Evening Star Newspaper, January 22, 1928, Page 30

f'HE EVENING STAR Edition. With Sunday Morning itlon. WASHINGTON, D.C. SUNDAY.......January 22, 1028 THEODORE W. NOYES. .. .Editor o The Evening Star Newspaper Company g Pt Oftve: 11th 8t and Penneyivania Ave, New York Office: 110 Wast 43nd 84, Chicago Office: Tower Building. Ruropean Office: 14 Ragent St. ndon, England. Rate by Carrier im the City. The Evening Star . 43¢ per month 60¢ per month With her S¢ per month The Sundar ... Be per copy Collection made at the T each month Orders mav be sent in by mail or telephone. Main 5000. Rate ..{h Mail—Payable in Advance. ryland and Virginia. Daily and Sunday. £0.00; 1 mo., T8¢ Daily only .. 000 1 mn g S 300 1 mo. Sunday only ANl Other States and Ca iy and Sunday..1 $1200: 1 <lye S1yre nada. iy only . Sunday only . Member of the Associated Press. The Associated Press 13 exclusively entitled 0 the use for republication of ali d atches cradited o 1t or not otherwive cred ted in fhis paper and also the loval news poblished hersn ATl rights of pub) ©f apecial dispatchos herein The Municipal Center Site. Gratifying progress is being made in the matter of providing the District government with a municipal center for its official activities. The National | Capital Park and Planning Comumis- sion has approved the plan for the cen- tralization of all the District official activities within a specified area. It has at the same time voiced its opinion that the area proposed for this purpose be | enlarged beyond that originally sug-| gested, to carry the western boundary of the site of the group of buildings | to Seventh street, instead of Sixth. This heretofore has been urged by The Star. on the ground that it would provide a more symmetrical group-site and would insure ample space for the future needs of the local government. As the commission has now recom- mended. the area will extend from Pennsyivanis avenue on the south to Louistana and Indiana avenues on the | north, and from Third street on the east to Seventh street on the west. This will give the municipal center vir- tually a park setting. On the east it will be flanked by the Capitol-Station plaza, on the north by Judiciary Square, on the south by the great Government building site, treated in general as a park, and on the west by the open area formed by the conjunction of Pennsyl- vania avenue with Louisiana avenue, which has for many years been known It is important that adequate room | be provided for not only immediate but possible future municipal needs. The | THE SUNDAY try, which will then be set aside as per- | may act in restraint of trade is not fol- manent refuges for the migratory birds. | lowed abroad and some foreign govern- The bill also provides that in certain [ ments have assumed the direct control circumstances, as, for example, & pos- [ of certain valuable commodities, as fl- sible increase of migratory game birds [ lustrated in the British rubber and the on any o. these areas to such an ex- | Chilean nitrate monopolies. The result tent that the birds are in danger from , has been that the American consumers ickness or starvation from overcrowd- | have been placed at the mercy of these ing, restricted portions may be operied | monopolies and have paid the cost. to the use of the public as shooting Prices have not followed the natural grounds under carefully devised reg-|law of supply and demand, but have ulations. It is believed that the pas- | been arbitrarily set by fictitious proc- sage of the bill will insure for all time | esses. The purpose of the Newton bill a reasonable abundance of the game,|is to permit American consumers of song and insectivorous birds that are [ raw rubber, for instance, to combine classed as migratory. This is entirely |and to centralize their purchases in accord with promises made to Great | through one agency. This, it is belleved, Britain under the terms of the|would lessen the speculation by indi- migratory bird treaty, the provisions of | vidual importers, which has done much which agreement this country has never | to increase the cost of rubber io all fully carried out. Canada has already | of them, and at the same time would established many such sanctuaries | permit the accumulation of surpluses | Where the feathered travelers sojourn |to be released strategically on the do- during the warm months. mestic market if an unwarranted rise Not alone those who consider the|in price were threatened from abroad. | birds of the shore and water in their | In such combination there also lles the e essential character of game birds to be | possibility of concerted action. toward taken for food and for the recreation | the development of new sources of sup- their pursuit affords, but every person | ply, which after all is the most effec- residing on the continent is benefited | tive weapon for the destruction of any by an abundance of birds. A progres- | monopoly. sive action by the Government once | The bill provides safeguards against and for all to place this resource beyon:i | the manipulation of prices in the United the influenc: of abuse and neglect | States and intrusts to the Federal should have the support of every | Trade Commission the duty of prevent- American. The proposed action is|ing the abuse of privileges conferred. timely, and in dealing with a thing 0 | It further provides for the dissolution delicately complex and so fatally sen-|of some of the trade combinations sitive to the bruises inflicted by con- [should the foreign monopolies with iacts with the industrial world, delays | which they are concerned cease to ex- well be fatal. It is to be hoped the |the benefits of combined resources and come a law. the ultimate consumer so often assocl- i i B ated therewith. Mr. Hoover made clear The Canal Builder. in his testimony last week that the pur- In 1907, after five years of work in | POse of the bill is not to inaugurate a the construction of the Panama Ca trade war. As a possible protective de- undertaken by the United States. dis- | Vice it should be supported. satisfied with the rate of progress and hE—— convinced that a change of organization Billions of Pennies. WAS necessary to effect speedy and effi-| What becomes of the pennies? Who tlent work on the Isthmus, President |uses them nowadays, in these times of Roosevelt decided to establish the head- | high prices?> Why are they coined? quarters of the epnstruction commission | These questions are asked frequently by from Washington to Panama Changes | people to whom the nickel is the least in the personnel of the commission were | denominator in the economic problem. made. The chairman and chief engi- | The answer is not far to seek. Millions neer resigned and others were named | of pennies are spent daily in the pur- in their stead. This, the fourth com- | chase of newspapers. That is one use mission appointed to carry on the great | to which the little brown coin is put. work, was headed by Lieut. Col. George [ And Uncle Sam does & large business W. Goethals of the Engineer Corps of in retail stamp selling at one and two the Army. He was not conspicuously | cents each. But there is another use known. He had performed faithfully | that calls for an immense volume of and efficlently many tasks in the line of | this form of money. According to a his duty and was recognized as an en- | report just issued by the General Vend- gineer of ability and an administrator | ing Corporation, which maintains slot of exceptional competence. When he | machines all over the country for the went to Panama to take over the un- |sale of chewing gum, candy and other finished work, it was the expsctation | small package goods, no less than three that it would be completed by the first |[and a hailf billlon pennies passed of January, 1915. through its machines in 1927. It is Col. Goethals took hold of this great | now estimated by the Treasury De- work without making any pubiic procia- | partment, note is made in this connec- mations of purpose, seve that he was|tion, that about 4,721287,000 pennies going, with the aid of his associates of | are in circulation. Hence, in view of the commission, to finish the job as|the various functions of the penny in | quickly as possible. The foundations |daily trade, it is obvious that the same | for the giant construction had bsen well | coins pass through the machine siots inid, and he proceeded o bulld upon | more than once during the year. It them. The sanitary problems had been | Would seem, therefore, that the penny largely solved by the remarkabile labors | i8 one of the most actively circulating of Col. Willlam C. Gorgas, who con- | mediums of exchange in this country. are certain to be costly and may very | ist. Enactment of the bill would permit | migratory bird conservation bill will be- | cfort without the resulting danger to tinued 2s a member of the commission. The vitally necessary requirement was to keep the working force steadily on the job, to avoid frictions, to make the most of every day and every machine and every man. As a result of the efficiency of the | Goethals commission—in very great part, indeed, of the skill and executive ability of Col. Goethals himself—tihe |canal was completed almost a year ahead of schedule. This achievement astonished the world, for it had pre- viously been the experience in great | undertakings of this character that they lsgged far behind expectations. By application of the principles of Army organization and co-operation the technical problems were solved as rapidly as they arose. With very little undertaking went forward, and when nite start on the work of providing the | the end came and the waters of the District with a permanent and sufficient | two oceans were mingled, the people of home for all its activities, present and | this country rejoiced exceedingly on the 3 | score of a perfect piece of work accom- plished by an American engineer. Yesterday Grorge W. Goethals died portant engineering works He had nations whose people have Miwnunuedmkuln active life, and it | quarreling among themseives when the |18 & shock to learn of his passing at | eggressions of an outside power scem the age of sixty-nine years. To him | formidable may be repested in the case | Will high tribute be paid by a gratetul | of China. | country. He exemplified in his quiet S R e ot R R e | seceptance of all assignments, even the America stil knows how to welcome | §restest that could be given o & mem- & distinguished visitor. Courteous en- | ber of his profession, without hesitation thusissm s not lmited to those who OF queston or condition, the spirit of errive by airplane | accomplishment and service that has il g - alvays marked the American Army. 1 Progress in Bird Protection. | "'"‘l ; “m':’ m'fl 'd'm a monu- Actual e, in the fleld of | ment to SRS ymimory ol e o s T s e e e exl 3 'way that measures 1o reduce the killing of completed, and that today i doing an | ‘Those who a few years ago protested that the placing of the head of Abra- ham Lincoin on the penny was not in keeping with his place in the hearts of the people, may be com- figures give that the little Lincoln coin is by no means a negligible quantity of American specle. ———— e ‘There have been » few statesmen in this city who might have set a valuable precedent by having a supply of apolo- gles in blank form to be filled out and signed as occasion required. B S S An amicable separation in case of domestic disagreement is now favored by those of wealth and social position. The idea of a trial divorce seems rather sensible. ———eattes President Coolidge reminds Latin America of the friendliness of the U. 8. A. The hostile attitude is no longer of practical use in diplomacy. T e — 80 much a lubricant as an frritant. R SHOOTING STARS. BY PHILANDER JOHNSON. Awakening. Old Mister Bun—he comes a-smilin’ through the cloud. He got himself an almanac. He's feel- in’ purty proud. He says “The Winter's passin' an' it ain’t so much to blame; I'm tryin' to be patient an’' you gotto do the same!" Old Man Bun—he says, “There's lot of work 1o do, The birds will have to learn a song while flowers bloom anew; And as the year goes on its way we have 10 play the game, ;“m"‘“ "_':;m": witd ards ung | Custom by giving Mr. Cosgrave the keys g’ {of the city and reminding him that animals is & reqtirement of even greater ol i his 1 get up earller every day. You better Disereet Exclusiveness. | “You have become rather | alve exclu- forted by the assurance which these | In the world of big finance, oll is not | STAR, WASHINGTON. Texts “Are not Abana and Pharpar, rivers of Damascus, better than all the waters of Israel? May I not wash in them and de clean?” I Kings, v.12). “Substitutes.” This was the angry word of the field marchal of the Syrian hosts, Naaman by name. He had been stricken with an incurable malady, namely. leprosy, the scourge of his race. From a little captive mald he had heard that there was a man in Isracl by the name of Elisha, a prophet of God, who was cred- ited with working miraculous cures. With curiousity mixed with credulity, he had made his way to the humble abode of the prophet. He had sent his messenger in to apprise him of the fact that the great marshal of the Syrian hosts was at his gate. He had bidden him come ous to him. a !nf'hw greet and pay homage to him, Elisha had sent a brief message, telling him that if he would go to the River Jordan and there dip himself seven times, he would have the needed cure. In indignation and anger he turned from the prophet’s door. He spurned the prescription Elisha gave him. He would not deign to enter the muddy waters of the Jordan. great streams of his own beloved Damascus were infinitely more appealing. infinitely more powerful. It was because he felt that he had been hum.liated that he turned from the sluggish waters of the Jordan, declaring: “Are not Abana and Pharpar, rivers of Damascus, bstter than all the waters of Israel? May I not wash in them and be clean?” It was only when a humble servant ven- tured to admonish him, saying, “If the prophet had bid thee do some great thing, wouldest thou not have done it? How much rather, then, when he saith to thee, Wash, and be clean.” that he obeyed. The whole incident is fllus- trative of a common practice of life. We are ever seeking substitutes. We course prescribed for us unless it com- mends itself to our good taste and judgment. Remedies of long-standing value that have been widely tested and approved we are unwilling to accept be- cause they seem too simple. They may lack the touch of modernism that we demand; they may be good for the un- thinking and simple-minded: they are too utterly puerile to commend them- selves to our way of thinking. This i strikingly true as it concerns our re- ligious life. In nothing are we more FACTS ABOU all cities in the United 25,000 population or more have parks, according to a report short- Iy to be made public. Millions of people, however, in small towns have access neither to parks nor playgrounds, and other millions in cities are inadequate- ly provided with these places for re- laxation and recreation. Of the cities of 25,000 or more, only 42 come up to the accepted standard of having one acre of parks to a hundred or fewer inhabitants. In all, 1681 municipalities have an aggregate of nearly 250000 acres of parks and forests. More than a billion dollars have been expended in acquir- ing and developing these properties for the people, and a hundred million dol- lars are spent each year in malntain- ing them. ‘The report is the result of a Nation- wide survey made, at the Instance of the National Conference on Outdoor Recreation, by the Playground and Recreation Assoclation of America in co-operation with the American Insti- tute of Park Executives, and two years | were devoted to the study. Tt is to be published with a foreword by President | Coolidge in which he says: “Play for the child, sport for youth and recreation for adults are essentials of normal life. It is becoming generally recognized that the creation and main- tenance of outdoor recreation facilities is a community duty in order that the whole public might participate in their enjoyment. “This presents a particular challenge to municipal and county administra- tions. I am hopeful that the results of this study may be widely used to the end that our people, even in cities, may not be deprived of opportunities for wholesome play and recreation out of doors. President Coolidge addressed the first session of the Natlonal Conference on Outdoor Recreation three years ago, and on that occasion emphasized the necd of a national recreation policy. The survey which has now been concluded was an essential preliminary to th | working out of such a policy. The Ten Largest Parks. — Pairmount Park, Philadelphia, with | an acreage of 3,881, heads the list of 10 largest city parks In the United State: as shown by the report. Grifith’s Park, | Los Angeles, 3.751 acres, ranks second. and Bidwell Park, Chico, Calif, 2,391 | acres, comes third. The others, in thel |order -and with their acreages, are as follows Pelham Bay Park. New York City, 1.756: Rock Sreek Park, Washington D. C. 1,632; New City Park, New Or- leans, 1,410; Balboa Park, San Diego. 1,400; Forest Park, 8t. Louls 1371. B8 Park, Kansas City, 1333, and rd Park, Meriden, 300, New York City, with 10,178 acres of parks, has the largest such area of any American city, but the report states that the park growth of the national metropolis has not nearly kept pace with the growth in population. The bi; city has but one acre of parks to 563 in- m‘n.nu. whereas it should have one acre to 100 or fewer inhabitants, ac- cording to the standard of which meu- tion has been made. Minneapolis the leading park city of major size in the country. With one-half New York's park acreage and but a fraction of its population, Minneapolis has one acre to every 80 Inhabitants. “With 132 .&p. rate properties,” says the report, “Min- Instead of com- | N are habitually unwilling to follow the | made. | i8 cited by the report as D. C. JANUARY 22 EVERYDAY RELIGION BY THE RIGHT REV. JAMES E. FREEMAN, D. D., LL. D., Bishop of Washington credulous than in sccepting the rem- erles that are provided and compounded for our moral ills and weaknesses. ~All that we seem to demand is that they shall be novel and modern. We are living in a time in which this is con- spicuously true. On every hand we are confronted with those who are setting up new systems and propounding new ways for curing old ills. We not only “commit the oldest kind of sins in the newest kind of ways,” but we are so obsessed with the | idea that the remedies for human ills shall be new, spectacular and appeal- ,1‘2& that we readily give over and for- e old systems that have through the long ages proved efficacious. It is some- times amazing to note how multitudes of otherwise sensible men and women permit themselves to be duped by sub- stitutes rather than adhere to recog- nized systems that both experience and observation have indorsed and approved. ote the many new forms of religious cults that are abroad today in the land. Note the multitudes that seem ready and responsive to these new so-called “ethical systems.” Note again the tragic faflures that result from depart- ure from the old and tested ways of human redemption and regeneration. open highways of the world today offer- ing to men and women of every class and kind those mighty principles of liv- ng that have to do with their moral well-being and enrichment. While the strident and clamorous voices of modern | teachers are crying their wares, this | great Master of Nazareth still waits to give to men that which redeems and |saves to the uttermost. His voice is still heard crying its plaintiff message, “Come unto Me all ye that labor and |are heavy laden and I will give you rest.” He is still seeking to bring to the troubled mind of man that which heals and restores, that which gives as- | surance and enduring peace. ever drinketh of the water tl glve him_shall never thirst,” He pro- claims. The remedy seems too simple. We would seek one whose message is more colorful. vho clothes it in strange | and mystic words: “Abana and Phar- |par are better than all the waters of Israel.” "Substitutes everywhere, and a world of men and women turning from the divine Lord, ever seeking for that Which satisfies and renews. When shall | We come to learn that greater than all 'Whoso- t I shail | human institutions that men have de- | | vised Is this one supreme and sovereign | Master, who is seeking to give to man- {kind, in all its fullness, the more ' abundant life? CITY PARKS BY FREDERIC ). HASKIN. mark, while Fort Worth, Colorado Springs, Tulsa and Houston have acre- | to teac! ages in excess of 2,000. Minneapolis, Ok- lahoma Ciiy and Spokane each has more than 1,000 acres in such outlying areas In the matter of playgrounds, New York City has the largest number with 374 Philadelphia has 193: Los Angeles, 173: Chicago. 131; Baltimore, 109; Washington, 108: St. Louls, 97; Boston, 90: Cleveland, 77, and Detroit, 67. Demand for sunlight and air and recognition of the importance of recrea- tion to the safety. health and happi- ness of children are the dominant rea- | sons for the development of modern park and recreation sysiems, the report states. ‘The love of beauty and the biological urge to physical activity are the other factors. After the first wise planning of public uares and commons by the founders of Spanish American cities. by the New England forefathers. by William Penn in Philadelphia, by = Oglethorpe i fa and by others, Americans 1seemed to have forgotien the necessity of providing open spaces. Their awak- |ening came in the 80s and 90s. and | |they " found then that such spaces within city limits were rapidly disap- pearing. During the lasi 25 years the movement for parks has proceeded rapidly. | "Now the task for the American peo- iple,” concludes the report, “is o se- cure the space in each municipality | necessary to permit everybody to get out and live in contact with nature, {to enjoy the direct rays of the sun {and breathe ‘rure air at least part of |the time, and to enjoy activities that will benefit the great fundamental | muscles of the body.” | Tariff Measures for Benefit of Farmers BY HARDEN COLFAX. Although the demands for legislation ! especial benefit to agriculture have turned attention sharply to customs duties, reports this week that a serious effort is to be made toward passage of |an emergency tariff act to increase the | rates on farm products alone, similar to | | the action In 1921, appear to be consid- | erably In advance of the fact. | 1f an agreement could be reached by | majority of the members of each | . branch of Congress to open the tariff act for revision only of agricultural | rates, a survey of the situation indicates | that a bill to that end would be given | the right of way speedily. But no such | imitation agreement appears possible, and the subject therefore enters the fleld of age-los policy in general. ‘The action of the House this week in declining to refer o its ways and means committee the Scnate resolution favor- | Ing tariff revision for the benefit of agri- culture, Including & reduction of some schedules on manufactured goods, is re- garded as conclusive evidence that no rlenl tarift bill i3 to be entertalned uring the present session. More than 40 bills seeking Increases in the tariff rates on agricultural prod- ucts have been introduced in the House since Decomber 3. besides measures |looking toward revision of other cus- | toms duties. LRI Under the existing conditions, two The sovereign Master of Life is on the | j in | controversy over tarift | 1928—PART 2. An excellent copy of the large wall painting of “The Surrender of Lord Comwallis” at Yorktown, Va. October 19, 1781, by John Trumbull, in the Ro- tunda of the Capitol, has just been pre- Moore of Virginia to Willlam and Mary College at Willlamsburg, Va., to be added to that college’s collection of co- lonial portraits and paintings, which is one of the best gallerles of its kind in existence. It is an appropriate setting for this picture because this entire reglon Is historically reminiscent of the Corn- wallis campalgn, and E. G. Swem, li- brarian of Willlam and Mary, has re- cently completed extensive research whl::ell throws new light on Cornwallis’ route. The painting presented Repre- sentative Moore was mule:yy a e::yt competent artist for the late Senator Brandegee and purchased by Mr. Moore after Senator 's col- lection had been broken up. It is to hang in the new model dining hall at the college. ~President Chandler of that institution has written to Mr. Moore that the picture “arrived in splendid condition. 1t is a very beauti- ful picture, and we are e de- lighted to have it. We are pianning to hang it In our new dining hall, where uel::! be enjoyed by all of the stu- The portraits of the French officers shown in the Trumbull painting were obtained in Paris in 1787 and painted | the house occupled by Thomas Jeffer- m"\?fll‘::nu.r‘l:lm States. and Mary College is the first college in the United States In its antecedents, which go back to the col- lege proposed at Henrico in 1619. It in actual operation. It was the first American colleg: to receive its charter from the crown under the seal of the | privy council in 1693. It is the first and only American college to receive | a coat of arms from tne Herald's Col- lege, in 1694. It is the first college in the United States to have a full faculty consisting of a sident, six professors, usher and wrif master in 1729. It is the first college to confer medallic prizes, the gold medals being donated by Lord Boutetourt, whose statue has stood for more than a century in the ltgx’l.l'mflmnry unded 3 It was the first college to m::ul‘:l honor system. Chief Justice John Marshall and Thomas Jefferson were students there, and George Washing- ton got from the college his commis- | slon as surveyor and was later its chancellor. Leaders in the Nawonal Government have during recent years taken a great interest in this pioneer college, which was the first colr‘ e to have a school { of constitutional law. in 1779, and first h political economy, in 1784. LI The National Gallery of Art is plan- | ning for an interesting exhlbmonpnen | mext year from which to select a group | of pictures to be tly retained }II; m:dNt-nMI . _This was ex- | plaing A statement Dr. C. G. Abbot before the House bylmpflauom ‘comAmmu: A gentleman by the name of Ranger died some years ago and left to the National Academy of Design, in New York. his fortune for the purchase of | art works, to be assigned the na- scholarship was for | In different quarters of the country. | Some of them have come here. The provision is that at any time between 10 and 15 years after the death of the | rtist the National Gallery coul | —for the National Gallery. There have | been 66 of those Ranger paintings ob- tained: and of those, !wuen: National Gallery, ed by this com- sented by Representative R. Walton |the by Trumbull from the living men in | creased son, who was then Minister to France | 8| is second only to Hurvard University | | tional academy to public art galleries (S BY BEN McKELWAY. The controversy over removal of the 63 colored tuberculous children from School to the | ‘Toner School which raged so vindictively be- | fore the Board of Education until set- | tied last week was neither fundamen- | tal nor far-reaching. It was merely a superficial issue which could have been expected and may continue to be ex- pected until the District awakens to a realization of its responsibilities and | goes deep Into the whole matter of the care of these child vietims of a tragedy .that has placed their hope of salvation | in the hands of the community. It is a problem which has received too little attention in the past. The man- ner in which it is being handled to- | day is not conducive to praise. It | shows some of the effects of that form of economy which consists in making one dollar do the work of two. And | it brings into sharp relief the question of whether the District is following the right road now, or whether it should abandon this road and head in another | direction. R | The compulsory education law re- ' quires attendance at school between ! the ages of 7 and 16. In order to| segregate tuberculous children and pro- vide for their education st the same time, the health schools, one for white and one for colored, were established in 1917. While the number of pupils at- schools has been in- used in an attempt to cover the of 150 children, with the prospect that this number will tend to increase rather than decrease before the end of the i i | sebool on Allison between Thirteenth and Fourteenth streets, there is lack- ing. as a result, such necessary equip- ment as cots. Part of the daily rou- tine at the school is a 45-minute nap by the pupils in a large and whole- somely clean dormitory with plenty of sunshine and fresh air. beca: there is no money available for addi- tional cots. nine old rickety canvas cots, ed as unfit for service, have Capital Sidelights |CARE OF TUBERCULOUS CHILDREN REAL PROBLEM FOR THE'DISTRICT over 12 years old may be admitted 1o the Tuberculosis Hospital, there is no children's ward there and it is ques- than good. ation f ":w cf lor losis. this Prevention of Tubercu- has advocated the establishment of a preventorium, or sanatorfum, for the treatment of tuberculous children i, SR e e . ith Department take over the white health school on Allison street and make of it a preventorium and school, to provide 24-hour care for children who need it and at the same time supply the education of such chil- dren who now attend the heaith school and live at home. Although the need of such an institution has been r t- edly brought to the atiention of the puN‘ :e authorities, nothing has come of it. It must be remembered that, as pres- ently constituted, the health schools under the public school system are not institutions for the treatment of tuber- culous ¢l . They reflect but credit upon the school of- iclals. But it remains, as demon- strated by the experience of the Sum- mer health camps conducted by the Tuberculosis Association. that 24-hour care of children accomplishes much more than is possible in health schools that ;IV? m r:fldren in charge for only 5 of s 24 hours. Con- ditions “ LT ] g >F | : i mittee. It is hoped c; the committee glhffl:tlrywbfllfllflfl(m“ nger ntings together. compare Ilhem. and see which of them the Na- | tional Gallery will eventually wish to | Procure. It costs something like $1,000 for the out in- surancc and the like, so that it is likely in another year we shall ask an -mmwuunn of a thousand dollars for t purpose.” y % e . | The other day when lhhem Interior De- | | beth’s Hospital and Dr. William A | §rEE i i & This and That By Charles E. Tracewell. Sometimes we have tried to figure | out what life must look like to the house cat, but 1t is & hard thing to do | White, the superintendent. He was in- | | t by uent nally asked to yilq Shallenberger of N Blanton said. “I uestions, and | by sentative | When Mr. | yield to the gentle- | man, but I do not want to be diverted | from St. Elizabeth's,” his colleagues howled with laughter. i LR The “Little Qiant” of Democracy. | “Pighting Jack™ Qarner of Texas, Dem- ocratic floor leader, lows “My friend Treadway. to use an Automobile cxpression, has one of the | largest hoods and the loudest horns | with the least horsepower that I ever | heard of tn my Iife.” e George O'Connor. everybody's friend | In Washington and who as a business | conducts the Washingion Title Insur- | ance Co, Nt up an interesting | point the other day In_conversation | with Representative’ R. Walton Moore of Virginia, in whose distriot i Washington used to be a consideral land owner. Mr. O'Coanor states that George Washington's will does not give Wuwwmamwb«mau jumbdia, where Washington owned quite a bit of real estate, because it had only two witnesses, and the law at that tme required three withesses. | pounds and decreausing the rate on mill [feed from 13 to Ty T cent ad owing to the inability of man to know what goes on behind those two wise eyes. senses of smell and sight than we have, therefore the world to them must be odors and flit- A no! sachusetts, whom he described as fol- | nothing stance, he of tion whatever the from which scraped. The dark colored paper ha removed, the white plaster in_great contrast. We watched Jack when he first the room. after the change. no attention whatsoever to white wally, but went immediately the window. and hopped upon the as is his custom A Efforts to make Spratt “se" the hange in color resulted in naught. in far as observers could tell. Perhaps eyes realised the difference. as it i o 1t i w. Perhaps objects are brig . but hardly more. to our furry friends T 5 1 i i i j | ! § 5 i E | é : i 2 i i i i P i | ¥ i 13 [l 5 Eg tH & L3 g g:xi § i § Ei,g i Fifty Years Ago In The Star Half a century ago a movement was on fool to scure & bettsr farm of A Bill for Better City Government. % vE¥ o alization that had develo the mm ok drawn in the Pennsvivanis effect Washed postage stamps were much i use half a century ago. & way having deen found by wrongly - :)owmntn: w\o 'u:‘ :: laundry process. mmssu:l‘m‘ s an account of the neapolis has one of the outstanding park systems In the United States, with re- spect to per capita acrenge, types and fl'!‘:trlbulkm of ths parks, character of development and quality of main- wance.” uary 18 1878, Importance than game-law enforce- e i = A4 ) est i Balttmare of & woman of this D. Rockefeller | , - Unvoldabie, ment. This is a truth of especial sig- Dificance o those who are Interesied in nmfl:’;flfl' 0t oo kDR ocks ‘way | BOrEHUm Maintaining America’s splendid WPIY [ ) giigin o highly sucosssful old ags | of waterfowl, for these birds cannot |, oy ol L survive 11 deprived of the wet land ’ b regions. Drainage, drought snd the . conversion of water areas in the United | Foreign Trust Busting. Btates for indusirial or other purposes ; The theory underlying the Newton | ere influences that have reduced the 8nd Jones bilis permitting formation of | feeding. breeding and restng grounds American import trade combinations s | courses are open to those who would | Al the elaborate distinctions, the & g | valorem‘The rate on butter has been on the charge of stamp washong | use the Import duties as a vehicle for | ! values which men have bufit up over | Increased from & to 12 cents & pound: . . Drlc </ pound. and that on Swiss ¢l from g z | nigned (0 ralwe prices of farm pmducl*', vents per pound, but not less than 23| He has no means of distinguishing l“':d“f\rh'm.rmumn dut ahe. @ Of the larg @@ three citles In the coun- | 1 the domestic market to the height | 51500 i valorem, to 7', cents per | Detveen a chair that costs $10 and one | wind o e, Skipped over o R { world dnrlvrl plus the tarift dutles, | B¢ that costs $130. The softness of the tmore, where the arrest was made [ try, Phitadeliflia makes the best show- | "o oder through the opevations of | Pound. but not less than 371, per cent T ihle. of Seems that the lelter carrers W | Ing with repect to per capita park, (e fiexible tariff, administered by the | d valorem. b | acreage. ‘The city boasts more than | qite” o, The commission reported a'so on | 8000 acres, Including, of course. Fair- | 14T Compmon as the agent of the |, ot gividing tn s views as to costs . the largest eity park in the United | i Qi (RETRRS ST of production, with the majority of the Chicago owns less than 8,000 | “rn i affort to enable the Tariff Com- | Members reporting recominending o de- but they are exceptionally well | yugion to keep more abreast with the | CYease, but the sident declined to answered Benator 8ot mynself a high-power Intellectual press agent. 1 couldn't at- [tempt an Intimate explanation of hel' the stuff he's putting over.” Reasoning, “Bhe knows her onlons!"” Let us look With reverence, that it takes & trust o “bust & trust” b sinithe ook of wild fow] 1 & far grester degree than | many of us realize, and our water hirds | #pre sctuslly in serious danger from | trol the supply and price of important tntse causes. Future generations may commodities consumed in the United well find resson o cnlielze our | Blates bas on more than one occasion Blewardship 1f through negligence or brought bitter words to the tongue and spathy we fail st e Ume W take the ! salty tears to the eyes of Mr. Hoover wmple precautions necessary Lo _save | because of the resulting drain upon the end perpetuste our wild ducks e ;mnwuon of his fellow citizens. The keese and all the hosts of waterfow] | Newlon bill, in support of which Mr. that are & national resource of unique | Hoover and Mr. Jardine testified last Soterest and value. | week st the Capitol, 1s an stlempt o Fortunstely the problem s well | do something about it. It would exempt veoognized, eand Congress has now | (rom some of the provisions of the Sher. wnder consideration a measure designed ' man and Claylon anti-trust acts trade 10 remedy the situstion before it is 100 | combinations for the Importation of Jate ‘The bill introduced in the House | commodities not produced in the United by Representative Anthony and in the Slates, or hose controlled by foreign Beuste by Benstor Norbeck te known to | monopolies, such a8 rubber, sisal, potash, conservationists &8 the migratory bird | ete. The legislation follows the prece eonservation act Unde:r the provisions of the bill the | which permitied the formation of ex- Peders) Government, in co-operstion | port trade combinations, Witk the Blates. will purchase or Jease | ‘The American principle of free com- MR teble lands in sl perte of Lhe couns peUlion a8 BgYnst combinations which The fact that foreign monopolies con- | dent of the Webh-Pomerene act of 1918, | Jud Tunkins says a man naturally | lkes to worry, 1f other things are going fairly well he talks sbout his g0l score In Confdential Candor, “Whats your idea of farm rellef?" “Enough pull” answered Farmer Corntossel, “to get political jobs for all my relatives.” ‘“The anclent ancestors on whom we depend so much,” sald Hi Ho, the sage of Chinatown, “too often fgure in new ffairs as poor relations.” Werds and Musie, When anarchists, which each dreads, Jump into current news, |1 hate 10 Maten to those “reds.” 1'd rether hear the blues “1 ain' Jookin' foh trouble” sald Uncle Eben. “Dar's plenty ‘nuf’ look- ' foh me," ] man acl developed and maintained and are ex- tennively used for recreation. Chicago is fortunate, also, In having ac her out- skirta the Cook County Forest Preserve of 31,600 wores. Bpeaking of the park acreage of the citles In general, L. H. Welr, who di- rected the survey, says that all of them are still far from belng adequately pro- vided with space. He cites as an exam- ple, the olties in the group of 100,000 to 260,000 tlon, only uix of which tutv- par] eage up Lo the standard rato, Clty Parks Outalde City Limits. The widespread use of the automoblle - adjunct to recreation has led many municipalities to acquire parks outside their ltmits, and a able distance in several oa: - port shows that 100 cities have already and others are acquiring large parks and forest ar Phoe Ma purpose, having 15,080 ngle traot, while Denver leads In the number of outalde prop- erties 44 with & of 10,207 Boulder, © | erties”of 0122 ac Dallas, Tex, a 11 prop- Mont,, and ch above the 3,000 | demands upon its facilities, and obvi- ously having particularly in mind the '(M]In-nln for changes in rates of the agricultural achedules, the House this | week has been considering an appro- Cpriation bill carrying an incroase of | tunds for that agenc; | “The records of the commission. as Iatd before the House appropriations committee, show that applieations for changes In ratea on agricultural, or re- lated, products have N _NUMerous. Of 20 changea in tariff rates pro- claimed by the President under the flexihle tariff, 16 of which have been Increases and 4 decremses, 5 have been in the agricultural schedule, 4 being revislons upward and 1 & re- duction. The lone reduction in this sohedule was made In the duty on bob-white quall for the benefit of sportamen and met as ral\ml approval among the farmera as did the noreases on ofhar wnd more tmportant eom- moditles | ‘The wheat duty has heen ereased from 30 10 42 cents & bushel by the operations of the flexible tariff, the *ame order ralsing the tarift on four from 78 m-m.‘m o4 per A0 .« make a rl\u\flr A report was submit- ted also on lnseed ofl but this wis returned by the Executive for further information, which has not yet been lumllod. blio hearings on applications for | noreases in dul on milk and cream | and ononlons have been announced by the commission for February dates, dicating early action on these cases. Tnvestigations on corn, egus. Peanuts, pending 1t applications for ohanges affecting 49 commodities in has not acted because of lack of faell- itioa—34 belng for fnoreasea, 11 for de. crenses, 3 for both fncreases and de- creases and | for an adjustment Being confined 10 reporting on coats of production, the commission has found 1t more difioult to indicate & tarift rate than Congvess, for the law- MAKErs AR Ax & rate at any destred fAgure by arbitrary action Bt ak the same thne. the flexible taritt appears the main hope for ohanges In import duties on farm producta for the - mediate future Wonniabt 1048 - He s unable to enter into your satisfae- tion over the new lamp shade. or to| Ahare with you the fov over the acqui- | sltion of some vare . Wwhich seem 10 appreciate m rd of several that | z there, We have hea of the the agricultural schedule on which it | POY' i ot Apprehended oertaln rudimentary ways |v-:| Ris tride. He must have some the familiar, for the fl*l\lfll the m‘“‘hd furnlture aveustomet o whith he ves ¢loser (o o round than [ hu\«"bhhla Wt e vaster, his eyen han they sem 1o ws olher words, ' celling Wt appear § H RZE i H : O LT R (g e olvarest WIMRIW pane. or 1o DY Whe reflection Do aeed AL Mamsell he Noking glass \ ENARRLY . how the worlt appeacs Ay oends,. however. we Mt W ke cal pophed. who ahall de wilted WHR Whe power ol spoeed. and whe will Be abi o el W o pam mun-wlmaluml"