Evening Star Newspaper, February 1, 1928, Page 8

{THE . EVENING STAR With Sunday Morning Edition. WASHINCTON, D. C. WEDNESDAY. . .February 1, 1028 THEODORZ W. NIYES....Editor The Evening Star Newspaper Company Business Office 11th St and Pennayivania Ave Wew York Office: 110 East 43nd St. Cht Office: Tower Buildine Puropran Ofice. 14 Regent St.. London, Eng'and. Rate by Carrier Within the City. The ing Star 43¢ per month ing_and Sunday Star (when ¢ Sundays) . .. 60c per monty and Sunday Star 65¢ per month 5 ... Be per cony lection made at the end of each month Orders may be sent in mail or telephone. Satn 5000, ™ i deia Mail—P'ayable in Advance. ryland and Virginia. e ment, covers five hundred to & thou- sand miles over almost uncharted ter- ritory. With never a stop for mechan- ical difficulty, lost for a short period only a few times in his thousands of miles of hazardous flying. Lindy is the world's most consistent and unequaled example of American skill, courage and diplomacy. Happiest when sitting in an awk- ward position at the controls of his plane, Lindy goes flying on to cement international friendships and to unite more solidly the world of fellowship and understanding. Hundreds of honors have been heaped upon his blonde head and millions of laudatory words have been spoken to him and written about is indeed a remarkable personality and the world admires him for his courage in the face of danger and his courtesy in times of tranquillity. His is an active 3¢ 1 life and he is the envy of men and boys v, 3 15, $3.00: 1 mo., All Other States ‘lllld Canada. Fr. 8120 g Lon Ll Member of the Associated Press. Amociated Press is exclusively entitled the use for repuNlication of all news & tohes eradited 1o it oF not ntherwise cred- ted ‘n this paper and also the local news iblished herein. All riehts of puhlication ‘*Decial dispatches herein are also resery e Americanize the Washingtonian. The half million Americans of the District constitute the only community in all the expanse of the continental and contiguous United States—populous, intelligent, public-spirited. patriotic. of sdequate resources—which is denied Tepresentation in the National Gov- ernment. And in all the greater world-girdling Onited States—from Alaska to the | Philippines, from Hawali to Porto Rico —there is no other adequately devel- | eped community than the District in We say with our lips that since the | half million Americans of the District pay national taxes. obey national laws, and go to war in the Nation's defense, they are entitled on American princi- ples to be represented in the National Government, which taxes them, which and which consistent acts and inaction we stultify these basic American prin- people of the District lack the and right of participating in their . Congress lacks the power by majority vote of granting them this right. Our pending constitutional amend- found sgainst this grant by Congress of an sdditional power o itself, enabling 1t to give to Washingtonians a restricted right of participation in their National Government, a power akin to that which oc | 28¢ | and the sweetheart of the other sex. America is proud of its flying colonel, its ambassador of good will, and its ex- ample to its youth. There has been, there is and there will be only one | Linds. ———— Revolution as a Right. ‘The aptness of discussions at Havana over the policy of recognizing de facto or revolutionary governments as against recognizing constitutionally elected gov- ernments is emphasized by the re minder that it was only through revo- lution that any government represented at the Pan-American Conference came into being: that had it been possible to “outlaw” revolution effectively a cen- tury and & half ago, the twenty-two in- dependent American nations would be colonies or dominions owing allegiance to Great Britain, Spain and Portugal, while George Washington, Thomas Mar- host of others would have lived in his- tory not as great patriots and libera- tors, but as bandit leaders righteously suppressed. As picturesque as such him. But still he goes flying on. He | shall, Thomas Jefferson, Simon Bolivar. | San Martin, Bernardo O'Higgins and a ! G United States that could be subjected | to such an inquisition without develop- ing observations and opinions of judg- ment adverse to the mental balance of the mémbers. Neighborhood gossip is prone to dwell upon the individual characteristics. It is a commonplace that any unusual trait is marked and noted by others. Slight actions are ex- aggerated into significant tendencies. i There is an old story of the Quaker {who once told his wife, “Everybody but thee and me is queer, and some- times I have my doubts about thee.” If this process of admitting deposi- tions from distant people about the mental state of a person on trial is to | be continued, there is no certainty at all in the administration of justice. There is no possibility of cross-examin: tion to develop just why the deponent attributes eccentricity or unsoundness or “queerness™ to the subject or his fam- ily and forebears. If Dr. Samuel Johnson were ever to have been brought to trial for some offense against the law and the insanity defense had been admitted then as it is now as a ground of extenuation or acquittal, he could have been shown to be utterly {rresponsible, according to the standard of the observing world, in terms of such afidavits as those now being spread on the records at Los Angeles. His life was full of most xtracidinary actions. Did he not touch | with his cane every post that he passed? Did he not have a hundred and one | mannerisms that made him different | from all other Londoners? Was he not Igl\'en to rescuing wastrels and shelter- tion or merits? Probably thousands ot his fellow townsmen thought him crazy. But he was nevertheless one of the greatest minds of all time, as sane and history i¢ full of such cases of people who were “eccentric” in their habits | and expressions of life, and yet whos» | minds were as clear and sound as any. | Perhaps this procedure in the Hick- man case will have its good effect in , ing them without regard to their condi- | sound as any man who ever lived. And | thoughts may be, however, their value | TVCAYNE the dangerous extension of to the discussion at Havana is wholly | (N insanity defense as a means of artificial. The policy of refusing to| 'DWATtng fustice. recognize revolutionary governments | such proceedings as those now being The reaction from | grew from an abuse, not the rightful use, of the power of revolution. Revolt is often justified. But the mere fact that it is revolt does not justify it. Between 1886 and 1915 there were twelve Presidents of Haiti. None of them served his full term of seven years. Pour of them were assassinated and six were forced to flee from office. In 1915 President Guillaume was killed and two foreign legations in Haiti were mobbed. The country was reduced to political and financial disruption. All of this resulted from a series of “revo- lutions,” but to extol any of them as expressions of the inviolable rights of man becomes difficult indeed. And so it has been with most’ of the other revolutions which for = century have retarded the progress and development of the countries of Central America and the Caribbean. Some of them may have been necessary. But nothing of lasting good came of any of them. Revolutions became expedients for personal ag- | reported from Los Angeles is certain wide demand that the laws which now iolerate and permit such devices be charged for the greater security of life in America.” ————— Discovery that there are no plans of the house at Wakefield in which George Washington was born should not check the movement to “restore” the structure can be relied upon to approximate-the | design sufficiently to represent the shrine to the satisfaction of posterity. ————— The late Hughie Jennings, once great base ball star and even greater man- ager, made a positive and lasting con- tribution to the American language by his coinage of the word “Eeyah!" which { liberally interpreted means “Attaboy!"” e Uncle Sam is going after his real estate investments in this city in a thor- oughly businesslike manner. after a long o be positive in terms of a country- as a memorial. Architectural ingenuity | BY CHARLES Watching some one else shovel off the snow is one of the most delightful occupations in the world. What indoor sport is more entertain- ing, on a Wintry day. than to follow carefully the movements of the hardy snow shoveler? Removing the snow, after a heavy storm, Is a most nccessary duty, both by thought for one’s neighbors. Every householder should attend to this the moment the snow stops falling. The dificulty comes, of course, when he_does not feel in the mood. The average home owner can be more temperamental than a grand opera star when it comes to shoveling off the snow which Nature, in a bountiful mood. places upon his steps and walks. “Snow, snow, beautiful snow!" One grants the beauty of it but sometimes fails to appreciate it at its true worth, this being a failing of | humanity 1n general, and of the house- holder 1n particular. S We honor the man who takes his shovel in hand and ventures forth to a ment He deserves all praise. ‘There remains something to be said. however, for the man who prefers to allow others to do it! of bo) tor instance, vigorous, healthy young fellows who ask nothing better than to be allowed to work off their superfluous energy at 50 cents per walk. What cruelty o the rising manhood | portunity of doing useful labor and of 1 receiving honest compensation therefor! These boys need the training, they need the example—above all, they need the money. To see them plowing trom door to door, vainly pushing push-but- tons. 1s a touching spectacle. Heartless, indeed. is the householder who ruthlessly declares, “I will do it myself!"” Think twice before you utter such words. Yon glowing ycuth. who bears the most tremendous sho! in the world on his shoulders. deserves this job. Refrain not. therefore, O householder, { trom offering it to him! Let him shovel it off for you! He will do it almost as well as you could. and it will cost you twice as much as the job is worth. x % ¥ ¥ What foy it is to mentally follow the strokes of the snow shovelers along the block! There is something about moval of the snow that satisfies Perhaps no ordinary task offers more reward to the laborer than this homely work In the first place, it i mething that must «e done. Some one has to do it. The deeper the snow, the more urgent its removal becomes. flakes fall, the more the householder shrinks from the task before him If he is feeling exactly right. of course, he will wade into it with energy but there are many reasons why a per- son does not find himself in trim for the work. A headache, for one thing. will place a neat ban upon the activity. A feel- ing of general lassitude. which, strange- ly enough, often attacks one at thic the re- BY FREDLRIC Categorical denials are fortheoming from the White House of a circumstan- tial story published in Havana news- papers the day after President Cool: idge's speech to Pan-American enjoined by municipal regulations and hand-to-hand tussle with the r!e-‘ | big snow brings forth many teams of the country (o refuse them this op- | The longer the | D. C. WEDNESDAY, E. TRACEWELL. time, will prove an even more effectual barrier against effort along these lines. * ok ok It is highly pleasing, therefore, for this momentary invalid to watch the ef- forts of others. One actually can see what is being accomplished. There are so many lines of endeavor where 0 much must be taken on faith! Here, however, every movement of ths | shovel, so easily seen from the window, | reveals just what it does in the way of removing snow. The shoveler stands knee-deep In January, as it were, a level of snow hid- {ing walk, lawn, steps. It is his job to | reveal them, to put them back where | they were before the storm. His back bends, he leans over, down | goes the big shovel, up he comes, the | implement describes an arc to the right and several pounds of snow descend. ‘The shovel bites in again. Now as much as a square foot of | cement sidewalk appears. Bending at | the waist, rising up again, the sturdy | shoveler wades in, leaving more or less | cleared spaces behind him. * ok ok % 1t is a pleasure to watch the mound I rising on each side of the walk, and to survey the path rapidly developing out of_chaos. ‘The impatient person, who cannot wait several days to see the results of his labors, ought to take up snow shovel- ing. In this occupation it is possible, inside of a half hour, to see a fully cleaned walk, once more made visible ¥ the industry of one human being. the person doing the work. There is an appeal to this which more machinelike labors lack. The man who tends a ma- ! chine, and is himself but a cog in the giant wheels, has no such satisfaction for his reward as meets the shoveler of snow on a Wintry day. | It is a work performed under diffi- | culties, too. 1In the first place, one right foot gets tremendously cold. Jus wny the right foot should get colder than the left is a mystery. The right hand, too. generally be- comes colder than the left. Since alternately bending and egain. with the handling of wet masses of snow, is a task that few have an opportunit to work at many times a year, it foilows that it makes one puff for breath. This gasping for breath usually re- suits in a cessation of labors every few minutes, when a few mouthfuls of cold |air and fiving snow are swallowed per- force, while the shovel wielder looks around innocently as if admiring the | aforementioned beauties of Nature. ! We know! We know! | Many a time and oft, as our back | ached, and our feet froze, and our nose ran, we bad stopped to draw several good breaths, and in doing so found it expedient to lean on the shovel, the vhile looking around the neighborhood as if suddenly struck by the snow, snow. beautiful snow! What we were struck by was a crick in the back, or a twinge in the side, or some other physical lamentation which iullod aloud for a rest. 8o, we insist that watching some ! one else shovel off the snow is one of the most delightful occupations in the "world of every day. | WASHINGTON OBSERVATIONS WILLIAM WILE. 'in 1924. The balmy days of Spring- time will probably be with us beforc the Pennsylvania ballots have been re- tabulated. At present, the Waterman | subcommittee plans to recount the bal- FEBRUARY 1. rising up | 1928, Politics at Large By G. Gould Lincoln. Denial that Secretary Hoover plans to resign from the cabinet has been made once more. This time both at the se and at the Department of e idea has been expressed many times that if Mr. Hoover i« to be & candidate for the presidential nomi- nation, he may retire from the cabinet. Mr. Hoover has made no formal an- nouncement of his candidacy. But It would be idle to deny that he is a re- ceptive candidate. He is leaving the matter in the hands of his friends, hov- ever. Just why Mr. Hoover shouid be expected to resign from the ~abinet is not quite clear. If President Coolidge, his chief, were a candidate for renomi- nation, a very different situation would present itself. But President Coolidge is not a candidate. None of the other presidential possi- bilities, elther Republican or Demo- cratic, who now hold public office, are axpected to resign from office becausie of their candidacy, so why Mr. Hoover? No one has suggested thai Senator Frank B. Willis of Ohio, Senator Charles Curtis of Kansas and Senator George Norris of Nebraska, on the Re- publican_side, or Senator James A. Reed of Missouri. Gov. Al Smith of New York, Gov. Ritchie of Maryland or Gov. Donahey of Ohio retire to the ranks of private citizens in order to become a candidate for the presidential nomina- tion. Indeed, there would be great sur- prise expressed if any one of them re- signed. It might be construed as a gesture of confidence—overconfidence. Presidential nominees in the past have not resigned public office because their friends put them forward for the nomi- nation. Chief Justice Taft remain~d a member of the Roosevelt cabinet up to the time of his nomination for Presi- dent Charles Evans Hughes of New Yerk was a member of the Supreme White Hou: Commerce. The % x % The situation in New York, by the same token, has not caused the Hoover camp apprehension, notwithstanding the fact that a recent meeting of Re- mined to send an uninstructed delega- tion to the national convention, with the ultimate purpose, if the occasion is propitious, of voung for the nomina- tion of President Coolidge. They are confident that the President is not to be a candidate and will not permit him- 1f to be drafted. They feel that the New York Hooverites acted in accord- ance with the best interests of Mr. Hoover when they joined In with the| plan of Charles D. Hilles, Republican | national committeeman, who is urging the renomination of the President. Mr. | Hoover is not a candidate against the President and never will be, it is ex- | plained. When the New Yorkers have | become convinced that the President is {not to be drafted, it is expected that a | very large contingent of the State dele- gation will go to Hoover. In fact, as- | surances to that effect have already | been given. * x x % ‘The report that Secretary Hoover was to be called befcre the commerce com- mittee of the Senate, at the instance of Senator Frank B. Willis of Ohio, and questioned how he stood on the ad- ministration's plan for flood control in the Mississippi Valley, has aroused in- terest, since it has been suggested that Mr. Hoover would either have to offend his friends in the Southern States by supporting the President’s mendations: or offend the President by | opposing those recommendations. The | President's plan calis for a 20 per cent contribution by the States. But it does not appear likely that the Secretary of Commerce will be placed in quite as | an embarrassing position as it appeared i at first blush. It is not expected he | will break with the President. But if Court when he was nominated in 1915. publican leaders in that State deter- | recom- | ANSWERS TO QUESTIONS BY FREDERIC J. HASKIN. ‘There s no other agency in the world that can answer as many legitimate questions as our free Information Bu- reau in Washington, D. C. This highly organized Institution has been bullt up and is under the personal direction of Frederic J. Haskin. By keeping in con- stant touch with Pederal bureaus and Mhl'r educational enterprises it is in a position to pass on to you authoritative | ment of the University of information of the highest order. Sub-|and the other at Indln‘yln rl»%;“{;fl;: mit your queries to the staff of experts Bureau of Plant Industry. A large num- whose services are put at your free dis- | ber of the best date varsties of the posal. There is no charge except 2 0Old World have been tested in these cents In stamps for return postage. Ad- | gardens. h dress The Evening Star Information | — Bureau, Frederic J. Haskin, Director,| Q When helium gas is released sud- ‘Washington, D. C. denly will it heat, freeze or clog?— Q. When did Will Rogers first nppear," hIAerl York?—W. B. f I L Il Rogers began in vaudeville at Hammerstein’s Roof Garden, New York | «Hisranvmis games oG, o City, in 1905. [k | _A. They are probably named after the Q. When was fhe Dolly Varden dress | Ioted gambler, Jerome Cardan, often in fashion?>—G. C. P. | referred to as Hieronymous Cardanus. A This dress_with its bodice and |Cardan was an Italian mathematician, bouftant skizts. ‘made of flowered | Philosopher, _astrologer, gambier and chintz, was in fashion about 1870. It |chariatan. He was born at Pavia in was named from a character in Dickens' | 1501 the lllegal son of Paclo Cardan “Barnaby Rudge jurist. He took the degree of doctor of Gk medicine at Padua in 1524, and spent Q. How does the size of our Army the next seven years practicing at compare with other countries. in pro- | Sacco. There he married in 1 portion to the population it protects?>— is said to have squandered the E. N. |of his wife in gambling. He was ap- A. In our active Army the ratio is| pointed to the chair of mathematics a* | 113 per 1.000 population. In compari- | Milan, and held the chair of medicine |son. the British Empire ratio is 556: in several other cities. Later he was France. 12.51: Italy. 5.92; Japan, 3.04. imprisoned for debt and on the charge Russia. 3.59, and Germany, 1.67. of heresy for having published the horoscope of Christ. Upon his release he went to Rome and was admitted t» 2 w the College of Physicians by the Pope A. Tt means, literally “seize the day.” | - A broader translation of this epicurean joe, *10Wed & pension. He died in maxim is, “enjoy the present time.” Q. Is it farther from San Francisco | Q. What works of Shakespeare popu- to San Diego or to Seattle by water?— |larized him with the reading public of W AN | his day?—W. K. | ATt is 521 miles to San Diego and ' A. TWo narrative poems, “Venus and | 926 miles to Seattle by water. Adonis” and “The Rape of Lucrece.” Q. What citv was the last capital of Q. Is rain water purer than ordipary the Confederacy?—B. C. T. water?—V. S. A. After the evacuation of Richmond. A. Rain water in a sparsely settled | the archives of the Confederacy were community falling on a comparativel | removed to Danviile. Va. The building ' clean surface is purer than ordin: used by President Jefferson Davis as water. In cities or large towns whe | his last capitol became a Confederate there are factories. rain wa ! memorial and museum. impure through absorption of gases and fume: Q. When were date gardens estab- lished in California?—P. A. T. A. Early in the present century two experimental date orchards were estab- lished in the Coachella Valley, Cali- fornia; one at Mecca, in 1904, by the Bureau of Plant Industry of the United States Department of Agriculture in co- operation with the horticultural depart- . C. B. A. It does none of these. calied Q. What does “carpe diem” mean’— Q. Where was the court-martial of p— Benedict Arnold held?—S. A. D. ! Q. Where is Paul Kruger buried’— A. It was held at Morristown, N. J.|R. R. D. in the Dickerson Tavern. | A. Paul Kruger died July 14. 1904 the shores | @ How much did the Washington | : > | TR 80N | of the Lake of Geneva, whither he had A Theicost o the! Toundations: ana | T2, 0 She sEe of hi healiss e 8 at Clarens, near Veney. t amounted to $1.187.710. The total | sastiar ep the brar by aomrigTative cost. including equipment and slopes, | the following December. When Kruge was $1,300,000. | went to Europe he left his wife in Lord Roberts’ custody at Pretoria, but she Xfilt‘:I:u{nhhl:edflu:d dx;d;. there in 1901 A. The oyster crop of the world| N O e | amounts to 32000000 bushels. and s | DT Busband was laid . | valued at $20,000.000. Of this output | | the United States produces 79 per cent ylnlqunnmy and 63 per cent of the value. Q. Is there a good tem in Costa Rica?—N. P. | A. The minister of public instruction | o1 Costa Rica says that Costa Rica has | no standing army, but has more teach- ers than policemen. and more educa. | tional employes than in any othes branch of the government. Education | is compulsory between the ages of 7 | and 14. with at least two years of Eng- |lish after the fifth grade. Five years {of study is required for bachelor de- | and there are universities for | those desiring higher education. | Q Who _represen:s i % W2 my do weTave so many Tror | AUHAG AL 00 scereai repre- 'A. The City of Troy. N. Y.. the birth- Sise o Charier Rocot o8 the ofbeial Q. How many oysters are gathered in a year’—R. G. Q. How many eclipses will thers be !in 1928°—M. E. G. A. There will be five, three of the sun and two of the moon. Only cne eclipse. that of the moon on November | 27. will be visible generally in the | United States. Q. Wnen cod liver oi! is added to n;ilxmne‘ Q:le boiling point is the value of oil lessened for f - | fants?>—J. H. 8. s A. Some of the vitamines of cod liver | ofl are destroyed when added o mik at the bolling point. The cod liver ofl shouid be added to the milk after the milk is cooled. educational sys- P. Russia grandizement of a few individuals. The oppressed became oppressors, and the | Period of neglect, during which he failed to take advantage of some very attrac- | Conference. The story is to the effect lots of only six Pennsylvania counties that a few minutes before the state | —Philadelphia, Allegheny. Lackawanna, dinner in Mr. and Mrs. Coolidge’s honor | Lucerne. Delaware and Schuylkill. Thev oppressors became the oppressed in a never-ending cycle. 1In an effort to correct such a condi- tion & conference under the leadership of Mexico and the United States, originat- ing in a proposal from the foreign min- ister of Ecuador, was held in Washing- ton in 1907 and attended by representa- tives of the Central American govern- ments. It resulted in a convention be- tween these republics not to recognize governments coming into power through revolution or coup d'etat. The conven- tion was strengthened by & later treaty entered into by the Central American governments here in 1923, which made even more stringent the bans against revolution. While not a party to this treaty, the United States has subscribed | to its principles as they cohcern Latin seldom receives the punishment that i1t| America. merits. A striking example of two-| The policy 15 not altogether success- facedness is brought to light in the con- | ful. It refuses to recognize a de facto wietion for burglary of a State Repre-| government, though that government sentative in Michigan, who in the last| may be the best. It does not take into tive bargains. ——rte— It is to be hoped that the doubt re- garding the location of the Parmers' Market in this city will not cause any falling off in Spring planting in neigh- borhood truck gardens from which the Capital's supply of vegetable food so largely comes. e | New York admirefs of Mayor Jimmy | that his ascent to the water wagon is | merely a temporary aberration. —tee | Senator La Follette seems determined |to give a positive force to the word “choose” in connection with certain | presidential possibilities. | ————.— ; SHOOTING STARS. | BY PHILA.\'D‘Z‘ JOHNSON, Natural Order of Things. Legisiature was the leading proponent | consideration the impossibility. in some | Since ages past some one has said. of & @rastic criminal code and capital | sections, of effecting changes in govern-s “The world is going wrong.” punishment bill. The erstwhile Repre- | sentative has been sent to prison on 2| four-to-fifteen-ysar sentence, and the| wdnhumdkmnmhohu& him to protect him from the wrath of the other prisoners, who seek vengeznce because of his activities while in flu'l ure. | This s & peculisr case, a Dr. Jekyll Mr. Hyde personality. Burgiar ai| pressed. The issue is to substitute for | Sometimes with thunderous threats of | armed revolt and bloodshed those or- | and reformer by day, but & hypo- | for the entire twenty-four hours The warden is, indeed, 2 kindly man 10| his prisoner from the anger of | inmates. A little mussing up | niot burt him at all, and §t might | scoomplish & good deal in teaching| bypocrites that sometimes they are|asa right, but prevent anarchy and de- | structive civil war; which will assure | | the rights of the people and not the ©f the leaders of your party.” caught and adequately punished | ———t e Lindbergh's swing around the eircle | sets & lively pace for the political spell- ment by constitutional procedure. The government in power controls the elec- tions and the ballot boxes. It is always victorious. And by denying the oppo- sition the right of revoit, dictatorships are strengthened, protected and ex- tended. The real issue, however, is not the sanctity of revolution as & weapon of last resort in the hands of the op- derly processes which peacefully accom- plish the same end. The United States is trying to do this in Nicaragua. It would like to get out of Nicaragua. 1f the Havana conference can suggest a policy which will recognize revolution rights of the politicians, and which will stabilize youthful governments until | We've heard as many decades fled That melancholy song. | And yet each Autumn brings the fruit; | Then Winter brings the storm. | Palr blossoms next the Spring will suft, | Ere Summer days grow warm. | And then this old world goes 1ts way, Bometimes ‘neath peaceful skies: fray, | Which cruelly arise It is a world of contrast strong, As day must follow night And when we think it's going wrong It's really going right Leadership. “You are always mentioned as one “Yes,” answered Senator Sorghum. “That's my reward for always going binders of the future. Aviation up'n-' they are themselves stabilized by age 'O line and following instructions im- | support 1t heartily and the Marines will | | be withdrawn from Nicaragua post- | | haste ! Much water has fiowed under the | Aiscussion of the theory of revolution is | Charies Lindbergh | beside the mark and butters nobody's Lindy Goes Flying On. bridge since Col mbrw‘mhkyhmwmhuu! Bourget airdrome outeide of Paris one night last yesr. International events of | und experience, the United Btates will In the meantime an academic parsnips. | — e e No allenist who respects his profession | grest moment have oocurred, Datonal |85 1 €Xpert in crime cases can now af- affairs have drawn the attention of the people and tragedies such as the sink- ing of tne submarine 5-4 have plunged & Nation n sorrow. But, following his | Imwroduction v the world on that fate- 1yl night after thirty-three bours in the sir from New York, lindy has gone $ying on. Back W this coun\ry v re- caive the plaudits of an sdmiring pop- ulsce, Lindy started oft ou & fiying Lour for the promotion of avistion. On thiis trip he sddressed azproximately thirty million recple end brought himself closer v the hearte of hie countrymen Almost immedistely st the conclusion of this expedition he decided 1 fiy from Waskingum o Mexico City. Witk his ususl nonchalance he hopped sbosid | . his trusty Bpint of Bt louis for wenty-seven-hour non-sop Bight. Hie recapion st Mexico City exceeded in enthusiasm any eimiler event. Then on the insistence of various Cenural end Bouth American republics he de- cided o make & tour southwerd Day | morose, and et one time as attempling ‘The fether 1 characterized as by @ay Americs, and for that matter the entre world, follows his progress & be biitnely, but with unerring J)uog- ford 1 ignore neighborhood gossip s u guide v the mental condition of an ac- cusd pervon Insanity Defense Absurdity. The insanity deferse plea in criminal cases reaches & development in the Hickman trial which cerries it 1o the point of shsurdity. Hundreds of pages of affidavits are being read, from rela- Uves and friends and neighbors, setting | 006 0 Josh's command,” sald l'Armeri forth thelr observations end oplnlons | regarding the mental state of the de- | fendant snd nis sncestors The purpose of Course, ik 1o show & strain of mental weesness Tunning through the family climaxing 1 the irresponstbility of the yourhi now on trial for his Iife for sn wtrockous murder. One of the deposi- Uons Qescribes Mickman's grandtather | wa subject v fits, end snother tells that the grandmother was frall, given o ‘The mother tears and “talking foolieh {ol the sccused is pictured as depressed suicide ‘queer " Thiere 4 probably not s femily n the plicit Running and Walking. A candidate remarked, “It's fun In & campaign so swift to run, But true success disdains the talk, And 1s a winner in a walk.” Hero. “Father 15 u hero?" A man who sits up nights searching the encyclopedia for answers to all the | questions asked by his son.” Jud Tunkins says & man who wants | everything his own way 15 going to be | disappointed unless he's & wonderful | pathfinder Authoritative. “Thousands of people render obedi- Corntonsel ‘What is his position?” “He's a radio announcer. And I'll remark he brings ‘em all o attention | when he says ‘Please stand hy!' " | “Me who acquires fortune by low sald HI Ho, the sage of China- [ town, “may find himself obliged W en- \]ny It among Jow assoclations Migh-Power Motoring. Don’t care ‘hout no fancy car, Where snowdrifts make you slip, Bhow me the milk truck jest out thar, As always makes the trip! mesns 1 “De worst enemy” said Unele Eben, is &8 Gld friend Wined sour.* | Walker are frank in expressing the hope | sald the small boy, “what | dent of Cuba and Senora Machado “surprised” our Pirst Lady of the Land “and her husband” with gifts “consist- ing of valuable jewels of platinum and diamonds.” The Heraldo de Cuba, one news and which this observer has seen, adds that “these attentions were highly | appreciated by the President of the United States.” Private letters Americans in Havana alicge that the jewels said to have been bestowed upon Mrs. Coolidge included a diamond ring and a bracelet of platinum and dia- monds. ¥ x ok w “Honour or Dollars" is the striking title of a book, just published in Eng- to the United States. The subtitle is “The New Bondage' The authors are Frederick W. Peabody of Ashburnham. | Mass, well known American advocate of the cancellation of all interallied | war debts: Sisley Huddleston and Fred. erick E. Coe, British writers. A news- lars” is headed, But What America Owes Europe.” Following that ballyhoo—newspaper | slang for “publicity’—is a Qquotation from Shakespeare refding. no wisdom like frankness” An appar- ent citation from the book is to this effect: “The moral conscience of the | world is in protest against the new bondage—the financial bondage of America—and demands in the name of the millions who died and suffered for | freedom an equitable balancing of war burdens, amongst which money has no right to a privileged position and ought to rank far behind human lives. | - % ¥ Washington sees in the United States Chamber of Commerce’s vigorous op= position to the Jones shipping bill an #flort to re-establish tsell 1 the good graces of the White House President | Coolidge smote the big ni ness body hip and thigh at the end of last year for opposing his tax rrdu(‘unl.n' rogram. ‘The chamber st od bravely E, Its guns. but there were some au- thoritles who feared that the White | House attack might M'rluu;I’) affect the rganization’s prestige. The oo 1,579 “organization mem- tlonal trade nssoclations rdividual members * represented by these varlous categories o 863.150 by far the biggest commercial ®ss0- clation of its kind in the worid vk e Two of the three Republic {tors on the subcommittee about to recount the Vare-Wilson bal- Jots were elected to the Senate in the same election which gives rise to the Pennsylvania_contest. November. 1026 Charles W. Waterman of (chahiman) and Frederick Stelwer of Oregon Mr. Waterm | Coolidge campaign manager in Colorado which 18 | | UNITED { IN WORLD WAR Ten Years Axo Today American soldiers in France are now oecupying front line trenches and bear- ing the full brunt of the defense of cer- ain sectors of the line For the first tme the War Department authorizes the statement that American forces are oceupying trenches for other than [ tralning purposes. * * * A German rald on the American sallent in a heavy fog results i the death of (wo Ameri- | cans. four wounded and one mising, | belleved to have been captured by the enemy. Attack was preceded by o ter- o shell fire that cut off ald to an | American listening post until the at- tacking force retired * Americ unners and riflemen are making it ho for Cierman snipers in front of our trenches, * * * Gen Pershing 1 10 deaths In today's casualty list * = ¢ President Wilson urges Henators to check agitation on the war and tells them he is absolutely opposed fo the war esbinet and director of munitions Dills and will accept RO coMpromise, | on the night of January 18, the Presi-| e avana papers, which carried this | from | land, dealing with Europe’s war debt, paper advertisement of “Honour or Dol- | “The Real American | | Debt—Not What Europe Owes Ameri- ational busl- | chamber | The | an Sena- | ‘a"r{\unt for* 750,000 votes. 1In the Brookhart-Steck contest of 1926, It took 60 men six weeks to tabulate only 610 000 ballots. [ S b Ten years ago this month Hog' Is- !1and shipyard was one of the busiest spots on earth. It took a long time 10 get things going right, according to a yarn that just reached this observer, and which is warranted (its narrator avers) to be unpublished history. The Emergency Fleet Corporation found | that hundreds of costly tools were | mysteriously disappearing. A strict ‘I':\h‘h was kept on home-going work- | people. and even searching was resorted to. Pinally the Hog Island authorities were tipped off that valuable mechan- fsm was being ronstantly smuegled out of the yard in Yinner vails. Thereupon the bright idea was hit upon of placing powerful electromagnets where they | would “operate” on dinner pails as they vere lugged past A given point. The | mysterv of the disappearing tools was promptly cleared up. Over at the War and Navy Depart- ments, where they don't like Controller General J. R. McCarl, thev're smiling over a couple of characteristic decisions just handed down by the real watchdog | of the Treasury. One of the cases con: cerns the seizure of a team of horses by an enforcement officer in & raid. He put in a bill for the feed and care of the animals McCarl disallowed it. He de- creed that there's no authority for finaneing the keep of horses subse- quently restored to their owner. The other McCarlism has to do with the | claim of a Forest Service emplove who | lost his horse in “trail” work. The de- | riston reads: “The lving down of the | horse to roll and the falling into the hole | from which it could not extricate itself | was not a proximate result of use of the | horse in ‘fire Aighting. trail or official business’ Such a loss might have hap- ! pened at an absqui Injuria.” . " | What has civil war in China to do | with the price of eggs in the United States? A lot, it appears. Industrious as they are. it's authoritatively said that American hens don't come within 150.- 000,000 doren of laving the eggs re- outred to supply the home market China ordinarily sends us tens of mil- lions of frozen or dried eggs. So our own egg-producers (poultrymen. not hens) look upon the let-up in the ar- rival of Chinese eggs as & blessing in | disquise. Nevertheless and notwith- standing—for some reason that isn't auite clear--American poultrymen are talking about an “Eat More Eggs" cam- palgn, to bring about a larger consump- {tion of their specialty Honvright 1028 ) [ Says Traffic Lights Reduce Accidents he ¢ ot The Star Last Thursday evening I noticed an editorinl in your paper in reference to the trame aigns on Thirteenth street 1 travel on Thirteenth street from Rhode Island avenue to U street from four to six times every day, except Sun- duy. and I have noticed more accidents L onthat street between these two points than on any other four streets in the | city and 1 think 1 have traveled in an | automobile as much as, if not more than the average person who drives an automoblle Most of my autoing in the rest of the city covers streels between Ninth street, Connecticut avenue, Flori- da avenue and Pennsylvania - avenue northwest, and taking all these streets into conslderation 1 have seen half as many accidents on Thirteenth street as | 1 hiave seen on all the others combined | We have elght auto vans and seven | automabiles 1 our business and we have | had less accidents and less loss of money as & result since these lighta were installed and if there were more we would be better pleased. All of our vans and automobiles are covered by Iiability insurance. The chances are that those who Kick about these signs are (hose who do not carry Hability in- surance OLARENDON SMITH, President, Bmith's Transfer & Stor- age Co, Senator Willis, who is an avowed can- | place of the collar, cuff and shirt indus- didate for the presidential nomination. | try, was practically the home. and for puts Mr. Hoover on the stand, he him- | many years the center, of the steam self may be called upon to take a posi- | jaundry interests of the country. The tion in the matter. He has hitherto ' name has been used by hundreds of prided himself on his support of the|laundrics in various parts of the United Coolidge administration. Yet he mmn|sum and is even seen abroad. from a State which is interested greatly | iy in flood control. If Mr. Willis does not | Q. Does the Government operate the insist uj having Mr. Hoover mm?"hA m_:_l; service?—J. 12‘ n.‘u before committce, however, some of | e operation airplanes the other members of the committee. | carrying mail s now conducted by pri- e e either Democrat or Rc;:u..\‘::hun.d afi | vate companies under contract. | roduc follow up the matter. and deman e oeh aninuitation be extended to the| Q. What are the animal substances | Secretary. used in perfumery, and from what ani- - e | mals are they secured>—N. A. R. | A. The animal substances generally Announcement by Clarence F. Buck, used in a diluted form to fix the volatile ""“mmmutr of 'x?'v. Lowdetr; flfi'w‘“p{‘;: |oils and secure lasting scents are am- it sident.” that nomination = paj i bergris, castor, musk and civet. Am- ‘What is cane ;-4 T P e Py e Ll Kot o Sapilrec ' i vl e St den Saturday, brings the candidacy Of 'y secretion of the beaver: musk from uct develaped by the United = the former Governor of Iilinois more |5 small species of deer: civet. which re- | Bureau of C! . It is & drown There have ' cembles musk. from the civet cat or thick cream. tasting somewhat like mo- muskrat. lasses and Canadian maple cream. counsel In America for Soviet Russis Q. Who was Mendel>—T. W. D. A. Gregor Mendel. who gave w0 ence the laws of heredity | clety of Brunn. but received no recog- jnition. In all he grew and studied 110,000 plants. performing nearly 3% | cross-fertilizations. i = s | definitely into the open been reports recently from Chicago that a truce between Mr. Lowden and his, | old-time enemies. Mayor Willlam Hale | Thompson and Gov. Len Small muml be agreed upon, so that Mr. Lowden might have the delegation from Illinois. | Undoubtedly if this proved to be the case, Mr. Lowden's chances for the | nomination would be greatly enhanced. | One of his principal difficulties has| Jingoism Roundly Condemned In Discussion of Navy Plans time and is damnum | been with the Illinois situation. The fact that he might not have even a majority of the State delegation. his own State. has been held up against | him. ~ Until recently Thompson breathed death and deflance to Mr. Lowden, their enmity running back to the days of the World War. But poli- |ties in Tllinois is strange and mar- | velous, and final alignments cannot al- ways be predicted far in advance. - health for months, has announced he self. As chalrman of the subcommittee Mr. Anthony has been a prominent figure in the legislation for national de- fense, Already a crop of candidates to succeed himself has appeared Among the candidates are J. J. Banks of Atchi- son, Wilbur Hawk of Atchison. Ewing Lambertson of Fairview ..o Pennsylvania has a definite nouncement from Senator David A Reed that he will seek renomination to the Senate. It is no surprise that the active Senator from the Keystone State will enter the race. Senator Reed has been a foremost supporter of the ad- mission to the Senate of Senator-elect Vare. In his formal announcement of candidacy for the Senate. he gave at- tention to this fssue, declaring that he would fight on to the end for the right of Mr. Vare to be seated in the Senate ek ‘The Democrats are to have an even 1,100 delegates in the national conven- tion which is to convene in Houston, Tex., June 26 This s two more than in 1924, owing to the addition of the Virgin Islands delegates, two In num- ber authorized by the national com- mittee. For a nomtnation, twosthirds of the delegates VOUNG ATe NEcessary, or 134 A nomination can bs blocked by 367 delegate: B An Industrial Note. From the New York Heraid Tiitune CAN't see how there can be much unemployment in this country when so many people are neaded to play in dance orchestras é c-oe More Than a Mateh, From the Hostan Trans it The statement that pedeatrians of “the alert age' are frequently victima n motor accidents goes to show that the rushing filvver ia more than & maich for nimble youth v -oeo Ought to Get More. It was the late lamented Josh Bill ngs, the humorist, who declared: hav Aggered onto it and find that clvilizashun kosts about 90 centa on the dollar® Y has | Representatiye Dan R. Anthony. Jr.| of Kansas, for many years & member | Britain and those of this COUNIIY.” sug- Washington soon Of the House, but who has been in fll | gests the Baltimore Sun. “honors seem ment with Herbert of Hiawatha and William P. an- | A | naval program. Great Britain or any | Jingoism in dealing with expenditures | for the Navy is roundly condemned by the press in fits discussion of & recen: committee hearing at | which a na officer suggested the pos- sibility of war between the United ! States and Great Britain. Such talk i | congressional called nonsense by most of the editors, and some think that Senator Borah. who protested against it, was unduly exercised. “Between the war lords of Great to be about even. The former appea” making a fallure of the three-power | dering the margin of common sense given them by RBritish stupidity last | Summer. If the British navalists knifed {the conference, ours must be given | eredit for coming rapidly froz: behind {to attain the same point of view.” The Albany Evening News declares that while “talk about such a war is;| {absurd,” it is true that, “if America should go ahead with a billlon-doliar other nation naturally would feel it in cumbent to engage in naval building t00. Let us have a reasonable naval | | building program * this paper advises {va strong and adequate Navv. dut no | billion-dollar plan. And let there be no | | war talk." | | _The Flint Daily Journal expresses ! the opinion that “the public can only ! view the clashing opinions with aston- /ishment, and reserve judgment watil| | more facts are brought out. It seems | impassidle.” continues that paper. “that | A war could have been framea in the | time that has elapsed stnce the Geneva | conference, vet the real efforts of the big-Navy men date from that event | | 1t seems strangely inconsistent that Navy Department which has deen oon | tent heretafore to let things drift alons | indifferently should within & tew weeks sense the need far making the United | States Navy the greatest tn the world’ | LRI | Remarking that “Senator Barah ‘s Always an extremist.” the San Fran- cisco Bulletin argues that “the state- ments of naval officers are not the roclamations of the United States overnment, but the Qovernment should take note of the indiscretions | af Such oMoers. 1t s natural for Nw | people to urge the cause of hew con- | struetion” the Bulletin adds. “dut thes | | should be careful (o avald what Senatw Rorah calls the ‘sheer madness’ of mis- ohievous declarations ™ The Ashevit Times savs of the naval afficer chiefly mvalved 1 the Senators protest: “Con- fronted by the emergency of war. (his country would be dependent upan the leadership of Rear Admural Plunkett and men lke him i the Army and Navy. In time of peace, Rear Admiral Plunkett demonstrates his unfitness as a counselor an the great problems of { war and peace.* Moanwhile, ty the midst of all the fuiry,” observey the New York Tunes | “it is pleasant to observe that ish sdmiralty, lke a well person. goes " ter. In addi one 10,000 program. it pow announces cellation of two mere erui course, some of our naval fan see in this attitude a fresh ir 1 is 0 be hoped that the ad: tion will regard it as a stini of a moderate naval policy ought to de in agree- _ A que: will not be a candidate to succeed him- | to have been more instrumental i sented dy the New of the committee on appropriations in | naval conference at Geneva. But our tald Congress that charge of the Army appropriation bills | big-Navy men are now rapidly surred- | passed and our defe: adequate r supported has happened us so close to A pan . w o “Senatar Bora buted & nies them. the British likely and Grea: Brit Worcester Eve have lad him into administration naval program which he might find hard to Justify. Hs remaris abou? ‘sheer madness.’ mad o people who may ‘sucveed i dringing o war seem unduly harsh language o direct At responsiNe Officials. decause & Persans may de presun od out of turn When tives. President Cowly called the arms conference &t Geneva. Nas as much right 10 ave Mus evident dewire world peace recognized as has the Senator from Idaho ™ With the asumption couniries are aware of t frresponad o have talk- omes 1 me- tey Are not going o purses with Us™ and that paper fnues: “We are going w0 have o same ships, It will Ie necessary 1o spend some money. which wil that national —expen e { higher than they Rave deen these laat | three years Bui we are not gomg spend any three dillon dallars m ihe Next N vears I order WO asser oSt masaive squAdOn &f warh sall the seas Senator Roran necessarily alarmed “Naval replacement and sire g savs ¢ Syracuse Herakl moderate degree. commensurate W the neads of our natioaal servive and mternational comumerve, Will B douds receive the roper attentan i Con ress. But i the present posture af PeAce-lVing Amerioan sentsmens, 1he anal amdition of our naval ex- 148 CUTTent exagEerAed mani- tations, 5 ROt Hkely 0 odtam much encouragement fram the Natiay law- makera® The Herald als notes that “Admiral Punketts iladvised address I New York ns{“m Provakad aa afttial disolatmer 3 aplied rebuke from Preaident Coalidge.