Evening Star Newspaper, January 29, 1928, Page 26

o < THE SUNDAY STAR, WASHINGTON, D. €, JANUARY 29. 1928—PART 2. Es THE EVENING STAR Vit Sunday Morping Kdition. WASHINGTON, D.C. SUNDAY.......January 20, 1928 THEODORE W. NOYES. .. .Editor ;hn Evening Star Newspaper Company Business Ol 11th St and Pen: New York Ofce: 110 Sand 8 European Office: t.. London. Rate by Carrier e Evenlig Star n the City. . 45¢ per month ar +.. 60 per manth Withis The 5 Collect ade at’the Oriers may be sent in by Main 5000 Rate by M Mary " nd r n I or telephone ail—Payal in Advance. | and and Virgini Darie and Sunday ... 1 yr. $9.0¢ Se Dady ontv 011 yrll $6.00: 1 mo. Boe Sunday only r. $300: 1 mo’. 25¢ | w | All Other States and Daiiy and Sunday..1 yr. $12 Daily only 15, L0071 m Sunday only $400° 1 m Member of the Associated Press. The Associated Press 1s exclusively entitiea 10 the use for republication of ali news dis patches credited 10 it or not otherwise cred ied in this paper and also the local news Al rights of publication Canada 30; 1 mo.. $1.0 i 3 published herei. of special dispatches herein are also reserved Potomac Park and Power Plans. With several applications pending | before the Federal Power Commission for ihe privilege of developing the Po- iomac power above Washington, and the National Capital Park and Plan- | ning Commission, charged by Congress | with the duty of laving off a compre- | hensive system of parks in and ad- Jacent w Washington, in oppesition to any project that will prevent the park treatment of the Potomac gorge, it is now proposed to seek a compromise | which will permit both park and power development. Maj. Somervell, the Army engineer in charge of this area. 3s with the aid of a committee of ex- perts to make a further study of the field 1o determine whether such a com- posite plan is feasible. This survey and study will take several months and the report on it will be presented later to the power commission. ‘While it is desirable that a decision should be rendered as soon as possible in order that work may be started upon the development of the Potomac gorge park if the deeision of the power com- mission is adverse to the applications now pending for power development. the delay of a few months may be profitable. For it is possible that a way may be found to utilize the Poto- ‘The National Capital Park and Plan- ning Commission has gone definitely on record against the grant of a power permit to any private corporation, electric current to consumers. If this view should govern, the chances of a compromise park and power plan be- ing devised are increased. For presum- solely for the purpose of furnishing current for the use of the Federal es- ts at the Capital and. prob- municipal needs as well It would not be a commercial enterprise, 3 the park scheme may be acceptable. Unique Testimony. Motorists brought into court for speeding have offered all sorts of novel excuses and have put forward witnesses give testimony that they were well within the limits. But a driver arrested Haled before the judge he wimed the witness chalr over W & blind friend who was riding with him at the tme of the arrest. And the biind man gave testimony that his friend was not oriving wo fast. The judge, however, placed no credence in the ability of the sightiess man o judge sutomobile speed and the defendant was fined $25. 1t might easily be possible for a sight- I noliceman olicemen have found exceeding diff- culty in winning their cases, first be- cause of the fact that they have not had the benefit of counsel, which is given to the policemen, and second because of the seeming disinclination on the part of the board to take drastic action against an officer of the law. ‘Washington is blessed with an excep- tionally capable police force. and oc- casions are few when it is necessary for a citizen to bring charges. "Every man is, of course. entitled to a fair trial and the public will tolerate no rail- roading of policemen off the force by & disgruntled citizen. But the public does insist that after a fair trial a guilty shall be adequately and prowptly punished, and it is to this end that various suggestions have been ad- vanced to bring about a reform. The Commissioners and the Police Depart- ment should. therefore, give all plans for improvement the consideration they | merit and take action to end a condi- tion that has already existed too long. i —emone Two Weeks at Havana. Tomorrow morning the Sixth Inter- national Conference of American States at Havana will enter its third week. So far there has been little disposition among the delegates to get down to brass tacks. The time has been dsvoted largely to talk dnd much of the talk has been pointless. But the last two weeks have been imporiant, though productive of few tangible results. They have permitted some of the Latin Americans to unburden themselves of views uttered solely for home consump- tion. Yet their utterance has led to no blows, no heads have been broken and no blood has been spilled. The atmos- phere is clearer. The delegates know be expected to concern themselves more with the drudgery of the hard work be- fore them than to the enticing display of forensic fireworks. That the conference thus enters its third week with clear sailing still in prospect is all the more interesting when the nature of some of the pro- posals placed before it is considered. Had these proposals been less skillfully dealt with by Mr. Hughes and his col- leagues, more than one of them might have headed the whole business toward the rocks. At the outset, the ready asquiescence of Mr. Hughes to open and free discussion of any question showed clearly that he feared no brickbats and would meet them standing up. His later and frank exposition of the Amer- ican policy in Nicaragua, though it was not made in the conference, took the wind out of more than one billowing sail. With an assurance no less than amazing, Ambassador Pueyrredon of Argentina declared that unless the del- egates take cognizance of his proposal that the Pan-American Union concen- trate on removing discriminatory tariffs and quarantine barriers to trade be- tween the Americas, Argentina will give no ear to other plans for reorganizing the union. The Ambassador knows, for he is an intelligent and able statesman, that the Pan-American Union stands about as much chance of adjusting in- ternational tariff and quarantine dis- Pputes as the Ladies’ Aid Soclety, or any other worthy organization. He also knows that when he is hitting at the United States he is not hitting at the tariff, but at the regulation barring beet infected with hoof-and-mouth dis- ease. He knows that the issue is not whether chilled beef is 5o infected, but whether the infection is communicable to cattle in the United States. Argen- tina says it is not. The Department of Agriculture says it is. But instead of raising this point, the American dele- gation quietly suggested that the tariff is & domestic issue that does not lend itself to international discussion. Prom Bolivia came an impassioned plea for an outlet to the Pacific. The delegates from Chile and Peru heard it with interest. They know that the dis- tinguished gentleman from Bolivia is talking to his feliow Bolivians back home, just as the Argentine delegate is talking to the Argentine farmers, and that neither believes the Pan-American Conference will do anything as a result. Prom Mexico came the proposal that each country send special representa- tives to Washington (o represent them on the governiug board of the Pan- American Union, thus removing their diplomatic representatives from the in- sidious and domineering influence of the American Secretary of State. In- stead of resenting the implication, Mr. Hughes sald “Excellent!" and moved that the proposal be adopted, together with Peru’s proposal that each country decide for itself whether to send & spe- clal representative to the Pan-American Union or to allow its diplomatic repre- sentatives Lo serve on the board. Both on the board remains virtually in status Quo and every one is satisfled Jest person 0 determine within & few | miles the speed of a machine, but as an accurate checker, for legal purposes st | Jeast, it is not conceded that he would | be reliable. Perhaps the defendant| thought that the unexpectedness of his | friend’s testimony would serve W free nim. But he should have realized that | the courts frown on speeding and that evern motorists with witnesses in posses- #ion of all their senses have not been anie W evade the penalty. . - Uncle Sam desires pesce with the world. Any naton prepared W guar- | aniee the article can do business ! R A Concrete Trial-Board Suggestion A special subcommitiee of the public order commitiee of the Washingwn | Board of Trade hss recommended | arestie changes in the method of pro- | ceure wnd the perwnnel of the Police Iriel Bosrd After su intensive study ! this important body of the I)\l'lifl‘ government the commitiee urges hst tne bowrd should consist of & police | officer, an Army officer and & civilian, | instead of two police officers and \ne | aoristant corporstion coursel as et pres- end Civilians sppesring belore the | nowrd W make chirges ageinst police- voer would hiave the right W be repre- sene@ by counsel under the commitice pian end the Commissioners would be without power W modify the hosid's Lnainge Whetlier or not this plan s the solu- Won of & vexing problem, some chaige should be made In the procedure snd personnel of the board. ‘The public is stisfied with it &s It 18 now func- . Civilians who have sppesed not o In this manner many of the vexing |issues which might disrupt the con- ference are being disposed of without offense. Chip: that were worn on shoulders are faliing off, for nobody seems disposed to knock them off. Speechmaking intended for political capitalization back home is accepted as such, Instead of ss & challenge. And while this is going on other dele- gater and expert advisers in commit- tees which receive little publicity are removing technical barriers which stand In the way of agreement on im- portant, If uninteresting, subjects. 8¢ far the conference has been worth while. B0 far the gloomy prognostica- tons of s probable disruption have falled v materialize R Hindenburg 1s & quiet President who concentrates on his job and disdains e bandwagon, B A Contrast in Penalties, A suiking contrast in penalties for low-fying aviators Is furnished by a Connecticut court in sentencing Bert Acosts, plomeer fiyer and s member of Comadr. Byrd's transatiantic sirplane ex- pedition, W five days 1n Jull, wnd & navel | eourt-martial’s acton in the case of Lieut. Willlkmson for scrobatics over | Nurthwest Waslinglon some Ume | which resulted in the naval fiyer recelv- }luu only the loss of & few numbers for each other and from now on they may | proposals were carried, representation | Should anything go wrong with the plane innocent bystanders would prob- ably be killed or injured in the fall of the plane. But the penaltles in- flicted for these two cases are as far apart as the poles. There should be & happy medium. A jall sentence for Acosta is undoubi- ; edly too severe a penalty, and the im- position of a stiir fine would have served the purpose just as well. The naval court, more familiar with flying matters than the civil court in Connec- ticut, meted out about the right penalty for the offense, and in arriving at its decision undoubtedly took into account the fact that no accident had occurred. One of the surprising things about the Acosta case is that an aviator of his international prominence and conserva- tive judgment chould participate in an | exhibition that he had been warned would get him into trouble. He is one of the pioneer airmen of the United States and has flown all types of planes many thousands of miles. He explained to the judge that he felt “exuberant” at reaching home again and wanted to give his friends a thrill. Perhaps it was confidence in himself and his plane that made him take the chance of zooming low over the city, but over-confidence is & bad thing, cspeclally among avi- ators. Flyers will naturally feel tha. Acosta recelved too severe a senience, but there will be few who will seck to emulate his example. Jail sentences are no joke to any one and it is safe to say that the Connecticut court by its action with Acosta has scttled once and for all the matter of low flying over citics in that State. e Publicity's Cross. Publicity, which has done so much for the people of the United States, has its cross, as well as its triumph. Out of honesty to itself, publicity, as represented by the press, must bring to the people day by day the details | of the trial of the young scoundrel who { committed an atrocious crime and who now plays with cool effrontery at the game of tempering justice with law- yers. The deed done in anger, whether Justified or unjustified, may have its apologists, but the unnecessary and needlessly cruel deed done by this brute offends mankind. There is no doubt in the mind of a | living man of the guilt of the young villain who so impudently calls him- self the “Fox,” thereby slandering a species of animal as pure as snow by ‘comparison. Yet this country is treated to the spectacle of a trial in which every ef- fort that would be brought forward to protect a man about whose crime there was doubt is being used to becloud the atmosphere. Human nature, publicity and lawyers have conspired, although unwittingly, to make of this trial, not a solemn legal proceeding, but a drama, a sideshow, & spectacle. ‘The chief villains in this comedy, aside from the archvillain who occu- ples the center of the stage, are human nature and certain tendencies of the legal profession. ‘The press, the genius of publicity, must do its duty by chronicling this ugly play as it is presented, while the world sits, in the attitude of the angels in Poe's poem, “begirt and drowned in tears.” Publicity has its work to do, however disagreeable the task. It has its cross ! to bear. 1ts concern is that it shall be | well borne, | e A hero is by some unreasonable thought process supposed by the pub- lic to be exempt from the need of eight | hours’ sleep per day. | A man who has one automobile is tempted to keep two. In ecaring for family responsibilities automobiles may become necessary. : T Income tax blanks compel & citizen to write as small as possible while set- ting down the largest returns that can be called for. ) The elaborate horrors of an elec- trocution may yet arouse a conserva- tive demand for the simple old ax and the chopping block. Sea supremacy of the past is widely regarded as less important than air supremacy of the future, e o | SHOOTING STARS. BY PHILANDER JOHNSON Uselessness. Some day we find That life 13 far too small For thought unkind Toward others, after all! Onward we go Unto a common end. ‘Why fear a foe? Why seek to hurt a friend? Undiscovered. “You must consider the sentiments of the common people.” “I might,” answered Benator Sor- ghum. “But where are you going w0 find any people who will admit that they are common?” Waiting Patiently. I wore a dunce cap. 1 was dumb. 1 felt no passion. T knew the dunce cap might becoms ‘The relgning fashion. | | Jud Tunkins says he knows an effi- clency expert who has demonstrated ' his theory by pulling good money out of & no-account job, Mysteries of Art. “Who s your favorite composer?’ “I must ask my wife,” answered Mr Creesos. “IU's some one whose tunes | 1 can’t remember and whose name || can’t pronounce.” “As Umes change,” sald HI Mo, the | sage of Chinatown, “we find that the most modern Interest may center in wn snclent ruin’ Orpheus, The old bandwagon s no more It is ihe public pleasure To get out on the dancing foor And Uead & fazey measure Bishop of intending to build, sitteth not down first and counteth the cost?” (St. Luke, 2iv.28) . Text: “Which of you, “Safe Reckoning.” Plans spoiled for lack of proper cal- culation—this might be written under many of the things that miscarry in life. from youth to old ag> we are ever buflding. From those early days when we entered the classroom down through our whole scholastic life and well on into our later career, we are making plans and specifications and setting up schemes upon which we base our fondest hopes. Nothing that we do In life is more common than this. Sometimes they are only dreams, “castles in the air,” we call them. Sometimes they are buildings that we design to be of a more substantial character, more mundane and seem- ingly more durable. The average youth sets out upon the voyage of life with a very definite conviction as to what he wants to be. With serious reckoning he sets down and counts the cost. He knows that to accomplish his object. will entail long hours of study, long days of paintul, s2if-dis- cipline. With all this duly considcred, he sets out upon his course. There seems to b2 every promise that he will attain the great objective that he seeks. Presently something happens, and the decign so carefully made comes to grief and has a disastrous termination. Something was wrong in his calcula- tions. He failled to reckon with a ca- priclous and vacillating will. ‘The plans were fairly made, the computa- tlons seemingly accurate, some factors he overlooked; they were not in Lhe reckoning. ‘When Jesus uttered these words, He was speaking to the multitude that was following Him. There is something stern, if not repellent, in His utter- ance. He was seeking to show that the life He was prescribing was by no means an easy life. To follow Him meant exacting self-discipline. It might involve sacrifice. It might even involve the deepest concerns of life itself. He had dared to say, “Whoso- ever doth not bear his cross and come after Me, cannot be My disciple.” Be- fore undertaking the very serlous tasks that He would lay upon them, He would have those who sought to fol- low Him understand that what He had to give was so precious that noth- ing should stand in the way of the ac- complishment of its great end. He EVERYDAY RELIGION BY THE RIGHT ;lEV. JAMES E. FREEMAN, D. D., LL. D., W ashington would hold out no false hopes to Lhose who would be His disciples. He would glve no assurance that life's highest objective would be accomplished without discomfort, without sacrifice and cxacting service. He made no appcal to that whi 1 was soft in man's nature. He did appeal to that which was heroic and noble. One reason why the Christian religion so frequently fails of its appeal, especially with the youth, is that it is presented in terms of self-case and self-catisfac- tlon. It is too colorless an{ anemic. There is too much accenl upon a “comfortable gospel;” and by a com- fortable gospel we generally mean one that entalls nothing of self-discipline, self-control and the excercise of those finer qualities that inhere in human nature. What Thomas Hughes called the “manliness of Jesus” 1s not presented with all the charm and fascination that inhercs in it. The sheer herolsm of Christ, His ulter daring in dealing with the charlatan and the hypocrite of His day, is not as persistently presented as it should be. Kven some of the hymns we sing to His praise are both insipid and inane, filled with a mawkish sentimentality, wholly variant with His own habit and practice of life. If more men and women who are con- templating the Christian life were com- pelled at the very outset to sit down and reckon the cost, there might be fewer Christians, but certainly better ones. If the precepts He gave men were presented in thelr naked werth rather than garnished and adorned with our man-made conceits concern- ing them, they might be less appeal- ing to the anemic and the morally flabby, but they would certainly win the adherence of those who believe that life is real and life is earnest. If there is no royal road to learning, certainly there is no royal road to the high at- tainment of the things of character. Jesus submits to men a definite plan for living life here and attaining life hereafter. He asks that it be given deep and serious consideration, that i be compared with the other plans that have been given to mankind through the long ages. its infinite superiority over other plans. It 1s a specification for life. It calls for and Gemands unfailing adhercnce to its proacription and its precise terms. It is both workable and practicable. Before we undertake to bulld our lives according to it, He asks us that we !hn"ll soberly and seriously consider the cost. CHASING BY FREDERIC ). H THE COLD BUG KIN. ‘The time of year is at hand when the average individual will do well to lay in an extra supply of handker- chiefs and take a peep into the medi- cine closet in the bathroom to make sure that it is stocked with his fa- vorite remedies for the malady that is about to descend upon him. It is the time, too, when the wide-awake druggist takes care that he is ade- quately supplied with all the specifics for this malady and is prepared to do & rush business. It s the time when the sneezing begins, when the eyes water, when the nose does what a nose shouldn't do-—- runs and gets all red—and when the head feels llke the morning after a stormy night, bones and joints ache and voices grow husky and hoarse, oftentimes fading away to mere whis- pers. In other words, February 1 marks the beginning of the first period of the year during which people are most likely to have colds. The other period begins about October 1 Little as doctors and other scientists have learned about colds, they know that much. Also they know that the average person is allotted two hard colds of the common or garden va- riety each twelvemonth. They have acquired this information from ex- perience and statistics, however. rather than from their knowledge of what causes a cold, what it really is, and what should be done about it. Of course, there are some superior people who never have colds, others to whom life is just one long sniffie. and a minority who manage to strug- gle along with only one cold a year. But the doctors have found that the average s two per capita annually, and that as a rule the periods when most g:opu have the most colds are those ginning Pebruary 1 and October 1. Equally, of course, all doctors know how to treat colds, and, with the right kind of co-operation from their tients, are usually successful, but, s and all, the cold remains one of the great mystery maladies of mankind that therapeutics has not yet solved. Five-Year Study to Be Made. However, the mystery is to be solved if sclence can turn the trick. The cold bug or germ, if there is such a thing, is to be chased to its lair, captured @issected and studied until everything is known about it that can be known PFrancis P. Garvan, president of the Chemical Foundation, has established “The John J. Abel Fund for Research | on the Common Cold” and the medical authorities of Johns Hopkins University are to make a five.year study of the subject. ‘This work will be directed by a com mittee of which Dr, Lewis H. Wood. dean of the Johns Hopkins Medical 8chool, is chairman, the other members including Dr. Willlam H. Howell, dean of the Bchool of Hygiene and profes- sor of physiology: Dr. Carroll G. Bull, rofessor of immunology: Dr. Warfield l:' Longeope, professor of medicine and physician in chief of the hospital; Dr. Wade H. Frost, professor of epldemi- ology, and Dr. Samuel J. Crowe, head of the nose, throat and ear department of the hospital Everything that sclence can do will be done to mscertaln the exact symp- toms of the common cold, what causes it, how or why it 15 communicated from one person to another, and what tre it 18 most efficacious. It s hopec at the study will lead to & discovery whereby man can be made as immune to colds as he now s to typhold fever, diphtheria or any one of several other discases How little Is actually known about the cold is shown by the fact that there 1 no accepted definition of cold. One suthority says “Catching cold 18 & process of dis turbed equilibrium of the blood vessel: It 1s usually due to excessive evapora- tion from the skin caused by drafts of alr, to which I8 added. contraction of the blood vessels of the periphery of the body, With consequent e und congestion In some Inter, 1t you do not care for that defnltion, or do not know What it means, you may wccept the theory of other authorities that we catch cold by breathing In or therwise nr?ulr ng & cold m. On one thing all authorities are agreed- the common cold 1s & dangerous thing to trifle with. for it predisposes to more severe affections such as pneumonta, in- | Auengs, laryngitls, tonsiliitis and what- not, ‘There s an old saying to the effect that If you treat & cold you will get vid of 18 1 wo weeks, wnd that It you let 1t alone 1t will last fourteen duys, but doctors say that no one with com- mon sense lets o nmon cold alone Colds Are Expensive. ‘This most which man s helr pensive and it 1 decldedly ex- Presents an- economic omotion Acosta, through the eivil problem “aa_ well wn one for sclence s woes U Jall for Mylig low over| The overwhelming candidate Lo tackle, Colds coat e United Hiates & tremendous sum in the course of & | Neugetuek, Conn, while Willlsmson May yot be o0 who gayly w | vews - | through the naval tribuna), escaped! ©Oan come where people congreRsle | “ppe prst jtem s the expenae of fenise over Washinglon You got 0 iook out” said Unole [ANAURT drUg BIE e Lo 880000000 Low fiylig over oitles 16 nol 1o he ! Fhen, “foh de man whose den of ‘4o | o1 cold temedien, of whioh your ik A melvie b W pioecule charges sgalust condoned. u‘u & scilous offense, hls best' 15 doln’ hils hest ‘l“.l." gt cen offer you your cholos of some common of allments 1o 50,000—that s, yonr druggist may not have all those cold-cures in stock, but it is said that there is that num- ber on the market, and hence he has them potentially available to you. Three-fifths of the half-billion-dollar | drug bill goes for patent medicines and more than half those patent medi- cines are for colds. Add to the medi- cine bill what is pald physiclans for attendance and prescriptions—say, a total of $50.000,000—and it is found that the first item in the cost of colds amounts to more than $300,000.000 a year. | The second item is the economic loss He shows conclusively | | Capital Sidelights William Tyler Page, veteran Capitol employe, dignified clerk of the House who reads the President’s mescage when the President himself does not choose 40 do so, author of “The Ameri- can’s Creed” and executive secretary of the President's Commission on the Bi- centennial Celebration of Washington's Birth, recalls when he was the laughing stock of the House. It was while he enjoyed the doubtful vantage point as page at the Speaker’s desk during the regime of John G. Carlisle, whom he remtmbers affectionately as one of the hest Speakers the House ever had—but let. Mr. Page tell his own reminiscence: “The carpenter had made a ittle hectagonal seat, which fitted into the Speaker's rostrum, which brough! the top of my tousled head within a few inches of where the Speaker rauped his gavel. “Mr. Carlisle kept splendid order in the House without much pounding of the gavel, but now and then the House would become turbulent and run over him, so to speak. On one such occa- slon Speaker Carlisle, having exhausted his own great stock of patience, rapped his gavel with unusual force and sever- ity and called for order in his loudest tones. Now, it so happened that on his desk was a handsome silver Ink- stand—which I think is still in use— containing two glass wells full of ink. ‘The Speaker could hardly be heard above the din on the floor, and in the excitement the gavel with a mighty whack missed its accustomed spot and landed on the end of that fine ink- stand, turning it completely over and emptying both wells of their black fluid all over me. I was dressed in a suit of the old-fashioned seersucker of white and blue stripes. When that ink struck me I looked more like a zebra than a boy. The ink mat'ed my hair, ran down my face and all over my clothes. The House roared with laughter as I made a hurried exit to the nearest washstand; but the tension was broken, and the House soon was restored to order and good humor. Later in the day I met Speaker Carlisle in the lobby. He took me by the hand and said, ‘My | boy, 1 am very sorry that thing hap- | pened,' and as he withdrew his hand he left a $10 bill in mine. I thanked him and said, ‘Mr. Speaker, you may do that every day if you want to.’ The seersucker suit only cost $2.50 plus my mother's work on it. and it was washable.” * o ok % ‘The historic gates across West Evecu- tive avenue between the White House and the State, War and Navy Building are to be given to the Ohio State Archaeological and Historical Society for the memorial gateways into the Splegel Grove State Park at Fremont, Ohio, which contains the homestead of the late President Hayes, under a bill favorably reported during the past week by the House committee on public buildings and grounds. Representative Begg of Ohio, candi- date for governor of that State, who is fathering this measure, are to be placed, Lake Erie to the Ohio River, passes through Spiegel Grove. It was used by Indian and French explorers and war parties from the St. Lawrence River | and the Great Lakes to the Ohio and Mississippi, later ured by the British and Indlans from Fort Pitt in the cam: paigns against the French at Derroit, | and later still, after the surrender of Detroit, by the French in 1763, by the British against Gen. Harrison in the | War of 1812, has heretofore been mark- resulting from colds. Insurance and| industrial experts have figured it out| that colds disable 4 out of ever ml men and 7 out of every 10 men | every year, which, they say, is "“l equivalent of a loss in time of 14} days for every man and 2.1 days for ! every woman. What this means in| an aggregate loss In wages or earn-| ings can only be estimated, but it must approximate at least half a bil- lon dollars annually.” The loss in pro- duction also can only be estimated, but manifestly it must exceed the loss in wages and earnings. Then there is | the loss in production due to the im- | paired efficiency of workers who do| not lay off when they are suffering| from colds, but undertake to carry on | and wear out the cold. That cannot | even be estimated, but it must amount | to_&n appreciable sum. The third item—and one, too, that | cannot be estimated—is the loss o{‘ human lives. Only recently a talented | young woman artist appeared in ncl’Apat&‘ s throughout the country caught a bad cold and died within eight days of double pneu- monia, and there is not a community that does not have a case similar to that all too frequently. How often the newspapers tell the story of a man or woman who did something or other and caught cold, with ensuing compli- cations that resulted in death! And practically all such deaths are an economic loss to the Nation e Late Moves on the Sugar Checkerboard hose work has | BY HARDEN COLFAX. Consumers whose sweet teeth began hing recently when press cables re- corded efforts to secure a:. international | agreement among foreign producers of sugar to restrict output may find re- lief in the organization last week of a superassociation of American sugar pro- ducers. For the first time, the cane growers of Loulslana and Texas and of Hawall, Porto Rico and the beet farmers of nineteen States of the north and west have & common representation. the Domestic Sugar Producers' Assoclation ‘They will retain, however, the four major organizations which have repre- sented the Idllllllcv. interests of separate o sections the industry, for some problems, such as plant diseases, neces- sarily are of séctional concern. Recent moves on the sugar checker- board have been of world-wide signif- icance Everybody eats sugar; emphat- ically 50 in the United States, which con- sumes nearly au fourth of the total amount in the world and where per capita consumption of sugar is from 100 to 107 pounds & year in contrast with 80 pounds only 18 years ago. CEEEE Cuba, whose soll Iy peculiarly adapt- ed to the production of cane of a h cently has attempted to bring about an International agreement towa re- striction of production by combinations with the beet interests of continental Europe and the Dutch financiers who control the fertile cane fi with results which indical which have not been v nitely. The weeks ugo organized an ds of Java, ucoess, but It eliminate ubuses from trade practices ' und now come the United States pro- hortantly, Cuba has begun a definite move toward trying to per- suade the United Btates to revise the commercial treaty of 1903 80 as to in- orease the tarifl preferential The United Htates grants Cuban importa a 40 per cent dlscount under the rates nacied I the tariff act, the prinoipal offoct, of course, being on sugar and [tobaoco Wherens the tariff rate on sugar la $130 oehta per pound, Ouden sugar 15 uascsned 8170 conts per pound Cuba teciprovates by reduotions on fm- ports from this country, the balance of wdvantage naturally belng heavily tn favor of Oubi on the oxchange of com- moditlea, The Hlate Department s studylng the situation Any change in ooty with Cubs would necessitato by both houses of Congress .. Uontar move by the | hoaly other feelor, Perhaps this Cubsis, more Wi . ed by memorial gate posts with his- torical legends, so spaced to receive the | sates from West Executive avenue which had been voluntarily tendered by President Harding, a former resident of the congressional district. The Congress of the United States had awarded gold medals to Maj. Gen. Harris: commanding the Northwestern Army, and to Maj. George Croghan, the galiant defender of Fort Stephenson at Fremont in the War of 1812, and after the Spiegel Grove State Park had been deeded to the State of Ohio for his. torical purposes, the War Department, | in recognition of the memorial gate- ways to be erected in honor of Ma Gen. Harrison, commanding the North- western Army in the War of 1812, and of Maj. Gen. McPherson, the officer of highest rank and command, killed in battle during the war for the Unvon, and a native of and buried in :hat country, presented and delivered tree on board cars at Fremont four 10-inch | Rodman cannon and four 13-inch can- non balls to form the upright gateposts and caps of the Gen. Harrison and Gen McPherson gateways into the Spiegel Grove State Park. The donors of the Splegel Grove State Park have erected a beaatitul Hayes Memorial Building, to which has been adc 1 an historical library and museum building, and generously en- dowed the same, together with funds from a land endowment sufficient maintain the Hayes homestead. and have placed the management and con- tro! of endowment funds for historical enc wments and research funds in the Rutherford B. Hayes-Lucy Webb Hayes Foundation, a self-perpetuating body composed of five trustees for life, viz the Rev. Dr.' W. O. Thompson, presi- dent emeritus Ohlo State Universit Newton D. Baker, Secretary of War during the World War; Theodore E Burton, Representative in Congress, John H. Clarke. former justice of the Supreme Court, and Myron T. Herrick Ambassador to France. influences the damestic sugar growers to organize a single association, for the United States producers contend that lower tariff rate would drive many ot them out of the industry. The Cubans are frank in restricting nul‘)ut of sugar In order to obtain higher prices. The domestic producers naturally would ltke to see prices ad- vance—it is said that 90 per cent of the best companies operated last year ~without profits—-but the new assoclation has nothing to do with marketing and its interests oppose those of the foreiyn roup. The fact is that while the fetall prices of suga last year ranged around 7 cents per pound, contrasted with 55 cents in 1913, 1t would have been only a ittle short of 9 cents per pound if sugar had advanced In proportion to other food costs compared O pre-war prices Sugar prices to the consumers have ad- vanced less than any other food com- modity with one exception Domestic sugar production is capable of expansion. 1t now supplies less than half of the nllla\lll\)l]‘\n supply all, but not at present prices Cuba sends this country more than 30 o oent of the supply for its sugar owls. CEEREY A fow years ago, the Twrifl Commis- slon investigated sugar and a tow whase echoes are heard to this day re- sulted Three members recommended A reduction I the duty and two inter- preted the cost data as not justitying a decrease. In 1925, President Coolldse tasued A statement deelinthg to take any action toward @ lower duty the time being, on the grounds that the American farmers would sufter vy and the mmediate benefit to consum- ers was to be doubted while the ulti- mate offect of decreastng domestic pro- duction would be to place the consum- ers at the mercy of forelgn producers CUE G important that as a nation we | ahould be Independent ws far as we mAv be of overseas tmports of tood," | the President sald at that e “Further, 1t i most impartant that . farmers, by diversification of thelr pro- duotion, shall have an opportunity to adiust thelr crops as far as posaible to our domestic rather than forelgn mar- Keta, 1f we would attain higher degrees of atability i our agriowiture * and the Prealdent added: T am also lpressed With the fact that there Is & general tendency for consalidation of contiat I price wnd dStEBULON I ARy com modities upon which we are dopondent o hmport ST explains the | setting in which these historic gates if his bill passes. ! The old French and Indian trail, known | as “the Sandusky-Scioto Trail,” from | to | tor | BY BEN McKELWAY. One of the most effective pieces of ammunition in the hands of those op- posing the erection of a fire house on Sixteenth strect at Webster has been its location on Sixteenth. The fact that the spot chosen is near two churches is another argument, but if the fire house was removed from BSixteenth street, the shrieking sirens and clam- orous bells of apparatus would still in- trude upon church services, for the en- gines would probably pass up or down | Sixteenth no matter where they were | based. But the erection of afire nouse on Sixteenth street is the real iesue. Its nearness to churches or fine resi- dences s a side issue, for the location of fire houses is governed by the need of the territory and is always likely to be objectionable to some one. Ac~ cording to the pasi utterances of our city planners, it has been their inten- tion to preserve Sixteenth from the trespass of business and commerce and, in the words of one of them, “gradually it will come into the dignity and beauty of the Champs-Elysees of Paris, with some commanding feature on the axis of the White House and an adequate arrangement of trees and parking on either side of the great driveway. Al- ready it becoming a street of churches, institutions and fine apart- ment houses and residences, business as such being properly excluded.” Web- ster street is some distance “out” on Sixteenth street, beyond the area which has been the center of previous con- troversy, but Sixteenth and Webster is in a neighborhood of churches and fine residences nevertheless. Whether or not a fire house should be placed in the same category with “business as such” seems to depend upon the point of view. The Commissioners arz evi- dently of the opinion that it will not detract from the appearance of Six- teenth street and despite the protests intend to go through with their orig- inal plan. i sk The controversy over the fire house, however, is only another indication of the hfah:h“ % future of this “Ave- nue of the Presidents” might very prop- erly be settled now, while gmre s plenltnyl of ux‘;\lé. byd:he enactment of a | speci zon! ordinance applying to | Sixteenth street alone. Alnl'gldy the street is changing its character, espe- | cially bzlow Scott Circle. Not long the Hay mansion was razed to way for a new apartment hotel that will stand at Sixteenth and H, across the street from St. John's and over- looking Lafayette Park and the White House. Other fine old homes have been carted away and hotels and aparument houses have come to take their place. Business is rushing west along K street, jumping Sixteenth and stretching out to Connecticut avenue. | And between Scott Circle and H street | the shutters are drawn in more than | one home, the occupants of which have of | g H & tor cars and busses and the erection of buildings which a few years ago were rank strangers to Sixteenta. X% 0% What this change has meant to prop- erty owner below Scott Circle was elo~ quently described last March, when the Zoning Commission held a public hear. ing on the proposal to change the zon- ing of Sixteenth street from resicen to “A" commercial. At that time. per cent of the property owners of Scott Circle were represented favoring the change, and some of B as if their future welfare ood depended upon it. It was de- of Sixteenth 8.2 | clared that the section | street under consideration had already ;lost its residential character, that fine | residences are no longer tenanted and | that there is no market either for their “slle or for their rental, because | i with the means to buy or rent will not live on this part of Sixteenth street, but go elsewhere to seek privacy. The only hope of these property owne ers, it was represented, is that Sixteenth | {rom Scott Circle to H will be rezoned. their acquisition and replacemen: by commercial establishments. Some 7f the pplicants for rezoning declared For Sale” signs had been futilely hung F g ifty Years Ago In The Star The other dav announcement was made of an enterprise for the creation of i a small Cityward neighborhood of New Movement, York. 8 self-contained business opportunities and agreeadle residences for 25000 people. This is | regarded as evidence of a movement away from the big cities. Fifty years ago, however, the cityward tendency in FUTURE OF 16th STREET RAISED, BY FIRE HOUSE CONTROVERSY out for two years on their properties. The example of Fifth avenue in New York and of Connecticut avenue in Washing'on were pointed out to show that buciness will “spread out” and de- vour even such exclusive residential sec- tions as these once were, and that the time has come when Sixteenth sireet, W of it, must also be de- . One active buflder testified that at present the prices on Sixteenih street are too high to warrant tne cree- tion of apartment houses and he pre- dicted that the territory must face the inevitable and allow business to come in’ * x % % But when the time came for hearing nents of the change in zning, re wWas an altogether different story. They that those who would make the change had in view their Eanonu aggrandizement and were self- h in their motives: that to destroy Sixteenth street as a residential street would be to destroy one of the greatest assets of the city and one that could not be replaced: that if Sixteenth street were changed, it would “look ltke Con- necticut avenue": * % % % on Six- teenth street, as as residen and, according to — ers, flmm;u‘me - .Bu: even to visualize some u'mclg thus increasing the value of the vacant | &s any for residential properties and permit of | definitely | | | | | | | | | Now seems Sixteenth street still some police This and That ! By Charles E. Trecewell. W The following verse, which comes o us signed by A. S. H. 8o breathes tho | town in the |jnnocent playfulness which we like to associate with our cats that we take community affording | pleasure in printing it here. It is presumably written by the cat Major to his mistress, and is as follows NAJOR TO “T know you thought I'd run away. the American people was markedly in | When I left home the other day, evidence. In The Star 1878. is the following Man is a city-loving animal His social instincts cause him to be | tracted to those places where his fel- flows ‘most do congregate.’ Some men de P rs dwell in cities because of the conventent nearness of the church. the | | of January 32. |y know you thought I'd gone for sure Perhaps would never see me more, * But I was only on a lark, And cared for neithgr doys nor dark. “T was as gay as I could be, Without a care, from conscience free. activity of the surroundings afford: | I stole meat from a dutcher's shop: {1 drank milk from a bady's cup; schoolhouse. the lecture room and the | I sPat at dogs and scrapped with cats, theater: still others gather where they | And chased down squirrels and killed will find the most numerous vietims of [every kind of plundering scheme. It Iis this last class whose nce in rats. T caught some hens, and with one thud | overwhelming numbers constitutes the | Threw iines of wet clothes tn the mud: | principal evil of an overcrowded city. | When darkness came and all was stll. Partly for the reasons which have deen | above suggested. our citles are growing | disproportionately to the increase in | country population, and that, too, not | alone in the East with its exhausted | | lands, but in the West also. where the fertile flelds tempt men to their culti- vation The percentage of increase in | population from 1530 to 1870 in the | « - Gty and country naspectively was, 07 | A1 en | And |z | Massachusetts, city 83, country 9. for | New York, city 108 country 13: for Pennsylvania, city 120, country 10: for Ilinots, ity 879, country 168 for In- diana, city 340, country 318, for Ohio, city 108, country 11. In view of the fact that in our late vears of depression agriculture seems to have been the only industry that has flourished to any ex- tent and that has proved a resource in the Nation's difficulties, 1t becames evi- dent that we are neglecting one of our most valuable means of postponing business orises and of robding them | largely of their hurtful effects. What We want s mare producers and fewer molders and transporters of material | | products.” | e owow | | _HWIf a century ago the Lidrary of ; Congress had outgrown its Quarters in e the Capltal Bullding | Library of and » move was made | Congress for | housing of the great [ boak - eallection. Tt was, however, 3t | years before the new dullding was com- | Pleted and nearly 22 years defore 1t was 'm‘cumu\ The Nllowing appears The Star of January 38, 1878 A nlN'll\\: of the faint committee on Library was held today to give Mr. Spat- ford, the Congressional Librarian, an op- portunity 10 present his annual report. My Spafford urged wpon the commitiee the pressing necessity for the construe- [ton of & new Libeary of suffiolent | capacity to contatn the books delonging o the Congressional Libeary. 14 s sakd | that Senators Howe and Ranson favar AL Rppropriation for the erection of New bullding. Senatwr Bmunds be- | [ lleves that an addition of 100 feet can | be pub wpan the present Lituary, avaid. Ling thereby the expense of erecting & new bullding The commitiee will meet | tiee or fyg davs o take thio son- Vislwi fwe the Library I reached ‘\'wl sreeting, Iy & mare adequate | All this and Your love I an Il alwavs be your o Aud never mave -l!‘{.:‘ i‘\“‘ Ay me down antent and happy Qoudnigh g Silvatiun this whale subleot o & i l\ I howled with all my might and will: “Twas fun to hear the badles see thelr They threw And T Xept stil} 1 as “AU night I ran, and when forioen, your L W X S NM". farly morn. when Quite suddenty heard . CWRY, Majors here! .num{“ o ) And with :mfi 10 My Anxious ear Oft meow af joy, Yo me MUK, you gave me dread. the mt\.— on my IOU Ang your dear lovely hame. W pide YO YOur skde i your g O take & hap VR Iy Vow L meow, meow, meow ! e Those w w0 have felt ¢ (O et Rt whether e And then e happiness lowag the Telurn A the wanderer, witl fnd @ the Above les much of the S of Whe s and of e Mnding o apiri e BOGID S Shee “And now 171 oW embnicent of the ot wal “Doie Found My Lost