Evening Star Newspaper, January 27, 1928, Page 8

Q 27, 1928, THE EVENING With Sunday Morning b WASHINGTON, DG, FRIDAY.......January 27, 1928 %;{EObOBE W. NOYES. ...Editot Star News paper Company London, rrier Within e City. or i Sunday Star ey All Other S sy avd Sundas SN0l 8 s only . S4000 1 m Member of the Associated Press ¥ per cent e District per cent by the xing the ratio of jects is a matter decide. Despite the e Commissioners may measure to Congress. d Representative Zihlman is und od to be ready to sponsor it as the prepared it. In addition nissioners’ bill, two other | res for the acquisition of an air- rict have been referred or- T s broken looss and the inhabit- ants of the island arc fleeing to the ainland. On the east coast of Kam- atka the voleano of Sheveliuteh, long regarded as extinct, has suddenly be- |come intensively active. The volcanic 1sland of Santorin, or Thira, in the Qrecian archipelago, has erupted after two years of inpctivity. Krakatoa, a volcanic isiend in the strait between Sumatra and Java, which in 1883 was jthe scene of one of the most violent, has, after increas- | 1 weeks, again ex- | At the same time a severe e has been feit in the state of A, Mexico. Here are four vents one in the G one in C(‘ml'nl: cian archipel- | at the same time. They are sep- | by many thousands of mi!cs.; Their simultaneous performance cannot | be a mere coincidence, but must be due | to the san internal cause, the precise nature of which cannot in the present state of the science of seismology b= | determined. though it may be closely | So far as known none | se present eruptions has been | ¢ destructive. Krakatoa's sin- | formance in 1883 naturally will | bered and may be a cause of | iety lest this great chimney again | ibute to the heavy toll of death. ! In that year its explosion was so violent | as to cause a tidal wave that destroyed | 0,000 lives. | r——— ‘Radio and Railroading. Application of radio to the operation of railroad trains has been contemplated for some time as a possibility, and has now been demonstrated as feasible. A ce. 1 test has been made on the New York Central road of a system of communication between a moving freight train and a signal tower and between the ends of the train itself. | This train was more than a mile in| length, consisting of 111 cars. Instru- ments were installed in the locomotive | cab and in the caboose. It was found to be possible to m n constant com- muntcation not only from train to tower | | | There s littie hope for the occupants in such a crach, But with the wing slots, however, the ongine may quit while the plane fs climbing, and instead of the ship stall- ing, it continues on at the angle of climb, sinking slowly all the time. The plane is under complete control, and if the pilot sees he has room enough ahead he may nose the plane down. It will then pick up forward speed, the slots will automatically close and a safe landing with a dead motor will be effected. It conditlons ahead are not good enough to permit a landing with nor- mal flying speed, the pilot can allow the plane to move along at the twenty or thirty degree angle, and as it slowly | sinks toward the ground the pilot knows that the tail will strike first and not with a hard eragh. There may be dam- age to the plane, but the chances of getting out alive are all in favor of the occupants, ‘The slot has the effect of increasing the wing surface of the plane, increas- ing its lifting power and granting a greater factor of safety to both pilot and plane. When not in use it fits closely to the leading edge and does not in any way interfere with the forward speed of the plane. The military services will find the areatest advantages of the wing slot on iheir training planes. although the other types will b2 thus equipped for experi- mental purposes. Military aviation must not bow too low to safety devices if it would be a fighting organization. Some- times too many safety devices on a mil- itary plane render its performance for such purposes almost worthless. But in the commercial plane, of the | type ranging from the individual “run- | about” to the big passenger-carrying transports, the wing slot is indispensa- ble, and the speedy adoption of the de- vice should follow. One factor inter- poses, however, and that is the large amount of money necessary to acquire the manufacturing rights, but this rea- | son cannot forever be advanced by the | manufacturers for not thus equipping their planes. afrcraft manufacturer who but from cab to cabooss. The short|Stresses the “wing slot” as part of his District committee and are now awaiting its action. The must have an airport There is no difference of opinion on pol But from the first it has apparent that the distribution of | costs would be a vexing question in view of the departure from substantive law that has marked congressional action on all local measures for the last four years. If the proposed airport is to be considered in every sense of the ' word a “municipal airport” there is a certain amount of logic in the supposi- tion that the municipality should bear e full cost. But the difficulty here is | that in the District there is no distinct | municipal establithment. The schools, | the streets, the playgrounds—all such in- | stitutions which ordinarily would be con- | sidered “municipal undertakings”—are under the control of the Federal Gov- emment and their cost is shared by the Federal Government. This is ac- cording to law. If a municipal airport were %0 be built and supported by | money from local taxpayers it would | follow that the revenue from its main- | tenance would accrue to the credit of the local taxpayers and that Uncle Sam. with other users of the airport, would pay therefor. But such an arrangement is not pos- | sible under the status of the District | int wave length of the transmitting equip- ment was supposed to render effective service over a five-mile radius at the outside, but in the actual test it was found that perfect communication was maintained for a distance of eight miles from the signal tower, while at all times | the conductor in the caboose and the engineer in the cab were in close con- tact. American freight trains, especially on the principal trunk lines, have developed to great lengths. In the operation of these trains difficulties have been en- countered owing to the large number of cars. Communication between cab and caboose has been maintained by visual signals such as flags or lanterns, by dot- and-dash whistle code or in some cases by compressed air signal lines, which are subject to derangement. In emer- gencies, while trains are in operation, trainmen have had to run over the tops of the cars, always a dangerous pro- ceeding, and especially so in stormy weather. With the radio equipment it is possible at all times for the conductor and the engineer, though separated as in this instance by more than a mile, to talk without risk of failure of under- standing or without exposing any of the train operatives to injury or deatn. The substitution of radio control for < g & | the established system of orders and di- cilives mie Ts"mwm:m"m may not follow immediately, for the Federal City, created and sup- {but 1t is likely that with the perfection ported with funds drawn in fixed pro- {of the method just tested it will be pos- portion from the residents of the Dis- Sible for train dispatchers to keep in trict and from the Federal Government. | This is the method laid down in sub- stantive law. This is the only practi- | cal, equitable arrangement. To depart | from it would be unfair. To disregard | it would be %o shove upon the shoulders of the unrepresented District another burden, neatly tied and labeled, “Mu- micipal Airport.” The projected airport is sn excep- tionally clear {llustration of the wisdom of retaining the fixed ratio of appor- tioning expenditures between the Fed- eral znd District governments in ac- cordance with substas e Jaw. It is an enterprise which will distribute its sdvantages between the District and the Federal governments. To separate these advaniages 1= impossible. To share in the cost of gaining them is only right and fair. It is reasonable t0 believe 55 will take this just view. it gyi The Bunco Game. ity of human nature was never better demonstrated than in the zled of & married couple ieir fe's savings of four sznd dollars for the custody of & peckege supposed Y contaln forty thousend ¢ w be th i not end of three years n with the two stra. gers dle 0 their «d for the the Ume s y Quliar parksge 1 on men 14 for vealth by bnwy ges ey WHSCH Vs enjoy Wheir old sge - Bk b syt mbrgl i€ Lisk o pure & th Lot el - s wgalnat gumbiing w1 nvesu the pirate alvartly num er Lhen WAET s TG T ) Earth s parte The Uneasry of the nave iy w hour olcanic eruptune sud e These simuilaneois forces relation- ol wle the selbmic e close tie eurths erust ' Blrsine n the inernel Limited erea \hat e o wr o Ometepe Like i arne pasne W o8 constant touch with conductors and en- gineers and to direct them in accord- ance with the state of the tracks and condition of the traffic. Meanwhile the installation of safety devices such as| automatic train controls and train stops, | designed to prevent encroachment on occupied stretches of track, must pro- | ceed. The radio-control system may re-“ place them, with perhaps greater ef- | ficiency. It is possible that by radio not only warnings of dangerous conditions | may be given to engineers, but that by | the same means, if warnings are not heeded, trains may be brought to a halt automatically. 8o many wonders h: been per- | formed through the medium of radio| during the last decade that it is not 10 | much % expect the development of a| perfect control system of the operating | units of the track lines of the country. | No matter what the congestion of a rail | stem may be, with the co-ordination ¢ all the traffic elements the risk of col- lLsion may be reduced to & negligible minimum. Broken equipment, always a factor of danger, may no longer stand as the chie! clement of peril if upon any derangement of the physical ma- | Is can be given over a wide | re not heeded may be | positive stoppage of | n of brakes. The of error may be elim- | { | R shioned love stories have been the market by new-fash- e stories. ‘The tales <nding | cd happy ever after” Lave lost ‘- The Airplane Wing Slot. wmes and devices de- | ed 1 prevent the stall of an air- ! flight have been pondered over I enginecrs slmost from & the Handley- | ng recently y und given an offi tration here yesterday after- | While many slot clnl demon tands oub ms the one element at | that will contribute | of aviation noon ety than | British nvention woviring 1ights of which bave s bought by this Government, pre vente tie stall and in sccompliehing | 118 3t kewise prevents the tatl spin | which follows, The stall s | trought whoul by engine fatlure, tog and atention or leck of experience by |1w| 1y speaking, the pilot | wviution thoroughly will | ever by Bimselt get it & stall 1 WiLE Sl hias e greatest effect | it preservation of lite wnd property | ke i wdrplane s Laking off and land- A plane not equipped wih this teke @ff from & field wnd climbing lboriously, the en The speed slops whmost wt hat plane gaiis, fatls off it o' #Urien ground un N nose the | uslially pilot, b who knows b I I ! enly coones Lo funetion torvard sant, 1 plane’s eqeipment in his advertising | copy is certain to boost his own sales | far above the competitor who will not | give the public this additional guar- antee of safe — o According to aviation experts flying is now in its infancy. bearing the same relationship to complete development that a Raphacl cherub bears to a full- fledged angel k) Financial prosperity cannot be disre garded as a factor .n prohibition mat. ters. The drys are glad to have the law on their side. but the wets are thankful to have the price. SO i ‘The irony of fate frequently brings to attention many men who might have been fine historians and philosophers if they had not insisted on being poli- ticians. R A grateful and admiring public may | yet go so far as to insist on giving Lindbergh at least a two weeks' vaca- tion. e A truly great statesman at present is one who can forget the numerous friends and relatives he would like to protect in office. P ) Ostentation of wealth is dangerous in a shady transaction. wealth without ostentation. —— e SHOOTING STARS. BY PHILANDER JOHNSON, One-sided Affair. Lady shoots her husband dear. Gets what he deserves. Just the same, this conduct qucer Is getting on our nerves. Well aimed bullets swiftly flit Every night and day, As our leisure moments flit, Find 'em in a play! Two sides every question shows. Baid it once with pride. Life one side will now disclose; Which now is homicide. Dangerous Independence. “What do you think of some of these new talkers who try to substitute new ideas for those of the early patriots?” “They remind me of some actor: sald Senator Sorghum, “who, after mak- ing & hit with the help of perfectly good authors, try to get independent and substitute their own stuff.” Misplaced Courtesy. The dentist says, “I hope you're well.” Lets shoot him on the spot; Because my visit ought to tel] Quite plainly that I'm not, Jud Tunkins says if criminals get | much bolder they will be trying to| make arrangements to carry their own camers men. Progress. ‘ou want farm relief?” LN nd tax reduction?” Vs “What hopes have you?" “Considerable. We've at least got the favorite son of our Btate to & point here he's willing to come around and shake hands and look sympathetic " “We may travel fast and far,” sald Hi Ho, the sage of Chinstown, “only learn Bttle more than the sadness of being homesick “Please Lay OM" My Radio! My Radio! Your constant agitation sometimes will leave me glad (o know Your works can't reach the station Bribing the Fates, “Ihat fortune teller always gives you . “Yes. 1 pay hier four limes her cus- tomary fee’ “A man who knows what he's talkin' hout,” said Unele Eben, "ain’ gineter hwve ws much to suy as one who s les’ tiyin be socluble by passin’ wround hin gy, Faney Titles, 168 1o nomenclature, what | Liss & Pullman car on the chorus givis? - .- Tarifl Notions, Ko s Terne Hats Star The Monse's idea of (ariff legadntion shotid suggest (o 1he Bennte iy Hhity of adogling resolutions, . THIS AN We get used to improvements and betterments so easily! Emerson somewhere has pointed out that men take to the best literature as ducks do to water, reading the most | sublime thoughts as if in their natural | element. | They do not shy from great books, but read them with pleasure, feeling | that here at last some one has stated well what they always have felt and believed. So, in the lesser walks of everyday living, it is a hopeful thing that mon and women have a nrtural inclination toward bstterment. “Bigger and better,” a phrase laughed | at since its enunciation, nevertheless | expressed a desire of the human heart. | Holmes stated the same thought in other way, in his poem. beginning. | Build thee more stately mansions, O | my soul.” The desire to build bigger and bet- {ter, in material as well as in spiritual things, accounts for what betterment there is in the world, in the face of the lowering tendencies of certain traits | {and habits. i It is this constant longing for the 1l)f‘tu'l‘ house, the fincr motor car. the | botter character, which has made | America a bigger and better Nation from the beginning. * ok | | * The ecase with which a person from | takes™ to city conveniences, | called. is only astonishing when one has forgotten the truth which we_have attempted to restate here. The best is not the heritage of money | or po solely, but is the secret wish of every one worth while. Yonder ragamuffin boy, casting en- | vious glances at the “swell” equipage of ‘the rich, may some day havce more | money than he knows what to do with in his turn, and will purchase the best of everything he can find { No one feels offended at street cars, or busses, or electric lights, or plum ing. or furnace heat. One may feel a bit awkward in the face of some newfangled invention, but he quickly gets over it. Who can not recall the first time he experimented with the fancy turn stop- pers in the wash basins in the Pullman | cars? The first time he saw one of these the traveller was nonplussed. He did not want to confess his ignorance to the nonchalant drummers who cluttered up the big leather seat below the mir- | ror. | By some lucky solved the problem. after which it was | his delight to complacently unstop the basin at every opportunity. to show his familiarity with modern devises. So with the telephone. and many others which might be mentioned. No | man ever yet shrank back abashed from | the black instrument saving: “This tele- | phone is more than I deserve! Let my | betters use it.” | | * ok ox o No, the “inferiority complex™ of the world happily does not extend that far. Very few men will deny themselves a better home or a better car, if thev an scrape up enough money to get one. And when they have got it, they feel perfectly at home in it, too. ‘We have yet to hear of a man who, after riding around in his “Bigger and ‘Bfl\’tr 6" for several months. handed it back to the dealer with a sigh. i “This is too good a car for me.’ twist, however, he It mightn't be a bad idea for the friends of naval expansion and of the mérchant marine to get together and agree on what's to be said in their com- mon behalf in Congress. One day this | week Rear Admiral Charles B. McVay | jr.. budget officer of the Navy Depart- | ment, was defending the Coolidge-Wii- | bur $750.000,000 building program be- fore the House naval affairs committee. | “vast and growing commerce,” or words {to that effect, demands the additional protection which the project contem- plates. Wesley L. Jones, Republican, of Wash ington, was eloquently espousing his | bill fof construeting $250,000.000 worth | of new Government merchant ships. “If | ve don’t do something for the building | up of an American merchant marine,” | declared Mr. Jones, “we will not have any commerce to defend or protect.” PRI Age isn't going to wither “Jim" Reed's ambitions to become President of the United States. If nominated and elect- ed in 1928, the Missouri Democrat would be inaugurated in March, 1929, aged 67 | years and 4 months, lacking a day or two. Once this observer bantered the Adonis trom the Kaw country about the possibility of his not Hving long enough to complete a term In the White House, “Hell!" Recd ejaculated in contemptu- ous accents, i} estors lived to be a hundred!” “Jim" 15 beyond all doubt the youngest 66-year-older in nn- | tional life, with the possible exception {of Charles Evans Hughes. a boy just approaching 66. Reports from Havana | depict Hughes as cavorting around the Pan-American Conference ltke a colt presidential contest between Reed and | Hoover would be something to edify the | gods. The Secretary of Commerce 13 the Missourian's pet aversion Late revelations In the Teapot Dome scandal are welcome water on Reed’s mull. In the judgment of his friends, the newest Fall-Sinclair developments are just what “Jim" needed to revivify his paramount tasue of “corruption” Reeds role in the 8mith and Vare cases Is another timely bit of help, P Washington, President | Cosgrave of Ircland indicated that the | greatest emotional thrill he has ex- perienced in America came when he atood before the tomb of George Wash- | ington at Mount Vernon. 8ince time imm-morial Washington has personified | the .rit of liberty for which E | long fought and bled He inearnated 1t 0 the abstract, fied 1t for Irishmen in a concrete for Washington, like themselves, was In vevolt against the British yoke. The professional milltary member of Presi- dent Cosgrave's party —his alde de camp, Col. O'Reflly, of the Irish Army devived special inspiration from the visit to Mount Vernon O'Rellly-—a rangy, red-headed bra' of & lad, who confesses 1o 43 years and | looks 26 how long he'd been a soldier ST began Nghting the English when 1| was 17, he naid . s | Before leaving Wiy, * These ure the days or rather nights | when members of the cabinet exercie thelr _annual privilege of entertaining | the President and First Lady at din- ner. It I8 customary for cabinet oM cers on these Rugust occustons to nvite distinguished folks from back home to sit bt table with the master and | mistress of the White House. P'rob ably the party Mr. and Mres Coolidge | enjoy most Is the dinner which Nu‘) Attorney Cleneral and Mes. Sargent flw for them. This Winter's function has Just taken place As usual, there was asked 10 meel the President and his wite & group of Vermonters who In almost every case came from he tmmedlate nelghborhoods whence My and Mis Coolidge sprink. 1t was very much Iike w Green Mountain home- coming affalr i PR When the Teapot Dame ol acandals sk began o nausate the Natlon 1 the Winter of 1023-44 the prediction was ventiured by Frank J Hogan of tho Washington bar Dabeny s lawyer that 1t would be at lenst five yearn befors the cases weie | Mty disposed of Hogwn's huneh s Pwell on the way to verification. ‘The learned Wwho biought about and allied counsel WASHINGTON OBSERVATIONS BY FREDERIC WILLIAM WILE, Home one asked | | D THAT - BY CHARLES E. TRACEWELL. fmagine this impossible person declar- ing. “Give me back my fiivver.’ “I must give up my house of cight rooms with two baths,” says another. “I do not deserve so much. Bn‘ he goes back to his five-room bungalow! No, people do not think and talk in that manner. The man in the big curi after he has ridden around for several months, begins to_ look for & binr}: one, profiting by n\lc education whic! ew car gave him. um‘fl?n man 5ith the elght-room ;nd two-bath house begins to feel, after soveral years have gone by, that 8 new home containing at least three baths would be more suited to his family. H(“ylm. has profited by his contact with ‘something bigger and better, and. degree by degree, insensibly grows into the belief that he deserves an even hetter home—as, no doubt, he really does. Why not? Sl The man who steps from an oak office to a mahogany one sits down at his fancy new desk without any trepi- dation whatsoever. He does not feel that he is desecrat- ing a wood too good for him, but sim- piy that mahogany was his due all the time and he had been a little slow in | reaching t. There is within the heart of most people a naive belief that nothing is too good for one. Napoleon was never krown to have shrunk from the mag- nificence with which he surrounded nimself as Emperor. Perhaps a great modern theater | shows this universal trait of human na- ture to its full. Here is an edifice upon which thousands upon thousands oi_dollars has been spent. Here are gathered, for any perform- ance, two or three thousand persons, from every possible walk of life, from v conceivable rank of soclety. The “high-brow.” the “rough- the “timid soul,” these sit side . in long, curving rows. gy of the mob rules in a y refined, sedate and pleasant form. it is true. Every one, high or low. aims to please, and wants to_be pleased Beautiful thick carpets, such as only 2 per cent in the audience have in| their own homes, are trodden on by rich and poor with equal footsteps. The family which comes from a home with cheap rugs walks calmly enough upon the highest quality floor coverings which the theater company offers to its patrons. No one is awed in the least by the mural paintings, or made to feel any the less at home because costly chan- deliers and the finest of papers and | leathers send out their silent appeal. | Thus we have, in one large room. & sterling example of the way in which human beings take to good things. While there may be some retrogres- sions. in the main human beings move forward. What holds the world back is that each human being must start in all| over again. The best that can be done | is to supply each new human being | with the best possible. The rest is up | to him. |’ The salvation of mankind is that human beings get used to improvements | and betterments very easily, and, every- thing else being equal. mostly prefer the better and the best. Doheny acquittal last year Insists| that none of the men whose_ lfberties | are involved in the oil cases has done/ anything except take full advantage ' of his rights under the law. If dtll)‘l' have ensued, Hogan declares, they were | only the result of legitimate loopholes | i our constitutional and juridical system. To have ignored them, he ex- | plains, would have been to fail in that And yet many The gallant seaman advocated the pro- | complete recourse to justice which the | lighting. persons can derive no pleasure from gram on the ground that Amcnclxl‘ bill of rights was meant to guarantee. lighte ko ‘The newly-errived German Ambassa- About the same time Senator |dor, Dr. Friedrich Wilhelm von Pritt-1 for gas or oil for cooking. witz und Gaffron—we'll probably know him as plain Dr. von Prittwitz—is a graduate of Germany’'s most swagger university, Bonn. All the Hohenzol- lerns, including the one-time Kaiser and Crown Prince, were Bonn men and members of Prussia’s aristocratic stu- dent fraternity. the “Borrussia.” The late Baron Maltzan was a “Bonn Bor- russlan.” and Ambassador von Prittwitz undoubzedly enjoys the same distinction ‘The latter's accession to the German embassy at Washington coincides with the publication of “The Stabilization of the Mark,” by Dr. Hjalmar Schacht, president of the Reichsbank. By all the signs of the political zodiac, revision of German reparations is going to be al cardinal international issue before many moons. Dr. Schacht's authoritative ac: count of the fatherland’s financial come back will aid American public opinion in_appraising Germany's demands_for a reconstitution of her debt to the allles. . Certain members of Congress—and Americans in general who are addicted to assertion without knowledge-—might take to heart a little known statement of the Marquis de Lafayette. It has teen immortalized in granite, on the pedestal of the French patriot’s beauti- tul statue which adorns Lafayette Col- lege campus at Enston, Pa., and reads I read, T study, I listen, 1 reflect, and out of all this T try to form an idea tnio which T put as much common sense ax I can” Lafayette College was founded In 1024 to commemorate the visit which Washington's brilllant coadjutor paid to the Unlted States that year. (Conviieht, 1028 ) UNITED STATES WORLD W Ten Years Ago Today AR Secretary Baker and military ocials predict that Germany is planning a bowerful submarine thrust at American ines of communication with France. hoping to cut off the steady flow of troops and supplies and munitions. Ex- wet It to be rl” and el of the threatened land offensive againat allied forces on the Western front. * + ¢ Mild weather greatly factlitates trai ing of the A E P Grenade throwe and artllenists drill o their shivt- slooves. * ¢ Gen. Leonard Wood, I France making an inspection trip of the Western front, 15 wounded by an in which five Frenchmen ave *t American Red Oross announces that its total appropriations for work In France since Congress de- clared war nmount to §30,510,239, the greatest i the world's history for stmi- lar work * * * More than half a milon fles ordered i this country by the Russian government will be taker over by the United Htates to keep tratned men At work 10 munitions plants. * * * Reports of disturb- ances In Germany are curvent in Mol land and severe outhreaks are said to hisve ocourred in Rhenish Industeial plants ‘... ing War Zone, Dl Times Judging from the acrimony displaved at the heatings on the Houlder Dam bill e nest big war will be fought i the viemity of the Colorado River vt “Hewston,” Vil by The people of (he will b delighyfull R The ¢ ¥ Texas metropolis hospitable until somebody ¢ o Hoose-ton, The | requirement of admission is the | PHILOSOPHIES BY GLENN FRANK ‘The dominant hunger of the human heart, once safety and the simpler sat- isfaction are achieved, is the hunger for happiness. The universality of this hunger for happiness has evoked a vast litcrature of glad-girl exhortation. We are told to stane still, look up. think beautiful thoughts, and, on th magic carpet of mere wishes, to fly into the heaven of happiness unalloyed. Happiness does not. however, lie 50 cheaply on the emotional bargain counter. i | For most of us, happiness must come {as the logical result of realistic intel- lectual, social and spiritual engineering. Let me suggest two modern adven- tures in social and intellectual engi- neering that seem to me to bulk large in_the war on unhappiness. Henry Fairfield Osborn. the distin- of Natural History, has published a hook of essays and addresses that bris- tles with ideas that breed still other ideas in the reader's mind. In this book-—“Creative Education"—I find this statement : “The unhappy people of the world include two classes: those who have no creative talents, and those who possess talents and never discover them." The unhappiness of undevelopable in- feriority. The unhappincss of undeveloped su- periority. Neither unhappiness ca1 be preached away by the Pollyannas. But two of the major movements of | our time promise to do away with much of both of these kinds of unhappiness. The New Industry promises happi- | ness to the one-talent men. { ness to the ten-talent men. | The New Industry. with ifs uninspir- |ing routine, may mean death to the | gifted craftsman, but it means life and eisure and means to the mediocre mil- li s who would be hard hit if the: 1 had to meet the challenge to creat: | craftsmanship that a handicraft world { would put to them. There are millions of one-talent mer |to whom monotony is preferable challenging variety: they can be happy as managers of a routine that is with in range of their abilities: they wou be unhappy in an industry that made demands their ingenuity could not answer. The New Education keeps its eve on | the individual student rather than upon the class; it seeks, not so .uch to trust guished head of the American Museum | The New Education promises happi- | to ! ANSWERS Did you ever write a letter to Pred- eric J. Haskin? You can ask him any question of fact and get the answer in a personal letter. Here is a great edu- cational idea introduced into the lives of the most intelligent people in the world—American newspaper readers. It is a part of that best purpose of a newspaper—service. There is no charge | except 2 cents in_stamps for return postage. Address Frederic J. Haskin, * | Director, The Evening Star Informa- | tion Bureau, Washington, D. C. | — : | Q. Has a straight flush always beaten | four aces?—N. T. P. A. The carliest editions of Hoyle, which include this game, state that a straight flush is a better hand thaa | four aces. The ranking of the hands | is arranged according to the probability of holding the combinations. The odds against holding a st . The odds against four aces are 4,164 to 1. Q. What is the mathematical name | for a solid the shape of a doughnut— that is, described by a circle rotating |about a straight line in its own plane?—S. A. N A. Such a soli Q. Do birds e climbing?—C. T. A. Fledglings of the hoactzin, a sin- gular South American bird, scramble about the branches of trees by the aid of their wings, used like hands. The | have a temporary claw on both the | index and pollex. id is called a tore. “use their wings in | | | | Q. Mav any onc serve on the Inter- state Commerce Commission who is not a lawyer>—H. D. K. A. It is not a requirement. Q. What is free verse?>—P. T. N. | A Verse which does not depend on rhyme or meter is called free verse. It does, however, have a certain rhythm. Q. After the burning of the Capitol | in Washington, D. C.. who was the ar- chitect in charge of rebullding it?— |W M A. After the burning of the Capitol, | Benjamin H. Latrobe was engaged a3 | chief architect. He was succeeded by Charles S. Bulfinch, Robert Mills and | | Thomas U. Walter. | @ wnat laws?— (W J.8. | A Though differing slightly in some of the States, the blue-sky laws are are blue-sky ight flush are ' organized knowledge into minds. as | much alike in their essential features. | tention, periodicals, movies. base goods might be packed in a warehouse, as to help the individual student to dis- cover and to discipline his p abilities. (Copyr Newspaper Syndicate.) of Liv ng for A Family of Four To the Editor of The Star In an article in The Sunday SL&_X. headed “Budget Suggested for $1.075 Income,” prepared by the local thrift committee, Mrs. E. Chamberlin, chairman, the following statement was made: Mot Cost de: Husband, wife and two children can live decently on $90 a month and have a little money to spare for movies and other recreations. “Food, $400, shelter, $225; fuel and light, $65; ice, $18. child allowance, $10; barber, $5; carfare, $50,; insurance. $15. new furniture and kitchen equip- ment, $20; postage, $1, stationery. $3u clothes, $10; savings, $50; gifts SI?. 1 advancement (recreation, medical b:. optician, radio and books), $102 Will the committee kindly tell me here a house can be found to “de- cent! shelter a family of four for $18.75 a month? I have traveled many miles in this country, but have never seen one. The house must have two bedrooms. a living room. kitchen and bath. Can such a house be heated and iighted on $65 a year? (‘xfl‘l.l costs $45, leaving $20 a vear for Wl eculiar i Three tons of | | They are designed to regulate the sale | of stocks, bonds and other securities, I'but in practice their application has | vestment enterprises. The law usually | contains a penal clause prescribing penalty for fraud in the sale or ne- | gotiation of securities and vests in a | certain officer or body the power to in- | vestigate all transactions of this kind. Q. When were special institutions for | the instruction of the blind established in the United States’—D. H. A. The first thought and p of building up special institutions for the | instruction of the blind seem to have |occurred to benevolent persons in New | England, New York and Pennsyivania |almost simultaneously. The New York Institution for the Blind was incor- | prated April 22. 1831. On March 15, | 1832, Dr. John D. Russ began the edu- | cation of three pupils. The progress of the school was at first slow for want of |an efficient head to direct its affatrs. The Pennsylvania Institution. which is | shaving equipment, $2; shoe polish, $1. ! now one of the foremost in the world. ywas founded in 1833. Subsequently ous States. Q. What kinds of wood are used for washing machine cylinders>—M. K. A. Wood used in washing machine been extended to a wide range of ‘ln-1 other schools were opened in the vari- | TO QUESTION BY FREDERIC J. HASKIN. | eylinders s subjected to various severe | conditions. All woods absorb mojsture |and_become softened when subjected |10 _hot water and steam, and when softened wiil be abraded by the con- | tents of the tubs. Also, absorption of | moisture "is always accompanied b7 swelling of the wond. The amount of swelling which takes place depenéds not only on the kind of wood being used. | but also upon the moisture content of the wood at the time {* is manufac- tured into the laundry equipm:f. The woods most commonly employed for washing machine cylinders are cypress, hard maple, and longleaf pine. Oak is also quite extensively used and is glving satisfaction. Other woods for use in washing machine cylinders, mebly as good as oak and nol mus nferior to hard maple, are yellow birch and beech, Q. What is the Bertilion svstem®— L EP A. The Bertillon svstem consists of simple and exact measur tain parts of the body ments are taken with calipers and inciude the height. standing and sitting. reach of outstretched arms. length and width of head; length and width of right ear: and thé length of the left foot, forearm, middie and littie fingers The entire process takes from 5 to 7T minutes and the measurements are planned to be accurate within 1-32 of an inch. I3 Q What does the abbreviation f. 8. q. stand for>—J. C. R. A. Thay mean fair average quality. Q. How many bills e introduced and how many became laws during the iast Congress?—F. H A. During the Si:ty-ninth Congress | there were introduc'd in the House of | Representatives 17.415 bills. 379 joint resolutions. 457 House resolutions. and | 61 House concurrent resolutions. In the Senate there were introduced 5835 | Senate bills, 281 Senate resolutions. 172 | Senate joint resolutions, 29 Senate con- i current resolutions. One thousand four hundred and twenty-three biils became public laws through approval of both Houses. Q. What is the difference botween worsteds and woolens?—M. C. M. fibers all lie parallel. and woolens are made of yarns in which the fibers cross jor are mixed Usually worsteds are made from long staple wools. and | woolens are made from short staple wool. | Q. Does the President have to u all th that is appropriated for | his traveling expenses each year> If not. does he get the money thas is Jeft?—M. MclL A. The President does not have to use any more of his traveling and entertaining expenses than he cares to. The balance remains in the Treasury. | Q. Is coal formed under the surf: DYAl-h! earth?>—J. C. s There is no coal being formed under the surface now nndl:;'evz.- was. The coal that is now found under earth’s surface. no m: it may be. was formed above the sur- face and later covered-up. Coal was formed in ancient peat bogs in the Same manner as peat is being formed at the present time. ! Q. What percentage of Stats ban have become members of the Fe Reserve System? How many are on the par list’—W. W. L. A. The Pederal Reserve Board sars that 7 per cent of the to: of State banks are members of Federal Reserve System. Of the tot number of State banks 789 per cent ! are on the par list. { | | i | | Perhaps the house might be d for $1.66 2-3 per month because the family would be so cold in Winter that they would have to go to bed in order to keep warm. Nothing is left Southern newspapers take the lead in a country-wide denunciation by the press of attacks on the Catholic Church by Senator Heflin of Alabama and in The allowance for food amounts to | $1.09 per day. The ages of the children not being given, we may suppose a number of cases. Probably the cheapest to feed would be nursing twins It nursed by the mother. she would re- | quire at least $1 a day spent on her | food, leaving 9 cents for the father. If |one was a nursing baby and the other itwo or three years older, the problem | would be still more complicated. ~The { mother would still have to be well ted | costing about as much. and the father and older child would have 9 cents left Perhaps the infant stage is past and ! the children can eat the same food as | their parents. Milk, cream of tomato soup and beans are the most nutritious | foods for the money spent, I Sclieve but added to these must be green vege- tables and fresh fruits. Each child must have a quart of milk daily, the spe- clalists tell us. This simple diet could not passibly be furnished four persons for $109 a day “Barber.” $3—The father would | need a haircut once a month—12 times 35 cents is $420. The mother could not be in style with bobbed hair jand the parents would have to be the barbers for the children “Insurance, $15."—1 have scen man nsurance policies, but never one or which the holder paid as little as $15 a | year. I suppose the father alone is to | be insured or possibly the whole family. paying 28 cents a week Postage. $1"—~Which buys each members 12 stamps. OF. if the children are infants the parents. 1€ they pay their bills by check it would take more than that for the purpose of mailing. leaving none for an emcrgency letter to & relative or friend “Stationery a fami ery? letters surplus to write articles for magazines | | 850 " [on “How a Famlly of Four Cannot Live | {on $90 a Month " “Clothes, $100." or $23 for eac! ber of the family. If the chil | Infant twins they probably have enough, which were prov el | they came. unless the parents expected | only one. As s usually the case. But | I they are i their childhood. shoes Alone would cost $3 a patr. and 1 don't | { belleve any child can get by with loss | than three patrs & year if he takes su ficlent exercise Nine dollars for shoe leaves $16 for conls, hats dresses. stock ings and underwear. The coats hats could be made from tho par old and faded ones t whe the pRrents (o get thelr necessary ap- parel? From rummage sales ts the only solution that 1 can see “Advancement, $1037 or $23 50 each for vecreation, medical attention, pert- | odicals, movies, base ball, dentiat, op- | telan, radio and bhowks Swely no | member of the family could have one | Of the fushionable surgical operations tonstls - or - appendix vemoved The | mother might have high blood pressure bocause (hat calls for curtailment eating. 1 suppose they would have to | Choose batween doctor, dentiat or op- Helan 1f anything went wrong with their bodies. No- member on- $23.30 Could aftord wll of (hese tn any one YOAE. Could anything possibly be left for perfodicals, movies or base ball Pasaihly the mather might g0 to base [ ball on free Fridavs tor ladies I the family suved $30 & year would [ not 1t be w ortme wgainst their bodies | and soula. Which have alieady been so | starved! Would any one aceept any | Presents from a tamily of four existing an AR montht | Tmy day 1 have managed & famiy of four and now 1 come o contact | Wit families of small lncomes and s | T am vitally intevested In having these ' questions answered ELISABETH HAWRS. \ mem | it leaves 25 cents for each of | | e | tributes to Senator Robinson of Arkan- | sas. Democratic floor leader in the Senate, whose rebuke to the Alabama Senator was sustained by the party | caucus. Of Heflin's reply to Robinson the Anniston Star says: “When he stated that the Arkansan would be ‘tarred and feathered'’ if he made a speech in be- half of religious liberty in this State, he was misrepresenting Alabama and doing a grave injustice to his own reputation.™ The Birmingham Age-Herald holds that ¥ has brought shame upoen his d his State.” and the Birming- h News declares that “every Demo- crat in Alabama. as well as every Demo- jcrat in other States, owes an inextin- | | guishable debt to Senator Robiuson for the dignified and deserved rebuke ad- ministered by him 10 the sentor Sen- ator from Alabama.* ‘Tt should be possible to judge from the general aspect by June.” according the Charleston Evening Puost. er OF not the Democrats are to 3 chance at all of electing the President of the United States. if 1t should b plain that they have at least there will de no occasion disillusionment when the contest under way. and we can make up minds to four years more of Re- lican rule and the continued po- al paralysis of the South. That will be all right for thase who like tt. but |1t 18 rather a heavy price to pay for the privilege of maintaining the Hefiins and the Bleases.™ R “That blatant demagogue, 1 hiNgS in the Senate long have been A nuisance to the members of that dody And & disgrace (o the party.” declares the Fort Worth Star-Telegram, whose has sensitive: person, would be anguishing slides the solemn rebuke of the over- whelming majority of the caucus of Senators of his party, and he rises again M the Senate to loase another flood of foulness " The Chattanooga News ex presses the view that “it is men of Hef- s stamp who bring disgrace on the South * A man who pretends to talk adout free guvernment and to defend the prin- ciples of America, bat turns 1o talk of tar feathers. is a dsgrace to Ala- bama” avers the Milwaukee Journal while the Atlanta Constitution exprosses the optntan that Senator Robinson. “tn Southern Papers Take Lead In Denunciation of Heflin gests: “A few more tirades like and Al Smuth will be nominated b | clamation cn the first ballot “We think Senator Robinson wou'd have done better.” observes the Day: Daily News, “merel what most of the that Heflin * Speak. for any other Senator or for any party. and that what he says lies only bee tween him and his constituents.” The Savannah Press also contends that “since Senator Heflin seems w Dde :n- curable in this line. it was bad policy in Senator Robinson to emphasize the issue.” The Oklahoma City Times ad- vises that “democracy mu m its Heflins and discredit them a deserve, if it hopes o retain ing in the politice of the N e ws “His party disowns him waxing vehemence seer that even the Al hood and hero.” states the especially grat of Hedlin should have b by the leader of o What could such | been punished n a way which. to & why do with $50 worth of station- | They would have no stamps for | But off the rhinoceros hide of Hefin Perhaps they might use the | I “whe bt A Plea for the Government Hove's 1 defending the Federal Constitution from | fon of law-abiding and arderly eft S The Durbam Sun condemns the Alabama Senatar as “the wild man of the upper chamber. without true sense of values ar appreciation of the courtes stes of debate” e e “AN (nsuterable windbag. & most uns lovable egotist,” iy the judsment of e Grand Rapids Press, while the Rich- mand News-Leader remarks “In the Congressional - Recard unfortunately, WL hereafier be found the abaurditios Alleged by Heflin against & multitude of his fellow Amerioans These libels will be tead and perhaps delieved by people WhO Want (0 believe them. 1t's deply able, but unpreventabls - pare Price Amerioa has to pay far (oe speech W state af publie sducation where some do not KNow How 10 respect thelr froedum * The Morgantown New Daminton de- NOUNCEs the Alabama Sehalnr as MAseTptece of superiative bigoiry The Watertha TUHOUIG expresses satis- | Motion that Senator Reblasan gave han a well deservad 1 oo kg delaved verbial castigation The Serantoan Tunes refers W Heftin as “a sy fgare ™ | CGov Amiths backers will have tof nut the gent Alabama on loan fm thele pay ol “Bdvises the San Diego Undon, and wnbia Record sug- \ | 4 | Mountebanks and palitical fanatics, de- | o [ serves and will recetve the plaudits of | the Qovernment Hotels slightest degred what i Quvernment workers There are i Wash thase workers, & laige are woamen Muay of 1t AR away from home ISt thme. some are kil JAre alwe: others w YOArS bui are alo A need ol & home, This s what the Qovernment . SPNes 10 these warkers. APATEMONT Bavilves Oarvs A Tepansidulitles for whieh the Govest fMent worker has very lite tme A 1 TOm M A private house S DOE Woany setse & Dame. S0 when these datkitags AT® LN dOWR. & g humber of these Womel Ate homeless W & very real {sense of the wwid As Al it guest, 1 ask Iy movement he oo before dring- e, AN fing such & calamity o s many of the Qovernment warkers. A L RARL «ve. Sandine's Chance, Frow the Rausake Tunes, And i the time ever comes when Sandine (res of Delng & tedel he can came 10 the United States and go on o Techure Wi ow