Evening Star Newspaper, January 24, 1928, Page 8

3 THE EVENING STAR With Sunday Morning Edition. WASHINGTON, D.C. TUESDAY......January 24, 1028 ——— THEODORE W. NOYES....Editor —_— The Evening Star Newspaper Company ‘Business Office: 11¢h St. and Pennasivants Ave, New York Office: 110 East 42nd St, Chicago Ofice: Tower Bullding. Faropean Office; 14 Regent St., London. England. Rate by Carrier Within the City, The Erening Star. ;... - . 48¢ per month The Evening and i (when 4 Sundars) . Sun s) .Ogeemr month a Sundar Star. ., B¢ per cony. TR artian hade at e hd’at each month Orders mav be sent in by mail or telephone. Main 5000. Rate by Mail—Payable in Advance. Maryland and Virginia. Dally and St ..15r. $9.00: 1 mo., T8¢ Daly only 15 2 S0e Sunday only . 157, $3.00; 1 mo. 38¢ Daily only Sunday only . Member of the Associated Press. Tha Associated Press in exclusively entitlad 0 the use for republication of all news dis- patches creditad 10 11 or not otherwise cred is paper and alsa the local news n. Al richis of pudlication crein are also reserved, The Pan-American Union. Some of the proposals laid before the Havana Conference for a reorganization | of the Pan-American Union may be in- | tended as gestures against its “domina- tion” by the United States—a domina- tion outwardly recorded by the location | of the union in Washington; the fact | that its home is the gift of Andrew | Carnegie; that the chairman of the governing board has always been the American Secretary of State, and that its director generals have always been citizens of the United States. But such gestures are not to be taken too se- riously as indications of any widespread | dissatisfaction on the part of the re- | publics which constitute the union. They are no more radical than many other proposals for dealing with the Pan-American Union laid before pre- ceding conferences and now forgotten, and they are actuated more by a de- sire for publicly centering attention upon some national points of view than upon a real desire to change the exist- ing organization of the union. Mexico, for instance, asks that the post of chairman of the governing board rotate in alphabetical order among the members, to be held for a year at a time. As the chairman is merely a presiding officer, with no real authority that the board as a whole does not possess, the proposal is intended chiefly as a hint that the board is dominated by the American Secretary of State and that this domination should cease. Mex- 1co also proposes that the director gen- eral, who has always been a citizen of the United States, be elected annually. Secretary Hughes has already pointed to the unwisdom of thus attempting frequently to change occupants of an administrative office, who become fa- one of the peerless fiyers of the time is needlessly risking his life. Chamberlin could have, almost for the asking, any plane that he wants. In‘engine and construction reliability, airplanes have progressed even faster than did the automobile in its growing stages. Certainly, an eight-year-old ship, therefore, cannot have the inbullt reliability possessed by the plane of to- day. Yet Chamberlin hauled out this dilapidated old bus and selected it for a thirty-thousand-mile trip. Aviators probably feel that it is none of the public’s business whether, like Lindbergh. they fly without parachutes, or, like Chamberlin, they go aloft in old-fashioned planes. But with affection and interest the public insists that these outstanding he oes of the air should use all precautions to the end that their knowledge and skill will not be Jost to the world. Consequently, & great portion of the public feels that Lindy should either abandon his faith- ful Spirit of St. Loujs or make provi- e :slon for the carrying of a parachute and that Chamberlin should use the newest model plane instead of one of the oldest. Lindbergh and Chamberlin have made their names known from one end of the world to the other, and aviation can ill afford to spare either of them. especially through their lack of respect for the tenets of the air which cannot be violated with impunity. B Civic Virtue at Excursion Rates. Chicago is growing weary of the repu- tation of being a wicked city. It has tired of the publicity given to the se- quence of crime within its boundaries. It is coming to believe that it is better than the press reports have indicated, and it wants to remove the blight from its name. Certain official statistics to the con- trary notwithstanding, organized efforts are being made to spread the assurance that Chicago is not unsafe for visitors, that its streets are not the scene of re- peated assaults and homicides, and that anybody who enters its precincts from the hinterland is just as secure as at home. ‘The latest move in this direction is the organization of a series of “good will excursions,” arranged by the thirty- two railroads entering Chicago, in co- operation with the business houses, the trade associations and the mayor. The purpose of these excursions is to con- vince out-of-towns folks that Chicago is not a crime-ridden city. ‘The first of the excursions will carry visitors to Chicago from cities in Wis- consin, the dates being February 23, 24 and 25. The theaters and amusement places are joining in the venture, with the offer of half-price admissions to all the excursionists who are thus borne from beyond the bounds and given the freedom of the city. Details of how this enterprise is to be managed will be interesting, if procur- able. The excursionists will perhaps be kept together and shown about accord- ing to definite plan. Maybe they will be miliar with their many duties only through experience in handling them. Argentina injects the tariff dispute under the guise of wishing to enlarge the union’s fleld of activity. It has been expected that Argentina, which Tharbors a deep resentment of the Amer- ican tariffs on beef and grain, would raise this issue. But nothing will come of it. If the conference launches into a discussion of the tariff it will find, as its members, of course, know, that latin American tariffs are not only higher but are placed upon more com- modities than the tariffs imposed by the United States. Argentina's pro- posal, and the proposal from Salvador, 1o establish juridical bases of the union, ‘would inject politics into the field of the union, and this is already opposed by Mexico and by many other members, who see in it a sure method of destroy- ing the union's value in its chosen field. ‘The last previous Pan-American Con- ference intrusted to the Pan-American Tnion the drawing up of & convention | o place the organization of the union on & permanent basis. Heretofore the union has been continued by resolu- tions of the various Pan-American Con- ferences. This convention now before the Havana Conference places on & def- nite status the union as now organized. Bince its origin as the “Commercial Bu- reau of the American Republics” by res- olution of the first Pan-American Con- ference held here in 1890, the Pan- American Union has been regularly re- organized. The changes have been de- signed W enlarge its fleld of useful ac- tivity, to place determination of its pol- scy fully in the hands of its governing board and to assure representation thereon at all times of all the Latin American republics. The American Bec- retary of State has always been chair- man of the governing board, but there is no regulation or law of the union requiring his cholce. Bince 1923 he has been elected annually to that position, | partly because of tradition and partly because of his high rank on a board otherwise composed of Ambassadors, Ministers and special representatives, While the six or seven director gen- ersis have been citizens of the ®nited Btates, thelr selection in the Jast twenty- | six years has been left W the govern- ing bowrd, which has been at liberty W choose them from laun America, It | has become customary, however, that the director general be a citizen of the United Blates and the aseistant director | general & Latin American, It les with- A the powers of the present governing | time, held to certain routes and places. It may be asked in all sincerity if they will be confined to an area from which the crooks and gunmen are by special man- date excluded. It is vividly remembered that a short time ago American visitors to Russis, seeking light on the question of how sovietism was working in that country, were shown about with every indication of freedom of observation, being sup- plied with official guides, who managed to keep them within certain areas. The guests did not realize that they were being shepherded, and some of them re- turned to the United States with glow- ing accounts of the prosperity and the happiness and the progress of the peo- ple. They did not see the dark corners, the regions of contention and distress, the evidences of strain against the bol- shevik regime. ‘These carefully organized and con- ducted excursions to Chicago will give some thousands of people from nearby States a good time, afford them amuse- ment &t half price and show them the big city as it wants to be seen, and as it would like to be. But they will not change the hearts of the criminal work- ers, who continue to prey upon the pub- lic and upon one another, in the ab- sence of efficient and sincere law en- forcement. Nothing can redeem Chi- cago from its sad condition but & com- plete, thorough, honestly conducted housecleaning, with the ruthless pursuit of all lawbreakers, the eviction of all those who are In the “twilight zone” of watchful waiting for opportunities to commit crime. When that is done it will be in order to run excursions from far-distant points to show what has beeg accomplished, with no limitations upon the activitles of the guests during their stay in town. ————— As a great organizer, Herbert Hoover is widely and sincerely admired. The great test of his ability in this direction will come in connection with the or- anization of support so heartlly ex- tended in the 1928 campalgn. J e e Goethals’ Great Achievement. Estimates of the services rendered by Gen. George W. Goethals, who died the other duy in New York, stress the fact that he ook over & task that hud been | briskly undertaken and had then lag- | ged, und completed 1t within the allotted It 15 sttributed to him that the Panama Canal was actually finished, in board W change this arrangement st any tme, without further suthorization | from the Havana Conference. e A 8 Meling more work for the police has syparently become one of the favorite atdoor sports. a0 A brief visit Congrave Bemonstrate st he i u good friend o0 Bl Lhe same Lme & very busy men B enubles w Chamberlin Begins Tour, Atier seversl unsucceseful witempls ¥ regain for the United Blates the world's endurence reoord, Clarence Chamberiin, who flew U first pessen- ger 0 8 non-stop Night wcross U Alsnuc, has started out on & hirty- thousand-mile lecture Wur by wir i an elghl-yesr-old plane. Of course, by one doubls thal Chamiberlin knows exactly what he J= dolng, bul the fuit that his wged vehicle was rescued from & warehouse and reconditioned, coupied with e small erulsing redius of only 1wo hundred and fifty miles, caiges the W fee) greve spprencusien list [ condition o permit 1ts use by ships nearly & year shead of schedule. In this mccomplishment he brought into | pluy certain qualities thet make for | surcess in any line of endeavor, Betare Gen, Goelhals was assigned | 15 the canul work it had passed through | & series of phases that left it o lagging eoterprise. Much Ume had been spent L upon the discussion of the resp uerits wnd advanteges of the Punama lund Nicaragua routes. When b Jast |the former was chosen wnd arrange- ments had been effected for the con- struction by the United Btates Govern- ment, there was further delay while the specific plans were being debsted and ldevised. ‘Then followed » serles of wdministretive moves, with frequent Cchisnges 10 personnel, with disputes over methods, with debates upon details | The steum shovels were wt work, hut ] 1l s Twpldly ws Uik countiy hnd hoped for. wnd there was impaticiice with (he rute of proyres | When st lust President Raosevelt de- cided W reorganize the sdministrative bwork once more and 1o send the head- quarters of s Canal Commision ‘o 5 - Panama, he selected for the leadership & man who had been noted for his quiet, faithful performance of duty in all circumstances. A capable engineer, an exceptional administrator, gifted with the golden quality of silence, Col. Goethals, as he then ranked, proved to be the ideal man for the job. He went to Panama without proclamation of purpose, save to the effect that he in- tended to make the dirt fly. To say that Goethals bullt the Pan- ama Canal is to attribute too much to him. He finished it, on the excellent foundations lald before he was as- signed to that duty. But it is not too much to say that he finished it in sur- prisingly short time and in remarkably efficient manner. He made short cuts through administrative confusion. He infused the entire working force with the spirit of accomplishment. He solved technical problems with little exposition of their complexity. To the people of the country Goethals' achievement was the more striking be- cause of the delays and disappointments that preceded his detail. He did not shroud his work in mystery, but pro- ceeded with his task as if it were mainly his business and not a matter that war- ranted frequent announcements and bulletins. His taciturnity was at times irritating to those who were anxious lest the work was again lagging. Grad- ually, however, confidence spread that silence meant achievement and there was no fear on the score of the com- pletion of the canal in due season. ‘There was nothing spectacular about Goethals. He was an engineer, accus- tomed to dealing with obdurate ma- terials, and he concentrated upon the task. That he completed it ahead of time was characteristic of him. o Dirty Cities. St. Louls is given the unenviable dis- tinction of being the dirtiest city in the United States in a report before the American Society of Heat and Ventilat- ing Engineers, after experiments lasting over a period of four years. Next on the list of dirty cities comes Cincinnati, followed by Pittsburgh, which, up to a few years ago, held the undisputed title. New York is fifteenth on the list, Wash- ington twentieth, while Boston is given credit for being the cleanest city in the country. ‘These figures in themselves mean lit- tle, but when it is realized that the average resident of St. Louis is inhaling in excess of a tablespoonful of soot and dirt every twenty-four hours, and resi- dents of other cities a proportionats amount, they grow startling. The old saying that every one must eat a “peck of dirt” before he dies is being carried out with interest, and it is evident that residents of dirty citles eat or inhale their quotas long before their life span is finished. There is no question that the air of an average city is seriously polluted, and it is remarkable that the human race is able to withstand so well these conditions. It is quite evident from the report of sclentists that St. Louls and other cities high up on the list do not adequately enforce their smoke-preven- tion laws, but now that the matter has been brought home to them in this striking manner it is to be hoped that steps will be immediately taken to purify the atmosphere. ——— e ‘The gentleman who pulls the elec- tric chair switch now comes in for a share of notoriety. The publicity and embarrassment involved In an execution might easily encourage & strike among those expected to exhibit or participate in the terrible details. ———e—— ‘The fact that President Coolidge sald he “dld not choose” cannot pre- vent him from being regarded by his admirers as one of the prettiest dark horses that ever were groomed. ———— -t Predictions of “another war” are still ventured in spite of the fact that there has never yet been a war which could be accounted a thorough success. THIS AND THAT BY CHARLES E. TRACEWELL. The photographic eye, which takes in and appreciates everything, from the crack in the cement sidewalk to the stars in heaven, is possessed by scores of persons who make no particular use of it. One may belleve the world of men made up of three classes in this re- spect—those who actually see what they look at, those who see and at the same time appreciate to the full the impor- tance of their power, and those who do not see what stares them in the face. In the first class may be placed all the curious-minded of the earth, who R0 about seeking some new sight, sen- sation or impression. The second clas includes those who see the world as it is, but go further by realizing, at the same time that they are seeing, that this which they see is colorful, inter- esting and impressive. ‘The difference between these two classes is the difference between the utilitarian and the idealist, between the merely practical man and the dreamer. ‘The one secs, true enough, but what he sees makes no particular impress upon him. The other not only sees, but after- ward he has a distinct sense of adven- ture, although it may have been noth- ing more than a stroll along a city street which aroused in him such emo- tions. Such a man may feel that his | seeing has been to more purpose than that of the other, and to vastly more purpose than the blank gaze of the man who does not see. This latter individual accepts sights, sounds and all the other physical phe- nomena of the moving world and of teeming life about us as something of so commonplace a strain as not to be worth while to a fellow of importance. He sees, but he does not see; or if he | sees, he does not comprehend, so it is all the same in the end. To him life remains unbelievably drab. * koK % ‘The man who really sees and who appreciates what he sees finds that repetition of the ordinary acts of living does not dull their effect. He is able to see them as they are at all times. This 18 a real power, in a world where so many complain of boredom, and insist that satiety waits for all and sundry at the turn of the road. Boredom is the penalty one pays for failure to possess the photographic eye. Had Arthur Schopenhauer been less in- trospective he would have been a hap- pler man. If he had possessed the eye which actually sees the world in its true colors, he would not have penned, for instance, that petty fourth- truth, that “women are only children of a larger growth.” His admirer, Guy de Maupassant, was | his exact opposite. The French master of the short story could not step| through a door into a room without | instantly taking a mental snapshot of | the place and all the people there. ‘That is why his stories are vivid, | haunting, compelling. The sad malady | which caused his physical and mental ruin, the obsession which colored his stories, had nothing to do with his ability to see things in their true light. Maupassant even deliberately culti- vated this power, under the tutelage of Flaubert, although never to the ex- tent which the latter advocated. “It is not enough to describe,” said Flau- bert. or words to that effect. “You must see some side which no one has seen before.” *x % Most people will have enough trou- | | eye enables one |and the pleasure v ble finding the obvious “sides” to per- sons, things, sights in general, without troubling their heads about the un- usual. Thetr problem 15 not one of making others sce, but of making themsclves sce. ‘The moving pictures which the greatest of the French story tellers, in- cluding Alexandre Dumas, managed to create with their pens, glow for us because these men had both abilities, that of seeing and that of sctting down. In thelr profession the latter 15 of mno less importance than the former, With most persons, however, _the abllity to take mental pictures as one goes along is an end in ftself. It en- livens otherwise dull hours in waiting rooms at rallroad stations. It makes pleasurable the solemn journey home on_the street car. Combined with a slight amount of humor, this power of the photographic to meet many un- pleasant situations with a saving grace, so that it may be said to be a real help in daily living, besides glving its owner a complete &gt € impressions, comes from them. We have written f wain if we have given the impression that one must be a genfus to have the photographic eve. Thousands of persons enjoy its use and operation without being in any sense geniuses. They simply see, and, at the same time that they are seeing. they fully realize the extent of their seeing Their “camera” as it were, I8 hitched to their mind. Perhaps another way to put it is that there is a direct connection between the eye which sees and the mind which understands. The conceited persqn, one sur- charged with egotism, has fost this con- nective between eye and mind. He does not understand, even if he sees, because the impressions which the eye receive get no farther. Whatever he secs, immediately makes him think of himself! PR A pleture has no chance to “register” in the mind of the person of large self- | esteem, because it no longer remains an impression, but is at once put into a bath of conceit, from which it emerges transformed, more often than not to its hurt. The calmly seeing man, however, who has no false impressions concerning his own worth or importance, takes care to hold his visual impressions exactly as he sees them. His mind does not retouch his photo- graphs, but insists on printing them exactly as the “film” shows them. Thus he never fools himself nor any one else. His is the ability to take his coat off the hook with an eve which sees the coat as one of curious weave, of pleasing color, and with a mind which still finds even so commonplace an actlon interesting. As he walks along the street he is! continually struck with the heights of the houses, or their lack of harmony. one with the other. He gives every passerby a glance, which is sufficient. The man with the mean mouth is | pictured; the man with the black hair remains with him; the man with the funny-looking hat is infallibly regis- tered. ‘The place where the paint has been worn off the store door by the count- less thousands of hands that have opened it makes an indelible impres- sion upon him as he goes through. He sces the old restaurant, mot so much as an eating place, but as a gallery of business men, each one dif- ferent, yet each true to type. They sit_in solemn procession around the walls, and drink coffee with dignity. Urges Piney Branch Highway Be Extended Over Railroad To the Editor of The Star: The news item in The Evening Star of the 17th instant to the effect that | the Maryland National Park and Plan- ning Commission will co-operate with the local authorities in the construc- tion of the proposed viaduct &p- proaches over the timore and Ohio tracks at Fern street in Takoma Park, D. C, brings up a matter of great im- rtance to the residents of Northwest ‘ashington and the adjacent suburban districts of Maryland. The construction of this viaduct, in the first instance, is in line with the planning and development of the city of Washington itsel ‘The crossing to be eliminated lies wholly within the city limits, with perhaps only the be- ginning of the northern (or eastern) approach lying in Maryland. The original plan for the system of D SHOOTING STARS. BY PHILANDER JOHNSON. Artistry. I knew an artist, once, whose lay Beemed neither serlous nor gay, But measured lung power calmly sent ‘With all the joy of self-content. I sald, “O friend, to all your art Could you not add a little heart?” He answered, “Sir, think what you may. I sing for very liberal pay!” T heard a bird who often comes To take & dole of scattered crumbs, He views the future without fear. His song 15 ever sweel and clear— A salutation sent on high From all the earth w all the sky. 80 oft we hear the sweetest lay Bung for the sake of just today! New Demands on the Orator. “Many say the art of oratory has deteriorated.” “On the contrary,” answered Sena- tor Sorghum, “it has improved. A man hasn't & chance in public life un- lesa he 15 equipped to stand up in front of & microphone and address hundreds of thousands of persons; with jazz competition at that” The Gladsome Exceplions. We know that there are those who kill By knife or pistol shot. But let's rejoice that there are still B0 many who do not! Jud Tunkins says in commercial life a man is known by the company that | keeps him, “There 15 little dignity,” sald H1 Ho, the sage of Chinatown, “in keeping up appeurances when the main problem 18 keeping down expenses Tireless Ntudent, “Is your boy Josh studying after school hours? “Yes," answered Farmer Corntossel “But it's not doing him so much He's trying (o learn all the new dances ut & night club, Mercilessness. A hero went a-banqueting To nearly every city. Town after town would proudly bring An elegant commitiee, “ft's wiong o hunt w foe sald he, “And sluy In hattle blindness, I8 also wrong, 1L seems o me, o kil & friend with kindness ' “De best sort o' luek & man Yin hops hin' de streets and highways of the city of Washington, which would and should be observed in connection with the con- struction and location of this viaduct, was unfortunately interfered with by the closing of the northernmost end of Piney Branch road—where it leads to the rallroad—a stretch of about 150 feet in the rear of the block fronting on Chestnut street, between Blalr road and sprlnf Road place. The including of a portion of Piney Branch road in the act of June 30, 1925, authorizing the closing of cer- tain streets and highways of the Dis- trict of Columbia turns out to have been plainly & mistake-—not blamable to Congress but due malnly to the hasty action of & local citizens' asso- ciation at whose Instigation it was brought about. If any one will consult & map of Northwest Washington he wiil see thut Piney Branch road is the only thor- oughfare running in ® northerly direc- tion which connects any part of Geor- ia avenue, or streets westward, with g‘.kmnl Park, where the crossing is located The general direction of Piney Branch road, together with its width, makes it the logical route of travel between the heart of the north- west section of Washington and Ta- koma Park, D. C. It ix likewise the natural outlet of travel for the north- ern and northwestern portions of Ta- koma Park, Md, and bordering arcas where reside some 5,000 people. Although 1L now serves as & route for a large measure of this travel, its use I8 much hampered owing to the tortuous angles and circuitous streets one must follow In traveling between its present terminus at Blair road and Maryland towns to the north, ‘The present situation, however, would appear to be easily remedied by amending the act cited, us well as that of March 3, 1027 (Hection 4). The small parcel of land affected by the closing of Piney Hranch road at that UNITED STATES IN WORLD WAR Ten Years Toduy Ago Gen. ‘Tasker Blias, chief of staff United Btates Army, arvives in Paris o represent United Btates on the supreme war council as its persanal representa tive. * * * American slrmen are dnily di istrating their ability at the front ol Benator Chamberlain, in d-hour Henate speech, vepeuts his chaiges that the War Department has fallen down on the job and declares President 18 misinformed, Produces letters charging that soldiers have died in camp from neglect, believing his dis- closures Wil benefit the country in speeding up the war. * * * Qol Hoosevelt, 1 wn appeal for war speed, says 1L 15 & duty Lo expose tneMolency o e e pwo German destioyers it mines on way to Helgoland and are sunk. Whole crew of one perishes and only 17 of the otller supvive, = * Touton forcen abandon mountaiinois regions i daling frontier ludivating the end of thelr effort 1 bicik werons human rece -an' pickin’ out de Jight LT I T T AR a— o s 1 AR, he Piave AUBLrIANS - TeLe very secrelly, leaving dummy soldiess and uns (0 decelve JAUARS, . oo point might well be condemned and again taken over for street purposes, thereby restoring the original plan for this street, to wit, a highway 125 feet wide from the intersection of Thir- teenth street northwest and Ritten- house street northwest to the Maryland line (this latter terminus being in North Takoma). Its completion to the latter point would call for the construction of a bridge here to carry this street over | the rallway Instead of Fern street, as lately planned. The latter street, how- ever (running east and west), inter- sects Piney Branch road, and also the raflrond, at this very spot. There would be consequently no more cost in constructing the overhead bridge for the latter named street than that con- templated to carry over Fern street. The plan of using Fern street for the purpose, if followed out, would divert the natural flow of traffic due west- ward to north Georgia avenue—about a mile farther than would be the case were Piney Branch road made avail- able. There have been years of delay by the District government in the work of eliminating dangerous crossings in the northwest section of Washington, only one having been eliminated in the R‘ul 20 years, whereas the State of aryland has in that time displayed more progress and abolished some six or seven crossings in territory contigu- ous to the District It is sincerely hoped that the matter In point be given consideration with- out delay by the governing powers of the District of Columbia, with a view of best meeting the urgent needs of the people, The Maryland National Park and Planning Commission doubt- less stands ready at any time to collab- orate n the arrangement of bridge ap- proaches and highways on that side to conform with improvement of any Dis- trict highway that may be extended to thelr border, WALTER PRICHARD. - Overlooked One Good Bet. From the St Louls Post Dispatch Cocktalls were served at the luncheon in the presidential hactenda at Havana, but President and Mrs. Coolidge were looking elsewhere when the tray passed them. Whether that was comme 11 faut or a faux pas, ft a question for Emily Post to wrestle with. Certainly we can vens ture no opinion on such meager data. venture this. If it was cocktall of the true New Or- leans genre, the President and Mrs Coolidge overlooked one delectably wood bet, S BN Mayor Had Forerunner. From the New York Herald Tribune Mayor ‘Thompson had his forerunner, Mrs. O'Leary's cow kicked over lantern and burned herself to death rather (han become part of the toast beef of Old England be President Qovernor or something were it not for the apparent necessity of weaving W stovepipe hat every time & photogra pher happens along v Lifo Move Colorless, Vi Baston Transint 1t is more unfortunate to be humor- blind than to be color-bltnd - vave Run True to Form, From the New Yok Sun Old automobile engines are holng usod I woonshine plants i New Joraey Whe netghborly greeting i How itany o you get o the mile? va.. CleaningU'p Vra, o A New Yok Moot Pt plure or deatroy” was Dewey's order. Now i\ Is u‘u‘u»d W prolibition e f s — ¥ | NEW BOOKS AT RANDOM LG M. OUR TIMES: America Finds Herself. Mark Sullivan, Charles Scribner’s Sons, Smith calls it real history and lets it go at that. Brown says that from start to finish it looks to him most like the heart of adventure itself. And Jones avers that It is, first and foremost, ex- pert journalism, upon it the fine and brilliant sheen of this later art brought to its highest point. Then Doe asks, why not all three together? For this trio is of kinship as clear as the blood bond of a single family. History is but fact. Fact in its roofage is adventure of one sort or another. And the two, in their natural Imlkm. serve knights of the press as no other theme c - bly do. o4k pient However the controversy may run, here is the book itself, Mark Sullivan's “Our Times." Climbing down from its plain capti- vation and standing off for a better look at it as a whole, I see the book as a big tree in the open plain. Its trunk—a century and a half in the growing—is the Mind of America. Out from its substance, out from the sap and fiber of this central stem, a thou- sand branches reach. Each is a nat- ural growth. All are akin. Each fs, nevertheless, a variant from the others. And these branches are thick with leaves, a bewilderment of shining facets offering innumerable twists and turn- ings of the common trends of American thought and outlook. Now the follage of any tree is its immediate attraction. One sees first the sheeny mass of color and movement. So it is with this book. Here, outcoming toward the reader, are | hundreds of views. hundreds of per- sonal interviews. Here is a genulne pageant of celebrities, passing so close that one meets them shoulder to shoulder in the march. Here are free and friendly contacts by the score. | Here is a procession of vital incidents, warm to the seasoned and {lluminating comment of Mark Sullivan. Yet, ab- sorbing as are the color and movement of this abundant leafage, it is, after all, to the trunk and branch of this im- portant study that one gurns for a | longer satisfaction. for a deeper knowl- | edge of the quality of the American | mind working out in certain definite lines of purpose and achievement. If | it were Winter time, you could see, as plain as day, the clear system of trunk and branch existing here—the mental origins of America set out, the method of growth defined. the contributing in- fluences from stage to stage. But it is Summer time and the tree is thick with leaves. In the contemplation of these many a reader will find his best satisfactions. And it is truly a sump- tuous output of American personality and American modes of action that this view reveals. There are others, however, who will, figuratively to be sure, but none the less effectually, strip this tree of its glittering foliage in order to get at the real quality of the Amer- ican mind, to get at the original sources of its growth, at the character of the | contributions by way of which it has taken on experience and is acquiring also a culture of its own. Right here Mr. Sullivan has much to say about education in America. What is the tradition that sourced it and from where did this tradition come? Com- panionably he moves forward to talk, a little, about the experiment of yoking | religion and education in this country. as the prime agency of culture in a | general ~ purpose of the American | people. the near past in our education, pa: reall smij inspired leadets in this field. One | , warmly agreeing to the exalta- | their author. Education soon passes | into politics here as it would, and does. In no time at all, politics, education, government, industry, mix in a blend of American life that might be a mere confusion to most. But it is all the stuff upon which the newspaper man has been brought up, so it swings into | an orderly procession of events here, each element serving to illuminate. to amplify, to interpret the others. The big story converges upon its central theme—that America is coming into a mind distinctively its own. In another | way of putting it, the big showing runs | to the effect that America is coming into a culture, peculiarly its own—a | culture that is coming to operate in the common purpose of American life as | this exemplifies itself in politics, in | business, in government and in soctety. | Enjoyment lies in every page of this | book. Information of the substantial | sort and sound judgment upon many a | theme vital to American life come to- gether here in the most friendly and companionable way that can be im- | agined. 1 think this 18 a great book— truly greai. Don't you? o ox o MONEY WRITES! Upton Sinclair Albert and Charles Boni. The sum and substance of this book is that every considerable writer in America has been brought up to such good effect that practically only such {books are published as are acceptable to the “interests. It turns out that there is just one high-souled. unpur- chasable author in America. This is a great pity-—this man is a great pity Clearly an artist, able to write really great things. Sensitive to beauty. keen in insight, tender in feeling, quite ex- ceptional in the gift of beautiful and forceful expression, Upton Sinclair has | become so enslaved in his own political | philosophy of socialism as to refuse 1o | others either honesty of pur) or in- | telligence in pursuit. A splendid and | impressive writer —or would be if his | theme were not so exclusive and if his | vituperations were not so inclusive. The | book i3 n effect the death march of | the condemne Hardly an American writer of any standing that is not in- cluded within this blast of extermina- tion. Yet, here and there, is a flash of eriticlsm, n moment of literary ap- | pratsal, that s not only sound but that | is, as well, so put as to crystallize the | analysts tn unforgettable word and | phrase. In the main. however, writers | are weighed by Sinclair in the scales of soclalist propaganda. When Sinclatr is | crusading agalnst soclety, against the interests, against the exploitation of | labor, ho loses his sense of beanty and | proportion, he loses his tender and | warm humanity, moving out energet- | feally fnto the fleld of abuse and harsh ! Judgment, yet he talks beautifully ubout brotherhood, beautifully as he can talk, But to inspire his support | the brotherhood must be of his own g making, of hix own pattern. “Wage | alave” 13 an old term 1 thought it a | quite outmoded one as 1ok upon the | wifluent warking man - with his motor | and his fine furndture, with s vadio and victrala and moving pietures and Summer touring, with his well dvessed | and well schoaled chtldren. 1 was mis- | taken. The “wage slave’ 5wy fiesh | as mueh an entity, i the cosmaes of Upton Sinclale ws i now werv a than sand yeurs ago And o go wiong With | (s unbiappy_ man ts to begtn to gather | ANy 801t of material succe Ihere 3 a happler day coming i speaking- "when an entightened com muntty will foster vital art, and writer may speak the trath without fear of boyeott and extinetion. Oues 18 A time of patn and sacrifice, when the honest man's reward 1 the inner Knowledge of & service rendered to the oo, 1L 15 & Hme of knavery ens throned, and buncombe and triviality st up In the seata of glory * Poar Upon Stnelalr! Most tnteresting though, wy & stndy tnoa certain brand AEsoctal and politival phillasophy. How erer, Whio Wanta (o e a Catidy A Changing World, From the Baltimore Sun This 18 & changing in diplomacy and Wit ot 1LY Warld - Lindbergh Ruogwia deciing e it | ministers plenipotentiary | Latin American nations outside of the | | was ANSWERS TO QUESTIONS BY FREDERIC ]. HASKIN. You want to know something. You wish to be positive before you go ahead. Well, The Evening Star will teil you what you want to know and give you assurance before - you proceed. Our Washington Bureau can answer any question of fact propounded to it. Here is the university of Information—a great free educational Institution establiched solely to serve you. Send in your ques- tion and get the right answer. Inclose 2 cents in stamps to cover the re-| turn postage. Address, The Evening | Star Information Bureau, Frederic J.| Haskin, director, Washington, D. C. Q. How many people are employed | by the automobile industry?—P. A. In this country, about 3.400,000 are employed directly, and 378,500 em- ployed indirectly, by this enormous industry. Q. When was electricity first light raflroad coaches?—A. E. G. A. The Pullman Co. Inaugurated its | use on an American Pullman car on| an English railway, October 14, 1281. | Storage batteries from the Foure Ac- cumulator Co. of France were used, and 12 of the new Edison incandescent | lights with bamboo filaments. | Q. Has Poland any control over th free city of Danzig?—E. E. A. The Polish republic has no sover- eign rights over the free city of Danzig. Under the treaty of Versailles, however, Poland 1is charged with the conduct of the foreign affairs of the free city; the two states have a common customs and economic union under Polish law, and the rallroads are managed by Poland | with certain supervision and restriction. Q —J. . A. The highest type of polyandry is found in Tibet and in this case there is a close approach to the essential elements of the modern family. The | wife lives In the home of her husbands, who are kinsmen, usually brothers. It/ is the prerogative of the eldest brother | to choose the wife. All the children | are assumed to belong to him, the first | is known to be. Q. How large a tuna fish has been | caught by a fisherman?—L. E. N. A._ Zane Grey reported a tuna weigh- ing 758 pounds in 1924, Q. What part of our exports go to| Europe?—E. J. T. | A. About 48 per cent of our exports. | During the fiscal year 1927 the; amounted in value to $2397.000.000., The United Kingdom and Ireland paid about $1,000.000.000 for our products; | Germany, $443,000,000; Prance, $234.-' 000.000; Italy, $142000.000, and the Netherlands, $143.000,000. used to G, Is polyandry practiced in Tibet? H P | Q. TIs the star Betelguese larger than| {our sun?—P. R. A. It is much larger. The volume of Beteiguese is 50,000,000 times that of our sun, but its mass is only about 50 times that of the sun. Q. Has the box left by Joanna South- cote ever been opened?—H. R. N. A. After 113 years the hox sealed by Joanna_ Southcote, seeress, was opened in London July 11, 1927. It was found to contain only coins and other trifles. Q. Who was t rst woman to ob- tain a medical degree in the United States?—C. R. C. A. Elizabeth Blackwell, who was graduated from Geneva Medical Col- lege in 1849, was the first. S| her sister, Emily, started in New the Infirmary for Women and Chiidren in 1853, the first institution of its kind conducted solely by women. She was afterward connected with other forward steps in medical education, both here and In Engiand. Q. How are pi 0 nuts salted in J. F. K % y are prepared by bolling the whole nut in a brine water for about five minutes. When drained and cold the nuts will be found to be co with salty crystals. Q. When did Gen. Kuropatkin J. A L. A He died tn 1921. Q. Can one drive through the Hol land Tunnel under the Hudson R free of charge?--P. T. N. A. At present there is a charge, the toll rates ranging f cents to $1 As soon as the tunnel pays off its $43, 400.000 capital and interest, however, it will be used by the public free of charge. Q. the red A. Kemal Pa complete suppression of th: headgear. Q. Is there a piace where & never thaws’—E. C. T. A. Ice to the depth of more than 100 vards binds the soil of northern Si even in Summer. The frozen gro an area of 5.000.000 Europe, according to a report made %0 the Berlin Geographical Society. Q. What is the full title of the King of England’—M. A. L. A. The King's title was changed as a result of recommendation of the im- perial conference of 1926, following the establishment of the Irish Free State. The title now the Grace of God. of Great Britain snd Ireland and the British Dominions be- yond the seas, King, Defender of the Faith, Emperor of India.” The procla- mation announcing the new title also gave the Latin rendering. “Georgius V, Dei Gratia magnae Britannise, H! bernise et terrarum transmarinar quae in ditione_sunt, Britannica | Pidel Defensor, Indiae Imperat Q. What is the smallest amount that can be weighed?—R. E. T. A. Dr. Kuhlmann of Hamburg re- cently succeeded in registering weigh's as low as one ten-millionth of a gramme. BACKGROUND OF EVENTS BY PAUL ¥V ‘The Pan-American Conference hu‘ reached the expected point of showing bers against the United States of | America. Does not the Government of | “dominate over” and perhaps “enslave” | all the Latin Americans? Shall not| Here he reverts feelingly to | Latin America rise in its mdependenu;m these |and might and throw off the “over-'by the Latin Americans in the Havana 1o pay tribute to one and another of the | lordship” of the Anglo-Saxon giant of | conference. There is absolutely no ob- 5 Down with the Mon- | North America Down with the Yankee roe Doctrine! Union! Down with the Yankee director | general of the Pan-American Union! It | is all well enough to have & Rowe in: the Pan-American Union. as that gives the union & homelike atmosphere quite ' natural to Latin America, but let Latin America start its own Rowe—or row! R So, at the Havana Pan-American | Conference, now in session, Where President Coolidge made a speech last week showing the reverse of practically all that the radicals of pan-American thought was the character and policy of the United States, four proposals are under consideration, or about t be profected. all with the apparent pur- pose of telling Uncle Sam where and when to get off the neck of “oppressed™ Latin America. L One of the chief of the pan-American levances which they would now ‘orm is that the union has always had an American Secretary of State as its presiding officer. Also it has always i had an American as its director general | or executive officer. That is what Dr. L. S. Rowe is, and what John Bar- rett formerly was. The dominance of | these North Americans in always mak- | ing North Americans the chief off- | cials of the Union Americans must be stopped! So declared the opposition of lLatin America. | EEE | How shall it be stopped® The con- itution of the Pan-American Unton rovides that its governing board shall | made up of the ambassadors and United States of America. So these | 20 have the whole situation in hand cach having one vote, regardless of their sizes, as compared with the on» United States of America, when it comes to electing the president. and | somehow they have always been so hypnottaed that they have always elected the Secretary of State of the United States to preside over the board’s deliberations. Each country has exactly one vote. whether its pop- ulation is 446,098, as 1n the case ot Panama, or 33.767.342 as in the case as s the pop ulation of the Unitad States, tnelus of the Philippines and Porto Rico \ The total population of all the latm ! American states is about two-thirds | that of the United States. The total | wealth and ress of Latin America | are of less propartion than the respective populations. The Pan-American Union organired by statesmen of the United States, for the purpose of help- g stabilise soctal and political econ- ditions throughout the Americas, for our Own prosperity and peace aie largely dependent an the tanquillity and progress of the rest of the hew sphere. | From the bv‘mmns the evpenses o(l the Pan-American Union have been ! Aivided between the Untted States and the LaAtin Awmerican countiies, about | equally-—we paying as much as all the | Latin Amerivan countries combined. 1o | addition, we supply some $30.000 worth of printing free. When the magn! marble bulting ot P Uniton headquarters in Washaion w erected, the cost. $1 100000 Was et by a contribution of $230000 by all the Latiny and the balance was ghven by the late Andiew Carnegle, o be nalt of the United States The Vestment now 18 double i value s the equity of the Latiny i waid aboud | $300.000 and that of (he United Siates about §1,700,000, N That éxeess af wealth given by the United States for the advancement of the Pan-American unity af tnterest i) N0 reasai why our Secrelary of State | should always be the presktent of the | board, 0F why the divector genheral should always be a North American FUF many years the constitution has read (Article WO “The government of the Pan-Amert. | can Union shall be vestend th & govery ' g board, conased of the diplamacie | vepresentatives of the American topub HeN aeviotliod o (e Untted Btaies of Alerica and the Seotetary of Biate of that country, CArtiele Vo The governing board witt elect s presidont and vice president By 0 Latin American oa volo.) .- . | Havana Pan-Ame: | draw from Nicara, of the 20 - ’. COLLINS. “Article VI ‘The governing board shall appoint the following officers: A i the antagonism of certain of its mem- | director general, who shall have charge e Pan-Amer- promose its of the administration of ican Union, with power He speaks about the schools themselves | Washington demonstrate its intent to|most ample development. etc.” So it appears that it is the 20 Latin Americans persisiing in electing Yankees ices who are to be criticized jection _expressed anywhere in the United States to putting in competent tion of “McGuffey's Readers,” to the | Secretary of State. who always has'Latin Americans either as president or accolade laid upon the shoulders of | acted as president of the Pan-American 'director general Always ihe vice presi- dent has been a Latin. But the selection is made from the standpoint of usefulness to the union and not for the sake of paying & com- pliment 1o the office holder selected. S Not long ago, in anticipation of the rican Conference. the principal newspaper of Santo Domingo, Listin Diario, declared that the “Monroe Doctrine is now distorted by craft and egoism from meaning ‘Amer- ica for the Americans’ into meaning ‘America for the United States of the | North.' " But no instance has been cited {10 explain what that charge really re- | fers ta. Former Secretary of State Hughes In a speech at the Havana Conference pointed 1o aid to Cuba in throwing h tyrann | Panan to Haitd ! gua. from whose territories we prom; withdrew as soon as peace and tran uillity had been est Positive assurance that we 18 s soo: is accomplished and have had an untramm their preside: He pot fact that, aside from OWn interests there. both Nicaras factions united in requesting ouw in maintaining order against anar Histary is flled with inst how our Monroe Doctrine has ed latin American countries Kurcpean powers. which would s their territory in the ogliection of debts a8, for examples, Max: s ton of Mexico, from which his support, and Great position en Venesela stopped by Preside: later Germany’s st game. checked by President Rooserve Without the protection of our Mom we drove | roe Doctrine. many of the indep s hemisphere wou be under the power of Burope. EEE Today much is talkad of “Latin Amer ordial terms. Chile and Peru and 2 have boen on the verge of war TAciA-ATICR for & generation lved the United St Our own Interest, W act as thelr dupute—and Cept our impartial dec : Power wo urn for prow 10! of the North oS [ the amall nations with a to: ton of 33000000 Reawml Mexter, Cnia Rk and Benado not revugiize the League of Natons and (helr combined Populatn i 3T QOO0 Add our own 130568 098 s A total tns, Ay | ovn 0 League Meniow i its ehronie feal Siates (al least o N Marrow amdassador i COUNEEY ) wordd e Lhat seal of the Pan-American Umin tansferred T Wasiingion o the lnd o the Mantesumas or 1o that of the heas. That & regurdiess of the fact that (here are more than 30 per cent evoess of Amerkans north of the Rio (Wande than south of that doun- dary. and that there are willans of Gy ot tnvestad W the uhikn heads QuATters i Washington, 1R an Mg historie oldent that when Marshal Foeh visited Washington, after the Warld War and et U Ehe oval fable arcuad which he dgdamatic S af AllAmertoa wed out manthly W counelt over ihe problems o s bewisphere, he remarked with & i 1 only Burope had Bad sueh an iernatkeal cosieid . there Would neved have e Wkt Wai e 4 \“lu vk of walataining (v unique IR Amonnts e b cent per of Narth A Cviiral md South Awarts cA every 10 veaty one Wil a yean B A United Riates !Wm‘x' - ACRRIMAL 138, by Faul W Qolimed %