Evening Star Newspaper, January 19, 1928, Page 8

THFF EVENING STAR ‘With. Sunday Morning Edition. WASHINGTON, D.C. /THURSDAY....January 19, 1028 l THE EVENING STAR, WASHINGTON, | they contribute nothing toward getting [ be the intention of the Btate to press Mr. Average Man to employ this mode | his prosecution and insure his swift of transportation to foreign lands. punishment, Other crimes, however, Aeronautical engineers and scientists | have been attributed to him, have in- must be unanimous in the opinion that | deed been confessed by him, and now seaplanes and flylng boats, with the | the insanity defense has been inter- ability to rematn on the surface of the |posed and the famillar spectacle is THEODORE W. NOYES .Editor S AR G e The Evening sur Newspaper Company ocean for several days under reasonable | weather conditions, are the logical | equipment for ocean flying undertaken } on a commercial basis. The develop- | ment of a transoceanic airplanc, ! therefore, must have the backing of | more than an individual or & small | | group. and it therefore would appear | | that here is a logical opportunity for | { the representative acronautical body of | 63 permonth {the country whose slogan is “Make | S month | America First in the Air.” | = [ESe— Trouble ness Office e <. . 43¢ per month Sunday’ Star 60¢ per month Af each month Orders mav be sent i by mail or telephoue. Main 5000 in the Wind. | Rate by Mail—Payable in Advance. | A Ao ol Brsintd aad Vigtals. Failure of the Conservative majority {in the Nicaraguan House of Representa- tives to pass as drawn the bill placing | Americans in charge of the Nicaraguan | general elections in Octaber discloses a pretty kettle of fish mdeed. Instead of | approving this bill os it passad the Sen- ate, the Fouse ha: in a ner that neatly cis its toath and leaves the suceess of the Stimson | agreement in doubt. Unless the House changes its attitude. more turmoil than | Gen. Sandino was capable of cre- | ating may be expected to result. | The truce agreed to botween the Con- | servative and Liberal parties in Nica- | ragua last year under the terms of the t was conditioned on States would e a fair clection | previous experi- ! t a fair ele by placing Amer- with native con- Marines, or the hamselves, uvailable to enforce | nine In fact. Mr. Sifmson was e ve needed to supp!v this de- phatic in his declaration that untess !hnl | Dails on Sunday onls All Other St TES 001 ma 800 1mol B Member of the Associ The Associated Prese 1s rxe to the e patene ted Press. s ion to h now extraordinary h require- without adequa! Tves. The night and ‘Tuesday morning revealed the fact that the Capital cannot cope with a series of s occurring within a brief space of such a situation as may arise. s | Af, next October. ence it wa rom agreed th and it is proposed (0 urZe United States had full power, it could item be carried in the appro- do nothing. Under the terms of the 1! soon to be presented to the proposed electton law, written by Prof. House to meet this need. Dedds of Princeton University, Presi- | When message “We need help!” dent Coolidge some time since desig- flashed over to Baltimore Tuesday nated Brig. Gen. Frank R. McCoy as the morning that city responded by sending | American to be chairman of the board | its own resorve force to Washington. | of elections. and Gen. McCoy left Wash- h of the ten companies did | ington for Nicaragua a few days ago to not red Baltimore’s equipment be- make his preparatory arrangements. In low the point of normal necessity. Had | the meantim», however. the attituds of the situation been reversed, with Baiti- | the Conservatives, in the Hous> at least, mere callinz for help, as it has on w0 |seems to have changad. Their ardor occasions in the past, it would have !for supervised clections has cooled. They been necessary to deplete the Capital's have amended the election bill, making ing force to the danger point. |an American a member instead of the d | chairman of the elections board. thy ng the whole force of the ar- nt. Gen. McCoy would be an instead of the supervisor, of Cbserving a Nicaraguan clection. while interesting, is a futile Prof. Dodds “observed” a n election in 1924. But the have been weakened. | tion stands, Washington's lie in Alexandria, ther suburban communities and Baltimore. The other night they saved procceding. the situation here. But if there had = Ni i been major fires in these localities, the | election was a help needed by Washington could not Thore is the possibility that members have been sent, and the Capital weuld of the Conserval party are stalling ' bave suffered sorely. while they watch the wav the wind | It will be the part of wisdom to pro- blows at Havana, They may hope that vide the equipment that Chi>f Watson something will be done there to lessen estimates as reguired 1o supplv the Dis. American influence, and that given con- trict with a safe margin. It is not pro- trol of the Ociober clactions themselves posed to increass the personnel, but they will maintain the unbroken Nica- simply to sacure a reserve of apparatus, Taguan tradition that the party in con- | which, kept in good condition at all | trol always wins at the poll: The times, can be relied upon to render ef- United States, however, is committ~d to fective service in any emergency. Not s guarantee that the elections next only will this equipment serve as an in- Fall will ke fair. In maintaining this surance against extraordinary need, put Suarantee it may expect much mud 1t will permit the relief of the regular singinz. But it will nevertheless be equipment from time to time for the MAinta piirpose of maintenance attention and i repairs Brussels Sprouts. Decision has been rendered against Americans are looking with more and the estzblichment of a high-pressure | more disfavor each year on the physical SBre-fighting service in the downtown = exuberance of the young. and of college section of Washington. Were such a ' youth in particular. Even the colle- service installed. it would stand in it- | gians themseives visw with grow!ing 8elf 25 the Capital's reserve. Lacking apathy the ripping up of theater seat: that, it is surely desirable. it is indeed th= tearing down of goal posts and other | mecessary, 1o supply the necessary mar- quaint and often outrageous customs. in of safety by installing a reserve The old-time bonc-crushing class rushes equipment capable of use here in 8 are gising way to push-ball contests, | €risis. even s the reserve force of Bal- | water figh's and other spectacular but | timore and the regular forces of the ecomparatively innocuous forms of enter- | nearby suburban communities were taining rivalry. Wanton destruction, | brought into action the other nignt. especially of other people’s property, is | The Capital must not be left dependent | almost universally frowned down. upon i's neighbors for fire-fighting vertheless, the Old Adam fs in equipmert when more than three alarms mauy of us still. There was a rough- occur simultaneously. house the other day in Brussels of ———ate— which miilions of Americans must have There is a demand for a “back-10- | read with smacking of the lips and Bature” movement which will discredit ypich called forth feelings of approval the fire bug and imitate the UEhDING ang faint, wistful stirrings. Guests had bug in pmflucm.fl( without heat. gathercd for the opening of an exhibit | » e organized by the Belgo-Russian League | Delaying a Beginning. |of International Relations, prnmln'rnt While general regret will be felt at | jn which was a dispiay installed by the «the decision of the advisory board of Soviet government. A lot of young men the National Aeronautic Assoclation not | were among the crowd. Suddenly a ! W sponsor safe and sane transatiantic shrill whistle sounded, At this sharp Rignts next Bpring with & view 0 pro- signal half of the youthful contingent curing scientific data on the best ocean | moved to block any action by the ex- roules, it will be realized that the mem- hibition staft, while the remainder got bers of the association have & more in- | busy with stout cudgels timate knowledge of conditions affecting aviation than the lay public, and that the decision was assuredly made for the | sther prominent communtsts followed to | best interests of flying. When the pro- | destruction. Naughty, naughty! Con- | posal vas first made U5 send & plane | tents of the shelves were swept to the acrosc the ocean for two round P floor, Oh, this modern flaming youth! piioted by natonal heroes 10 seek slen- Lyn't it dreadful? Pictures were slashed ufie dzla on alr eonditions and 1outes, | gng rniture was destroyed. Well, | it war Laled with acclaim by & public | boys will be boys, From reom to room sth tne eflorts of publicity-mad | the work of thorough destruction pro careg nothing for aviation «d untid all was ended and the | nesment, but enty exhibit of Boviet Russla was & heap of | promotion the et ! frowning on the plan, however, the Ehoulder to shoulder, out marched the | pubic 4 by emvined vandals, the roughnecks, the Inconsid- snd » oceanic flying s far n unappreciative, Jawless young the {1 that the sesocintion brutes, To add insult W Injury, they | eran iy, it eftorts T8l | murched inging “Down With Boviet e tl the | gy, That such & scene should Has program the very eapital of u highly | L civilized European nation! Al Belglum | s outraged Bure—with 1ts tongue in | W cheek And whn does not wish he had been there and happened 1o have | & club in his hand? L Down smashed the likeness of Mr. | lenin Tut, tut, boys! The busts of rely for personel natopsl body iay t omate e rrate of wirers tor satiantic inder] of ud- ory boards metion can be found in fert 1hist there 1 no plane in ex- Ssvence UCay tist can offer much more of rafety sna wdvantege in woran ¥ the snips employed | : For the ason Vore ana Graw up an engineering de- & research pisn of eonetruction and promotion & concered eronings ve u a1 Brres oerur T the vi e o comion — A i & men who 18 oo Impetiuous in slving tie fuel probiem Hi the than Pyromaniac yesr on sl 1) ory has offered many examples of peraom who s willing 0 burn House, like 1he Chinese hiern of Charle Lamb fect, u velnpm €rpmr the plus the . n order W) enjoy a pf'l'! of WK Like the the boy with the hox U e reckoned with | - Bpeedy and Laggard Justice, Michigan's " oufitng u14 eosy eoneiderai the of 8 esprdition of EmOunL oo for the purcha Biene on Lie mirket Lods Howe wo 8100 900 stor ainner Eler min in exrres wnien wae oung er e mseoclalion oould start il rolling Vowerd the ultimate de | welopuent of & slurdy seaplane or fy Wat Uit oould cerry something be- side gusoline, wnd refusal even U Lress the lee on Lhe subject aoes Lot bring the ere of heavier-\an-air Lens Goesnic commercisl fylng wny closr Lang plance. stripped of everything but Acmonsistion of speedy | Justice i & erime of peculiar atrocity | s 30 contrast with the manner i which | 8 somewhst sinlier case in Californis | 5 being handied. The (wo crimes were | Loadentical neture “"h" wirls being frightutly mutilated by men | most essenticl parte snd losded lu‘ The gullt of each was quickly estah the bresklng with gasoline. ean | lished 1 gotiete dong duwtsnces over the water | fession & noat et the vill of daring siren, but its aln i two point The Californie citming) was caught in Might sna it vas declared to {Nsh gy {of the work of Some presented of long protraction of a pro- ceeding that should be expeditious and sure. In Michizan, while the crime s still fresh in the public mind, within a few days from the discovery of the pitiful victim of a fiend's brutality, he has been caught, fully identificd, proved guilty through his own acknowledgment and sentenced to life imprisonment, the maximum penalty permitted by the laws of the State. The case is closed. Had the same course been followed in Califormia the wretch who slew little Marian Parker would by now have expi- ated his crime. But as the matter stands there is no assurance of early action. There is, on the contrary, a prospect of indefinite delay. It is evidently the in- tention of the defense to seek to estab- Nty as A means of preventing the imposition of the death penalty. ! Though public feeling, aroused to a| high pi‘ch by the atrocity of the crime, has somewhat cooled. it is still keen and | if this case is permitted to drag along through technicalities and psychiatric cxaminations and protracted legal argu- ments there will arise a spirit of resent- ment that will not alone in California, but elsewhere in this country. develop a demand for a revision of the laws to the end that murder, whatever the state of mind of the slayer, shall be punished | by death. Even in Michigan the judg who tiled the cas: of the child-slaver expressed his feeling of regret that the ! laws of that State limit the penal | murder to life imprisonment: L .o D. ., THURSDAY, JANUARY 19, 1928, THIS AND THAT BY CHARLES E. TRACEWELL. nouncer bores us with a brief history of Dvorak, about how he spent many years in the United States, and In- corporated Indian and negro themes in his” “New World Symphony,” etc. Shucks, we knew that. Well Here is the first part, or whatever you call it. Fine theme, slightly remi- niscent of “Swanee River.” It could be bullt up, with appropriaie vords, and become as tiresome as the largo move- ment from the “New World,” endlessly | drooled along to words about “going [ home, T'm going home, yes, T'm Well, here we are listening to & rndln’ ogram. et does a person think about when he listens to a radio program, anyway? Perhaps the station divectors might like to know what a serious young radio listener thinks, as he sits back in his easy chair. drinking in through his | ears the sounds that come from his loud speaker. We are not one of those persons who insists on reading the newspaper or a book while attempting to listen “in," as they insist on calling it, | home.” ‘We wish they would hurry up When we listen, we do it with both ' and cars as open as we can get them, and | Hel without the distractions of printed mat- ter. When we listen, we lis Those who fondiy imagi can read and listen at the sa are fooling themselves, 1f they hear the music, they miss the words: if tl veally know what they are reading. they do not hear the music. Napoleon may have been able to do | two things at once, but even Napoleon never listened “in.”" as they say. * some- 0 over the sccond movement, | thing like “Deep River,” which a been played and sung to deat v | radio. I may be an American them but it is a great deal like Rubenstein's | fine quartet, “Music of the Spheres Why don't the broadeasters play that some time? What a lob of good {sluft they have never put on the air et! - We will make them up a Jist, me time and sond it in. It wiil look | nice in thelr waste papr basket. | ok ok | This third movement is not so hot [ Al here's the third; now, this i some-= thing Itke. Lisien to that syncopated bass, and that jazzy melody in the first violin. - Gosh! and some people think * % v a program of chamber music, t by the National Broadeast- ing Company, plaved bv the National String Quartet. with Miss Katherine Somebody or Other, soprano, as the solofst. We wish we could give vou the last name of the soloist. but we were un- | able to catch it, because of an unusu- ally noisy automobile which raced by the hcuse just then. Anyway, this soprano sing an avia from 1 known opera “Atalanta.” or “Atlanta,” we have forgotten which, but it doesn't make any difference, for ali of Handel's arlas sound alixe. The music starts—it well this afternoon. W» lik» this Na- tioaal Broad ng mpany—they scem to have higher idess than jazz, thing George has had some nlce agenting: but I'll bet the fellow him lf doesn't set up such preposterous claims for himself as some of his ad- mirers have for him. He knows that Dvorak, and Beethoven, and Mozar had someihing that he hasn't got, at least not yel. Maybe he wall He has put over some good Synco- ated numbers—but they lack the something which this fourth of the American quartet has—w 3 it?——why. what is it but the quality of areatness which the masters managed pres is goine to nael's Tittle is coming over W Richard L. Conner. | For twenty-seven yvears Richard L. Conner served Washington faithfully and eff~ctively at his post with the | Washington Board of Trade. He went | to work for that organization at the | age of seventeen and he devoted his| life to it. Rising from a clerkship to| the position of assisiant secretary, and | during & very large part of his asso- ciation serving as the acting executive | official of the board. “Dick” Conner came in contact with thousands of Wasningtonia: His energy. his un- derstanding of the manifold questions with which the organization is con- | {cemed. his capacity for detail. made | him an invaluable aid in the promotion | the Board of Trade | Always ready to give assistance, to se- | cure Information, to arrange for moet- | ings, to promote activities, he was re- | lied upon by the membership of the| Board of Trade for years as an ex-| ecutive. In his personality he was ex- ! ceptionally adapted te such a ta Cheerful readiness to respond to any was his ou'standing characteristic. | He was never “too busy" to undertake | and to accomplish any task which was assigned him. For some time past il health has been his portion. and now | death has come and his passing is the © of grief to an exceptionally wid- circle of citizens of the District. He has been taken prematurely. for his years were not many. and a long spa: of great usefulness should have con-| tiz > for this feithful. devoted. be. | loved worker for the welfare of the National Capital. | ———— - Good understanding is a need of the | Western Hemisphere. Quarreis of the future will become more difficult as a cemand s made for an intelligible rea- son for their existence. ) | A psychoanalysis of a fire bug is a disappointing revelation, showing only the willingness to sacrifice life and| property for the sake of fireworks for perzonal enjoyment. i v SHOOTING STARS. BY PHILANDER JOHNSON, Power of Musie. I listen to the speeches grave On current economics. The hour 15 solemn. I behave Like “Pather” in the Comics. I try to strike a soiemn pose, And yet the measures mystic That keep me well amused are those ‘That sound most jazzolistic. To muric all the world has turnsd In a barbaric rhythm. simple tune the learned, And we go dancing with ‘em. We cannot seck 1o understand ‘I'ne problems rising daily, When some one says, “Strike up the | band And plunk the ukulele!” ecrowd has First Duty. “What do vou regard as the first duty of a statesman?” “Well," answered Senator Sorghum, he's no good unless he can go on serv- Ing his country. B0, 1 shouid say his first duty is to get himself re-elected.” | Responsible Detall. The merchant sald, attempting fate Vithout a tremor of dismay, “MY goods KTe not 8o very great, But my Publieity’s O, K." Endiess Fame. “You eonfessed you chopped cherry tr “Yes" answered George Washington “If wasn't much In the way of frult But L was darn good publicity " the Jud more them. Tunkins says titles than there are there are often Jobs to fit Enjoyment. “Have n good Ume in New York”" U1 should say 8o, wnswered Farmer Corntorsel "1 paid fourteen dollurs for @ seat 1o @ show " Ind you enjoy the show? “No. 1ut 1 enjoyed the tden of being | ahle 1o squander fourteen dolla | | “We dream of the past” said HI Ho, the sage of Chinktown d then we | vudely nwaken to the present” Vernal Mendaeity, Untruth will sadly persevere Beware, my hrother! The robin bird will soon be here, And “he's another “When a oriminal goes th punishs MENL” sald Uncle Eben, “he makes & crcumstances and by eon- | hig show At would pervide foh his | |unnided. a perhaps hopeless adversity. | | Perhaps. at last, the middle one will be | and operation of the merchant fleet has | been a hopeless fatlure (urally he turns to a subsidy. | be met only In limited cases.” | President 15 wholly right, but whether & | eratier, hudy Pment i the shipping business 15 (ooliahy 10 put into their works as an integral part of them? pation, with the genuine mu: phere, if you will, of a Beethoven sym- phon 3 This “musical atmosphrre”—a poor ay to pui it. but the best we can do at this sitting—is much the same as the tone quality which ali great violinists secure, no matter who they are, where born, or what not. It fazz. jazz. Its inithals, however, are NBC. the same ss the National Bis- cuit Company. We wonder why they didn't pick some other name? Ever time we hear it. we think of biscut: ay, ~n to her holler on that first note! Calm down lady. calm down, I can hear you without yelling so. Yep, just what I thought. One Han- del aria is as like another Handel aria as two peas in a pod. I would recom- mend that ambitious students secure a good record of “He Wil Feed His Flocks.” from “The Messiah,” and lei it suffice. ‘Thee> same long, susteinad beainning notes—this syme calm flow of long notes, this same tyne of melody -yes, these are exactly the same. Did he steal from his own stuff? » No. not at all, but every composer, as every writer. has his style, his own mark, as it were, his own way of writ- ing. Just another way of saving, Handel is Handel. Vistor Herbert is tor Herbert, Sav. what a run th> bioad- casting stations are having on Victor Herbert! Well, that is over. Well, T am glad We want to hear the quartet, after all. Nothing comes over radio quite 5o well as a good. small organization, espocially the strings and wood Whn remembers the Lee House We ltked that B The second number “American String Quartot by a master, R bort’s “Thou Art My Peac».” ~-Du Bis'—weil, w2 are no German stu- dent, t sure. It Is a slow sort of meody. with long, lopey phrases, some- thing ‘in the manner of Saint-Saen's Sva ‘cellist butchers that! Here is a modern Italian in the style of a barcarolle They don't row boats in the s unless it s Venice. 1IUs not so bad. though. “Pagliacci.” Yes, that's it Italian, no mistaking that il hoilering too much, lady the quartet is to play again, . or however you spell him, his “Humoresguie. Hem—hem—not _so good. You had better try again, Mr. Are or however it fs spelled. Now Brahms' “Quintet in F Minor"— his only string quartet, the announcer then he corrects himself, the nly quintet. he amends. Of cou of course. Well—well—well, no won- der. Please ctand b Du Eist Trio? Dvorak's The an- Wide Differencé Are .f{ire;l E On Merchant Marine Problem A séate committee report favoring a | been b replacement policy for the Government s | water ships.” merchant fleet rather than President | tford Times (independent Coolidge’s program of disposing of tie ), draws the coneiusion that vessels 10 private lines stirs agatn thy W I “representative citizen' wants long-debated national differences over | s jain oo ti08 OF this shipping tist- the merchant marine problem. o s S A it €A 1 : look the hands over and determine how Three possible courses of action are 'much, as a prudent patriot, he 18 will. pointed out by the Newark Evening ing Lo invest, or whether he fesls he can News (independsnt). “One.” s nte at all. Glittering gener- News. “is to continue paying a sort of ,;‘,‘:h“‘,:x:";' ""’;‘"‘“ “"";‘" et Ao 4 3 an ettack upon “the selfich de- ibeldy i molntaining & decaying, | e of the mu».up?mp companies tn Poorly conducted merchant fleet as & | sacure control of the Shippiag Boer Government function at public cost ey oo Another is to let ths Government ship {vescels,” the Santa Barbara Dail g0 and allow private enterprise to meet, d now own model blue- (Democratic) argues: “If they w the purse strings tight los Father Tine will dispose of ping Board craft. The raptdly d. w. and i a be gone dustries he Ship- largely law-made. A third s to expend American suth ald, directly or indirectly, as will enable & minimum fizet of good ships to b privately maintained on essential trade routes. Mr. Coolidg® and the hipowners seem to lean toward the L. The Shipping Board and a group in Congress appear to favor the first. “re cur ships Then the Americea in- seeking overseas m will br in Iy the same s they were 14 years ago de- pendeat upon foreign sh LR The Chicago Daily News (i *nt) says of the situation: *Co cannot.”fn reason, ignore, for ciampis Edward N. Hurley's striking plan for operation of & merchant marine by Rreat rallroad systems. And not to take up the question of so amending the i Follette seamen’s act as to remove its needless hardships on American sl owners would be sheer covardice worse. " The Philadelphla Evening tIndependent Republican) state {1dent Coolidge does not urg~ {«tdy plan on Congress. Nor |threaten 1o veto the Jones further folly tn Governmea: merchant ton Do anty found ) to square best with American neiples.” “There is no question.” I the optnion of the Louisville Courier-Journal (inde- | pendent), “that Government ownership ind that paper that “the question that is bothering the Chief Executive is how to unioad on private enterprise. Nat- | a sop to Industry—nas embodying the idea of pro- tection, T continues the Loulsville aper, “Is the line of least resistance ,"m_' the mxecutive. The logloal pian, | Seels lnul 1 he were to velo (hat pro- however, &4 10 amend the Iaws that have | E0°: should Congress sond 1t o him, A he would be consistent and wie throttled the privately owned merchant | On.the subject of the Presidonts re- marine, the measures that have made | ported approval of “sufficient bounty the operation of American ships so | private interests to enable them 1o much more expensive than those of |forelsn occan freight rates i aer countries that competition ('ullm':;.ll;d.-"::‘: :’::::’H::: l:l.xl.x'v‘,‘,‘:“,:',"' e the plan failed to gair ) 1e appros “That private operation would be [ ghe PG foved to galn P sppratal preferabie to the present methods of [ termine whether at present, fn period the Shipping Board,” states the New characterized by eflort at York World «Independent), “needs no | plan will find & mor» demonatration. On that point the Mol o L Prenldent I easary Or desirable in an- | (0 the Indianapolis News (indepw sibsidy 18 necessa) to yleld their traditional idea er question. One thing, however, i | { 'll.'.lv":rfl\l clear. Ameriean capital 1s not ;:‘I"" "N. exceptions, It weve betisr for going to_ invest. heaviiy in shipping s {the Government to leave bustivas ove - long as the prospect of getting a sub. |AION& l‘:l‘ Drivate hands™ = The News sdy & dangled before its eves. The |Quoles & nlmu.n Jones fn favor of more the Prestdent or any one else with | bropose d DL for replacemant in connec- political influence argues for a subsidy, ”';:1\ “j]l_; the (‘nr ment fleet, and ihe greater the inducement to capital | dds, & The analysts of Senator Jones and enterprise o hold back and avait { fannot count on general approvat pead- A possible windfall The \mvbr:m that {!ng further considerattn or whother ¢ shipping ventures were being in- L'\'.;‘...‘.L' WTihout & Subsidy would be |Be 4l~"\|»~'fl that will make 1t unneces- Unrdl aa an argument mgalint granting | S [0 the Goveriment ta commit - e, and_promoters, of course, under- lf permanently - a public shipping tand this thoroughly " project Ak recognizes “Pre ihe subs does he plan_ for oname, the orable recep- » “Mr. Coolidge 13 eminentl? sane.” cedes the Birmingham News In sceing that continuance of the merchant marine under present laws would be cosily Apparently he I not_avidly keen for having the Btars d Btripes Aying on the seven seas e it snld he da not alone In the conten ton. * * * But if this Nation aban- dons ita merchant marine and deno- Diltess 1t Mpping Bonrd, would 1t not seemn economical also to it the naval | proposed exactly (o the degroe it provides for crulser patrols for the shipplng lanes?" The Ban Pranciseo Bulletin (teputy Hewn ) ohaerves, “But whatever action I taken In regard o the seamen’s act o the subsidy, 10 should be spparent (o wll (it the Jones plan o spen o ather 8200000 000 10 keep the Govern ATE! IN WORLD WAR 1 en Years Today of {0 Henator Chamberlatn, chairman the Benate military affairs commit makes the ungualified statement that “the nulitary establishment of Apier ten” has fallen down on the camse of ineMelency In every burean {and departiment of the United Sitates Government He demands & new deal and mava thut bl for a thiee-man war cabinet will be pressed vegardiess of the administiation's attitude * + + Secretary Baker announces (hat o Aplaints of food and clothing ot tag.s have come Lo hime elther from ofeial or unoMelal sources. b ® Uen Pershing asks for 7000 trained we hanies tnmedintely for the P Lo wemble planes sl put then L witer ai duels ¢ 00 Ryen the embassies i Herhin suffer and new tral envoys wre unable (o get suelon foad o ward off sickness. ¢ Prissian House of Lords reafims the not 1o siy frenged fnance Conaldering the g wnide from the quent sl the Han Antonio Express (ndependent Demociatie) holda tiat "It 14 unthink- able (hat the United Btates would allow s merchant marine to bhe driven from the high acas agaln * ‘TAaL paper also simphasizen (he point (hat “aince (he 1l fomily A some promoter could arange 10 sell tickets," | war this eountry has built f2w craft (o Autocracy of the Kaiser by saying that trancoceanic trade, but other lands have he alone can mno‘\ml. i George Gershwin invented this sort of | is the true tone of the violin as played ! i Now the ladv is going to sing Schu- | Lord, how the average radio You are | or | Eulletin | the | sogineering and: commercini plans can | b be. | Aviation | Naval Program Hit, | U. 8. Declared Using Voice of | Jacoh, But Hands of Esan. | tha Fditor ot The $tar i It was with amazement and dismay | that the plain people of the country rend lnst week the disclosure by the Secretary of the Navy of the adminis- tration’s plan for a naval building pro- | gram covering 20 years wh o cost of £3.000,000,000. and the shack of he announcement war the greater, eoming as I did ab the very Hme that the Sec- | retary of State proclaimed his proposal | for an all-inclusive treaty with Franee Britain, Germany, Haly and pledging mutual agreement by X great powers Lo put an end to war as a public policy. by the sub- ission of every dispute tn urbitzation | If the end of the war system was de- creed, why this stanilng proposal of great’ new armaments for this Land the fmplication tha assumed that the war continue for 20 rs? IU seemed il while speaking with the voice of Jacob, we showed the bands of Fuau ! For the moment, an appropriation of three quarters of a billion was asked for down from on by which | we had at et been startled. The Navy group at Washington, which b been rather subdued sinee the 1921 d armament conference 1 tound !its voice, and besirz for pro- | vislon at thi 9 destroyer 1 5 air-craft ¢ in Congress itsell is much mor than the { the ked that the period for th ture of the $725.000 should be left to {the adminictration, subject 1ot course of international politics. They demand that the be fmme- | diately fixed I They de wanp & big Navy “on paper.” but “fron and steel 1t is In the light of thic situation that the two t Frank Simcnds, from 1. he s Both T em would urgent | He expendi- where al such deep ters deal exe batw Brit ited States and Gr two great naval powcr { the political. commercial and jou istie circel n London. Few Amer! | correspondents are better informed on international affairs than Mr. Simonds none knows English sentims better, ;and none has more fully earn~d the ear »{ the American people. Our politicians and our people need to pay serious head to the words of a man like Mr. Simonds, solemnly iterated and now reiterated before committing themselves irretriev- jably to & costly and dangerous naval ompetition with G . leading hev know not whither. v irading to strained relati and most powerful in friend, involving p: of the gravest nature gamble on that mighty friendship? Mr. Simonds recognizes. with every- y else who h ollowed the matter, disastrous outcome of the Ger 1 conference inadequa y fell out of the hands smen and became a spa | n the naval experts, and its- ine | table failure was an international | tragedy, leaving the sity l(\\cfin Great Britain and th> United sequences rd to twe States vastly worse than it was befo | On top of this mournful blunder comes the worse blunder of our new big N | program, heralded in the worst pe manner, at the worst possible ! Concerning this. Mr. i"Thr-r‘ just one practica of our naval program | cation all ous prospect of 1 much more of d! ment. in Europe comes to an end for an efinite period.” The Engiish government and the Exn { lish people recognize that if we nt 20 into a naval competition with them, regardless of cost, alming at what we call parity, and they regard as suprem acy, we can, of ¢ distance them tn the race, since their resources are lim- ited and ours are not. On what ground demand or desire naval parity at Britain? “1f we do build. ¥s Mr. Simonds, “British public opt fon will harden into a bitterness w has never before existed. There unanimous conviction that the Ur States has no physical need of. sn therefore no moral right to, a Navy which in the cruissr detail appro: parity with the British ™ Englishman is simply pu whole cou he question, “What o earth do you nced the ships for>' i savs Mr. Simonds. Imost the inevi- table question to any American in Lo ced them strong n the pre | ditions, are obvious. = She is depe upon opan and sea routes for | safety and h: Without th | she has not produs the tsiand sul j and her dom.nions i who: she is involved are sca = world. We. on the other haustible resources. ar contained. and absol | any possible k. while given uticrance at Washington week, that we need a big Navy to tect our ocean cammerce in case of | tack. 1s buncombe. Who could wa attack our commerce’ Who is abi do i? In the absurd contingenc | long would 1t take to engin The whole talk, the three-billiov lar naval talk and all the rest. we bluff, and it discredits the rican people that thev have been | patient with it so long. Have they soon forgotten what naval comy | between Great Britain and G led to? Do they realize that our | posats are tragically impove {alrendy tmpoverished world {know, or do they | themselves, whether we ¥ consistent or definite for whether under an amateur statesma ship we are simply lving by the day without & goal and without a comp Our President reiterates on recurring auspictous oceasions that America’s pol- tey s A poliey of pe; 4 that our vocation is to lewd world away | trom the war system. Sithough we fuse (0 co-operats with the organ | tamtly of nations in its confe court functions. Our At the moment trying to say ipeace with all-mclusive arb treaties. Our Seeretary of the Tr just tells us that of every dollar pended by the Federal QGovernment cents go tor past and future wars, and 17 eents for ordinary envil functions | “When the average cltfasn grumbles over the sige of his ineome tax,” says | I Mr Mellon, “he often visualizes hiy | hard-carned money being spent by the | Government on business and agricul tural conditions, o o erect pablie | buildings, carry on selentific tmvestiga tlons, or to make and enforce haws As & matt of fact. only about o [AINE OF the tavpayer's do BUS Ity the multitudinons eivil fune s added togethy Uhe budgets are largely con- [ eerned with “the costs of past and fu | ture wars | 'n rretary Hughes racently 8o far as we ean we in the fu the United States 1s not in the shightest danger of aggression I "no single POWEr ARd I no possible combination 1 of powers les any menace o our se curfty " Ihes not every sencible Amer 1ean Know (his without being okl 1 by [ 50 Mgl an authorliy® Vet the Secre tary of the Navy, evidently speaking for somebody higher up. tells us that w L prepate oo apend $3 000,000 000 I the next 20 vears on (he big Navy I What are the people golng to do about | A Ciiee Billiona” does not winke tham up 1 ts hard o ik what will | Clearly there v a fearful day of adyg L ment ahiead for sometwdy EDWIN 1 MEADE PR Shvug at Woman, Nevertheless. From tha Boston Hapald ! The oxnie would have same ealor for saying that men the world aver have the worst govermment they are willing o lolerate, d all over hand. ha world satd | Frederlc J. Haskin is employed by this paper to handle inquiries of our readers, and you are invited to call upon him ns freely and as often as you please. As and the authority will be quoted you “There 18 no charge for this service. Ask whiat you want. sign your name and ad- dress, and incloss two eents in stamps for return postage. Address The Ev ning Star Information Bureau, Fred- erie ). Haskin, Director, Wasnington, D. C J. Q. What fs a Tantalus cup?—A. L. A It 15 a seientific toy consisting of " cip W puppet. in its bow may be poured into the bowl as high as the puppet’s chin and then it will yecede, being let out at the bo through a siphon in the puppet's body. Q How are cement & the top or from om?—M. H. R A. Cement bags are tied at the top first and filled from fhe botom. They are then sewed ahut Q filled, from Is the elimate changing’—H. B A The Weather Bureau says that ene year differs from another in the wzather it brinz d also in respect o almost ever T the “average the weather for an consecutt practically the ne as f consecitive 20 8 sense, th t our weather er wearing sole conducted of the Department that ~A Exper ureau of Che of eleme Nnz of agri a and South 12ject in the high and not in elementary school tes the s cificall; nitted by law. while tn another fiv wre is special State subvention of agriculiural courses in the elem schools. Q. What is henequent’—E. M. C. Henequent is one of the hard mp fibers furnishing material for ing binder twine and other raw ma- al ed for all kinds of cordage is obtained principally from Yuca- of Hugo Stirnes ter the death of the business was car nnes in ed on by nee covered by Q. Who & gin of the press: e, called by ca. supporied by organtmtions. for the Doring W basis ional origins” and explaining iis for onference addresses wil tor Reed of Pen: 3 Representative Albert Johnson, ch man of thy House commiitee on fmmi gration: Representative John C. Bax Texas and others sunporting origins” as h ta ortion foreign natio grants mto the United Stak NN tional origin 1930 bears to Peopls who Hott at of our 106418 t would thx L year of “white Hottentois® of 130,000 total of ted annual! 000 plus & few on a i te of " as the n 284 poy s are used n the ause there are non Lo of the principle ) the tnumigrar ame pe n ol o Wb Hottentois only be for o exoept The practic tonality w Prman and and natther Under the e quota adm M2, under the g nationatity A Wil De anty 20008 ereased from 18) to BRIV from 438t LAY The A e (raat Rt At and northern Treland & 34001 uider the new basts 11 will he 8313 Ihe old quota of Free Stale AT mnd 1w (R RN Baly will b fam 3 88 WA DOW I Operati TOW Giermany VA AR s hased Aus Clerman W Hun an. 1 e o mereased this readivatiment of aw will e e SHICKed quotas alsa onn Aenien and att OHET ARCHICARL voun s Canada which have hitherto been on A DRI st The Juopasal fo restriot Mexlean - MIETATAR By the quata principle has atoused the Witler oppasition of Cwt A Beat PRisers. WRD Nave bean ae custamed 1o emplaving Mexican paan abor i meeding and hasvesting the Avide from Quotax. e bew anything that is a matter of fact | weluding | | enacted requiring prophylactic treate riwzz of the eyes of new-born babies? A. Dr. Lucien Howe was responsible for ths first law on preventing nph- thalmia neonatorum, the Howe Law, pazied in 1890 in New York State. Similar laws making it obligatory for midwives. doctors and nurses to report. promptly ail cases of nphthaimia neona- torum coserved and a law requiring the use of prophylactic drops in the eves 1 new born babies have since been cted in almost every State in tne jon. ng- t0 speak Englien A. There are fewer than 800 pe in the city who can not speak En Q. Who were the men s regards |5 the greatest id why’—J A. B. A: Jesus nee of all rdze Bacon new, istic of Amer: ity of opportus the chance of t home to reach t Q. In what feaths occur from auton an a_person borrow mons the Federal Fa Loan S h which to buy a K he privileges of the Federal Farm Loan System are available oniy to farmers. The Government does not make loans to persons to enable them t purchase farms. Q. Why is it so hard to get canned a fish that is white?—C. H. 8. -au of Fisheries says that kinds of fish in tk may bs properly on period hed ame 1 | thannal |t e \ iy > Dave Aandaies of & dertan v And e sach of anethe ried A theve e and ane of was Aty v the 2 per cont of each VMETANT RATARVAIY et 8 & o TR e natives W ariginal fouadess o Ne COMIIEY Wit s Al AW W10 Tace with IURgTaNS W aher ¢ vaven, WILHOUE & MOPURL Of codwaa AT AN ANGENS The tew dass o NAlnAl G ks will lake Wi e one IR L neRt the deseiidts 1 af e Angh Savan siters of he SRNIANIN CONTUTY A% Well as the Wt Rranis of the dooade sadig I 18N shown By the census of 1aN FOonveeht 1838 b Pawt ¥ Caliaad