Evening Star Newspaper, January 23, 1928, Page 8

STAR { ro and well below. The only Aition. | ©31eh in it is that his system, through e e ——— | cons of exposure, hes uadergone corre- WASHINGTON, D.C. sponding variations in dietetic neces- January 23, 102 T oy With Sun it © Cikimo neceds meat and v of it three hundred and sixty- five days @ year. The tropical islander jor the equatorial African needs plenty {of fruits and vegotables. So with the caslan whon busincss forces him to Hlive in unusual places. Too much Qing with the atmosphere would cate gastronomic demands which perhaps might not supply. ormore, any breakdown in the nery would entail direful conse- " | quences to those who had become hard- o month | enod, or softened, as the case might be, W in | out of their previous conditions. seimoon All joking aside, the thing is logical, {and some d be a reality. At Rate by Mail—Payable in Advance. | mosp s a fluid, just s water is. Aarsiand and Virginia ! Not so many vears ago the late Alex- 237 | ander Graham Bell. compelled to spend 291y summer of hard study in heat- | Washington, resourcefully and ventilated his town house so that the tendency of cold air to seck |a lower level provided an efficacious s “coolth” which proved a | boon to him, his household and friends. " /Man has “conquered the air” in one sense; some day he may conquer it in - e = = }nv\n:hcr. and instead of packing up and : taking an expensive trip in search of Washington to Plead Again. | noneficial climate, may have it brought | zed Washington ap- ' to him by opening a switch or installing | re the ¥ ° committee on:a thermostat. ry to present a ition for —_ sentation for the District Crude Counterfeiting. the Elec- | The carelessness with which people | ge and for access to the | receive and handle currency is illus-| our will be de- | trated by the arrest just made in New | ¢ spokes of the communi- York of two members of a counterfeit- | atives of the ing zang who have been operating for | people of the States. |some time. A man and his wife have, ner the District for the it js known, been making and passing a constitutional amend- | imitation Federal notes since 1923. A t empowering Congress in its dis- | yvear ago they were arrested. On trial, cretion to grant national representa- the woman was sentenced to six tion to the Capital community stands months’ imprisonment for passing fake | fn the terms that have already been|notes aad the husband was freed, in- | stated on other occasions when xms’mu(.h as it was impossible to prove case has been presented to the COM- | definitely that he had manufactured | mitices of the House and Senate. Itithem They have just boen taken is a fundamental proposition. The ms'{ngn:n. the woman for passing and the | i of this District are Americanman for making the notes, which are citizcens only in theory and ask to be|cmyde imitations. The manner in| citizens in fact. They are denied the which these notes were traced is inter- | elementary right of participation INesting. The woman proprietor of a the making of their laws and in the| haherdashery store was surprised to| imposition of their taxes. Though|receive in “the course of business a more than half a million in number, | twenty-dollar bill. the vignette portrait they are excluded from all share in/on which was that of her own hus- e processes of government. {band, a Socialist politician who at the What is sought through this pres-|jast election ran as candidate for mu- ent petition is enfranchisement by |nicipal court justice. The note had virtue of which the Capital €Om- heen raised from a lower denomination munity may be represented in the leg- | The woman who took the bill reported isiative body which, under the Consti-| it to secret service agents, who trailed tution, excrcises exclusive legisiation | the former counterfeit passer, then at over it. Without asking for statehood | liberty after her jail term, and caught or for advancement to a position from her “with the goods.” They raided her which the District could be evolved into |apartment and found quantities of a State in the course of time, they seek | counterfeiting materials, including hun- the right of voice and vote in the body | dreds of photographs of former Presi- that enacts the laws under which they | dents of the United States and Gov- live and that determines their taxes|emment officials. The practice of the end directs the expenditure of the counterfeiters was to paste other por- money raised by taxation. | traits over those on the genuine notes This petition thus laid before Con- and by manipulation to raise the gress is practically the unanimous volce numerals to higher denominations. of Washington. The Joint Citizens' | Sirange as it may scem, these fakes Committee on National Representalion, | passeq as currency. The victims were which presents the petition, s COm- | mostly small shopkeepers. There is no posed of numerous organizations of | knowing how many of the notes were citizens, representative of various ac- | actually passed. Few people outside of the bank tell- ers and others whose business it is to factors of the joint committee number | watch money tokens carefully pay in their membership many thousands|much attention to the appearance of of Washingtonians. Faithfully and per-|the bill. The feeling and general ap- sistently and patiently they have been] pearance of the note will suffice in the seeking this grant of American right great majority of cases. Rarely is the years. As time has gone on and money token eyed for possible fraud plight of the Capital community It 15 taken for granted, that the bill been made known to the people of |is genuine, for counterfeiting is not Ttates—who in singular measure|now common, and, compared with we been unaware of the situation— | earlier times. very few spurious pieces the Washingtonians have been sup-|of currency are in circulation. But it by the indorsement of the resi- | does scem extraordinary that a bill dents of other parts of the country, | pearing the portrait of an obscure local at this present hearing an expres- politician should pass muster even in sion of this fecling of sympathy and | cmail-shop circles. Assuredly there partisanship for the now disenfran-|would be no incentive to counterfeiters chised District will be strongly given. |t work thelr fraud if it were not for Plans for the presentation of the the fact that people accept money to- District’s case tomorrow before the kens thoughtiessly and without stten- House committee on the judiclary have | tion ;;xtobdm: W. NOYES. .. .Editor ompany s A Ave ew York Ofliee 110 Fast 1304 St, e ks oM. Fower Budng T4 Kexent St London tand 1th pean Oftive the City. 43¢ per mo tay St G0 per o All Other Daily and Sund Daily only ] J o pported by repres !duced faithfully by loud spcakers. Per- THE . EVENING headway that will eause heavy destruce slon before the water can be applied. Every property owner should cause ¢ daily inspection to be made of the prem- | ises, whether domestic or business, to in- sure against accumulation of dangerous {trash. If the eity's removal service docs not suffice for a twenty-four-hour clear- ance other means should be provided !for ridding the premises of flame-invit- ing materials. The larger the place the more scrupulous should be this constant survey. o e A New Loud Speaker. The development of sound amplifica- tion during the past few years has beea | remarkable. Speakers addressing a large audlence; either indoors or out, have found it unnecessary to scream at the {top of their voices to be certain that | they are heard by all. Lately, the ordi- nary voice has been used and is repro- haps the most remarkable demonstra- tion of the development of these devices was given yesterday at Hoboken, when a small group of engineers spoke casual- ly into a field telephone which was con- nected with a loud speaker in the Bell laboratories & mile away across the Hudson River, and in five scconds their volces came booming back to them, clearly and without distortion. Although not a mnew invention, bui merely a concentration of the latest de- vices for sound amplification, the new speaker demonstrated yesierday that an audience of one million people could be addressed by a single person in an ordi- nary tone of voice and each one of the vast throng would be able to hear per- fectly what was said. Not only was the new speaker faithful in reproducing the ordinary voice, but the wife of one ot the engineers sang into a telephone in her home in Short Hills, and passengers on the terry boats and the crews ol ships in the crowded river traflic were astounded to hear ink to Me Only With Thine Eyes” come floating out over the river. So the day of the stentorian public speaker is gone. No longer will he saain his vocal cords o the utmost, at Jhe same tme gropng for a glass of water to reheve lae dryness in his .hroat occasioned by the great effort. Science has come 0 his a.d with the loud speaker, which is the disseminator of education, oratory and music. Visitors from abroad frequently give carly interviews in which the unsatis- sactory quality of avallabie beverages is incidentally mentioned. The informa- | don no doubts enables the better class of bootleggers to be prompt in supplying ihemselves with another name and address in a de luxe market. A truly ntelligent man knows how to manage his publicity even in matters of small | detail. — e The United States Senate has in time past been rather disrespectfully | referred to as a “millionaire’s club." But a man has to be something more than a millionaire in order to get in. ———————— A criminal instead of striving for concealment 1s now tempted to make | his offense as flagrant as possible; thereby making the work of the alienist easler. ——— Science has dignified some low-grade intelligence. A fool with a box of matches is referred to as a “pyro- mantac.” e« ‘The call “Down with the trusts!” has been superseded by “The more mergers | the merrier!” - Sandino still survives to demonstrate the truth of the adage “Threatened men live long.” | et A night club is regarded by some | eminent authorities as a plain demand for a curfew law. ——e SHOOTING STARS. BY PHILANDER JOHNSON, Winter Rhythm. Winter wind is blowin' strong With 8 mourntul tone, been fully and carefully made, and ft| It behooves all to give every bill is essured that the strongest possible | that comes % hand an examination, statement of the reasons for the adop- however brief. Most counterfeits are tion of the constitutional amendment, | poor imitations, and it takes but a from every point of view, will be of-|glance to cause them to be suspected. fered. It is expected that not only ali It is better to turn & doubtful bill back who are assigned parts in this program | with the possibility of offending the will attend, but that other Washing- person tendering it than to run the tonians will, by their presence, attest risk of loss. 10 the feeling which pervades the com- .. tha! is measure of justice to Many admiring Americans are desir- more than half 2 million of loyal Amer- ous of seeing Herbert Hoover organize iears, though long delayed, should now g politicel campaign on the lines of be granted high efficlency which he has so bril- | liantly demonstrated in other endeavors ———— It remained for Lindy to substitute me for the once famous “dove . g Btates that have ca Je afraid of tal punishment A Btate when crime feels the need of it. The mali- clous morcn has a shade of advantage in @ complicated argument ¢ e Trash and Fires. There 15 & growing tendency W con- - A fire that proved o be unimportant sider national popularity and regard Occurred in one of the street car barn the “favorite son” more or less as Jocs) | Uis city yesterday. An old con- emateur talent, demned car, which, i & stated, had = - survived two other blases in the same “Coolth” barn, burst into flame from some unde- Two Prenct termined The other cars were result of lengt ickly removed, and a conflagration retr averted through prompt end effec- “oold” w the tror ¢« wetion Investigation showed that own and the body of the car no longer In service Lot v oot Lad been used for te: storage of paper trgsh eollected ground the barn. 5t was & veritable tnder box This incident, which wis fortunstely w0t expensive, furnishes & Jesson which ould be prompuly beeded. The weal- ment of Uish of nflammable character &0 darge degres the messure of fire pre- ion. L sooree of places 10 this eIy s elewhere, retuse 1s permitted 1 ae cumulate instead of being promply re- oved toyed under sate condi- tons In eny large esteblishment all resti should be taken off the premd duly. or Incinersted 0 some speci) de- vite provided for that purpose 1 Guinestic premises s is of par- teutar dmportance. Burcable trash 1 e 16 buses, barrels sod prper cay and is often so located as 1o Nyl It as sometimes allowed 10 i Clos b 6 Turiace where 3t can b tewled unduly. I should be burned duily B ] - vee ' for Coloni the w sitious W eell ot nave Vil inetelied ¢ prine with pipe Lo ton Their mehod utilizetion of the @ wlure of s valer Tuere & no doubt that th eontaing plenty of ool snd of heat Wy much of €ther in certein regions 1 these men Ao whit Srrigetionats heve done wnd are Guing with e world's climate, ey will conter s boon o6 mankind not stated whethes the eonverse of thelr proposition s Gemonstyaile, i, by smiler methons. | s prebundsnt wermth fiom such re- gionz ws labor under st handicep eon be W Canads Biberie 8 Fhrough boen w6 )ust oquenLIly gerating eolonial po 4 based or ference [ o de 1 eventually dietiibuted 4 1o polsr regions nition manking has bear with vigor. though perha POt Wil comfort, Tenarkabls variat Miny Gres sre started by short cir- Gemperature. 30 jie beer seid Ut |08 i electric wiring 11 there s oo 1o member of Ui s Kingdom spe | Dash nenr wt hand the Bame does not apes 1 n Bringin' melody elong Like a saxophone. Very soon that wind you'll hear Stoutly hammerin’ some At the door, an’ bringin’ near Music like the drum. 80 we may as well be gay ‘While we have the chance, As the tune goes on its way— Use i for a dance! Wavering Allegiance, “Are you going to run as a wet or a | ary?” “As a dry” answered Senator Bor- ghum, “but not without hope that a! good many of the wets will vote for | me on suspicion” Friendship Ceases. We try to be both kind and good, Quite free from trivial tricks, And often wonder why we should | Get rough in politics STAR. WASHINGTON BY CHARLES One sometimes wonders why the cheapest, easlest procedure is not more used in business—the pleasant, afTable manner of handling persons. A smile and a pleasant word, a bit of “apple sauce,” sometimes called “blar- 1 a cordial tonz of voice and an honest desire to help—thes> arc among the few things in the world that cost nothing. Perhaps they do cost some persons a great deal, however! Evidently they do, If one may judge from the very op- posite qualitics 50 often cncountered. We were put in_mind of this the other day apon calling a well known public corporation, agamst beiicved we had a legliimate kick. This organization has meny “depart- ments, with some different line of contact with the public. Well, our protest was going direct to the general manager. Yes, sir! No one else would do. We wanted to get the “head of the works.” We felt sure that he could and would listen to our plea, and that he would and could right the condition of which we complained. Sure cnough, no sooner had we got this big man on the phone than we be- gan to swell with satisfaction. If we had_been positively the “biggest” man in Washington we could have been treated no better. This was no more than we expected— we had had dealings with this gentle- man before. This time he calmed our ruflied feathers with his usual ability, smiling pleasantly over the telephone. Cortainly those who know how can smile over the wire! We do not mean the audible laugh, but an invisible, but none the less tangible, smile. It is a Bift ) i * ok ok & Before this man was done with us we felt almost as big as a man must on his first day as President oi the United States. Subtly, easily, smooth! ostentation or a too persistent use of the old “glad hand.” this necromancer let us know that his whole organization was with us, not against us, that he and the aforementioned great company had but one desire in the world, and that was to satisfy us. When this gentleman and his organi- zation were dealing and talking with us, he made us feel. they realized that they were dealing and talking to the public at large. They wanted us to know that the dearest wish of their heart and soul was to look into our complaints and to correct them as speedily as pessible. The whole question of whether we were yet without sidered. This moot question was left in abey- ance. It was not so mucii a matter of “The customer is always right—" a rather ridiculous statement. after all, for he cannot be right if he is wrong- but simply a question of satisfying us. It was rather delicately conveyed to our waiting ears and brain that we werce pression which we always had harbored anyway, and with which we agreed, therefore, immediately, without any ar- gument. We hate and detest those disagreeable then, who seem to insinuate that just the opposite is the case. One does not care for them. eh? One does not. No one does. It is impossible. They have such a lowering eflect. % wow We hung up our telephone with the agreeable conviction that very best of all possible worlds, and that somehow it was a great pleasure collection of persons living on it. Death of Gen. Goethals, builder of the Panama Canal, recalis that, like his chief two collaborators, he was of con- tinental European origin and sprang from the same stock that bred Theo- dore Roosevelt. Goethals was the American-born son of Dutch parents His great helpmate in the Canal Zow —Maj. Gen. William C. Gorgas, the brilliant medical officer whose sanita- e work eliminated the tropical plagues which were hampering canal’s construction. Goethals' principal assistant engineer—Col. David Du Bose Galllard—was of French origin. It was triumphant conclusion of the big ditch on the Isthmus. Goethals is remem- bered by canal colleagues as “a master of the tedlous art of managing men.” Prom the highest to the lowest In his organization, access to the one they af- fectionately called “Chief” could be had at any time and on any score. Even the to Goethals and remedied in a spirit of even-handed justice. It was mainly on account of this human relationship be- tween the engineer and his co-workers that the Panama Canal bullding opera- tions went forward so successfully. R ister Fitzgerald, Washington's honored guests this week, are Irishmen of strangely different origins, Cosgrave began life as a green grocer, and Fitz- gerald was a poet who degenerated into a newspaper man. During the fight for the Irish Free State, Desmond Fite gerald made it his specialty at Dublin 1o keep the Americun press accuratel Informed as to the progress of event They were the days when the “black and tan” soldiery of Britain was mak- ing it & dangerous pastime for Irtsh- men to communicate their grievances (o an outside world, but Fitzgerald, being trained journalist, systematically out- witted the khaki-clad minlons of the King. When this observer was in the British Isles three years ago, he asked Forelgn Mintster Fitzgerald to speak frankly about the Free State's relations with London. His reply holds good to- Jud Tunkins says if you are looking | for trouble, your trouble is liable to be | that you couldn't pick out exactly the | kind of trouble you were looking for Accurate Expression. “1 told that traffic cop Just what I | thought of him." said Mr. Chuggins “I had inferred that you thought nothiug of him,” sald the spouse. “You are right. And that is pre- Leisely what [ sald ™ ‘We are told,” sald HI Ho, the sage of Chinatown, “not to grieve about what cennot be helped. And yet what else 15 there o grieve about?” The Chorus, | Bometimes w hero will uppenr, And. us i piide we congiegate We earthlings gather ‘round and cheer And say, ‘Are we not sounding great?” Misgutded Jeut, “I put some comedy relief In play,” explatned the author “That wasn't & relief That was an irritation the “Don't worry ‘bout hidin' yoh lght under & bushel” sald Uncle Eben “Mebbe & Un cup s plenty nuft foh all de concealment Those Worldly Activities Cron (e Milwaukes Joninal it He spread quickly and alarm i given soon can survive B Bverege mesn | cnodgh for prompt extinguishment Bui Cempersture of wiound he century | with weste paper and olher refuse near Sai wuG B0 Whae Wie mecury st hand, bhoweio prokches man wduptatniily unger the biaze may usin & w Anattempt 18 o be made Lo bay L movien, base bunll and ofher amis ments duy: “Ireland at present has as much of national sovereighty as she is able to make full use of ple realize this” LR only he Htocks and bonds aren’t the things Wall Street s betting on t days. IU's already gambling on presidential prospects, A betting com- miscfoner n “the Streot” Ja ready to place wagers at odds of 1 to 4%, that Calvin Coolidge will be renominated “The same gent s offering 2 to 1 that Hoover will not_be nominated: 24, to 1 agafurt eithier Dawes or Lowden, and 10 t 1 against any other possible Repub- fean candidate for the nomination A bet has already been made in lower Brondwny ~of $4,000 10 §2,000 —that Al Smith will be the Democratic nominec There ure reported odds of 4 to 1 that smith will 1ot be the next President, whil that the governor will oceupy White House after March 4, 1020 e v Professors and teachers of Bpanish the effects of the Pan-American Co ference will be 1o popularize the study of that anclent Latin tongue. Candi- dutes for the American forelgn servk are mlways uiged Lo major 1o Hpanish Our big exporting Intereats e all the tme looklng for young men who know Bpanish 1L 15 olten the open seanme t fine Jobs 1L must have embariassed Chavles fvans Hughes & bit at Havans last week Lo stand up before the con forence and plead, an one of His excuses for not accepting Jts most important committee chatmsnship. il he's Ignorant of Bpanish Not so very 1ong agn nocabinet hostess tn Washington entertained 16 distnguishod Latin American womean here for a conference | I Washington on Sundny. We take it nat Jury-lampering b wlvays dung on auye, Bhe decided 10 gather up 16 American women who could Lalk SBpantl and help her out, By raking the social vhich we ; the head of each one charged | right or mistaken was not even con- | decidedly well worth satisfying, en im- | persons, whom one meets every now and | this is the | and positive boon to be included in the | happened also to be of Dutch extraction | the | he who solved the riddle of the Culebra | Cut, the feat which paved the way o most trifling grievance would be brought | President Cosgrave and Foreign Min- | The mass of the peo- | 40, 10 1 15 being wsked on & bet | i Washington are hopeful that one of | D. €, MO THIS AND THAT E. TRACEWELL. Our circulation was increased, our heart, beat with increased vigor. We had. been handed, In short, a pleasant dose of “apple sauee,” and had lapped it up with great satisfaction. We knew this, of course, but the thing had been accomplished 8o successfully and happlly that we joined with the clever administrator of this good medi- cine in applauding his superability. We discovered Iater that this gentle- man, according to popular tradition. had worked his way to the very front of his organization by the oroper and legitimate use of his gift of making every one with whom he came into con- tact. feel that they were distinctly worth while, This he did without a vestige of that overdoing which spoils the “glad- hande the man who falls to combine qualities of heart and mind with his back-patting. It must be distinctly realized that our kind gentleman did not make “back-patting” his sole aim. First of all, he wanted to be helpful. E f he ladled out the old “apple sauce’ what we all realize when we stop to think about it, that this is, like honesty, the beet of all possible policies. The diffcrence between this man and the insineere “back-slapper” s just the dif- ference between doing a thing right and wron; The business man and some others with whom we all come into contact is simply that he has discovered and put |into hourly. daily practice the simple fact that the eesiest, cheapest and best way to handle the public is at once the happiest. the most profitable and [the one really rendering the people | the “service” |50 much. % % Everything else being equal, xiomatic that the man in a calm, pleasant frame of mind is going to buy more than the chap who is “rub- bed the wrong wav.” In | public business altke whole organiza- | tions are to be found in which every | employe acts as if he had received in- structions along the following lin | "It is the policy of this firm when | dealing with that crass but necessary nuisance, the public, to deliberately in- It the brute as much as possible. | “Always take him or her cown a | Pz or twn upon entrance by thinking up a topic of conversation and en- |gaging in it heartily with some other | emplove. | “Refrain from observing the customer until it is no longer possible to do this. Then sidle up to him or her in as in- different a manner as possible and ask if he or she is being waited upon. “You will know from his angry looks, from her very angry looks. that he lor | co not let this deter you from the plain | path of duty in making every trans- action as disagreeable for them as pos- sible. trusion upon the simple domesticity of this establishment we would all heve more time to discuss certain pleasant doings of the evening before or to make plans for certain anticipated pleasures of the evening to come. “What is more, if they would stay out, the very fine and expensive floor- ing of this cstablishment would not receive so many crude heel impressions or so many cubic feet of dust. mud and plain di This annoys the janitor extremely. “Above all—and this is very impor- tant—employes must not indulge in the practice of handing out the “apple sauce” 2s it 5 sometimes calied. is is wasteful and hurtful of morale and corroding to the telephone wires.” WASHINGTON OBSERVATIONS BY FREDERIC WILLIAM WILE. | register with a fine tooth comb they | were dug up. LR Senator George H. Moses, Republican, | of New Hampshire, has broken with his presidential candidate, Herbert Hoover, on one of the Secretary of Com- | merce’s paramount issues. At Buffalo the other day Moses in a public speech advocated an All-American canal from the Great Lakes to the Atlantic. He assalled the St. Lawrence route as a project which would be unjust to Amer- fean taxpayers. Hoover is an out- standing supporter of the St. Lawrence waterway. A Buffalo reporter asked Senator Moses how he reconciles his pro-Hooverism th his anti-St. Law- rence view “What difference does | that make?” ‘c«mudxc favored the World Court. I didn't” * % % | - Solomon Levitan, picturesque State | treasurer of Wisconsin, announces his | candidacy for governor on something | closely resembling a Coolidge economy atform. Levitan was an old-time leutenant of “Fighting Bob” La Fol- lette. but appears not to enjoy the favor l(\l the La Follette group now dominant. "1'21!’ old gentleman, who began life as # peddier in Wisconsin half a century | 480, IS going before the people on his rd ws & watchdog their treas- ury at Madison. One of the things he’s bringing to their attention s that 10 emploves in his department handle §74,000,000 in State business every year. It costs Wisconsin only 87,000 annually for this service, and the number of employes 15 no greater than it was 20 ars ago. when the State treasury was $9.000,000 affair. Wisconsin's gaso- line tax, amounting to $6.000,000 in {1927 was looked after by six young womet with combined annual salaries of $9.000. “Honest Sol" is almost as widely beloved in the Badger Common- wealth as “Fighting Bob™ himself was o wow If majority is really entitled to rule In this land of the free and home of the brave, it would bs difficult to con- cewve of A more logleal presidential ticket than Smith and Jones Ever since Houston bagged the Democratic national convention there's bsen grow- {Ing talk of making Jesse H. Jones of that city Gov. Al's running mate. The | Smiths and the Joneses of the country probably don't hold the balance of power, but {f they unitodly get behind | any ticket it ought to make a difference here and there. Jones 18 one of the archangels of the Democratic party | though his offictal rank s only that of chairman of {ts finance committee | Eatimates of the Tevan's fortune run s Nigh ns 850,000,000, largely in New York apartment house property. 1o FCamvrient | ITED TES IN WORLD WAR Ten Yems Ago Today Gen. Pershing defends the morals of his Army againat criticlams. Denies charges made and cables the War De- tthat no similar bady of men as clean lives as our men n wre leading. * ¢ Fust Americantzed Enfield vifie s turned out for American troops abioad and s pre- nted to President o be preserved as a personal souvenir. They are belng turned out at the rate of 2,000 a day St MeAdoo says the country muat ! ralae ten billians between now and June Plo cover Amorica’s finaneinl wu'x na [+ = ¢ Kogland ugea United States 1o by wheat Seventy-five wmilllon 1 bushels needed Oght AWay, as conditions are Umoest serlous * ¢ ¢ Herlin ds [ confident that wn early peace ts cer [ twin and one to Germany's hking. They Delleve that Amerioa 1s anly pretending (o prepare for war, velying on the effect of bt Discount - oar - ens pacity and hold (hat Uncle Sam oan e formtdable only after thorough train g il U-boat ainkings held down Lo eight ahips for second week, \ “If it were not for their boorish in- | | Urges he did it simply because he realized ! difference _ between this real | about which all clamor | it is| private and | jor she has not been even noticed, but | | troops (Battles and Leaders, vol. 4, P | Forrest to negotiate for the delivery of | punishment does not deter NDAY, JANUARY Fort Pillow Capture Declared Massacre To the Editor of The Star: An article in the Sunday Star by Mr. George Creel, citing the services of Gen. Nathan Bedford Forrest to the Southern Confederacy during the Rebellion, re- ferring to the capture of Fort Pillow, April 12, 1864, states:* “Then it was that the North flamed fto fury, branding Forrest as an Atllla, denouncing Fort Plllow as a massacre, and it was long before the facts in the case rescued his reputation from the welght of lles.” Gen. Forrest's report, April 26, 1864 (Battles and Leaders, vol. 4, p. 418), shows that his command In the capture of Fort Pillow consistzd of McCulloch's Brigade of Chalmers' Division and | Bell's Brigade of Buford's Division, both brigades under the command of Gen. James R. Chalmers, Gen. Forrest being personally present, demanding the sur- render of the fort from Maj. Booth, who refused to surrender, The garrison of Fort Pillow, com- | manded by Maj. Lioncl F. Booth, 6th | U. S. Heavy Artillery, numbered 557 soldiers, about half. of them colored 418). The committee on the conduct of the war (Battles and Leaders, vol. 4. p. 418) reported that the Confeder- ates entered the works shouting “No quarter,” and that they then began an Indiscriminate slaughter, sparing neither age nor sex, white nor black, soldier nor civilian.” Capt. Anderson, deputized by Gen. | the surviving wounded from Fort Pillow (Battles and Leaders, vol. 4, p. 419), delivered to Capt. Marshall, U. S. Gun- boat, acting master, Ferguson, acknowl- edged the receipt of 43 white soldicrs and 14 colored soldiers. - Gen. U. 8. Grant, referring to the | capture of Fort Pillow (Battles and | Leaders, vol. 4. p. 107), says: “These | troops fought bravely but were over- powered—I will leave Forrest, in his dispatches, to tell what he did with them.” The river, he, Forrest, says, “was dved with the blood of the slaughtered for 200 yards. The approx- imate loss was upwards of 500. My loss was about 20 killed and about 60 wounded. It is hoped that these | facts will demonstrate to the No-th- | e people that negro soldiers can- not cope with Southerners. Gen Grant says, “subsequently Forrest made @ report in which he left out the part which shocks humanity to read.” Mr. Creel says, in his article. that “it was long before the facts in the ! case rescued his (Forrest's) reputation from the weight of lies.” I note that Mr. Creel fails to pro- duce “the facts in the case of the | slaughter of the officers and soldiers of | Fort Pillow to sustain his statoment. | and until he produces facts to refute ' Gen. Grant's and Gen. Forrest's own | reports and other matters herein set | torth, it will be well for him to let the matter of the massacre of the brave | Maj. Booth and the officers and men of the Fort Pillow garrison rest in their ‘ honored graves, for the true facts in | that brave defense “shock humanity | to read.” AARON BRADSHAW. et o Nation to End Capital Punishment. To the Editor of The Star From the beginning of time men have killed one another. As th> centuries | went by and men became more civilized. kiilings became less frequent until !Ddl)" the only vestige kft of the old murder- | ous past are war (wholesale murder by | nations), individual murder and the legalized murder known as capital punishment. Today the preat powers of the carth are banding themselves together to end war, and in & few short years it will become obsolete. Murder by individuals | will always continue. Religion. science | and all the arts of the civilized world have not succeeded in the thousands of | years of man’s existence in abolishing vengeance from his mind. In satisfying vengeance man instinctively turns the primitive method of murder. It is demonstrated that punishment does not tend to decrease | murder. On the contrary, it keeps alive | in man the instinct to kill. The taking of any human life directly by a nation at war or indirectly by a judicial ver- dict is murder. Legalized murders bread | murders. The decision reachgd by the | | | | i resulting murders throughout the country prove that the fear of capital | people from | murder One of the worst features of & verdict | | of capital punishment is the attendant publicity. Those convicted are placed before the public eve until they become objects of sympathy and are often look- | ©d upon as martyrs. The effect of this | upon the immature minds of children | and even on adult minds is certainly dangercusly morbid. A ban on pub- | | Mefty of this t would i m | he rejoined. “President | s h the thtat ot to deci ase murder than the threat of capital punishment | Life fmprisonment is by far the worst punishment. Confine murderers to insti- tutions for life where they can toil at tasks profitable to the State, whereby they will still be useful to society. The World Congress of Peace is a great step | to a higher civilization. Let the next Rreater step to a still higher civilization be an international conference to end capital punishment ENRY A. SMITH. v Health School Site Necessity Is Shown To the Editor of The $thr The dilemma facing the Harrison Health School is an unfortunate one, both for the health and the morale of its_puplls It shows the urgent necessity for obtaining a proper site and erecting | a modern health schoal for colored tuburcular children. The delay tn so | doing is retarding the recovery of these | unfortunates. 1f the law compels school attendance of these children it is District government and Congress to | supply them with facilities where they ! will not only acquire an education but where they will learn to get well The Harrison School was not con- structed as a health school. Its struc- ture Is not i harmony with the mod- ern conception of the treatment of | tuberculosts. A health school should stand as a sllent teacher to the public of the conditlons and environment necessary to prevent and cure this disease The makeshift arrangements o be cavried out 1 the near future can only do more harm to the already harmed pupils i ’ll‘lw dilemma of these schoolless sick childrer i @ disgrace o our proud National Capital and a divect vesult of | the mdifference to the health needs of the colored people of the INstrict CHARLES A ALLEN. M D President Harrison Health School Parent-Teacher Assoclation PR nds Editorial On Shenandoah Park Ta the Bdider of e Star 1 want to congratulate you on the very wonderful wnd helptul editorial which appeared In your paper of the 14th, headed “Shenandosh Park in sighe Nothing ean be more helpful to thi section of the State than the estab Hahient of this park, espeotally being | At such a couveniont paint t the Na- tional Capital and enjoving as 1t does the sdvantages of suoh wander ful oads of Ingress and egross to 0’ sectians Within the past 10 days 1 have wilt ten etters o the vavious Ohambers ot Commeroe throughout the Niate and | have also addresod one o yoe cham- Bor i Washington The tesult & thaty we are gelting splendid pperation o and with che $1000.000 appropriation ! Tam sure oy, Byed witl have l\nn‘fl the way for ihe suocesaful establish ment of the park. as he has 80 suecess: fully made possible the vealtsation of sieh wonderful roads connecting o Old Duminlon eity with the Nattne Capital O H PUNSTEN, Hichimond, va | | Comi | »l | Generally speaking. | ute | edged | fittingly obligatory on the | a ANSWERS TO QUESTIONS BY FREDERIC J. HASKIN. Letters are going every minute from our free information bureau in Wash- ington telling readers whatever they want to know. They are in answer to all kinds of queries, on all kinds of ! subjects, from all kinds of people. Make use of 'this free service, which The | Evening Star is maintaining for you. | Its only purpose is to help you and we want you to benefit from it. Get the habit of writing to The Evening Ster Information Bureau, Prederic J. Haskin, director, Washington, D. C. ©. When was the play “Hedda Gab- ler” produced?—A. T. A. This Ibsen play was first pro- duced in 1890. Q. What i the weight of a cubic | foot of gold? Of silver, cast fron, | wrought iron, and steel?—M. B. B. | A. Pure gold, 1,200.9 pounds per cu- bic foot: silver, 655.1 pounds: cast fron, 450 pounds: wrought iron, 480 pounds; | steel, 489.6 pounds. Q Why is the black tis worn byl American and English sailors?—L. L. C. | A The black tie in use in the Amer- chief was adopted after the death of Admiral Nelson as a memorial to him. Q. Why are certain words in the | Bible italicized without any apparent reason?—W. C. A. Ttalics are used in cases where 1t scemed necessary to use additional | to words to make the translation from the | original manuscript intelligible to the | readers of the English text. | Q. Since postal cards are two cents | apiece, are as many of them used?— D. s. A. The change in price resulted in a great decrcase in sale of post cards. It destroyed 80 per cont of the volunie of business and changed a revenue of $12,000.000 to $4.000.000. Q. Where was the first City Hall of New York City?>—T. E. M. A. The Stadt Huys was the first. It was situated at 73 Pearl street. It was & great stone building erected in 1642 | for a warchouse and tavern by Gov Kieft at the West Indla Company’s ex- pense. It was converted to its public use in 1653. ! Q. Is the guiliotine still used in! France’—E. F. A. The guiilotine is still used as a method of execution in Prance. Q. What was the Spanish Fury?— M. A S " A. The name was given to the sack | of Antwerp by Spanish troops in 1576. Q. Which is talier. the recwood tree of California or the eucalyptus of Aus- tralia>—B. E. G. A. The Forest Service says that the ' eucalyptus tree and the giart redwood tree are. very similar in al! respects. . the gian: redwood is taller than the eucalyptus. QA Hfis a fi¥ two kinds of eves’— | A The greater part of the head of a D. pound. ‘compot 'y and near the top of the head is a trian. gular arrangement of three simple eves. Q Who are the three leading Ger man aces’—M. S A. They are Capt. von Richthofen. accredited with 80 planes: Lieut. Udet. | 62 plares, and Lieut. Lowenhardt, 56 plancs. 1 —_— | Q Why was the custom of driving| on the right side of the road estab- | lished in America’—J. F. E. | A Gould in his “Right and Left! |ot | seen that under these various influences Hang " 15 of the opinion that it is due to the fact that the earliest colonists were not deratingly English. Among the first Puritan settlers there were many Dutch and to this Prance added her complement. were from the continent, where the custom of passing to the right lLiad long been prevalent. During the ear!s period of colonization, the people were accustomed to traveling afoot and even in England it was customary for pedes- trians to go to the right, even whle vehicles went to the left. This custom going to the right pro fairly well established in fore vehicles were used ox:gnt. When‘ large OF “schoon- ers” came into use, the driver, hein right-handed, sat upon the near 'h-.ol‘- horse. He therefore sat on the right 1o operate the brake with his right hand or foot. This was important in traveling over hilly country or un- graded roads. It can thus readily be the custom of going to the right at times became firmly esmblm‘wd, e Q. What does the importation of L;ro!x; v;‘!uches and clocks amount A. Imports of jewels for clocks a'_,a;cmdmr’w:& amounted to u.'.';?.- . and of this amount Switzes furnished $1,559,555 worth. e Q. Can sailor buy his disel from the Navy?--E. T. 3 . A. It is no longer possible for a sallor secure a discharge by purchase from ;!;;Nav-{ Depa‘nmrm T2 Navy De- ment occasionally issues special ore der discharges according to ‘??5- indt- case. Q. Who was the first white child bo in Philadelphia>—E. C. H i A John Key was the first English parents born wit he pre- cincts of Philadelphia. William Penn presented him with a lot in the citr, Key lfved 10 be 85 years of age. i Q. Where is the French naval base in the Far East located’—W. F. A. The only large and important French naval base in the Far East is io- cated at Saigon, Indo-China. Q. Please describe a tide-predicting machine—I. D. A. The machine used for predicting tides is termed “a mechanical prophet with brains of brass.” This machine, hild of i which weighs about 2500 pounds. is about 11 feet long. 2 feet wide and 6 feet high. It was conceived. designed and constructed in the office of the Coast and Geodetic Survey and put in operation about 1910 and has been used continuously for tidal predictions by the Government. This machine is de. signed to ealculate simultaneously 37 factors that go to make up the z ‘These factors depend upon relative position of the sun. moon and earth and also upon the shape and size of the hmm‘dtehmu.h which the predictions Q. Where is mercury found?>—G. B A. Mercury is generally found m this country in California and Colorado. Abroad ft is found in Spain and Aus- tria. or quicksilver is an ele- ment sometimes found native, but most- Iy derived from cinnabar. 3 was the hornbook’— 0. N. O. A. This is an elementary school book in use in Engiand down to the time of George IL It consisted of a single leaf on which were written the alphabet in large and smail letters. the Roman numerals and the Lord's Prayer - Hardy, the Supreme Realist, Ranked With World Masters Thomas Hardy's death at the age of | Jury of the Snyder-Gray case and the | 87 brings from American pens glowing | ""fi WP nim, tributes to the genius of the novelist who is ranked both as a master amang Victorians and as the forerunner of modern realism. In his literary out- put there is observed the fatalism of Greek tragedy and at the same time the characteristics of a lover of life and people, displaying a tenderness and se- gnrnesl which were foreign to the reex. “His novels will be read by genera- tion after generation of educated men and women. He his life into them and will long as T says Daily News. The Boston Transcript pays this trid- “He lived to a remarkable age and achieved the highest honors of the appreciation of men of letters. lish authors—all of them worth men tioning—publicly and gladly acknowl his kingship over their minds the absolute pre-eminence of his genius amor 3 “With his . the Victorian era in the art of the novel finally ends— with the departure of mightiest figure,” according to Newark Evening News, which feels that “in all the world today there is| DO man—or woman—to take Hardy's " The Akron Beacon Journal 3, land loses the last of & ictorian literary giants, and loses physical history.* ¥ suffered from false classifica- | tion.” in the optnion of the Chicago Daily News. “He was neither atheist NOr Cynic nor pessimist. He moved above controversy. He was the realist.” And the San Antonio ers: “The characters in Hardy's nov. s Ting true. they Lve and suffer the reader’s fancy. He lays down the book with the sense of having looked upon a scene out of life itself. the il sion of reality is complete. Such an effect MArRs (he genuine artist” D “He was ever the artist. a man who had been both of the new and the oid | Bools.” in the judgment of the Oak- ! land Tribune. ~And the Milwaukee | Journal, with the query, “Did he. the i old lconoclast of the transition. sit in | Judgment on these modern manifosta- Uans as he did those of his youth*™ makes 1S own reply: “We do not Know But this much we do know Thomas Hardy suffered as all transt. | ton flguses must when thelr years are many. Far he lived to se the debase- ment by persons of indiferent talent of the lterary tradition he started. | He lived 10 s% the pendulum swing ! false frankness The Wuorcester | Gazette vecards that “his daring nulli- | floation of many of the Viciran pros | son of Hfe constituies & broad high- | WAV 0 the frankness of the moderns shnerack stucture | magnifioant for the to whieh it leads™ “1Cthase who pass inte the eternal | world e'er return,” observes the Pasa~ dena Star-News. “the shade of Thomas | Hardy doubiless will stroll often amid the scenes he hvd s well. ! Perhaps no author ever wioie s o | fusely by drawing his characters foom S NArow A elicle, A keale s re- strleted 10 B sald that inoa 10.mtle citele round Dawchester lived half of Hardv's eharacters. and there stand | Nall of his seenes. { The New York Sun presents the esti | mate of his work “He surveved wen | e the Olvinplan heights and saw | Them as little creatures woved by fostiny aften ax lexorable as & stiek Drast Into A ant hill - He set thwea AL Thelr struggles o paper. ot with e sneat af the olever ar the bitters ness of the eyiie, but with the exaet- [ ness O the architect that he was™ L *As Newman professed to fnd reliet | L) | touch with | jone of the greatest men in its Lterary in the definite delineation of what was " suggests the Bing- “s0 occupied h the calm elabory the sordid. the grotesque and ble, yet with a sweetness of te! t {is witchery.” The Hartford Times | thinks that: “Like many great el Hardy's career reveals a deep emotional | conflict. which made him at s ten- | der and serene as the lover of Lfe and ] ie. and at other times ditter and i ic as the assailant of malevolent | himselt wit i | fate.” “Even his heroes played an uneven with chance. His portrayal of and women as predestined to mis- | fortune or failure is pronounced.” res marks the Savannah Press. bdut th nsing State Journal feels thal rdy’s skepticism there was so pantheistic viewpoin: and of 10 haul him as one of the grea | novelists in Bnglish litersture * | Spokane Spokesman-Review holds ! { “in these times of competitive M | agenting’ and frequent resort fo ec o work and cha “He was one Enghsh styie.” Garetie. “Throug? beauty. power is a lttle &t e Kalamaxo 2 od says “all the wanw went into hus ¥ the fiex might take a lesso nificance. ™ Highest Average Pay As Retirement Basis T the Butitor of nuity of a retired basod upon the either any ten ar fie of allowadle service There are emploves who have e reduced during the retirement on A due 1o old age o s o dislike of chief or o otherwise would revene ihe ¢ under the nt aw W duetion at the same tuwe MW penshn, Which &8 unpust. &0 » » | Wide fram false teticence 1o equally | son Gjured Dy an autoemodile Afler 80 years of age Dave ha peasioy reduced Al the test af his ufe devause the accident made it hecessary @ ! hiditions and nhibittans I the discus- | duge his T s rue of clertoal and o work that after age & or & 12 highway perhaps W00 troad and too | I8 Wsually leas effernt, and wheie Unetly efftoient shou'd de tetuced 4 e, S0 IHAT & Younger persal WAy proamoted o his place. dui iR N lable to be done if At the sane Teduces e pensiun. as (e prwsent reguires. ore the retirement act Was tade 1AW there werw muw o elrpaves Koot on the Tolls R chariiy s sake and @ relive them Was an argument for enadis g the law —1ho main puriaee af wheh RUL Al jwesent there are W certany offices Ol men, nearing the retinement At Wha can do little o nalhing and P‘ are kept Al n\;:! salarios lw::u N Ao WouRt reduee Hhalr it sl Thus we have samtlar lses of ok\ MORtCieRt ARS8 defre the Tetines ment aet. AU DO IO et Cleney Making ihe anauity depend o the hest af any ten o five oo Secutive voars al service ure na ane. helh manv and make wevie A R W SITHUR MACDONAL law