes | Bring on & gloomy chill—= Ihe mdvertising guyly shows A cure for every i, “De only w-y—lun some folks to he happy,” said Uncle Eben, "1s to be doin' b A Ve Wi L7V 46 1A Vs WA A" A" & BIS (MR ARRMA I, THIS AND THAT BY CHARLES E. TRACEWELL, “What an absurd fashion!” he snorted. “Look at that fellow going long without & hat this weather!” The gentleman referred to wore & neat fur overcoat, sometimes called a greatcoat, well buttoned up to the chin. He had a muffler peeping out at the collar, but at that point his apparel suddenly ceased. Hat he had none. ‘This was what aroused the ire of the person whose remark i8 quoted above. To go hatless in warm weather is one thing, he seemed to think, but to walk bareheaded when the thermomet points to 12 degrees above zero is de- cidedly another. Yet we happen to know that this same frritated gentleman went home that evening, and so to bed with the covers clear up to his chin and with his uncovered head sticking out in the cold of his open sleeping porch! Standing fully clad with the head without covering struck him as absurd, but sleeping with plenty of covers with the head entirely exposed seemed per- fectly all right to him. * K K As a matter of cold fact, when a man is walking he is working up bodily heat, whereas when he is sleeping he is merely retaining, with the aid of the covers, such heat as his body gives off. Thus he is better able, everything else beln‘r equal, to endure the cold on his head while walking than while sleeping. ‘There is nothing silly about the prevailing fashion of hatless males in Winter. It is on a parity with men in the same state of nature in Sum- mer or while abed at any time of the year. ‘There are, of course, various persons who dress for bed as if going on an Arctic exploration, but most sleepers are willing to let the head and hair take care of itself so long as the remainder of the body is warm. Some sleep on porches with snow drifting over the face, yet never think of any necessity for a head covering, but if they happen to sée a young mar in a fur coat without a hat, the sight impresses them as one meriting deri- sion. * ok k% It is merely a matter of tomething new. The unfamiliar tends to draw resentment from all persons, perhaps more freely from some than from most, sz to a more or less equal degree from Al This resentment the novel, while acting as a necessary brake in some respects, also holds back the world on its way to betterment. Recail the ridicule which greeted the first steamboat, the first steam engine, the first “airship,” the first motor car. ‘There was nothing about any of these that deserved to be laughed at. but this was the first reaction of thousands, simply because the thing was out of | the usual. S0, with so small an action as wear- ing a hat or not wearing & hat, count- less persons themselves unwittingly resenting something which, after all, has much common sense in it. and, at the lcast, is a matter of no particular moment. 2 To get right down to it, the present vogue of going without a hat Summer and Winter—particularly in Winter— impresses some as one of the finest hygienic moves of the century. U. S. Barge Experiments Seen As Wedge for Cheaper Rates Results of the Federal Government's experiments in river barge transporta. tion are noted with great satisfaction by the press of the Mississippl Valley and are pointed to as proof of the vast possibilities for improved transporta- tion conditions and cheaper rates through extension of the present experi- mental system. “The annual report of the Missis- sippt Valley Association on results of the operation of Federal barge lines on the lower Mississippl,” says the 8. Louis Times, “is a complete vindication of every argument advanced in the days of the initial struggle to get the enter- prise on its feet. The report discloses the transport of a larger gross amount of freight than in any previous season. ‘The line was not placed in service until 1918. In its first five years of opera- tion it saved shippers $2,214,000. Each season since 1923 it has increased its tonnage and its record of freight savini 10 patrons. In 1926 this saving {oof $1,828,000. In 1927 it topped the record, $1.950,000. Without doubt the $2,000.- 000 mark will be left behind in 1928 Progress is observed by the Portland Oregon Journal, which states that “in a few months new gateways will be opened in many upper Mississippl ports, and a large population will receive the benefit of lower freight rates in and out. At the new ports,” continues that paper, “joint rail and water rates will be established, which will give the lower rates to communities well into the in- terior. “The farm districts will have a lower rate for their outbound products, and a better inlet for the manufactured goods they require, profiting both ways through iarger receipts for what they sell and less expenditure for what they buy.” ‘The journal adds that “Portlanders can scarcely read all this without think- ing of the similar use that should be made of the Columbia River. That great waterway, second only to the Mississippl In America, can, by removal of existing obstructions, be made to serve the same end in reducing freight rates.” xxw “Nobody wants the Government to go rmanently into the transportation usiness on the rivers or anywhere else,” states the Kansas City Star. “But the Government has assumed the obli- gation of doing the ploneering on the rivers, of demonstrating the feasibility of this form of shipping. The obliga- tion will not be discharged nor will the best interesta of the section be served until & complete waterway system shall have been established. Then it will be time for private ownership and ope- ration.” n the subject of sale to & private concern, The Star commenta: “It I8 quite concelvable that the line or lines now hein o,wmn AL a profit might be taken over by a private corpo- ration and continued with success. But what would become of the Missourt Tuver project” What would become of other projeets of a similar kind? What would become of the entire plan of an inland waterway system?” The Government, it seems to the Minnespolls ‘Tribune, “should make its demonstration adequate o the case, whatever inves may be 1 ey o make 1U80. Thin appears to be good bustiess poliey,” continues (hat. paper, “it only to dnsure thut the (lovern- ment's Investment alieady mny be safe- gunrded againat doss. The more thorough and successtul the demonstra- ton Qov- sty whe Ime to turn aver the barge lin Iointerests ™ In support of wi extension of existing faciliticn, the Chicago ‘Tribune declaiey that the present barge routes “could use thiee thes the equipment they now possens,” and (At “they have been Ton o L down twice as much frelght wn they were able to carry” Citing the nearly two millions saved (0 shippers in 1047, the ‘Tribune believes L Hlnols would like to get 1n on thin saving " wnd emphasizes legislation hefore Congress "o require the Inland Waterways Corporation, the Qovern- et organinetion u]lflullur the Mi missippl wnd Warrior River barge lines, to Infliate walerway transporttaion on the Tilinols Fiver, Tllinols waterway, sanitar 478 mn s “Back to Nature” is a slogan often abused. Civilized cannot go back 0 a state of nature as easily as some would have us believe he can. Thousands of years of custom and habit, many of them reaching into the hidden recesses of mind and soul, pre- vent us from calmly turning to the animal life. » Innumerable cults have made the at- tempt, usually with complete failure, making only small bubbles in the gen- eral sea of humanity, which went right along with entire disregard of the in- novators. A few health “fads” have survived, however, and these offer the averags human being the best, and one might say the only way to “get back to na- ture,” with the exception of fishing, hunting and camping, the three first loves of humanity. * ko % ‘To force the hair of the head to full- flll its true mission as an entirely ade- uate head covering, instead of remain- ing merely as an adornment, is to take & short cut back to as much nature as we can stand. Nature, while admittedly “grand,” as the girl said, is filled with ants that crawl over the picnic sandwiches, and many similar inconvenient actions and situations, so that the modern man takes the nature propaganda with a distinct grain of salt. Go without a hat, however, and feel remarkably in line with the universal | mother. She made the hair to cover the head, not primarily to provide work for the barber or beauty parlor. The free exposure of the hair to the air of Summer and Winter stimulates its growth, within certain limits, and tends to harden the entire system, and to make it better resist “colds” and | other respirational diseases. | Attention is called to the fact that | we say “tends.” Like the patent medi- cine label, which changed its “will” to “should.” under the salutary prodding of the Government, one only can say | that exposure of the head tends to make the body resist cold. The curious will see any number of | healthly-looking young fellows of high school and college age, going around without hats this Winter. To us who snuffie along in hats the boys seem remarkably free from colds. “What do you do when you do catch one?” we asked the other day. “Do you | put_your hat on then “Oh, no,” he replied. “I just go on.” Sure enough, we had never thought | of that. They just go on! There is' nothing else to do. To capitulate, at | the first touch of a cold, would be tatamount to saying, “Well, this thing of going without a hat is all right in Spring and Summer, but will not do in Fall and Winter.” The very point of the hatless vogue | is that it is perfectly possible to go without a hat the vear ‘round, without | succumbing to the lure of the hat| manufacturers or giving in to the | cautionary advice of the old folks. The world is so hat-bound that the | manufacturers will still have plenty of | hats to sell, and the old folks are so | “'sot” in their ways that they will con- | tinue to wear them. But one wonders | what the present generation of hatless young men will do when they “grow | Will they think that dignity and a hat go together, or will they manfully stick to their own hair? | | | “There seems to be too much talk | about $300,000 terminals,” advises the Davenport Democrat, which gives as an analysis of the situation: ‘There is no use in engin shippers thinking of the barge lines in terms of the present. The system should be gradually built up with an eye to the future. Cities need not be | asked to provide terminals now, to han- dle a volume of business in sight in 1940, but there should be & co-opera- tion between the cities and the river interests that will have 1940 in mind, | and lay the foundation for extensive and profitable river-borne commerce which, within & few years, may be an important item in Middle West pros- perity and development.” A statement from Senator Bruce, Maryland, that “the Baltimore Associ- ation of Commerce is opposed to the Mississippi River barge line operations,” inspires the argument from the St.| Paul Ploncer Press: “Apparently the formal grounds of | opposition are that the barge linc's| freight rates are below cost, “which is an uneconomic condition not calculated to establish this transportation on a sound and permanent basis’ The Mis- sissippl River region will not be dis- pleased at evidence that, in spite of its troubles, the barge line is getting on. Inland Waterway Corporation re- ports show that the last annual deficit in barge-line operations occurred in 1925. The deficit was $34.519. In 1926 there was operating profit of $219.511 In the first eight months of 1927 the profits were $148.000. Congress will be unlikely to heed opposition based on selfish grounds.” An attack from Representative Bar- bour, California, on proposed mprove- ments of the upper Missouri, which the Long Beach Press-Telegram states is “supposedly on the ground that the decpening of that stream for barge navigation is not practicable from an engineering standpoint,” is viewed by that paper in the light of the fact that “in the Midwest it is claimed that California is selfish, inasmuch as it enjoys cheaper rates on grain, alfalfa and other products that enter the export trade than do Nebraska, Kansas and other Central States. *%s o The Central States are justified in de- manding all of the advantages that can come to them through proper use of rivers and canals, Whatever specific competition California may suffer as a result will be more than balanced by the general good. s UNITED STATES IN WORLD WAR Ten Years Ago Today, Becretary Baker makes spirited de- fense of War Department, appearing before Senate military affairs commit- tee. 8Says no Army of such size was ever raised and outfitted so quickly be- fore. Says we have a good-sized Army In_France veady for service. Admits ordnance delays and uniforim shortages, but nsiats all the men are fully clothed now. * * ¢ Hy a vote of 274 to 134, the exact two-thinds vote tequited, the House of Representatives adopts the Bunan B, Anthony resolution to sub- mit the wolan suffiage constitutional amendment o the State Legislatures atificution, Vote follows stiff fight embers leave sick beds to vol German Newspapers Use vigo ous languaye commenting on Presi dent Wilson war, * ¢ additional 90,000,000 bushels of wheat 1s to be released for export to the allies, although this country's surplus had a1l been shipped by mid-December. American people will e asked to eut consumption (o make up the amount needed. ‘.- he Bitter Truth, From tha Kansas City Biar Following some remark about a mus» tual friend, the latest arrival fram the Windy Oity exclatmed: “That's shoe ingl 1 never go where people talk bes hind my back!" “In that onse,* pald her frien s Cullira o JANUARY' 10, 1928, NEW BOOKS AT RANDOM LG M. mANBmNm. Brand hitlock. D. Appleton & Co. isitaid With 'plnnl. and animal alike, with a head of cabbage no less.than with dome-topped man himself, the process of transplanting offers no ‘points of essential difference. With both it con- sists In an uprooting from the native soil and a resetting within allen ground. In each case success hinges in part upon the ability to find suste- nance in the composition of the fresh rootage, and in even greater part upon the power of plant, or human, to make prompt and full self-adaptation to the general requirements of the new en- vironment. It is upon this familiar and effective figure of husbandry that Brand ‘Whitlock's novel rests for a searching examination into the social alliances set up by way of the marriage rite between the United States and Europe. The story read, its first and strong- est impression is that of the author’s deliberate avoidance of any lure toward a sensational or melodramatic develop- ment such as, under another choice, might have produced a hectic but plaugible account, might indeed have givell explicit but lurid record of many an international marriage. Such, how- ever, is not the author's plan. Rather is he bent upon drawing an essential social contrast between America and France by way of portraying the | marked attitude of France toward mar- riage and the home. In order to meet such plan Mr. Whitlock chooses Dorothy Manning, rich American girl. It is the character of this girl that defines the clear middle ground of the author's purpose, she who pitches the key to his temperate mood of development. Had this daughter of old Manning’s mil- lions been ®spoiled—as she so easily might have been—had she been arro- gant, selfish, temperamental, this would have been a different story. So there is here just a nice girl, pretty, well dressed, not disturbingly clever—just a nice girl whose instinct is that of the natural girl, running toward love and a lover, toward marriage and home and | children. Sounds a bit unexciting, [ | agree. But her role is not to dazzl Her role is to make such headway :s she, and her money. can in her Frenc] husband’s home which is the bulwark ! of family tradition and family pride. The average spoiled American heiress would have left for home within a month, and then there would have beer: | no story. 3 For, in substance as well as in fine | portrayal, this is a novel of French ideals in respect to the family which, as nowhere else, stands the unshakable foundation of French life. S8ince this is | the case and since men are pretty much alike the world over, it devolves upon the women of the French family to carry on in dignity, in sel{-effacement, in total blindness to the seemingly necessary dalliances of the male element in the family partnership, in devotion | to the children who hereafter are to sustain the family tradition and pride. Indeed, it appears that France is an essential matriarchate, its women up- holding the seemliness and integrity of the family life from generation to gen- eration. Propriety of behavior, polished formality of deportment, & complets overlooking of such unbecoming truths as dare to show themselves in the fam- ANSWERS TO BY FREDERIC J. HASKIN. Any reader can get the answer to any question by writing The Evening Star Information Bureau, Frederic J. Haskin, director, Washington, D. This offer applies strictly to infofma- tion. The bureau cannot give advice on legal, medical and financial mat- ters. It does not attempt to settle do- mestic troubles, nor un ke exhaus- tive research on any subject. Write your question ‘rhlnly and briefly. Give full name and address and inclose 2 cents in stamps for return postage. The reply is sent direct to the inquirer. Ad- dress The Evening Star Information Bureau, Frederic J. Haskin, Director, Washington, D. C. Q. How many people are pursuing home study through instruction by mail?—G. A. C. A. According to the Carnegie Foun- daticn, in the year 1924 correspondence schools enrolled a total of 1,500,000 QUESTIONS moreland. It has been by the Lake School of poets snd i ;;l'x‘xted annually by thousands of toure sts, Q. What kind of cheess i Romati cheese?—N. H. A. A. It 1s a kind of hard Italian cheesé somewhat simillar to Parmesan cheese, but made of the milk of ewes, ’QTHOI fast does the hair grow?—@, A. When the individual 18 in good physical condition and the scalp is in good condition, the hair should grow from three-eights to three-fourths of an inch a month until it has the length of 12 to 14 inches, when i's rate of growth is reduced one-half, Hair grows faster in warm weather than in cold. and during the daytime rather than the night. students, who paid for their tuition, books, etc., the sum of $70,000,000. Q. Did Lindbergh have any part in the building of his plane?—T. W. A. The airplane, The Spirit of St. Louis, was built by the Ryan Air Lin Q. When did Grieg. the composer, die? What was his full name?>—N. D. A. The death of Edvard Hagerup | Grieg occurred on September 4, 1907, ;;r‘_:erzln. Norway, the place of his | cratic party held in London in 1903, | when the radical element had a slight | majority ov Inc., S8an Diego. Calif., under the per sonal direction of Charles A. Lindbergh. Q. When was the term Bolsheviki first employed as we use it today?— E. T C. A. Preston _ Slosson, writing in “Twentieth Century Europe,” say “Bolsheviki came into being at a con- ference of the Russian Social Demo- T the more moderate ele- ment.” Q Who is the o versal language Ro>—F. O. A. It was devised by Rev. Edward P. Ro rejects all existing word roots and is based entizely “on the analysis and classification of ideas.” RQ. What are sedimentary rocks?—G. | A. Sedimentary rocks. one of the main petrographic divisions, comprice | all those rocks that are of secondat origin and have accumulated by action of water or of the wind. Q. How many ho p in the last year for which t figures available’—H. 1. ¢ i A. In 1925 in the death registration | area of the United States, there were | x 8,893 deaths from homicide. Q. What is coagulen?—0. A. R. A. Coagulen is a powder discovered Prof. Theodor Kocher of Bern, which instantly causes coagulation of blood when dissolved in water before being applied. lamps were di New Jersey A N., and near t. a tree near th there it any di where the fowls have been equaly weil fed and cared for. Q. Where is land?—B. B A. It is a picturesque moun! , lake, wood and vall counties of Cumberland and Wes the Lake District i C. BACKGROUND OF EVENTS BY PAUL V. COLLINS. A million dollars has been contributed by Mr. and Mrs. Albert D. Lasker of Chicago to constitute the Foundation for research in the diseases | ily circle. The head of the house. to | be sure, makes genuflections and ges- | tures, but he hardly counts except in a biological capacity. Such is the new soil for the growth | of this transplanted American. At first, | like any other pampered daughter of | the rich on this side of the water, she | resents the open philandering of her | new husband. resents the hardly con- | cealed knowledge of the family as to his many errancies. She feels the | shock of awareness that it is her money - that is to rebuild the historic house of ] the Granvallons. But—this is her hus- | band, she is young and in love, she is very much alone in a formal and cer- emonious circle whose charm of be- havior it to a degree fascinating, to a | degree disqualifying for & lone hand to play against. And for a long time | the author holds her to this supine role. but that shows his insight. No girl. | sipgle-handed, could make immediate | headway. if headway at all, against so formidable an institution as Frenca | tradition and pride of family. B after all. this is hard-headed old Man- ning’s daughter. And so, in the course | of time. with a little son’ very much in | her heart, very much in her plans for | his future. the girl proves to be the off- spring of her shrewd American father The gentle but very effective checkmate set up by her for her son against the bulwark of family clauns gives the! reader & genuine thrill of joy. The| game was getting too one-sided for any sort of sporting interest. ‘This novel. centered upon the home | concept of the French aristocrat, em- | bodies the contrasting ideals at this point between France and. say, o own country. It portrays a more p! osophic spirit than our own. & m waywise tolerance toward anything that is assumed to involve the greater good to the family as a whole. It bespeaks an older civilization—maybe a wiser | one. One at any rate that counts cannily the truth of much that we deny by the simple expedient of cover- ing it over. Nearer by and as a me to this end, the story gives evidem of the author's intimate knowledge the theme, of his rightful sense of s curity {n creating & novel of fine sub- stance and of deep interest out of the historic habit of thought that has de- veloped French civilization. A human story. withal, whose movement and sus- pense and outcome command unbroken and enthusiastic Attention from the reader. - ox o GILMAN OF REDFORD Willlam Stearns Davis. The Macmillan Co. Gilman of Redford himself tells the story, though Qiman has been dead many a long vear. It is, however, now and then the office of the competent and inspired novelist to bring the dead to set him upon his daily ive in him the lost art of remembering and recounting the things which, in the flesh, he himself saw and heard and did and sud. Willlam Stearns Davis is one such novelist. Firs: the historian as more than one volume proves. History Appears to have stewed and brewed within this writer till it has taken on the flavors and consistencies of romance. nowadays, the historie novel is proving to be a part of the rich harvest of this man's learning and story-telling power, And here it 1s the New England youth, Roger Gilman, who steps out from days that were making the Revolution inevitable. to tell of the happenings in Boston and roundabout when King Qeorge’s Lroops were quars tered upon the town, In sum, this is the record of those troubled days that Amertean history counts l“l\il\f 1ty great days in the march toward inde- pendence But this story gives just that which history ts hardly able to de- Bver It gives the look of the town ICowas A century and A half ago. Eives the actual surge of public feeling I identities and sets up alive this and LAl famous American, Standing on this or on that side of he contention againat the King and Patlament. ln A word this story setually swims in that indescribable element, i that life iy clement known as literary at- mosphiere. A thousand Little tings some fow outmoded way of life, some form of speech, some turn of oustom, some trick of thought, innumerable things - take thelr orderly places here with the effect of life taelf, of turning tme back 80 that we (oo surge with the feellngs that then 5o mightily stirred our New England forefathers to resentiment, on the one hand, and an Ardent destre for liberty, on the other Read Gilman for adventure, vead it for history, read it for the human stuft that works today just as 16 did (hen. o ———— Excel in Many Fields, Piom the Bo Vanac, Washington says that some women make the beat sctentific farmers, but What are we golng hem. to call e - e | the heart tere—all these e b of maturity—the so-called degenerative diseases. There are two phases of this | news: one is. “Where did the million | grow?” and the other, “How comes Mr. Lasker 10 be £0 interested in the cure of disease, seeing that he is neither & physician nor a scientist A few years ago. he gave $25,000 to be used in re- The first query is answered by the | adage, “It pays to advertise!™ A score of years ago Albert D. Lasker was one of the solicitors of advertising connected | ‘with the agency of Lord & Thomas. Chicago: now he is principal owner of | that agency. He is best known in Wash- ington as chairman of the United States ’Smppmz Board under President Hard- | {lo' he comes to give & million dol- lars for the furtherance of medical | science may remain unanswered. but the need of such & movement as he now | naugurates cannot-be disputed. 1 = * = The public has been grossly misled | by the statistics of lfe expectancy ! which have been exploited through the | press and been misinterpreted. We have | been told that expectancy of longevits | has increased in the last 50 years to that not less than 20 years been added to the “average” life. “joker"—if that term may be used in connection with so serious A& matter— lies 1n the fact that practically all that increase of the average of human jongevity has come through the prog- ress in overcomi a- fants There has been hardly a | provement in the expectancy of matare | hi ns. The man or woman of vears of age has no greater expecta: has | The | | Defore him than had his grandfather | or grandmother at the same age The medical profession has been almost standing still as t0 the diseases of ma- | losis from 1745 deaths per 100 ulation in 1900 down to on 1924. There is a gratifyving ment also in pneumonia from 179.4 in 1900 down to and for diarrhea and eater 1399 in 1900 to only 280 n 1924 provement. the in the OU\P; direc x heart disease numbered 1374 pe: 000 population. In 1924 the n un the same registration area) am g 0 000 populat has been said of the w of insulin Which was discoverad five years ago, and promused or at least retard. diabetes the deaths from diabetes m bered 11 per 100000 popula 1920, 204, and in 1924, N6 wo years—19 strate tiven nificant fact ts that tury diabetes melitus ¥ proved by the general v medical profession. wh: eventually be attrib: specific, msulin, The number of deaths melitus 1n 1923 was B while in 192 6.8t & period to generalize comparison: from 1913 to 1923 there was no o provement whatever. on th ihere was a greater mortality tht in 1918 Ther NO improvement is ndicitis, Cirrhasts of the hver caused 2 10 14 deaths, & Quarter A and nOw causes from 93 to per 100,000 population There is an improvem whole, fram 1 7193 de 100000 population 1,293 W 19, b Practically all N infant martality sulile Detlerment iy TRIOTY (iseases, parily offsetting the de alion as 1w circulatory troubles. especially m (e heart and lver . ™ ted 10 the new | O 000, oted ¢ has e thoush there = Far be it from a mere laviman to ATOMPL L0 Criticiee the experts of learnad Professions, but we have heard so muen A% to the greal progisss i medical knowledge since the development of | bactertalgy and the germ theary of | disease Lhat the statistios of the com- | paTAtive UGty of the QNG to overs | come disease o the whole weites the u\*my A% 10 why he learnad dovtars point with pride 10 the X-ray as a miracle, 10 Pasteurs And Listers demonstiations i bacs | teriology s revolutionary, and 1o the Identification of (he germs of tew dis SRI0s DEMEEED WIangly diagnosed. and to improved hygiene, meluding amproved plumbing, inproved santtation of mik And water and of air i sleejung quars i SRR | And we all ) | Were accomumogat lin the past Lasker | began to add the score more of is biblical “threescore years and assure himself that De- verage man” he could not die ver his bump of P ve been poir sults of research proving that animal live t0 an age seven times the period of reaching maturity. hence man. who is not (scientifically) recognized as “ma- ture” until he is 20 years oid. is en- titled to live to a ripe age of 140 years. wanted 10 Deleve that oplimistic estimate! - xxw e of the greatest taught odern research of is that practically all infection comes from per- sonal contact between humans. ec- on was formerly charged against con- t with books, moner. furnishings, etc.: today it is attributed rather to contact with articles recently moistened h in saliva, su as drinking cod. towels and—kisses cleanliness is recognired as he important a o hygiene: D who grossly neglect the b sist in lving in despite washed. Also U spise fresh au » On api s 1 amina even of shadow—{ood “unclean” Moses of hygiene. A: old Romans constructed sgeduc N Pure water to Rame from of 30 or more Ruometers: the ancient aqueducts remain to thus day. resque and impresve ng the antQuity of Rome was Wh eve e epidemic caused dy re of ttation eoet w diabetes | Deyond e ago Prof. Muher there Al greaier veasan whet we rewlise PRIEAY, JSARRY 4t reased It ceun oy W ovews Unfortunaies LI et cuuse of Al these and 0ihe TONK degrierative diseases wh . COrey Ot over INON every year ace SUH obweure, > There s mueh asuming thal faal Infovtions fam diseasad tonsls, woe- BOds And pus sockeds of tected tev i) AV Cause & o fam of k\u-\uu-\; * %t The danger haem wied oot i cann N noredt. that he HTeAse I soume of the ohroaie i S B due o whang hadies of hfe 1@ TSBE O nRtrine disturdances Ouerfvading or underfeeding, o an e Properly selovted divh. The rematy bes 0 periadical wedival examination for the saily deleviion of all sdecure and naidions cases of ilness, With & view 1 Prompt treatment o (NI 1020, Ax Padd ™ Coiimed