Evening Star Newspaper, January 31, 1928, Page 8

HE_FEV. ENING STAR, WASHINGTO N. D. €. TUESDAY. JANUARY 31. 1928, 8 : T [THE EVENING STAR ‘With Sunday Morning Edition. WASHINGTON, D. C. TUESDAY......January 31, 1928 THEODORE W. NOYES. Editor The Evening Star Newspaper Company Business Office 11th St and Pennsvivania Ave. New York Office: 110 Wind St Chicago Office: Tower Building. European Office. 14 Regent St., London, Eng'and. Rate by Carrier Within the City. fThe Evening Star 45¢ per month The Evening_and Sunda (when 4 Sundars) The Eveming and S « 63¢ per month The Sundav per cony month mail or telephone, _60c per month Main 5000. Rate by Mail—Payable in Advance. Maryland and Virginia. Daily onl: Sundar o $3.00: 1 mo., 1 mo., $1.00 SRo0-1mol 3 $4.00; 1 mo., 10 the use for rep: patches eradited to it or dted in this paper and a ublishad herein ATl 1 dispatches herein P of spe —_— —— The Merchant Marine. The Jones bill “to further develop #n American merchant marine” ma come to & vote in the Senate today and 1s expected to pass. There are also in- dications that the House will pass the measure and that the President will weto it. While there is little argument over the chief aim of the bill. ther develop an American merchant marine.” there is all the difference in the world in respect to the manner in which this is to be accomplished. The Jones bill places the Government in- definitely in the shipping business, not only in the matter of operating ships, but in reconditioning old ones as they deteriorate and building new ones. The | administration has dedicated itself to the principle of private ownership and operation, with the Government with- drawing from an unprofitable venture #s soon as it can. The fundamental issne at stake is to help the American merchant marine. But the issue threat- | ens #® O lost because of inability to agree ¢ how best to do it. The opponents as well as the pro- ponents of the Jones bill are agreed that | without governmental assistance private eapital cannot be expected to develop an American merchant marine. Competi- tion is not only keen, but it is unfair competition. It costs fifty per cent more to build a ship in American yards than it does to build the same ship sbroad. The differential in operation Is almost as much. Unless the Govern- ment makes up the deficit, Americlnsfflnuluy marking time. cannot operate their ships because the loss is too great. And this deficit can be met in only two ways. One is bY 8 | nag postponed its program-of eliminat- |ing many of the stations which now | exist, hopeful that confirmation will Government subsidy, in both building and operating ships, the other is active participation by Uncle Sam in the ship- ping business. The question of subsi- dizing private ownership and operation ©f the merchant marine is not new. It ‘was proposed and favored by President Harding, with his administration in control of both houses of Congress, but it fafled. It was passed by a slim mar- gin in the House and never reached 2 wvote in the Senate. ‘The same alternatives confronted fur- | Kitchener, participating in the battles of Omdurman and Khartum. He dis- tinguished himself in the Boer War, and by his cavalry work he merited and won special mention and honors. For a decade or more he was on duty in In- dia and on staff work at home, and when the Great War broke he was di- rector of military training at the war office, and as such prepared and sent to France the first British contingents. At the urgent request of Sir John French with whom he had served in Natal, he was sent over for active duty, in com- mand of the first of the two corps which comprised the “contemptible little army™ which, as present judgment now goes was sacrificed for the sake of eventual victory. When French was displaced from the supreme command of the British forces [the choice naturally and properly fell |upon Haig. He had held the lines | throughout the period of the most men- acing German assault, which aimed ata breach that would give Teutonic forces | access to the Channel ports. It was in | this crisis that he issued on the 12th of April, 1918, his famous “back to the wall” order, a classic of military litera- | ture. When later it became necessary 1o | name a generalissimo to take supreme command of the entire allied forces, and the choice fell upon Foch, Haig gave 0 ! him his full and loyal support. There has been some criticism of Haig on the core that he opposed or at least de- layed the appointment of a supreme | commander. This is not established. ! There has been also criticism on this side of the Atlantic on the score that Haig failed t0 give due credit to the | American forces for their part in the | final victory. This is also. denied. All in all, there has been less of controversy regarding Douglas Haig as a warrior than falls to the lot of most men who have risen to high rank and have been charged with weighty responsibilities in campaigns. His name has never been stained. His fame is secure. He died as for more than ten years he lived, the nero of the British people, & great gen- tieman and a great soldier. v Nearing the Climax. Affairs in the field of Government administration of radio are moving swiftly to a climax. While the Seriate committee on interstate commerce is mulling over the contested confirmation of the Federal Radio Commission, the House merchant marine committee is concluding hearings on the White bill to extend the life of the commission for one year, with every prospect of a favorable report on the measure to the House. Meanwhile, awaiting the time when the legislative machine shall ground out its grist, the commission is firmation of the appointment of three of its personnel of four, the commission | be made in time to swing the big stick | least, the arbitrary course, provided for |in the law. of cutting out many inter- fering stations, simply by non-issuance | of lcense to operate. Until the com- | mission is made a legal entity by con- | frmation of the nomination of three | of its members, practically nothing will lanes. And meanwhile of the nomination of three members| have | Lacking con- ! | of authority into action, and try, at| crease in education 1t lost much of its importance, although still of some prac- tical value in numerous European countries, When the North American colonies formed a brand-new nation on a dif- ferent theory of government they could, and did, dispense with practically all of the panoplies of monarchy ~nd aris- tocracy. ‘They were influenced, na- turally, by emblematic canons and de- signs theretofore existing, but were and should continue to be above and beyond any such picayune point as the direc- | tion in which an cagle happens to be looking. The bird on the presidential seal and banner is looking to his own |left, or aw from the flagstaff. He was probably drawn that way because the cagle on the great seal of the United States is looking to his own right. The designs are not greatly dis- similar and this point, borne in mind. is helpful in distinguishing the two devices. The President’s flag has done service now for a dozen years, and such a criti- cism of its design seems as tardy as it is unimportant. If foreign kingdoms can rejoice in two-headed eagles, a re- public of the standing of our own can have its eagle with head pointing any old way it wishes—straight up, if it chooses. Its official designs should be influenced by the laws of harmony both in line and color; otherwise it can dis- regard all ancient and Old World speci- ations as to gules, chevrons, lozenges, dexter, proper and sinister. It may be, in some portions of the earth, of vast importance which way a synthetic lion has his ringed tail curled. Over here {everything that every agency can do toward enhancing the respect due the | national emblem is praiseworthy, but | when it comes to the solemn criticism | of the presidential cagle, a reply which | will occur readily to mind is, “Why bring that uj ————— ‘The Prince of Wales occasionally falls off a horse. He proves himself a good equestrian by performing the feat with lease and composure and apparently never seriously disturbing the horse. ——— vt The vocabulary of forensic oratory | was more agrecable and perhaps more | convineing when it included quotations from Shakespeare and cut out the blunt Anglo-Saxon. ————— There is no doubt that the friends of Herbert Hoover are in command of | the campaign spotlight. Their only Eprobk‘m is that of holding it firmly in | position until next Summer. i e | Henry Ford owns his own transporta- | tion facilities. The United States Gov { ernment studies “efficiency,” but does not go quite as far as Henry. ———— ‘There is a certain amount of admira- {tion for Judge Ben Lindsay. There would be more if he had not grown so gossipy. e —e—— A cold wave can be sufficiently severe | to distract public attention even from a crime wa R SHOOTING STARS. BY PHILANDER JOHNSON, ! Crashing the Party. ‘The North Wind frolicked through the scene. | be done toward further clearing the | we saiq. “How could you be so mean? | ether 3 The buds had ventured, one by one, Congress this year. Senator Jones - | short-wave problem is pressing for §0- | 7o greet the smiling of the sun. asked the Shipring Board to draw up 8 | i " . Lacking the money t0 employ | And then you came and | which, in tts opinion, ¥0uld | teerica) advice necessary to handle | e mpullad ithe game. give to the merchant marine in privale | oy p 5 complicated situation as the | say we, old North Wind, fle, for governmental support and at the | short waves present, the commission shame!” mmmm:mmnor:heimm“mmmm to the Navy| administration. This studied by the Senate commerce com- mittee, but the Jones bill was reported | after s decision by the committee that ship subsidy measure could never be through Congress. Senator Jones proponents of his biil have they would support a sub- bill. But with the merchan’ ma- at stake, they were unwilling to 1t to the none too tender mercles of Congress and to a public opinion which is opposed to the general theory Government subsidy. advice on short-wate allocation. | The present situation is another ex- | ample of the handicap under which the commission has worked since its measure Was| .4 commerce departments for expert North Wind gamboled without care, :And tossed his snow balls everywhere. He roared, “I am no petting thing, Like Autumn grave or smiling Spring | Or Summer stuff; I'm truly tough!” A 'big snowstorm offers the staid city last touch with Adventure, The spirit of the boy bubbl again when he looks out the window in the early light of morning and sces the snow & foot deep on the ground. And still coming down! “It's snowing,” he announces, with finality. “IUs a nuisance, but the Kids like it.” All the time, in his own heart, he knows that he likes it very much him- self, although he continues to grumble at what he calls the caprice of the weather. “Now, all the street cars will stop running, and everybody in town will try to get a taxi, and no one will be able to get one, and the snow will break down the gutter, and we'll have to call up a tinner again.” Yet he is eager to bundle up anc breast the gale, which whips the fine. wet snow in from the great Northwest Something about the untrodden ways Sends out a silent appeal. As he puts on his necktie he surveys the unblemished landscape with grow- ing interest. By George, it is pretty! There is not a track in alley or or walks. The footprints of milkmen long ago were covered up completely, leav- ing the blanket of snow unmarred. Thiz was the v the forest homes of men used to look. something whis- pers. when our forefathers of 10.000 vears ago peered out of their caves or just such a Winter morning. W “Come out! Come out!" sang the wind. “Stay _home! the warm house. “I'm nice and soft.” purred the snow, as it swished against the window panes. “You don’t have to go. you know.” gurgled the coffee percolator from the kitchen range. “Be a man!” wailed the wind. *“I come from the great North, where men are men. Come out and follow me and Il show you the happiness of red blood!" And it went whistling, in a sudden gust, along the foot-deep blanket of Snow, causing a cloud of mist to whirl off the tops of the 22 garages along the alley. What a sight, indeed, the alley had become! At bedtime it had presented an ordinary city scene, with its tin ga- rages, and its low back fences, and its houses, some with lighted windows still. ‘Tod: everything was different. Everything was white, to begin with, while the air was filled with those flying Stay home!” invited to_mortals as snow. took on an absurd look. with its huge white hat larger than itself. A rustic bench, left out, had a giant pillow of snow upon its seat more than a foot thick. into which one might easily imagine himself sinking down, down, down! Motor cars, left in the street by cruel owners. presented the appearance of fairy vehicles, each one bearing on its top & gigantic slab of whipped cream 12 inches or more through. . %k % Aside from the queer sound of the falling snow, a hiss in the air, an in: tangible yet none the less sure murmur, there was not a sound to be heard This is the eerie stillness of the big woods, the treacherous calm of the vast plains, which insinuate them- World Hopeful Both pessimists and optimists on the subject of curing the common cold are inclined to look with favor on the gift {of $195.000 to Johns Hopkins for re search, in the hope of finding a remedy for this universal ailment of medical science is scanned in vain for any remedy which has been effective in the past. “If the medical department of Johns Hopkins dees find out anything defi. nit suggests the Norfolk Ledger D: patch, “then it will be time for us to undertake seriously the task of finding out the cause of the Aurora Borealis.” As an example of the layman’s interest |in the problem and the utter lack of agreement, the Ledger Dispatch adds: “The true interpretation of the old saw, ‘Stuff a cold and starve a fever' is a matter of ferocious dispute among those BY CHARLES E. TRACE particles of Nature's pure paint, known | The garbage can. out by the gate, | The history | THIS AND THAT 'ELL. selves into the minds of weary men and whisper seductive thing: “You are tired, old man; lie down here in my warm, soft snow, and rest for a little while. I will not hurt you, and you are so tired. Lie down, just for a little while, and you will feel rested, and be better able to continue your Journey.” He who falls, up again. Prnthe city, protected by police, fire- men and hundreds of others paid for their *services by the municipality, & snowstorm wears_enough of this old- time look to still be a snowstorm. One scarcely fears falling asleep in some drift; nevertheless, the ancient lure of the call of the storm s heard by all but the fecble and the ill. The city man knows that employes of the municipality have been at it for hours alrcady, attempting to rid the principal streets of their covering of white. He cannot be too sure, however, that he will pe able to get downtown. He does not like to take his own car out, and. besides, he has no chains. No doubt the car will be better in the garage. 1f he tries to get a taxicab, he finds that none is available. Just who the lucky ones are who manage to get the taxis on a bad morning. he has mever been able to find out; the only thing that he is sure of is that it is never himself. however, seldom gets £k he gingerly steps out his front door. Wind and snow hit him smack in the face. His rubber-clad feet sink down, down, down, and the snow comes up up, up to his knées, making him wish for boots. The spirit of Adventure, jumping suddenly into his heart, makes him {turn around and wave at the house, | with all that is left of boyhood's desire to “show off.” to himself, but stolidly plows through the drifts, somehow fecling that the snow is rather 4 feet thick than 1, and that this is a hard day to be out in. mates! Let the women stay at home, but we who do the work of the world, it is for us to be up and doing, with a heart for any fate. It is different, this waiting for the bus today. Here is no neat curbstone on which to stand while the big vehicle warps to. Here curb, sidewalk and street are one, seemingly of the same plece of white stuff. so that no man, nor bus driver, either. can tell where one leaves off and the other begins The small crowd stands in one of the vehicle tracks, only to be forced to step | back into the drift as the indifferent driver sticks to the ruts made by its predecessor. Inside the traffic boat there is & tre- mendous stamping of feet and a blowing | of noses and & shaking of overcoat col- down the street. Along the way one sees with delight the parking lights of automobiles. gleam- ing through their little hoods of snow. the snow particles. This is the city man’s_last, lingering | touch with Adventure. Today he is a man, facing the elements. Tomorrow else again. of Conquest Over Colds as Universal Foe |‘experience’ teaches them is best. the | remedies being about as numerous as those who advocate them. These reme- dies.” continues the Raleigh paper, “may or may not be effective, and the one with & cold usually muddles througn and shakes off the malady after time—that is. from himself—not before in all probability, his cold has been | transferred to some one or more luck- | | less ones.™ | “Of course.” remarks the Huntington | Advertiser, “the doctor may recommend | !a pill or a good sweat, but did anybody | ever know such treatment to do much | good?™ | " The St. Joseph News- | that the cold is intimately | with other infections such as influe lmnslllllls and various forms of {monia,” declares that “the social con |.vquem'vs of the disease are evident in Press, finding bound up 2 Bundling up as warmly as possible, | He scarcely admits this much, even | lars as the modern caravan trundles off | the green or ruddy glow magnified by | he will be just & clerk or something | 2 establishment, First it was lack of We sighed. “Why must you play so who constitute the laity. One school|every community each year” The As- contends vehemently that it means just| bury Park Press states, further, that| NEW BOOKS AT RANDOM ZANONI. Edward Bulwer-Lytton. Lit- tle, Brown & Co. Around 60 years ago, Dickens, Thack- eray, Bulwer-Lytton were the novelists of the day. And these, no doubt, were read and run after and talked about, | much as are the Lewises, Bromwells, Tarkingtons and a host of others of the craft in the present. Between then and now, however, a new world has been created, an infinitely richer worid, mak- ing that carlier time appear in contrast a barren field for the uses of the ro- mancer. Science, applied to the multi- form affairs of daily life, has opened mines of material for the author of fic- | tion, as well as for every other business and’ profession. By its swift and as- tounding response a magic button, press- ed, turns even the lamp of Aladdin to the pale glimmer of the tallow dip. Looking backward over the marvels of change, one wonders how those ol novelists achieved so grandly and so en- duringly with the meager material in their possession. Yet the field of hu- man nature was then wide open for them to explore, even as it is now. And this field after all, the true domain |of the writer of fiction. Love, along | with hate, its next of kin, furnishes the foundation of every romance ever writ- | ten. And these are the perduring stuff {of human nature. It is m their { mode of conveyance and de that changes from period to period. The im- | memorial triangle—Adam, Eve and Lil- !ith—has endured from Eden to the pr | ent without weakening. only the outer garment of its essential drama having | vielded to changing fashions. Now- | adays, to be sure, all sorts of mechani- romance into a demi-god of spectacular performance. Nowadays psychology and near-psychology have opened the insides life out into the streets for general re | view and inspection. Nowadays a highly | speeded-up existence, with its first aid ! the new freedom, has given the cradie | over to the story teller for many star- | tling discoveries and reports. But with all this, and much more extraneous stuff besides, the basic substance of romance remains the same—the loves and hates of the human animal, projected in more or less of consistency and plausibility. With the current niovel so popular as to overtop greatly all other forms of wr ing put together, with ready purveyor: to such demand embodied in an army | of eager young novelists, it seems hardly |in an effort to revive novels whose | effect is sure to be antiquated. out of . though many er read T! ¥s of Pompeil’ i that they do. “The Last D it to t | Now and then a one, aspires to revive i | writers, already shadowed name of “classic.” * comes tangible part of such an efor | waken interest in Bulwer-L: ! other publications seek to br Daud d other men of g | to life again. By a happy choice “Zanoni' | forward to take its place, not in an world. By an in- <pired choice of its moment of reappear- ance, this novel moves 1 the mudst domain of side the boundaries of materal calcu- | 1ation. | individual offers a problem that never | loses its grip upon the one who has learned to think all. What is its plan? What is the goal? Wi m! | part in the general scheme? Wha | the waymarks to guide me? bevond? Questions, something ese, underlie all philosophies, all re- | ligions. Attempts to answer these pro- duce all the cults of both reason and | imagination, all the schools of both | science and magic. These are, in sum, questions that source “Zanom” in & m of pure imagination. translatine to earth and human interest by wav vention. More " is to a degree protest ‘ materfalism that is so 1 of us. Certainly it { does project two humans who have taken on immortal: One of these | embodies pure intellect, the other one pure ideali Yet, so endowed, these | two_assume the role of commen hu- | rity, loving and suffering as all men {do. It is love for a woman, Viola. hat brings Zanoni the cares and anx- | teties of all humanity. Here is a mor- | tal being upon whom Zanoni must shower the devotion that her human repugnant to cal aids are ablé to turn the hero of | the human to the uses of the novelist, i as it has also aided in turning private | S | days or possibl The deep meaning of life to the | The answers to questions printed here each day are specimens picked from the information burcau maintained by The Evening Star in Washington, D. C. Thiy valuable service is for the free use of the public. Ask any question of fact you may want to know and you will get an immediate reply. Write plainly, inclose 2 cents in stamps for return postage and address The Evening Star Informa- tion Bureau, Frederic J. Haskin, director Washington. D. C. Q. Can citrus fruits be shipped direct from Florida to Europe? —R. F. A. A direct service from Florida to England was anaugurated January 16, arrived at Liverpool with 5984 boxes of oranges and grapefruit. Q. Of the newspaper reporters who witniessed the S y how many favor capital punishment?— P.A S A. The Editor & Publisher says that opinions. Q. Why is the Barbizon school of painters so called’—D. B. B. village near the fore: ainebleau. The village 2: its name to a school ef artists. It was an outcome of the con- flict between the classical and romantic hools of painting which occupied the half of the nineteenth century. The Barbizon school took nature as a Jean Francols Millet. leader tic genre, was one of the notable members of this school. Pierre Etienne Theodore Rousseau, French painter, retired to Barbizon in 1833 and spent there the latter part of his life Q. Please name some of the economic uses of the cactus plant.—H. S. K. A. The cactus is grown to be used as wood. for hedges and decorative pu poses. in the manufacture of med; |and as a vegetable and a fruit. San Fernando. Calif., there | where cacti are raised for th | alone. These are used for jeli | serves and for making candies. have a meat which is sweet and pulpy | in nature and about £0 per cent water. Q. When were red and green lights | first used on ships?—F. W. L. A. The Bureau of gation says - | that it is believed that one of the first { laws requiring vessels to carry red and | green lights was the act of March 3 worth while to reach back even 60 years | mass of inquiries handled by the great | when the Leyland stramer Daytonan | a poll showed that nine favored it, eizht | opposed it and three claimed to hold no A. Barbizon is the name of a Prench | landscape | They.| ANSWERS TO QUESTIONS BY FREDERIC J. HASKIN. 1849, which provided for vessels na: gating the northern and western lakes This act required that vessels on the starboard tack shall snow a red light | vessels on the larboard tack a green | lizht. The principal act relating to the carrying or running lights on vessels | was the act of April 29, 1864. which has been amended from time to time. Q. In what State are no causes for divoree recoznized?—E. E. A. Divorces are not permitted in the | state of South Carolina. Q. Why was the San Prancisen chosen to be placed in the Smithsonian Institution i ad of one of the other lanes flown in the Pan-American good- will tour?— N A. The San Francisco, which was flown by Capt. Ira Eaker and Lieut { Muir S. Fairchild, was osen for th: | honor bec | has flown ir ern Hemisphere nam s in Central and United States, the Dom d the insular possessi nce, Great Brital ds. Q. What was the name of the la | building at the Chicago We C. M. The largest buf . the 21 repul h America, on of Canada 1 la and Liberal red an area nearly 1w of | Q what maxes ons fade away on our radio’—R. | A. The fading away of reception is not generally due to but to atmospheric | cannot be ad; conditions ist in the de | aircrafs and aircraft equipment. | ther the application of aircraft in bus v other economic and the Nation. Q. How old is the President of the | Irish Free State?>—B. C. T. | A William T. Cos: = be ivears old during the ear. BACKGROUND OF EVENTS BY PAL 1930 we may ope in eight This is sensational! make a round trip to Eu nine. Tl s time for one or two da I not be al ew And it w T impat aking the steamer by airplane al- a day after it has sailed and by g ahead of it by the same air Every steamer will be able to carry 1 plaas and aviators (and be equipped with 24 planes). so there ! will be only two days in midocean for | actual sailing, although conservative passengers may remain on board for the entire four days. This is not a dream. but a serious i plan, backed by a $50.000.000 corpora- leading experts proval of | equipment modore Hartley. lems have been tested and solved: the initial capital is secure and poration demands no subsidv from the Government. It laughs e need of a subsidv to enable the United States to pay 40 per cent more for construc- i tion and double or treble and yet lead again. as ago. the commerce of es from the Trans- the United x vessels. 900 5.000 tans. | The proposal co { oceantc Cerporation of r—about a third faster than or tania. The Gove | ment is to be asked for a I rate of of a funds, money for the support of the | commission having been denied by fal- | ure of the first deficiency bill. The | Commerce Department came to its ald | with money from its funds, supplying | rough!” Chaotic Assertions. “What do you intend to advocate in your next speech?” “Liberty!” answered Senator Sor- quarters at the same time. Then wo:ghuml “Liberty not only to hold an deaths among its personnel hampered | spinion of your own, but to go as far its work, and now, with confirmation as you like in interfering with the The Jones bill, therefore, Which ¥ir- |\ o\ 0 00 shree-fourths of fts present | opinion of others.” tually guarantees continued govern- mental participation in the shipping business by making the sale of Govern- ment-owned vessels dependent upon & unanimous vote of the Shipping Board— such unanimity being highly improb- sble—is the result of a decision that it 8fords the best means avallable for boistering up the merchant marine That Government operation of ships has been unprofitable is admitted. But, on the other hand, there 15 pointed out the continued fallure of private capital and enterprise ¥ develop the merchant marine—a failure which s responsible for the very issue at stake Loday. ‘The Jones bill is better than nothing | In the lark of a practical substitute 1t should be passed while thought is applied w0 the problem of Geveloping the American merchant m rine until there is sufficlent sentiment o support enother policy, The only slternative seems V) be & wurrender v the belle! that America is incapable of | supporiing an adequate mercha marine Lindbergh enjoyed “barnstorming” Touring the worid ss & subject of per- perus] edulation i & much more dif- Field Marshal Haig Douglas Haig of many cistinetion snd nonllity, bul proudes! o that of feld marsnal of the % forces Guring the mot \rying period of e Grewt War, s dead &l sirly-six, his end hastened, Guubtless by the Sveny strain through which he pussed while in command in France. Me way the typlcal Britiah soldier nt, fore ceermined snd highly seilied wrt of warfere His name those of Foberts snd Kiuhener i U Prsession Of Uik Glue; tities of in I the coptinued | nks with His tame | 35 secure, sa wes Veirs, despite criticism personnel, the commission is further | checked. The “Go” signal should be turned in the Senate by confirmation of Commissioners Caldwell, Pickard and La Pount. Then only can the commis- sion put on steam and continue its work. o Bchools which forbade inquiry as to “eyolution” have experienced the world- |old difficulty in preventing children | from asking questions. Chinese “bolshevists” are no less pro- ductive of trouble and confusion than | any other kind. | b 88 4 e The Heraldic Hobgoblin. Instruction in the proper etiquette of the use of the flag of the United States | 18 always commendable. Often, sad to say, it 15 very necessary. Much good | | has been done along that line in recent | years, s 1 organizations of a patri- | otie and hiswrical nature having co- mbling and broadcast- | 1ls of proper procedure. In | practically every instance the rec iptent | eriticism, public or private, has been graveful for being set right. This is &8 it should be, for practically every | violation of flag etiquette has been an | snnocent o | In & @iscussion of this subject the| ot national flag code commivee wid the House Judiclary commitee, in the course of a1 appeal | for passage of & law for the proper Aispiey of both the American and for- flags, that violstion was wide- and that even the White House | guilty. ‘The “guilt” in this particu- Jar case, which sems 10 be fastened upon the Jate President Wilson, or wt on his wdministration, consists of L that the eagle on the presi- 8 W the Jeft, which | operated in as irman the vign spre dential b, end question Tegarding cerlain phiases | 1s the point of gishonor in heraldry of his cereer one of the men He stands in bistry who held the British Jines wguinst the essaults of the enemy Meruldry 18 85 Inberesting selence, of ary, or pursuit Bome centuries ago, before the syerage knight and squire, l i in Uhe criticel perind of the war, u.d;»l wlone 1he @verage msl-al-arms, who, by bia fortitude snd his sbility in | could resd, w knowleage of the handling of men in gresl numixrs nde the wey W viclory % Whs W Very necessary part of every-day | 1ife. A hersldic device wid who & man Halg's rise U high rank was the ususl | was, where he canie from, what sort of Provession of Getatis end responsibilitics | people Bis wncestors were, with whom ! mpsigned W those who mske the army thelr cereer. He saw active sesvice i “yy\ W e Budsu campsign v'w With the decey of chivalry end the - promiess W pay I back, nd whom Inlmicsl, | nteresting polnts he wes allied Jlana many other heraldry | ¥ om the 10 Casual Reader. The stories of scandal my heart do not touch. The annals of crime don’t amuse. 1 look at the puzzles and picters an’ such f An’ don't care a darn for the news. Jud Tunkins says a fortune teller sells good news 50 cheap that she is entitled to consideration as a kind of philanthropist. Mile: “How many miles do you get to the gallon of gas?” “I don't know,” answered Mr. Chug- gins. “Snow has been so heavy that most of the time I wasn't getting any at all.” “Remorse,” saild Hi Ho, the sage of Chinatown, “1s usually & public apology for faults that can no longer be con- cealed.” My Radio! My Rad: 1 love your gentle tone. The same old melody you blow Upon the saxophone. And “fu whose boldness strange We once could not forgive, Al Jast, In tme's erratic change, Beemns quite conservative, rather “When & man quits worryin',” said | Uncle Eben, “he has to take care not w0 quit thinkin' ut de same tme.” B Another Invasion of Righ 1 oom the New Yok Heoahd Tritnne “The proposal of the United States Weather Bureau o find out how much “ we Ne Yorkers eal every year Is wnother plece of Federal Interfer- cnce In Blate matters. As an advocate of personal Lberty, we ‘DL this new Jivasion of our rights and assert our constitutlonal privilege o take our dust or deave U alone * o * RBut i the Jivestigatore want W see dust that dust, they have our permission to in- spect the window sills of our Ehty- st streel apaitient any morning alter 10, - v -oe The Great Unknown. do Blwte Bome people travel fncog, but most of s remain L home, ULKBOWD, — v -ve Oute and Ins, 2 the Mante Barbara Daily ‘Ihere’s this difference frankly tobs you of money, an b-law [y | | UNITED what it seems to say, which is that it is wise and proper to stuff a cold and starve a fever. The other school holds that only the intelligence of a moron or & Moro could take that view. To the contrary, says the second school, it means that anybody who is fool enough 1o stuff a cold will have to starve a fever” Still, “the common cold is no longer a joke,” observes the Manchester Lead- er, which issues warning that “a cold jgnored is too often a cold that turns into something more serious or takes a more deadly toll in depleted vitality than is at cautions are observed The Kansas City Post thus pictures the victim: “Nobody who has a bad cold can do his best work, and he is a poor customer for people who have wares to sell. He can’'t become interested in buy- ing & new car while the cold 1s raging, and he loses pride in his personal ap- pearance to such an extent that he doesn't care whether he has a new hat or & new ‘suit.” o “It fs high time that this universal malady were investigated,” says the Terre Haute Star, “for it concerns every- body, from the baby in its mother’s arms to the grandfather tottering along In his last years. * * * All along the way between youth and age the cold looms up as the probable cause of Innumerable maladies likely to be fatal, and much sclentific study 15 devoted to these ailments, with & view to their cure, while nothing 1s done to account for and eliminate their pestiferous leged cause” The Salt Lake Deseret News remarks that “medical science has achleved wonderful triumphs over some of the most devastating scourges, but it has apparently been helpless to reduce the suffering and loss caused by this simple atlment.” Sympathy for “hapless vietims” fs expressed by the Raleigh News and Ob- server, which remembers that “it is in order for kind friends to volunteer some ATES IN WORLD WAR Ten Years Ago Today War Department approves recom- Lmendation of Gen Pershing that 15 | cavalry regiments be formed for the | Nationul Army. * * % United States | Ambassador Francls, at Petrograd, | threatened by a group of anarchists f | the third time within s month, seeking the release of ma Goldman, Berk- | man ang Mooney * ¢ ¢ Porhing 1s tending the session of Bup®me War Councll in_ Paris toduy. * %+ British high navil suthotity states that since the beginning of the war 1o fewer than 11,000 000 soldiers have been transport- ed and only sbout 2000 men lost “ e ¢ U-boats havessunk more than 6,000,000 tons of wilied shipping during the first year of unreatiicted warfare Britain being the heaviest loser. * * ¢ United Btates now spending about $2 000,000 & day, or $725,000,000 & month, for 1ts own war expenses and lending 2420,000,000 1o ity -I‘u-- g tary Daniels announces that Henry Ford 18 1o bulld a Inrge fleet of subma sine chasers, which he predicts will end shie U-buat mena | necessary, if ordinary pre- | trite and simple remedy, which lhrlr‘ | “many of the so-called children’s dis- | eases start with the same symptoms as a cold in the head”: that the foolish parent or teacher who says, ‘Oh. he |just has a common cold!’ and lets a | child stay in school with all his com- panions. helps to spread an epidemic of serious consequences through the community.” TR |1t is pointed out by the Lansing State Journal that ‘it is estimated that prac- ‘(lcnll\' every person in the United States comes in for at least two hard colds each Winter. Some people escape.” adds the Journal, ‘but the average of two colds per person has been arrived at after statistical study. Scarcely any one escapes year after year, though some persons appear unusually lucky during some seasons.” In view of this the Columbus Ohio State Journal ad- vises that “the safest method is to call @ physician and follow his instruc- tlons.” The prospective, systematic and per- sistent study of its nature and the search for measures of prevention and methods of cure mark the first real step toward the joining of an tssue with a hitherto almost privileged enemy of hu- man health and happiness.” states the Charleston Evening Post, The Morgan- town New Dominton sees a serfous effort to accomplish the desired cure in th fact that the university will “spend in that quest five v use the combined resources of its med- teal school, hospital, school of hyglens and public health servi “While victory over a widespread dis- ease 15 assumed to be possible,” says the Indianapolis News, “no easy conquest is anticipated. ¢ * * This s a great movement in the fleld of preventive |medicine. A survey made by the i United States Public Health Service in- | dicated that approximately half of our fannual sickness can be classified as re spiratory in character.” ' Recalls Old Days In National Cay To the Editor of The Star In & recent wue of The Star you quoted Rev. Dr. Joseph T, Kelly as sa ng “that he may be the only man liv- Ing who can say he went in bathing at Second street and Pennsylvania ave- nue 1 can say that 1 not only bathed there, but fished ux well mistaken, the stream was known as Tiber Creek. To recall old tmes, 1 wonder 1f Dr Kelly went bathing, as 1 did, at the “Old Areh™ at Hecond street and Indiana avenue The doctor states that the water st ond_ street and Pennsylvania avenue was dirty, but 1 wonder 1f he ever cut his feel on the broken bottles that were in the stream* Very reapectfully, 1. GEOROE MENKE " .o Paradoxical P am the New Yark Nerald Trituue Just now there are more motor bulld- than there ure road bullders " .. Political Game, he Omata Wil Heald Things certainly are mixed up Ching, but Just look lu)unlwuu\l [ o Part of s of tme and will | al 1 1 am not | nd demands. Eloquent, at times gran nt. the author himself | | s the v A romance not & | romance, “a truth for those who can comprehend an extravagance for those who cannot ™ Something bevond the senses—to this all agree. There- upon a few follow its beauty out of | which they seek to find its meaning. The majority, however, pass by on the other side. Quite apart from the story {tself, here is an opportunity, unsur- passed. to s 1o outstandiny | ence in manner, | between Bulwer-1 | of realistic novels under which readers | Strive, vamnly, to come up for air. | PN | state craves amortized so that paid M 20 vears $120.000.000. vre. P at t | THE STORY OF GEOLOGY. Allan L. Benson. Cosmopolitan Book Cor- poration. A splendid example of what recrea- | tion, diversion, amusement may prove | |to be. Here is & man whose life study has been politics, whose business is po- | leal writings, But every one has o [ play now and then. When Mr. Benson | | turned to playtime he filled it with the | | game of chasing up the story of this| {round ecarth upon which we live. No| eple of classic times. no saga of the North, no wonder tale of the pure in- Ventor of tales and spinner of yarns |could approach the thrall of this stu- | | pendous record of the making of an arth suited i all ways (o be the home | nd habitation of man. Here he has, happily for readers, turned the amazing account over for evervbody o read s, to be sure. there have been | r stories of geology! Here is one Nowever, that is blessedly simple, beau- Wiully free from mystifving terms that only the geologist himself can under- | & Sand. Hete is also a fine absence of pedantry. & deliberate avoidance of the | Ahibboleths of pure sclence. Instead. & Splendid seleure of the greatest story W the world unfolds here before the | | spellbound reader. Such a rich story, | too, that untolls thousands of years as it they were hours, hinting meanwhile at stretches of time that reach into millions of vears Such questions as are asked and in good measure an- Wwered! For example: Were the conti- | nents once fotned, so that over the carth there was a single bodv of land” Tho theory projected as answer i3 en- grossing and plausible With the story M the foe Caps comes an account of the great selentist, Louts A le. and his contribution to a solution the prol Liems that the different fee ages pro | pounded to man. He tells of the earth | quake that sent the Mistasippt flowing | Ihackward. He telly of a thousand | (hings of surpassing surprise and in- | g prosperity requite & mer Levest, coming wlong from the beginntug | Fhe tnder our own ¢ \€ piant 1ife and the story of coal. And | B3 Tesulatity af service. and to protect by ‘AR by of giant birds and how they | U8 REAIAAY discriminating mtes. The | saived the problem of fight, So with | CUPver ships and_ packet taats gave [other antmaly, how they came and | Ateriea these essenttaly from 188 St ana Torward into: other | 1872 WIthout help G the vernment functional forms under the pressure of [ 8 Washtugton, other than mall-carrys existence. Aud then the wdventof man f U8 contracta, and ann these wineiniea Mimself, “The human race an expert- | O steedy vovages and qu n | ment begun 1000 000 years ago out | arownd “‘.‘ these, thelt ucossh was | af ourioaity, driven by an acquired tm. | Schleved. The same hulds e todav, | aglnation. man began to make use of T those dys, fram 0 o W fre wnd tools, gradually widening his activities and powers. Man as a social creature, achieving wonders and stil fends. Fascinating as the mast tgen more wonders - the art of VG (0= [lous Actian, As the best novel* aft. | gether, I the sclences, i the arts |nitely more absorbing han & havel ! 8a far have we come. How (ar shAll | den thousand - A Jov of & Bk an i we g0 Such the statement. suel tha b mensa stimutatio ok Queation with which this g s al0ry aplied dc:m:;‘ 96w v | the taxpay The ve slectric ing. trave race at X r supplies, th he American e S 10 $10.000.000 000 a annual freig comme vear, with $725.000 000 cent now Time was w surpassed eversth 13 10 be Tepeated now @ new Khips w the Lleviath: t | was a side-wheeler plus a | wers all steamships in its dav could not navigate the h When it was thrown on tts wind one wheel was v and vibeating Tt was tn the early v teeath century that U | per ships and packet boats we [on the seas. Amerteans | lessan of the tmportance e during the days rof 1812 Quoting ¢ s by the committee poration of the 1 tathn The underlying needs of our continu- | e wa as V. COLLINS. “When the war less than 9 per cent of our imports and | exports in American vessels. When the foreign nations. with the right to clatm s on which we had de- for war. they tock i 1oss to the exte: narine had disappeared? eam was £irst applied 0 ocean 1839 the British gove ed & subsidy to the Cu- team vessels starting with Teased 10 $830.000. A rd steamship across gradually the steam oo Britannia ruled the Was at first no American subsi In 13835 Ericsson made s | the Qave-own me! oot & W one way £, c N whether merve. there e e preudice t the SN Valley Ouvernment ant veloped West and wibhreak of ¢ ed above was sation of 1 TR War, as oute "l 10 revive & SETEN The new enterprise &8 not cons e work of the L ough the exigencies of DA 18 Atemplng o get the Governs et out of the dusiness by seliing the W and 2y MRS SWeep Ihe vessels Wil de ready tv the handicapa of QUCY tleradle oaly fr frelght Kven freght demands Ware speed In the meantime our STheral commerve 3 WHUV - depents SRl OWNNL ouT oulsirgiung commence and | deowming ) W mdependent of foregn shgyeng. maving aur own peoducia ol faCiurng and agricuitaral Wharaan 1N de Pawt ¥, Qwtiaa) the thme the four-day s acean the alde: TR WAy Vownass \»