Evening Star Newspaper, January 17, 1928, Page 8

THE EVENING STAR, STAR |celvable motive for the crime. The child | receiving public accepts the results as <4 was not kidnaped for ransom. The im- | assured in advance, for the barrier of Ppulse to commit the flendish deed was (doubt has been broken down by the apparently spontaneous after he had |achievements of the past quarter cen- HE EVENING With Sunday Morning Edition. WASHINGTON, D.C. U NEW BOOKS ANSWERS TO QUESTIONS AT RANDOM ] ,TUESDAY..... January 17, 1928 THEODORE W. NOYES. .. .Editor T Star Newsy r The !‘\-prnlngnu tar Newspape Company Ave, Cast 42nd ‘St Chicago Office: Tower Building. European Office: 14 Regent St., London, England. Rate by Carrier Within the City. The Evening Star 5¢ per month The Evening and Sunday Siar (when 4 Sundays) .. 80c per month The Evening and Sund v (when 8 Sundays). ~65¢ per month The Sundav Star. . ... 3eper copy Collection made at fhe and af each month Orders mav be sent in by mail or telephone. Main 5000, e by Mail—Payable in Advance. Maryland and Virginia and Sunday....1¥r., S Iy Ney All Other Stat Daily and Sunday..1 yr. Daily only Suncay only . Member of the Associated Press. The Aseociated Prees is exclusively entii 0 the use for republication of all news Piches crmlited to it or not otherwine cred: ied fn 1his paper and also the local news published heremn A1l rights of publication ©f spesial dispatches herein are also reserved. Firebugs at Work. Although Washington is a city of comparatively small fire losses, it has always been felt to be the part of ‘wisdom to keep it amply provided with means of firefighting. The well equipped | and large fire department is an insur- ance against loss, a preventive agency that fully repays the cost in terms of fires that do not develop beyond the stage of initial ignition. { The experiences of the past few | hours, during which Washington has | been the scene of an unprecedented se- Ties of separated and evidently incen- diary fires, fully prove the value of the Capital's extensive, well manned and ably directed fire department. Even as it was, the situation required assistance from outside of the District. With fires occurring at brief intervals during the night. each calling for numerous pieces of apparatus, it was necessary to sum- mon aid. The local department was competent to cope with any one of these outbreaks. or with two or three together, but with half a dozen blazes occurring within a space of four or five hours, any one of which might, with neglect, spread to encompass a wide area, the entire local department was brought into service and reserves of protection were necessary, That these fires were incendiary is indicated by clear evidence. Extending 1 inflict a heavy loss upon the Capital would have been revealed. The highest credit belongs to the | surance against nced. It is a guarantee members of the local department for their services rendered during these past few hours. When called upon for- Tepeated responses to alarms, and to frequent shifts of station, working with the growing belief that a firebug was 8t large, they labored most efficiently. Bome of them were severely injured in the earlier fires. Fortunately no lives have been lost. and, although the prop- | building association, should be in the erty damage is in the aggregate con- sidersble, it is by no means as heavy | count,” as would have been the case had any | regularity. one of these blazes gone beyond control. A Radio Triumph. Chalk up another triumph for the radio. It has brought together two brothers who have been separated for twenty-nine years. A kind friend pre- sented Isadore Gershberg of San Pran- cisco with s radio receiving set for Christmas. Isadore immediately be- came an ardent fan, sitting up until late at night, striving to reach new and distant stations. On the 8th of Jan- vary, while idly playing with the dials, he whispered excitedly to a group of friends, “I have got New York.” Imagine his amazement when out of the loud speaker came the following: “This is the missing persons’ bureau of the New York Police Department. Among those reported missing is Isadore Gershberg, forty-seven years old. Dr. Jacob N,X Gershberg, his brother, is seeking him.” And now, after burning up telegruph and telephone wires between San Fran- | eisco and New York, the two brothers ere reunited in the latter city and | reminiscing over the cireumstances that | parted them when lsadore joined the | United States Army and Jacob went to Burope 10 study. The radio was not | even thought of when the two brothers lost track of each other, and little did they dream that the new-found method | of (oymmurication was 1o serve, in later | Years, a5 the connecting link. Jucob in New York had caused the messages | 10 be sent out night after night, but it | 16 & striking eoineidence that lnadore | Wwes able o Teach out across the eon- | tinent and receive the gladsome news | of his brother's search. More power | the reai! . -ore Precident Coolidge is demonstrating | that & mission of good understanding can be wccomplished by & statesman as well as an svistor, e Another Fiend Caught Another flendish erime has been olved by the arrest and the confession of w.man who killed «nd dismembered | Mich. | 8 cnlid of five years at Flint The body of the child had been found in & shocking eondition of mutilstion ond posses Were sesrching the country- side for ne siayer when suspicion fastened upon & repulable residgent of & newrby own in consequence of the Meptification of his motor car as one thet had been observed near the scene of the crime, When Laken he wes rec- ogried by & man who assisted him in pulling the car out of the mud, and when eontronted with evidences of bis QUL he wcknowledged the shominable deed. After bis wirest public fury sgaiist him developed wnd it Whs neces- sary Lo spirit lim ewey W e wecurity ©f tie Blale penitenliny There 15 & suggeston that the man is mentally rresponsible, ‘Ihere is, indeed, ® hint ip his eonfession that brooding pover the Hickman stroeity in California ALY W6 Wias. Thas WM 0 b “{than life imprisonment, insane imita- ) |to spare the fiend from the maximum terest-bearing security. The yield from this security, if added to the additional all the way from Tenth and B streets regular saving, which should be eon- to Fourteenth and W streets, they are | tinyed, will, in another period, yleld suggestive of a maniac purpose rather |sufcient for a larger investment. In than a calculated attempt to cause & five or six years the accumulation of in- general conflagration, unless the motive | terest, thus put out itself at interest, was that of robbery under cover of the | together with the capital, adds mate- general excitement. Had these fires all | rially to the volume of investment. been started within the business area Five dollars a week thus set aside by a and at about the same time, within & | man at the age of twenty-five will, when space of two hours, & plain attempt 10 | he is forty, produce a fund of several systematic saving is a duty; that it can taken the little one into his car with the intention, he avers, of taking her home, although as a fact she was in sight of her home at the time. His con- fession is inconclusive on this point. Michigan has no capital punishment law—has, indeed, had none for many years. The utmost penalty is imprison- ment for life. Thus the insanity plea wiil in this case not avail to lessen the maximum punishment that might be inflicted. The most disquieting feature of the atrocity is the suggestion that this horrible deed was the result, through example, of that other crime in California, still fresh in public memory. It is not to be doubted that these bizarre and flendish deeds prompt one another, yet, although in this instance there can be no grealer punishment tion should not be rated as an excuse penalty provided by law. —t Thrift as an Insurance. Thrift week opens in Washington to- day. As the result of effective organi- zation, stimulating meetings will be held during the period, and the lesson of sav- ing will be taught in many forms. The banks, in full co-operation with this movement, will distribute printed matter to serve as a guide to householders in regulating their expenditures, in reduc- ing their affairs to system with thrift as the keynote. Systematic savings are the foundation of fortunes. Thoughtless expenditures, indulgence in luxuries that are beyond the range of the family purse, are the cause of need in later years. With a very few exceptions it is possible to make some small saving, weekly or | monthly. Those exceptions are due to | the fact that the family income is no more than adequate to meet actual ne'eds, ‘The cases where the income does not meet the needs are those that organized community charities discover and treat. Thrift does not mean stinginess or parsimony. It means the care of ex- penditures to make sure that they do | not lead to debt or, better, that they lead to saving. Not many people ap- preciate what has come to be known as the magic of compound interest. Sys- tematic saving is an invocation of this magic. A small amount set aside weekly in the form of a savings ac- count drawing interest will, in a short time, yield enough with its accumulation to permit the purchase of a sound in- thousand dollars working for him in regular dividend yielding. It is an in-| against dependence. It is & safeguard against disaster. Systematic saving means some sacri- fices. It means fewer indulgences in unprofitable pleasures. It does not necessarily mean hard, miserly grinding, with denial of everything but the bare necessities of life. The passbook of & savings bank, or a | possession of every family, a “live ac- faithfully attended to with ‘Thrift week will perhaps teach these lessons to several thousand Washing- tonians who have not yet learned that be accomplished without suffering or stress; that it can become a pleasure, and that if continued will mean eman- cipation from anxiety and from suffer- ing in years to come. —tra e Sclentists speculate on clashes that| may occur in the solar system, while plain, practical persons are trying to avert dissensions with earthly neigh- bors. —————————— New cures are discovered every day. Yet the doctors and the professional nurses manage to keep busy. ———— | Discussion of capital punishment tury. With human flight achieved and now constantly practiced, with radio linking millions together in simultaneous im- pressions, with the motion picture cou- pled with the radio flashing upon the screens in homes, with the voice and the vision of the speaker reaching the pression, truly, with all the sophistica- tion that these successive accomplish- ments have engendered, there is reason to pause to express appreciation of the miracle-working services of the men of science. o Fire Engine Right of Way. Maj. Hesse is to be congratulated on his announcement that he will take punitive action against motorists who fail to give the right of way to fire ap- paratus. Stirred by the mounting list of casualties, the chief of police has asserted that henceforth a vigorous campaign will be waged to bring for- cibly to the attention of motor car drivers that the regulation specifically states that upon hearing the siren of a fire engine all motorists must pull up to the curb and stop. Motor cycle police- men will be sent on fire runs to nab recalcitrants, and from now on motor- ists may expect no leniency if they are arrested for infraction of this funda- mental regulation. It is earnestly to be hoped that the courts will co-operate to their utmost in this desirable campaign. Nothing can be accomplished if violators are let off with small and insignificant fines. This regulation is framed to pro- tect life and to prevent the loss of property. It is no trifing matter. Lives {of firemen are placed in jeopardy by stupid motorists. There is absolutely no excuse for the driver of an automo- bile to disobey the rule, and no sym- pathy should be wasted on him in court. Sirens of engines can be heard for blocks. Any one with normal ears can- not fail to hear. and no one without normal hearing should be allowed a per- mit to drive. Fire engines are heavy and cumbersome vehicles. They are manned by experts and are sent out to save life and property. They must be driven to the scene of the conflagration with all possible speed, and nothing must be allowed to interfere. ‘Washington motorists, however, have complled an unenviable record in stub- bornness, stupidity and carelessness. | Fatal accidents have been numerous and the entire city is aroused. Maj. Hesse's campaign, if carried to its logi- cal conclusion, will end a distressing and dangerous condition. —————— An aviatrix “hops off” and after a few days is not mentioned, her loss being taken for granted. The airplane promotes enthusiasm and at the same time compels a cold-blooded attitude toward disaster that could not be averted. ——e— ‘The introduction of professional fun- makers into public ceremonials cannot overwhelm the occasion with a jocose spirit and must eventually result in en- haneing its solemnity. B — Even in an electrocution, the suffer- ings of the innocent bystander become more and more important. —te—a— ‘Traffic problems extend from the highways into the competitive arena of big finance. SHOOTING STARS. BY PHILANDER JOHNSON, Midseason. When January's on his way And good old Peb is drawing near, We miss the bloom of Yesterday And seek Tomorrow's budding cheer. Between the memories of the past And future celebrating, To Love and Hope we still hold fast, Just waiting. There is an hour for song so light. There is an hour o breathe a sigh. (n patience we must watch Time's flight, | Awhile, when it seems vain to try, We know the skies will smile again Our sullen cares abating. And 0 we pause twixt NOW and THEN, | Just waiting. No Band Wagen. ieaves the public to suffer, even after the execution is over. ——— et Television Advance. Step by step advance is being made toward the goal of the transmission of light and sound rays simultaneously so | that the voice may be heard and a vision of the speaker may be seen at a distance. For a number of years in- ventors have been at work upon this problem and have made impressive gains, Just now s announced the suc- cessful demonstration of a device that rends both rays by radio from a cen- tral station to homes. In this test, | which was conducted at Bchenectady, | by means of special recelving sets, three families were enabled o see and to hear & speaker at the central station, It is evident that if three can hear and see by this process an indefinite number can do so AL present the device projects a “speaking” picture shout three inches square, but the enlargement of this | field of reproduction is easily possible end there is no reason to doubt that Ife-zized vision will follow. 1If so, the or@inary radio service will be remarka- | | bly improved “The practical utility of television s & matter of speculution. It 1s not logi- | cal o doubt that it will be put 1o def; | Inite usefuliiens apart from mere enler- | twinment, Bpace Lmitations are no longer regarded in Uhese developments. ‘The Lelephone hus spanned contnents and oceans, ‘The radio has distenced the wire-borne message, It s now al- most & commaonplace 1o receive photo- Sraphs transmitted by ray-utilizing mechanism over several thousand miles within & few hours from the time the camers tlicked. “Ihat wil these tnventions and devices wre making for & fuller public under- stending it & commonplace of deduce [Uon, Mepested demonstrations thst | nitiess nuimbers may receive Lhe same Mnpressiung slmultanecusly without re- (emid W distance huve prepared Uie [ In campaign shoutls “Have you decided whether you will be & wet or a dry?" “No,” answered Senator Sorghum. “But Il say this much. A wet has a Mttle the worst of the political argument in feeling politely obliged to evade publicity.” | Eany! ‘We said the world was going wrong. We could not understand its guile, An aviator came along And solved each question with a smile. Jud Tunkins says a good listener 1s & man who will pay four dollars a seat for a punk music show. Delicate Question. “Mow many miles an hour can you 80 “It isn't for me," sald Mr. Chuggins, “1o try to take so delicate & decision out of the hands of the traffic cop.” “A professional philosopher,” said Hi Ho, the sage of Chinatown, “would rather think than toll. 1t is much easler for the public that pays to check up on work than on thoughts.” A FPolitieal Principle. | someLimes 4ay, Or else suppressing solemn sobs, I'm always for the man who may Provide my relatives with jobs. “it » woman takes u dislike Lo her hushand,” sald Uncle ben, “his worst pupishment 18 rememberin’ When he used tn think he was some kind of & Homeo.” - s he Modern Impossibi he Lietrult News. o o . What we wonder about, & e, whether the United Btates Geograph- ical Burvey party which has found & new river, & new Jake and » new vol- cano in Alsskw ever has much trouble Wt home Nnding & space Lo park, e O 9 Whittling ve, Sawing. Fiim e Baston Transcrint illy. ¥ world for marvels W come and each suc- cessive ndvance is halled with diminish- ing wonderment. Radio science 1a mak- e UMM P a8 e e After Prestdent Coolldge has sald that he wants time o whittle n Ver- mont It seems preity rough o by o force him 1o keep o sawlng wood In Wishiuston, . [} listener and the beholder in one im- | THIS AND THAT ‘The calm demeanor is the ideal in such a civilization as ours, A young man beginning his career could adopt nothing that would help him more than a serlous visage, a cool manner and an unhurried way of talk- ng. Many excitable, hastily spoken chaps make good, it is true, but their success comes as a part of their peculiar temperament. By and iarge, the easiest way is per- haps the one outiined, in which the as- pirant for fame and fortune takes life v, as if not anxious about himself, arles Lindbergh is the premier ex- ample of this attitude. Although his smile is ever ready, his prevailing countenance is one of serious reflection. His whole manner might be deliber- ately imitated by countless youths of the land. Men are all the time imi- tating some one or other, so why not a worth-while hero. the only man in the world brave eriough to face the Atlantic alone in an t\lrplaue?‘ * % ‘The necessity for the calm demeanor grows upon one as he sees its contrary in business and other activities. ‘The silly outlook upon life, that sees only something to laugh at in every- thing. is distinctly the antithesis of the calm demeanor. The latter is not so much a racial trait, although some may be inclined to think it so, as it is a temperamental one, perhaps. very nature of the man himself: yet it benefit which a man derives from donning a warm cloak to protect him- self from the winds of Winter. The wind against which one seeks defense in the serious face. the cool manner, and the unhurried way of talking, is the 11l wind of opposition. If struggle did not form so large a part of human living perhaps it would not be necessary to put on anything. but to be entirely natural. ‘The truth is that life is a contest, somewhat modified from that of the jungle, but none the less a battle, car- ried on with subtility, rather than with crude force, except under certain con- ditions and ‘at various times and places As a general thing, the life one leads under civilization is a modified conte: in which some are happily gifted nature. but others must adopt certain protective devices for themselves. * ok ox % It must not be forgotten that nature includes all; that civilization is but a part of nature: that one does not have to return to the jungle to go back to nature. Nature is not affronted at ci ilization. but accepts this state of a fairs as part of herself. It is but another way of living, as a rose is Jjust another form of flower. In this civilization, of which we self confronted with a very personal problem: How to get the most out of himself, and to do it in the most sensible, pleasant way. Early or late, he will come to the conclusion that one of the most direct methods is that of the proper approach of others. He will get the idea, sooner or later, that only musical geniuses may remain excitable with profit to themselves. Other men and women must calm It lies deeper than racial ties, in the | may be put on with much the same | are all part, many & man finds him- BY CHARLES E. TRACEWELL, themselves down to the universal level of well bred approach if they are to get the most out of life. Perhaps this may seem a strange way to put it, to some, but a little reflection will prove 1t coryect, we believe. EE Let no one think that the calm, easy demeanor 1s an easy thing to acquire. For one man who is born to the lelsurely manner, such as Will Rogers, there 10,000 who get excited when they start to tell a story. The excitable man realizes that the other fellow is not particularly inter- ested in the story, and he thinks that it he is to get it off at he must make up for it by a hurried, explosive telling, something with a “punch” to it. But contrast this, if you please, with Rogers' own inimitable way of teliing a Joke. Consider, too, the unparalleled “hit” made by the two black-faced comedians with the slow drawl of one of the team. To be deliberate about what one has to tell, whether it is a comlic story or & suggestion that will net the firm a mil- lion dollars, is to deliberately inform the other by one's very attitude that one thinks well of himself. * ook K Thinking well of one's self, without conceit—this is one of the secrets of self - advancement. To show self - ap- probation ruins the attitude, to some extent, but simply to show the world | that you think you amount to some- thing is another matter. “To think well of one's self, without conceit—it cannot be done!" some one objects. It can be done. however, and is being done by all those who carelessly plod forward in the chosen march of business, profession or what not. The calm approach, as if one means what he says, and has put some thought upon it, is a certain gateway to esteem from others. One gets no- | where by hurry and flurry, hand-wav- i ing and spluttering. the calm, unexcited manner than by the “pep” route. Bad manners leave a | bad impression, no matter what the | emergency. * ox ok % | ‘There is nothing more pleasing in modern life than to watch a real busi- ness man, one who gets things done | { without des ding that he be called |a “go-getter,” handle himself in an im- | portant conference. He does not get red in the face, wave his hands and begin to yell. No matter | how important the project he wants to | put over, he discusses it in a sane, bal- | anced manner, as befits a serious prop- | osition. | Even the time factor cannot hurry him. He puts himself out for no on but impresses every one with the im portance of his word: nd of himself. | He is the real execu 3 | Most of us are not executives: but we can adopt one of their sterling points | of character if we will deliberately cul- | tvate the calm demeanor, composed of equal parts of seriousness, coolness and | lack of hurry. | "Be t0o serious rather than foolish, too calm rather than too excited, too | Sslow rather than too hurried, in your i dally relations with the world, and reap the harvest of respect and honest gain Comedy In the mayor's chair at Newburyport, Mass, proves acceptable to the rest of the country as a relief rious problems that have.been claim- ing the attention of newspaper read- ers. though his theory that “the winners deserve the gravy” is not new in politics. it at least is declared to be refreshingly frank. The cause of Mayor Gillls' elevation which says that “the women did it and explain: 'As any soldier know women are the silly sex as far as gobs are concerned. The best of them will desert a fine, upstanding cannoneer or doughboy in favor of some shallow, worthless fellow in a seaman's jacket, with an alacrity and light-headedness that is positively disgusting. The legend that the sallor has a sweet- heart In every port is an understate- ment. had a girl on every street corner in every port of these United States, * * * Mayor ‘Bossie’ Gillis' official behavior prom! to be deplorable, but he will get away with it. For the women of Newburyport, being like the women of other towns, will forgive him on the ground that he is picturesque.” ‘The mayor's application of the “gravy” idea inspires the tribute from the Lincoln Star that it “marks him s an honest, frank, outspoken, two- fisted mayor, much different from most of his cotemporaries,” but that pa- per warns that “before copying his di- plomacy it is safe to assume that most mayors are going to wait to see the outcome of the next election at Newburyport.” ‘The Albany Evening News remarks: ‘As the train boys say, ‘he is cooling and refreshing ' at a contrast with the traditions of Newburyport! He is & sort of ‘Mickey McGuire Him- self’ To the Ann Arbor Daily News, however, the “gravy” theory hardly is & joking matter. s servi within reasol this paper. “When it s carried to ridiculous extremes that Mayor Gillls is carrying it its benefits may be ques- Uoned. litical patronage can be dangerous, In the wrong hands, and it 1s In the wrong hands when it is v for the settlement of pr;wnll grudges. - “He occuples & position which many persons at some Ume or other wished they held,” observes the South Bend Tribune. “The citizen who tells him- self, ‘Now, If 1 were mayor of this town—-—'_ when & trafic man gets rough or some ego-rufing act is com- mitted by & public servant, may read personal vindication into the election of Andrew J. Gllls. Few men, how- ever, could bear grudges ovet minor matters long enough to wreck revenge with the thoroughness displayed by Mr. Gillis." “Highly undignified, certainly, and robably reprehensible.” asserts ‘the kford Morning Star; “yet, withal, for those who do not have to live in Newburyport, very amusing. The ac- fact Is Lhat ‘Bossy' 1s just doing in rather lowbrow way the very thing that most administrations do I & covert and dignified manner, with sol- emn protestations about the public jood, with the same end In view iowing out the anti-administration folks and putting in their friends “AL soems ws IF he s, lke w famous admiral, Just beglnning o fight”" re- marks the Metnphis Commercyial-Ap- peal, WIth the added comment on the mayor's antipathy o aristocracy’ “Ob- viously the soclal seanon in Newbury- port 1 1ot golng 1o be such n howling suceess, and It may be that the wear- Ing of a dinner coat will become an offense punishable with dischage.” The earlier experience of the mayor I belig wrrested for selling ganoline he had been unsuccessful in ob- talning & permit tnapires the sugges- Han from the Utica Obaerver-Dispatch: “There must be & good deal o 'mllly for (he ‘gus-statlon mayor’ at hat. 11 he has u strong antipathy for permits, lleennes and the multitudes of rules, vegulntions and red tape which on dolng work, then ¥ to his arm. A !md deal tape, I wnd periits wie L wlds W monopoly apecial privileges, snd have little or 1 nee W ‘protecting the people’ ‘e ver a0 often e seys the B4, from the tragedies and intensely se- | is discovered by the Kansas City Post, | In 1917 and 1918 every saflor | “Political patronage | says | the R Welcome Light Touch Is Seen In Antics of “Bossy” Gillis | “there comes & chance to rise above the humdrum and hokum of I augh at something or somebody. The nearer we are to the situation of mirth, the hetter, but even if the distance is | great, there is no matter. | the community of Newburyport. | mayor of that burg Is just now pro- | viding both misery and mirth—the one | for his home folks and the other for | the reading public. * * * Like Artemus Ward's kangaroo, Gillis is for the mo- ment. a ‘most amoosin’ cuss’ b ys the Portsmouth hese early days of 1928 are se- | rious and weighty "days. There is | Mghting in Nicaragua, there are seri- | ous doings In Congress, there are por- | tentous public problems without end. The air is overgrave. And into this ‘Bosey’ Gllis. He provides the comic life less tense " A review of the mayor's activitles is | presented by the Texarkana Gazette, | With the cheering words: “We offer | the season’s greetings to Mayor Gillis. lighter vein, to be sandwiched in be- tween the stories of Nicaraguan battle | and congressional cables.” UNITED STATES IN WORLD WAR Ten Years Ago Todey Senate opposes shut-down of indus- tries, but Fuel Administrator Garfield signs the order, declaring our allies’ and Army’s needs require drastic action. Country as a whole protests strongly but will aceept the decision. Governors of various States patriotically respect edict | without reference to the wisdom of it * * ¢ Ina statement explaining the act, Garfleld says the most urgent thing and our allies. Says literally hundreds suil because (heir coal buukers are empty, * ¢ ¢ Worst weather yet for the A. E. F. In France. * * * Con- gressman Tinkham tells House that allies expect no military decision before 1919 or 1920 and they are relying on the American Army to turn the tide of war against Germany, * * * A mutiny among submarine crews at Kiel German naval base, 1s reported in which 38 officers are said to have beer killed. Understood that the men ob- Jected to bel drafted for submarine duty because the number of U-boats re- turning to German ports is decreasing monthly. * * Naval experts say that Germany cannot afford to divert her submarine campaign to send U-boats to American waters, as has been rumored. e To Be Avenue Worthy of Dignity From the Baltimore Sun, Penusylvania avenue fn Washington, as envisaged by Maj. Peler I'Enfant and the founders of the clty, was to be & street fully worthy of its dignity as & connecting link between the Capitol and the White Howse. The architectural rhortcomings of the thovoughture wre not the only tnstance of the way tn which the evolution of Washington has strayed from early plans, But they constitute wi abervation wWhich can be, and steadily s belug, corrected, President Coolidge’s signature on the bIL wuthorieing $25,000.000 for the pur- chise of property on the south side of the Avenne, from the Hotante Garden 1o the Treasury, tn evidence of this ‘The me fs coming when Pennsylvania venue will be, i 1ts bullding as well an In e width and sweep, one of the fnest streets tn the world at s all 1o the good. Yet the reflection cannot be downed that if the ground soon o be acquired had been bought by the Covernment & century ago something like three ciphers would probably have been omitted from s purchinse pice ..o Seein’ Is Helievin', Fram W Bostun Traus g Heprosentative La Quradia learned w valuable lesson by taking & (ip on | submarine. Porhaps some other ool wresslonal " orators would underge hgnee of heart It they paid & visit to fangies of Nicoragun | Enthusiasm can be shown better by | So there's | | May he continue to provide news in a | in hand is to get supplies to our troops ' of ships loaded with war goods cannot | LG M. OIL! Upton Sinclair. Albert & Charles Boni ‘The long story ends like this: “They may grow up to be happler, if men can find some way to chain the black and cruel demon which killed Ruth Wat- kins and her brother—yes, and Dad also; an evil power which roams the earth, crippling the bodles of men and women, and luring nations to destruc- tion by visions of uncarned wealth, and the opportunity to enslafe and exploit labor.” ‘The story itself from the first word moves straight forward toward the ultimate pronouncement already given. It is, therefore, by intent, a concrete demonstration of the economic injustice that permits the wealth of the world to collect in the hands of the few, while an overwheiming majority live below the level of bare security and far below the | level of any degree of freedom and coin- fort. “Unearned wealth” is the familiar war-cry of Upton Sinclalr and those of like mind with him. The free largess of the carth--oll, coal, water, land even, like sun and air-—belongs in equal met ure to all. OF. so these say. It is labor | itself—the hard hand of toll, the bent | back of the burden bearer, the aching and wearled muscles of the workingman | —that converts this natural wealth to | the thousand®iaily uses of man. There- fore, as siraight across as the clear logic of the matier can send it, do the | | rewards of such tremendous industry belong to the laborer. What are the | | facts? The facts are that the working- | men are but the tools of the tremendous | enterprises that center upon the natural resources of the earth. These are but | pick and hammer and spade, but wheel | and pulley and the other whatnot of | material production. with just about enough of reward to keep them keen and sharp—as tools should be. As matter of actuality, it is the few who draw so abundantly from the earth's| treasure chest. It Is these who organize | and plan, who find the wherewithal, who direct the great movements and. finally, who gather in the rewards. Such | & system, if it be a system. is fraught | with every sort of economic. social, | | political danger. Acting first upon { labor, the actual producer, by way of | | want’ and discontent. it reacts. finally. | in a general deterioration of the leaders | | themselves. the money holders. till the | whole world is facing the sinister gen: eral corruption. Such. in the rough. about the substance of Upton Sinclair's | theory as this steps out in the clear | drama of “Oil!" | But there are others who, looking out | | upon the same situation, maintain that | the laborer is not all. nor even the greater of the two chief factors in the industrial complex. They do not hold spect. It is. these sa; ision and executive power who holds | prime place in the world of industry. | It is the man who sees the signs of | | the earth’s promise. who follows them | | with means and measures for their suc- cessful and triumphant delivery into | the common current of daily uses: It | is the man who can organize and a | minister the armies of production. the | man who knows his fellow men and can lead them where he desires them to go. It is the man who, before the | first spade strikes the soil, sees the fin- |ished " product administering to the wants of the world. But for the man | of this sort, these say. the earth would | not yet have been scratched for its | oil and coal and precious metals. | railways would have spanned the con- ! tinent for the delivery of products. no cities and towns, like bright beads upon a string. would have bound the land | | together in human companionship and cnterprise. But for them armies of | laborers would vet have been languish- | ing for the labor that. as the world | runs. often turns the workingman of | today into the rich man of only a years ago. This is, in the main. what these say. Both groups come together, however, in a plain anciety | over the effect of wealth upon the fiber | of its possessor, upon his character and | outlook. An odd business, the effect | of wealth upon the one holding it. He may be selfish, cruel. hard-hearted. as! he Is often said to be. But, let a poor jman in the ite ranks come by a | | tum of fate into fortune, and. in no ! | ime at all, he. too. becomes. by re- pute, as unworthy as the other. A | queer business. that of owning money. Wealth appears to have affinities for certain pockets, and if an even distri- | thought-compelling atmosphere breezes | bution were once made. in no tim= at | many members. .nll these particular pockets would be | relief in the dally scene and makes | Funning over and others would have |t | reverted to thelr chronic state of emp- | tiness. So, the distribution of wealth, panacea of certain reformers, cuis no | Agure at all as an eflective plan for | any economic and social amelioration. | To get back to Upton Stnclair and, [ “Ofl!"" A novel coming appropriately | under the familiar designation of | | “timely.” Industry is an uppermost | theme, and the oil industry at the mo- | ment stands well at the top of the list. In recent aspects of the business ! it might have been made for the ex-! | press purpose of Upton Sinclair, social reformer. Of course it was not Rather did it play into his hand and he closed upon it. Southern Californta backs the story, and into this setting | | the author has poured an appreciative | | recognition of the pecullar quality and | | charm of the region itself. While the author, in exclamatory mood. declares | | this is to be the story of “Ofl!" he| !has included many outlying interests as a part of the central consideration. i ‘The moving picture industry with its ; stars and producers brightens the ler | | features of labor troubl by way of strikes and professional trouble mak- | ers. An odd and grotesque brand of | religlon objectifles itself in a curtous | blend of hypocrisy and self-delusion on the part of its exponent. The plain | neighborhood moves about in the (ash- fon of country localitles evervwhere. With these the author deals m good | picture making, In good humor, in ! genuine humor itself. They all stand | together, however, as second fiddle in the grand chorus of the ofl boom, sngi- neered by J. Arnold Ross, oll king. and | promoter. Meeting J. Arnold Ross you | have met “Dad.” Dad and Bunny IN.‘ by all odds. the great features in what | many people are likely to call a truly | Kreat story. Dad is Bunny's father and 1, anywhere, you can find & more en- jovable, companionable, beautiful| ather-and-son business, we'd all like | to hear about it. J. Arnold Ross is a great figure dead wrong. according to Sinclair, but even this author hadn't the heart to put the serews oo heavily {upon this gental freebooter. Bluft and Kindly, right on to all the quirks in! husman nature and ot much tmpressed | by these, Dad just moved along toward control of the ofl business out that way, not overmindful of the slight hu- man obstructions that he so easily moved out of the way. Where Dad | went Bunny went, oo, And the In-)l knew that his father was as good as woll, a8 good as Providence tiselt. And | 20 he wax (o Bunny And the old | fellow had (o look sharp uwot o let | the boy ged n bit spolled—and he did ook sharp, Never or a day did Bunuy ! Know or feel that Dad was anything | but Dad, not even later when in his | Woman, right, he reader feels fust that way, for J. Amild Ross takes & deep hold | upon the affections. 8o does Bunny Through all (the Indquities of the oll business and the scandals and the po- litical corruption and whatnot growlng up around 1t old Ross holds the heart Hunny. groomed by the author, W be | vevolutionist aga the ey pows or, groomed a5 i enber of the Soviet Dusiiess wind things of that st des. Gied a8 the slgin of & new day, Runny falls away from lis At clear oham of fAine boyhood. No. he never does gu wivig, Bt wickedly wivng, He couldn'y Ao that. Nor does he become the bt - binger of the new day that Upion Sin CIME hopes (o aee, “Wl‘! smply | peters out toward the end. Nice -\\-'l SUIL but & bit spinelsss. A0 4 & blg and lclwive sory, dema I was Dad, and that made 14 oo, | President”—8. C. | BY FREDERIC J. HASKIN. The resources of our free Informa- tlon Bureau are at your service. You are invited to call upon it as often a8 you please. It is being mathtained by The Evening Star solely to serve you. What question can we answer for you? | There s no charge at all except 2 cents | in stamps for return postage. Address your letter to The Evening Star Infor- mation Bureau, Frederic J. Haskin, Di- rector, Washington, D. C. Q. What was the first great golf match ever played’—N. C. A. The first of which there is record is of a match in which the Duke of York, afterwards James II, with an Edinburgh shoemaker as his partner, defended Scotland’s claims in the sport | against two English noblemen. The | Scotsmen won. \ Q. Is parking of automobiles al-| lowed in the Chicago loop district?— | H. B. L. | A. Beginning January 2, 1928, such | parking was prohibited until further | notice. The parking ban is in effect on | MO week days from 7 a.m. until 6:30 pm.: Saturdays irom 7 to 3 pm.; Sundays and holidays are exempted. | Q. When a President dles and the Vice President becomes President, does the Setretary of State become Vice A. He does not. The office of Vice President is vacant, and the president pro tempore of the Senate presides ver that body in the stead of the Vice President. Q_How many windows are there in the Bank of England?—W. W. | A.The building is windowless ex- cept for 4the openings above the en- trance. Q. What minerals are included in | the scale of hardness’—W. K. A. The hardness of a solid substance may be measured by its capacity for scratching or being scratched by other | substances. The well-known minerals | | included in the standard comparative | ception in Scranton, Pa.. in 1914 scale of hardness are. Talc, gypsum, | calcite, fluorite, apatite, feldspar, quartz, topas, sapphire. diamond. For scien- tific work more exact methods are used. i g ‘Where was the Land of Goshen? ~N. L L. A. This is a matter for debate. It is not improbabie that the Hebrews used the term to designate the whole country between the Brook of FEgypt (Wadi el "Arish) and the Nile Delta. Q What preportion of the popula- tion s color biind?—D. R. M. A. About 2 per eent of the popu- lation suffers from this defect in vision. Usually, even eolor-blind people can distinguish oran ed and blue-green. Q. What fish is ti kim- e he sikim A. This is a local name in the Missis- sippl Valley for a fish. one of the most. common of the carp suckers /Carpiodes cyprinus), otherwise known as salifish quiilback, ete. t kind of W. D. 7’ ? What s meant by & normal erop? ~T. 8 A. The Department of Agrieult crop correspondents are asced each h percentage of a normal c that they expect. At season they report Ul Technically a normal cr in t 0p Correspondents’ the time reports are made. vantage of of a normal min The ad- j DOTtS om' the pere 0p is that any i or unintentional distortion of is eliminated by comparing t dition reported on each date with what the same group of reported on the same date in pr ars. Q. To _how m: flocd sufferers has reconstruction aid A. More than 560000 persons have been helped, addition to the e: gency relief extended. The Red Crom expects also to have to feed approxie mately 100,000 persons this Winter whe cannot manage for themseives, 2 Q. When did “National Thrift week™ originate?—J. J. W. A. The thrift movement had its in- The first thrift week celebration took place in Bradford. Ohio, the following vear. The National Thrift Committee was organized in 1917 under the stress of war conditions. BACKGROUND OF EVENTS BY PAUL V. “And the King said unto him, ‘What shall be done unto the man whom the | King delighteth to honor?’ | “And Haman answered the King: For with Sinclair and his kind in this re- | the man whom the King delighteth to | sen: the man of | honor. let the royal apparel be brought | lLef, which the King useth to wear, and | the— “Airplane which the Tnofficial Am- | bassador rideth upon, and let them be | painted in the frieze of the National | Capitol. in the 26-foot vacant space. 65 fect above the sightseer in the Dome | of the Capitol—and proclaim before him, Thus shall it be done to the man whom all the world delighteth to honor —Col. Charles A. Lindbergh.” i Almost every other conceivable honor has been paid the boy. so why let the | space be vacant when the greatest feat | of this generation remains to be re- corded pictorially. among the events and incidents which have contributed. 1 in the centuries, to make our America reat? That is the purport of the reso- lI‘mum introduced in the House of Re; resentatives by Representative A. Piat Andrew of Massachusetts. The theme o! the scene to be pictured. if Congress ap- prove of the resolution. will be Lind- bergh's landing on the Paris Le Bourget Aviation Field. after his marvelous flight, alone. across the Atlantic Ocean. Mr. Andrew's resolution, which was referred to the Committee on Library, | T esolved by the House of Represent- atives (the Senate concurring). That | the historical frieze in the rotunda of the Capitol depicting important mile- stones in the record of American | achievement. the last section of which | represents our country’s part in the World War, be completed by a portra; al of the arrival of Charles A. Lind- bergh on the field of Le Bourget in France, an event which merits com- memoration among American genius to human progress.” The sugges' Somewhere in his poems. Palgrave he h’\llL\h poet of the last century, has said: “Today is & day that will be written in story g = 3 To the great world’s end and for ever Let the boy have the glory. . t 18 in- The friese contains at present 1S cldents in alk pamting. all done m effect like high relief sculpture, du od L The Landing of Columbus.™ Cortez and Monteruma in the Tem- ple of the Sun™ Buriar of De Soto® o = - g:;:x‘e of Capt. John Smith by Po- cahontas.™ “Landing m!};fl'\‘:\:lmly With the Indians.” Settlement of New England.” o= and the Muscogus. of Lexington * g:‘::a‘mwl\ of mq\endon« i “Surrender of Comwallis.™ { “Death of Tecumseh™ ~American Army Entering the City of exico M rnia Gold Mining.™ [v e added }I‘M World War Soldier Protecting His Family" (untntshed) Proposed “Lindbergh's Flight tantie.” The figures are all life size or role.” and so drawn in pe to give the same foresh tortion” as it they tured high reliels < Due to & pigeon tragedy some time ago, when the dead body of a dird so | clogged the Tain pipes as o ¢ an overflow inside the dome. there are glaring streaks down through the pain ngs. It is assured that with the pres- ence of the “Lone Eagle” in the All pigeons, outranked, would cry. A tention! The Bagle!™ and go elsewhers to die. When (he new pietures are painted, 1t will be necessary so o e stare all the fricze (hat ft will recover its freshness and strength of yelief. mateh the new patnting. It is various estimated that the resioration and new pioture will cost between $30 00 | and $40000. Same Cungressmen urge that. instead of retatning e pamting at all actual sculpture should be b odueed, evwn Ak 8 st eweeding $300.000. ) anawer (0 that proposs ture, My Andrew 0 the Bostan Art Museum. Sary paInted “bas-reliel” pancls and medals lans, 0 decorative tmitation of Wedg WO potiery, and the wit ertiies © sider the effect very beautitul - All ple- | Wrial wid seulptural Art is imitation Wot & teality—hence there & 1 axt Across the At- n v dutage he did go wrong with that old | ST 10 tepresenting scutpture on the !y, flat surface, With an effect of roliet The teal Art teat, SAV the ertics. &8 ot | I the tmitation, but i the poetic ex- | { strating the authar's power to unite many elements i & doherent and | Nighly dramatic whale. And readable - ! well,. you are not going o leave 1t exeept By deepest necesatly. WL it fabhed | The pare chamn of beautinil | Wik, Aitted exactly W the (heme and A sttuations. staiwds parainount b Manued® 1 belleve sa' Woat tw* V) AR Know, 1 diics fad G- bat thea | bowaan't looking for (6 in the wemen- s aweep ot the whale wany s AMany of Uw QUL OF modein B here cloatly overwarked Wl A, even then, fall o sups Walentiva, P iaraen { on found favor with! e “&iN' ""‘m ever N Taly Senal \h‘ SO 0 s Ahat . COLLINS. pression of the theme with proper tech- nique. and since the expression in this case is decoratite and effective, there is just as much art in the flat repre- tion, giving the impression of re- as there would be in carved mar- ble. It is not a sham and there is a» quarter of a million doliars’ difference in the cost. o5 Assuredly, it would not be thet precedence even if rich America we to spend & million dollars upon a piece of great art. Priva given more and then shut their treas- ures out of sight of the masses of peo~ pared America, appropriated $1,300.000 in material of goid alone for one s by Phidias. representing Athena. X supplied the 38-foot goddess with drap- ery of pure gold. while her bust and head. arms and hands were of r and the pupils of her eyes were of pre. | clous stones. Today's art critics mu scoffl and say. “That.is magnifice: but it is not art.” But the poiat is oot standards of “modern” art. which | would outlaw Phidias and gioat over futurists, but the measure of cost tha would be legitimate in immortalining in art the great deeds of our day and generation. The total cost of the Par thenon. which housed the Athena, was $63,000,000, and it was not used by its builders for any utilitarian | certainly not like our Capitol: i & temple of worship and of commemo- ration of heroic deeds. In 1687 it was used by the Turks as a powder maga- zine. and when a Venetian bombd strus it. the entire interior was wrecked tl exterior left in the picturesque Tuins which remain to this day. e e s The ited States has the Wright brothers. inv arplane, with a nat S Prance has pu w e Capit h Esiumates of oost see crit gren i the worlds history stand t ost of so Statuary ready with the the \ Should nat ! who A Cusiadia e Qover erected an the Capiic B twely thewn, i 9% P ariais ot the ) They have marked the propeed o DA biting con Yhe LNy A af INDDSHIVARIA avehiue Detween B O stvein, ab the fool of Capited The ahetivt 1hat it & not castor- ALY G0 erect STALUSS OF A e al PRI B Dt o 8 living hare dbunseed By e advocates of 1he Ling- Dergh (Viese pieiuie as caMiue. 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