Evening Star Newspaper, February 2, 1928, Page 8

1 THE EVENING STAR With Sunday Morning Edition. - WASHINCTON, D. C. THURSDAY....February 2, 1928 THEODORZ W. N)YES....Editor The Evening Star Newspaper Company Business Offce 11h St and Pennavivania Ave Kew York Office 110 East ml St Chicago Office: Tower Building s Furopean Office 14 Reent St.. London. Eng'and in the City. | 45¢ per month | Rate by Carrier Wi ®he Evemng Star .. 4 Sunday Star | ] "~ 60e per mont's unday Star ) 630 per mont | The Sundav Ster e perocons | Coller tion ma‘e at the end af each month | by mail or telephone. | way headguarters. But eventually the former will probably be matched by A generally corresponding bullding to the east. In this connection it is desirable to note again the need of early action to the end of the creation of a municipal center on the site which has been ten- tatively chosen for that purpose on the | north side of Pennsylvania avenue be-! tween Third and Seventh streets. The | requisition for funds to buy the South- eorn Rallway Bullding is a step in an ordered program. The municipal cen- ter provision should be another step. taken as carly as possible, to give full | time for the development of plans and | their execution in season to prevent | any confusion or dislocations when the time comes for the Government to take over the present District Building. Mail—Payable in Advance. | which, it is evidently designed, will be ryland and Virginia, | done in A few years. Kol nge S — oo = <5000 T m $3900 1 mo.. 25 Effect of the Baumes Laws. | Figures just compiled by the police " | commissioner of New York City relative 3¢ | to crime in the metropolis in 1927 con- Rate b{ Ma Daily and Sunda: Daily only ... Sunday only .. . All Other States and Canada. 'y and Tar, $12 0001 mo . $1.0 1yr Paily only s - Sunday only . 13rl $400:Tmal Member of the Assoclated Press. The Assoristed Pess is maclusively entitles 0 the use for repubhication of a e | » ©f special dispa! —_——— Too Far Behind. With Admiral Jones on the stand yes- | terday before the Hous: naval com- <titute unmistakable cvidencs of ‘he ef- ficacy of the Baumes laws, which were operative throughout the vear. Murders of citizens resulting from robperies de- THE EVENING It reveals a purpose to conduct a cam- valgn which is aimed definitely at the Smith candidacy. Its first effect will probably be to evoke rejoinder, not from Gov. Smith in person, but from his friends. It assuredly for the pres- ent puts the Smith boom on the de- fensive. e Hughie Jennings. Comparatively few of the base ball devotees of today remember Hughie Jennings, who has just died at Scran- ton. Fa. as a player. They bear him in mind chicfly as & dynamic figure on the coaching lincs, alert, cnergetic, vocal. grass-plucking and pleturesque. But Jennings in his day was a wonder- ful player. At the peak of his active carcer on the diamond he was one of the most brilliant performers the game has known. As shortstop of the old Baltimore Orfoles he set a pace not only for his own team, but for all or- ganized base ball. Few performers at that station have ever cqualed his capacity for judging the bounding ball, for making apparently impossible stops and for throwing accurately and swiftly. It used to be said of him that he played the whole infield. Perhaps the McAdoo statement at Richmond. it was the tremendous vigor that he put into his piay that caused his early passing from the active scene. It will be remembered vividly and with lasting regret that he developed what was then ereased 58 per cent. as compared with 1925. Murders of police decreased 44 per cent. Murder and mansloughter 23308 during the year totaled pared with 287 the year previous. sault and robhery cases totaled 951, in first known as the “glass arm.” Some- thing happened to Jennings' muscles STAR. WASHINGTON, D. €. THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 2, 1928 THIS AND THAT BY CHARL He looked like Emerson. He had the manner of a “big man" although hc wore the uniform and cap of a delivery ¥, He came into the house with the arti- cle, placed it carefully on the floor and started to go out the door to the wagon “Pieasant day,” he remarked casually yet with evident interest. He did not remove his hat and no one expected him to, or even thought that he ought to, there was something sc genuinely decent in his manner. Meost men doing his work would have hurriedly left, probably without having saild a word, but this man was different He had a keenly cut face and bright. interested looking eyes. Tt was not what he said, or what he did. that made him E. TRACEWELL. decipher character from appearance, with more or lsss success, but none of them has been certain, for the very good reason that “you cannot tell a man by looking at him.” This is the salvation of the Caspar Milquetoasts of this world, whom one of our best cartoonists has created out of our common human nature to repre- sent “The Timid Soul.” ‘There is probably more genuine hu- man nature in this character, some of us believe, than in any other of those queer people known in millions of | homes—the mea and viomen of the | “comie stri) Here is a little, fnoffensive man who | represents a scctional drawing, as it were, of modern American life, the thousand and one types who go to make up office workers and others whose beauty is not skin deep. They succeed because they produce. “Beauty is as beauty does” has strange application in thousands of successful firms throughout the United | States. For every man who is the mir- unusual, but the very atmosphere of the fellow. He looked surprisingly like pictures of Ralph Waldo Emerson. There wa: something in the lines of chin and nosc that smacked of the great American sage His head was held well aloft. while his dark eyes looked directly at one. Cer- tainly there is something captivating about the steady. direct glance, whether from man or animal. Probably one of the most appreciated traits in some dogs and cats is their ability to look at one unwaveringly. a: if listening to what is being said tc] them. Friends of such creatures know tha‘ | the least one expects of them is tha' | I thev will renly, some dav. in nerfec | ror of fashicn, there will be 10 of these | harmless little fellows, and they will | usually do more work, and better work, | than a, team 10 times the other fellow could turn out. For cvery employe who looks as if he might some day be a bank vice presi- dent there are a dozen or more of |these somewhat carcless workers who eserve their neatness for their daily | labors, and who think more of putting | the right erease in their employer's ac- Denies Washington Lived in Stafford To the Editor of The Star: May one correct in your columns onc of the statements made in The Sun- day Star of January 15, 1928, fifth page, column eight, wherein it is asserted that “Augustine Washington, the father of the first President, first bought land in Stafford County in 1722 and lived there several years with his first wife, Jane Butler, and their three children. She died In 1729 and on March 6. 1730, he marricd Mary Ball and re- moved to Wakefield"? The officlal public records of the counties of Wesimorcland, Prince Wil- lam and King George, all of which | have been examined exhaustively by | the undersigned, prove that the said Augustine Washington never was a resi- dent within the county of Stafford as j constituted during his lifetime. | During the period 1720-1735 he is of | continuous official record as a legal | resident in, and a public officer of, the | county of Westmorcland: and during the perfod of 1735 to 1738 he is of con- tinuous official record as a legal resi- dent and a public officer in the county of Prince Willlam. Under the statutes | then in force of the Colony and Domin- ion of Virginia, Augustine Washington could not then have been a legal resi- | dent elsewhere than within the two! | last-named counties. i The lands of official public record that Augustine Washington owned in| | ANSWERS TO QUESTIONS BY FREDERIC J. HASKIN. Any reader can get the answer to|feet before drowning: Ostrich, rabbit, any question by writing The Ev:nlnglmonm, ape, baboon, bat, momzick, Star Information Bureau, Prederic J.|ring-tailed monkey, hen, peacock, pig, eag! condor, owl and parrot. Haskin, Director, Washington, This offer applies strictly to informa- tion. The bureau cannot give advice {on legal, medical and financial matters. It does not attempt to settle domestic | troubles, nor undertake exhaustive re- | scarch on any subject. Write question plainly and briefly. Give name and address and inclose 2 cents in stamps for return tage. piy is sent direct to the .nquirer. dress The Evening-8Star Information | Bureau, Prm‘;flc J. Haskin, Director, | Washinzton, D. C. | Q. What States ship the most straw- berries?>—M. L. C. A. In 1926 the ten largest strawberry hipping points were as follows: Loui- slana. 2,342 cars: Missour), 1434 car: Maryland, 1,394 cars: Arkansas, 1295 cars; Virginia, 1,291 cars; North Caro- lina. 1,252 cars; Tennessee, 1253 cars; Kentucky, 581 cars; Delaware, 671 cars; Alabama, 440 car: Q. How should linoleum be cared for in ‘order to get the most wear from ?—T. B. | A. Linoleum is widely used, espectally | on kitchen and pantry floors, and seems | to give general satisfaction. In order | sorvice from it, it must your | better known perhaps sen? hen, rooster, guinea le, buzzard, hawk, ed the badge of the Q. Who design Order of the Cincinnati? -K. A. R. A. It was designed by Maj. L'’Enfant, for his share in full | planning the city of Washington. w much is the yen worth? The Q. Ho N. J A. The Japanese yen is worth about 50 cents. The yen is equal to 100 sem. Q. Where is the finest musk obtained and why is it used as a base for per~ | fumery?—A. B. A. A. The finest musk is obtained from | the body of a deer which attains only | the size of a small zoat and lives on the | highest ranges of the Himalayas. i Musk has the property of imparting | permanence to even very volatile odors. Q. Where is Antioch College?>—F. P. D. Ohh' It is located at Yellow Springs, 0. Q. Wh}:flwu wpuhmxm’s first im- A. At the age of 16 Lord Pairfax coni- missioned him to survey his estate. It took about five weeks and was Wash- the County of Staiford were (1) a tract |to get the bes on Accokeek Creek connected with iron | be laid over a smooth floor in such a works, 10 miles north of Fredericks- way that it does not buckle and should burg, and (2) a tract at Decp Run, | b2 cleaned with a damp cloth wrung \ericksburg, upon neither of which did | kalies, strong soap or the use of | he establish his residence. The asser- | t e e much water will ruin linoleum. about 8 miles west-northwest of Fred- out of suds made with mild soap. Al-| English. to the homely bland:shment: expended upon them. ‘? counts than they do in their own pants. tion (page 5, column 2) that “George Washington spent a greater part of his Q Do race horses make better time | ington’s first real job. ! Q. Where is the northernmest point |in the United States’—E. C. H. A. The northernmost point in the United States is the Lake of the Woods, | Minnesota projection, whe:h extends to | latitude 49° 23’ 04.5" comparison with 1173 There was a | * % % % mittee he was asked by Representative | e Q. How large are the Vatican McClintock, Democrat of Oklahoma: | “Do you see anv situation with re- svect to world conditions that makes! ssary for us to build up the To which Admiral Jones replied: 4 “If we do not (Ruild up the Navy). we will find oursslves just that much fur- ther behind the procession. Most of the building provided in this program wi not be laid down before 1931, and work could easily be stopped on it.” In a few words Admiral Jones (hus! el explains the whole story of why we | should build up the Navy. We are too far behind the procession. There is nothing sinister, nothing threatening. | in a determination to catch up. The | catching-up process has been delayed 100 long. It is mot that the delay has| brought us into imminent danger of war $0 that there must be frantic efforts| to make up for lost time. It is that | the delay has brought absut a com-| Whmw»—"w:xnmt-‘ ting along well with the rest of the| world. Why do we need such a Navy?” The present Navy program represents ' to acquire a “big Navy.” It s replacement program to! mlnldequalevy.Hndtewm-] our building program begun in 1916; had we adopted and followedl | policy of consistent replacement and | possible enlargement from year to year. there would be no “big Navy” program confronting us today. The present pro- | gram is an accumulation of old needs. | ‘dn light robberies. decrease of 69 per cent in hold-ups, in. volving moers than $10.000. and 52 per cent in those between $1.000 and $10,- 000. Pay roll hold-ups decreasec St | per cent. In only one class of erimes | was there an casc. burglaries ad- vancing from 3, in I to 3.380 in | 1927. and this increase of nine was at- | uted to sneak thieves engaged in The Baumes laws, which were en- ccted about eighteen months ago, con- stituting a new criminal code for the State of New York, increased the penal- ties for various classes of crimes. and especially for repzated breaches of the law. They somewhat simplified the procedure in the trial of such cassand made evasion of penalties more dificult than before. At first the criminal classes did not take the new enactinent s but they soon learned that the new l2ws had “ieeth” in them, and. | after a few sentences of life imprison- ment for third offenses were imposed. it became evident to the chronic crim- inals that it was dangerous to continue | the practice of lawlessness as a means of making & living. ,and suddenly the “whip” that shot the ball across the diamond failed. He could barely lob the sphere over the short distance from his regular station to first base. It was then that he turned to the managerial side of the game, and in that work he shone with even greater brilliancy than as a player. He was a natural maneger. He got the best out of his men, kept them in good spirits: infused them with the determin: tion to win, overcame their slumps, kept them fighting until the last man was out in the final inning. He made the Detroit team. which he managed for fourteen years, the terror of all con- tenders, for no one knew at what mo- ment the apparently defeated Tigers would turn and rout their opponents lines he was a masier of strategy. He added greatly to the picturesqueness of the game and there was the deepest regret when his failing heaith caused him to withdraw even from that posi- tion. Jennings was always a clean, square player. He was a credit to the game, an inspiration to young players to lead wholesome lives and to give their bost to their teams Base ball There is need of further reform. The | agents of professional lawbreakers court procedure remains too complex and offers dangerous opportunities for delay and evasion. Bhorter cuts w0 justice are required. The “fence” problem has not been solved. Th> evi! of professional bondsmen who work in | collusion with crime directors through | attorneys who are no less than the legal 1 owes him much and his memory will remain green as long as the game is played in America. ——————— The, budget system shows that econ- omy as well as manufacture may be tion of waste represents a high eco- nomic achievement. in 8 dash to victory. On the coaching | |adjusted to the modern tendency to | standardization. A methodical elimina- | Our delivery man who looked like Emerson has been held in remembrance ever since Christmas time. We could not forget him if we would, for we jotted down a note in our book about him. and here he is right in the middle of the page at last, maybe for some one else to recognize. Supnose he should recognize his own portrait! We have had s2veral persons identify themselves here who had no right to do so at all, so it would not be strange if one actually written about should reccgnize himself now and then! ‘We fell to wondering about this chap and imagined that if we had been "in charge of personnel” in his firm we would have perceived a superior ability in him and have gone out of our way to promote him. One can never tell about a man “on looks,” as it is called—but it does make | There can be no knows some forward to strike a good impression gainsaying that. Every onc man or other who has gone solely on account of his ability tha eye of others. On' the other hawd, he also knows undoubtedly, half a dozen who do not| | One could not say, therefore, that the man who looked like Emerson would be able to fill an executive position, or com- mand a sales force, or really be what one thirks that he might be. There are so many quirks to human chatacter that they render all effort at analysis futile. and so many unexpectec angles cropping up at the least unex- pected times that it is impossible to | make snap judgments. | Traits that lie hidden from view might jump to the surface, once the opportu- nity were given, which at present do not seem to exist. Some men, for instance, are unable to stand power. | Hitherto they have made a fine im- ‘pres&ltm, but once placed in authority they hasten to destroy the picture of | themselves which they have built up With opportunity comes the chance i to display one's sclf in a true light anc | this is sometimes taken advantage of in | such an unexpected fashion that even | the most ardent booster of the man i | willing to admit that a mistake was | made. { Misplaced individuals, in all lines of i InStafford” is. technically, a_misstate- ment, for public official rccords of King George County prove that he never |lived "in Stafford County. | Augustine resided in King George iCounty on the 280-acre part of tho | estate previously of William Strother, | | decegsed. and in the eight-room “man- |sion™ thereon, from 1739 to his death early in 1743. George's mothor resided in that same Strother mansion from {1739 to nearly or about 1748, and thereafter, to nearly or about 1772, on her farm. called “Little Falls,” on the Rappahannock, about 2 miles below His father | boyhood on the farm across the river |0 3 ""f,“l‘E" g“k or on a straight- | |away>—W. E. D. A. Race horses make better time on | (oval or circular tracks. | Q. Do men wear evening dress at dinner time on ocean liners>—C. F. A On Atiantic liners men wear tuxedos or full dress clothes at dinner time. The custom is not followed so rigidly on Pacific liners. | @ Who invented margarin as a sub- istitute for butter’—P. R. A. Napoleon II offered a prize in 1869 for something which would be cheaper than butter. keep better and be and how large the Vatican?>—$. D. A. The area of the Vatican gardens is 50 acres. The palace covers about | 13 acres and contains 1,100 rooms. | i ~ Q. What is a geophcne?—H. F. A. A geophone is a very sensitive sort of microphone for listening to sounds under the earth’s surface. | Q. Please tell how an Atlantic cable ic made—R. 8. A. The Western Union says that an }Alhn!lc cable consists of a central cop- | per wire which carries the electric cur- | Fredericksburg. at or near where there | less liable to become rancid. Hippolyte rent. Arol woun 4 t o le to 3 yte | rent. und this are d flexible were, at one period, ferries—one lrom"M»ge developed a _method of mz‘;)n&u-!mvper tapes. which in case cf a break her said land across to Johnston's, and ! ture of an oleo-oil product which won|‘n the wire would carry the current the other across to Spotswood's, both southern landings being in Spotsy nnh‘ County: the latter of these ferries being | rrlqrrod to in one of George Washing- | ton's letters flf{1719, and both of wht h‘i were separate from the ferry at Fred- ericksburg. = Fred There ‘is no evidence that either | George Washington or his parents ever | lived in thes small cottage that stood { endeavor, are the result, in many cases | o poank of the Rappahannack op- | | in_spite of their appearance. possess any such power, but have made | their way to some measure of success | Of huphazard sclections made upon the l‘mus c;& -ppcyg-nufi College fraterni- Not every one can have the magic | !ics often show the result of hasty = ) o .| “spiking” with men who turn out tc oare Swith qusllies. which imstanty | be anyUBing but a credit to themselves = = - - | their chapter or their college. win over to their side most persons v\ho1 These are but sad nstances of judg come into contact with them. ! ment gone wrong. Often enough the posite Fredericksburg, pictures of which | are being circulated. The only definite | evidence as to by whom, when and| where George Washington was educated | that the undersigned has been able to| find is that possessed by the living | descendants of George Washington's | { brothers. ie., that he was taught by, the prize. Q. < canned fish contain indine? I A F A. Canned fish, like fresh fish, con- tains fmorv iodine than any other com- mon p Q. When was the first Christian church built?-—-M. S. A. There is some difference of opin- ion as to what year the first Christian church was actually built. Many his- torians are of the opinion that the first church to be actually built was at Antioch, probably about AD. 50. | Q. Who was the first victim of the| airplane”—R. G | A. As far as we have been able to ! around the gap. This is wrapped with !a permalloy tape whose magnetic quali- | ties give the cable its great speed. This | metallic part of the cable is first in- rlosed in a thick covering of gutta- percha, which holds the currents to | their path. Around this is a wrapping of jute. which cushions the pressure of |several miles of sea water. Eighteen steel armor wires surround the cushion and protect the cable from injury. The whole is inrased in an outer coating or wrapping of tarred hemp cords. ©. Where was alfalfa first cultivated? —A. B. A. Historical accounts indicate that alfelfa was first cultivated in Persia 2nd that the Persians took it with them * These Jucky persons do not have to “man with the looks” has the abilty, Mr. Williams of Westmoreland, and by | ascertain, the first death ceused by | against inimical opinions of others, but | others must put forth to overcome op- cxpend half their energy ASHUNg| o, ang'is able to show the world, oncc | he is given the chance, that his keen path of their objsctive. | fratures and sagacious eyes mean some- Yet, everything else being equal, they | ¢ lose something. too, for the vim which | are able to put all their drive into the ing. To look like Emerson is one thing. tc think like him is another. Yet a bold and fearless brow is something all in {t- self and blessed is the man who has it To him is given the opportunity to be 2 man, whether he delivers packages or position builds up in them a certain rugzed strength which stands them in good stead later on, and which makes an app~al to the experienced eye. Thus in their turn they come to have an fights in the squared circle, or directs his own father, who had received a classical education in England. end it is quite logical that, as the Association of Predericksburg states. George Washington received instruction from “Master Hobby of Falmou (then in King George County) and from “Parson Marye at FPredericks- burg,” as the boy easily could have datly. for a season or more, ridden a horse to these schools and back to his father's |a av airplane in the history of American tion was that of Lieut Seifridge. ting from American Air Service: it i t accident: the atler | blade broke when the mflth.lr‘.eprlo‘g; at a2 height of about 75 feet. ths plane careened. glided 35 feet and then rhcdgn;w;rd to the ground, killing t eifridge Wright | and injuring Orville ' when they invaded Greece about 490 BC. to provide forage for the horses and cattle of their armies. It was ao- sarently introduced into Italy during the first century and into Spain during the Moorish invasion in the eighth century. The Spaniards took alfalfa to South America and Mexico in the sixteenth rentiry and doubtless to California and tha Southwest during their first expedi- tions. Q. How many lieutenant are generals there in the Army at present’—G. E. B. A. There is none. It represents few new needs. In his message at the meeting of the the destinles of a nation. Of such i R the kinzdom of Lindbergh and Tunney —and maybe our fellow who looked like been many attempts to ' Emerson. g “mansion_house.” then located in Kinz | George County quite some distan eastward from Fredericksburg. It cqually probable that George received | cy Q. Where t! oldest house in ce | Maryland M. | Cross Manor, south of St. Marvs is s2id to be the oldest house in i still to be abated. Efforis to reach ¢ i advantage. | solution of these problems arc now be- B t riti that It 15 admitted by suthoritics that{ o g | i | I i 3iF f § - ; ; i 5 § | : I E% s cloud where he can hide away from The First Triangle Purchase. A specific request by the President for an sppropristion of $2,680,000 for the scquisition of square 256, now oc- eupled by the Bouthern Rallway offices, is the first definite move under the program of Mall-Avenue public bufld- ing site purchase. The act of Congress recently passed suthorizing an appro- pristion of $25,000,000 for this purpose 1s the basis for this present requisition A yesr msy elapse before the Govern- ment takes title w0 the property, as- suming that the appropriation is made. This period is requisite U enable the Bouthern Rallway v make its own pians for its future housing, here or in soother city. The hope is, of course that the corporstion wiil' remain n ‘Washington, where its large force of employes 15 Gomicied The present understanding s that the company prefers to tetaln 16 hesdquarters at the Capital, huth for the sake of the personnel, & large percentsge of whom are home owners here, and alw for the sake of the cloge contect v the Interstate Commerce Commission 1t appeers W be the present intention of the Public Bulldings Commissiof which s Girecting the work of oomn- struction in execution of the grewt pro- grem of Federsl housing, v uttiize the Bouthern Raliwsy Bullding as an over- flow secommotation tor wome of the Government offices that ere forced W swait the new constructions n the Mali-Avenue Uriangle Thus the bulld . | proportions, Mr. ing made in further studies by commit- tees of the Legislature at Albany, and new cnactments ‘are likely to be made at the present session. Other States than New York are watching the course of events in that jurisdiction, and moves toward the en- | actment of similar statutes are being made. The snnual report of the police commissioner, showing a marked de- crease in crime, will grestly sttmulaie these endeavors. — et ‘The treasures of Turkish palaces are offered for sale. The Mohammedan ladies dropped their veils, became civi- lzed and are learning to admire them- selves in department store jewelry al- most as much as in resplendent pat- terns made up of priceless gems. ———emene. It is evident that a tax reduction is impractical when carried to a degree | that threatens to leave the United | | States Treasury conspicuously in re-| | duced circumstances. ‘The style of high-power motor most appreciated recently has been attached % a snow plow. McAdoo Fires a Dry Gun. Although William G. McAdoo has in effect quit the presidential race he re- mains a considerable factor in the | Democratic political equation. Having abjured the candidacy he takes the | stump against the nomination by his party of any man who is hostile to prohibition. In a speech at Richmond last night, his first public utterance on the subject since the SBmith boom for |the nomination assumed its present McAdoo specifically contradicted some of the recent state- ments of his Madison Square Garden competitor and declared to be an ab- | surdity any expectation of prohibition | enforcement from a President hostile {10 the eighteenth amendment. It is evident from this statement | that the Democratic drys will not yield | thetr views regarding prohibition for {the sake of party harmony at the! |Houston convention. Plainly it is Mr. | McAdou's purpose to conduct & cam- | paign for the adoption of a dry plank, | or at least an enforcement plank. There [1s 1o present indication that they will | succeed in ether direction. 1f, as ap- | pears now W be probable, Gov. Bmith is nominated &t Houston the party will | presumably frame s platform upon [the busts of his annual address W the New York legislature, a large part of which wag devoted W this question It ma; oe significant that Mr. Me- Adoos y enlng gun In the dry fght was firew 8t Richmond. Does this pre- sage that the Bouth will be the scene of the most sctive effort 1o secure the | election of delegates W the convention | who are commited W & dry plank? | The Bouth 1 Wday regirded us dry (sres politically. But 1t has no such vew power” i the matter of platform "w:mvm ®e it 18 supposed 1 bave In respect v the selection of & candidate, |undu the two-thirds rule. There is no present talk of shrogsting thet rule and the expectetion now s that it will not e stlacked, but that the nomina- | on of Goyv, Bmith, 11 he should show spproximately 8 majority strength st | | good fiyers are hard to find. All the more reason ior not taking so many chances, after one is discovered, on los- ing him. RS A slip of a “spokesman’s” tongue is seized upon as a clue to certain presi- dential preferences. The implication of the inadgertent may be more depend- able than that of the considered word. - veo — SHOOTING STARS. BY PHILANDER JOHNSON, Urban Advantage. In the city, snug and warm, There's a pleasure in the storm. Snowflakes flying here and there— But the radiator's there. In the country—cheerless cold. Men must meet it, ever bold; Yet we're longing to repeat, “Janitor, send up that heat!” Polite Politics. “Statesmen should not public.” “No,” said Senator Sorghum. “The science of polite politics is to hold it to the terms of a gentlemen’'s disagree- ment.” quarrel in Undercurrent of Thought. “I will not be a candidate, He said in accents strong. And in a whisper, friends relate, He said, “I hope I'm wrong.” Jud Tunkins sald he appealed to his his Congressman sald was that a lot of farms ought to be relieved from bum farmers. Deference to Opinion. “Your constituents want t know whether you are wet or dry.” “I'm waiting,” said Senator Sorghum, “to find out exactly how the majority of my constituents stand in the mat- ter.” “It {5 dangerous to assail graft,” said Hi Ho, the sage of Chinatown. “He who has a good graft speedily becomes the giver of gifts." Orpheus. ‘The old bandwagon 5 no more. It i» the public pleasure ‘To get out on the dancing floor And tread s jazzy measure, The overwhelming candidate May yet be one who gayly Cun come where people congregate and plunk a utulele. “Never tell all you knows” sald Uncle Eben, “unless you take de trouble beforehand W make sure you really knows 1" Not the Real Musical Star, From the i Bl 11 you can understand every word the soprano is singing, she isn't a grand Opera star v Road Crossing a Mystery. From the New Yok Hervald Tooune Nowsdays it Lsn't why & en crovses the roud, but how does & chicken croms the rosd? vos Hard Line 10 Draw, the Ohio Blate Journal The hurdest Uing of wll, often, i ‘o ing iteelf will probebly sland for sev-|the convention, will be acceded o by | tell wihere the commendsblc optimisim eral years. Wihen 1o longer needed for emergency uss, 1t will doubtlese he replaced by ® slructure hermonizing with those that ere cresied in execu- tion of the gicat plan Thus there will Le 1o Immediats chenge in the pree- ent mepect of the 150 squeres oceupled by the Disuict Bulding end the rail- |the Bouth rather than precipitewc nght o the rule. ‘There may be sira- tegic matier in Liaks SIWton I respect w e writng of the platform, and speculation on thal score in. the Jight of \his Jatest move by the chief Dem cratic dry proponent gains force Abeie 1 o mistakig the terms of | beging v .o orks All Right Here, [ Foom e Phtadeivhig 1 | New York 1s experimenting with the |stagger plan 1o do away with some of [ Congressman for farm relief, and all| ieaves off and the unmigated idiocy | BACKGROUND OF EVENTS BY PAUL } Heinrich Heine said, “When I read history and_am impressed with any great deed, I feel as though 1 should like to see the woman who is concealed behind it.” The Prench decree, in such a case, “Cherchez la femme Now there is in progress in Conti- nental Hall of the D. A. R. the most patriotic of loyal conferences, and while even men are patriotic to a de- gree, it is interesting and inspiring to follow both the German and the French lan: Seek the women concealed (?) ehind it. There are 36 organizations of patriotic women participating, and while mere men—generals, cabinet offi- cials and Senators—are honored with laces on the to address the feminine audience (thanks to Mrs. Mary Logan Tucker, chairman of the program committee), the proceedings are controlled by Mrs. Alfred J. Bros- seau, president general of the Daugh- ters of the American Revolution. with the support of three dozen varieties of “Daughters”—all 100 per cent patrl- | otic. e COLLINS. | worth knowing) he cited a Baconian verse, as follows: “Ye monsters of the mighty deep, | Your Maker's praises spout: Up from the sound, ye codiings peep, And wag your taiis about.” * % % w | Notwithstanding Dr. Bledsoe's scath- | ing sneers at the idea of women gain- fng women's rignis alongside of men's, this country has staggered bravely un- der exactly that burden, ever since August, 1920, when the nincteentn amendment started it on the downward stide leading to some future history of the kind relating the “Rise and Declin= | {of Rome.” And a woman gave us the | apple! Ever sitce 1848, when the first con- vention ever called to discuss civil and political rights of women met in Seneca, N. Y., Uncle S8am has been ‘“on | toboggan,” so to speak, and the women | who called that convention—their call |being a paraphrase of the masculine Declaration of Independence from King George 1II—those women aré to this {day frozen in the snowdrift of Italian the | his first schooling from a private in- structor, at Eppingwassen. where his| parents resided for nearly four years| {before 1740. on a part of the estate| | that later became named Mount Vernon. | The undersigned is also authorized| to state, by the Wakefleld National Memorial Association, Inc., which alone | holds the right to rebuild the birt place of George Washington and which |alone owns the Washington family | burial ground and 70 acres of Wakefield estate, that this association | has no connection with any other non- | offi~ial Washinztonian memorial organ- | | fzation, and also that the statement! {in The Sunday Star of January 15.| 11928, that the Citizens' Guild of Fred. | ericksburg gave the first thousand doi- | lars to the Wakefield National Memorial | | Association, Inc.. requires qualll n. ‘That honor attaches primarily to Mrs. | Charles C. Worthington of Washington, [D C. as the first “founder.” and sec- |ondarlly to Mr. H. L. Rust, sr: Mr Llovd Washington. Dr. Warner iington and Dr. Richard Washin | who. in 1923, mad~ the first pavm |securing to the Wakefield Natio { Memorial Assactation. Inc., the 70 acres {of the Wakefield estate | C. A. HOPPIN. e Holds Starlings | Are Beyond Pale Just to mark how far the world has marble in the besement of the National | 1, tne Faitor of The Star traveled In recent decades. cite the state of obscurity of Mr. Thackeray. who confessed his own myopia: “There are more clever women in the world than men think for: our habit is to despise them: we belleve they do not think, because they do not con- tradict us, and are weak because they do not struggle and rise up against us A man only begins to know women as | Capitol. Let the women who are now | making the rafters and skylight of | Continental Hall ring with their prano eloquence “chercher les femmes /In that Capitol “cave” or “abri” and take warning. Men concede their cour- age, however they deprecate foolhardi- ness. e Recently, another party of women I noticed In a recent edition of The | Star that parties in certain parts of the | nearby country advocate protection of & | pest known as | of Iate years has em! | North United States and Cana | New England States and then farther | South to Middle Atlantic States in great | numbers. destroying apples. borries and cherries. grain—in fact, everything that he grows old: and, for my part. mY¥| et §; Washington to instruct the |they can possibly devour--and. worst of oph d: PR Fifteen years ago, at the instance of the then Senator Tillman of “Bloody Bridles” fame, the United States Se ate ordered printed by it Printing Office “Senate Document 174, an article by Albert Taylor Bledsoe, LL. D. editor of the Southern Review The heading was “The Mission of Woman,” and the learned ductor showed how the gaining of women’s rights had caused the downfall of Rome. He “viewed with alarm” the increasing menace of women's rights in America. What if he had wit- nessed the scenes now materialiaing in Continental Hall! He sald “The women of Rome, indeed, quired the rights of men, but the con- sequence was that woman, with all her short-lived independence, dignity and glory, soon sank beneath the ruins of the empire. She tasted of the for- bidden fryit and it proved fatal to the glory for which God had intended her “Men were wanting and the empire perished for want of men " (Of course, that was the fault of Eve's daughters ) Another has cried out “Giod give us men! A time like this demands stro mindat!” “Bhall we, . appealed Dr. Bled- soe in the Senate document, “in spite of all our boasted wisdom and high Christian civilization, fall miserable vic- tims to the reforms instigated by the strong-minded women and supported by the weak-minded men of this age and Natlon? We hope not' ¢ ¢ ¢ Continuing, he explained: “The root of all this mischiefl 18 the idea that woman 18 the equal of man, 1s cast in the same mold ss man and s ap- pointed to do the same work Now that was absurd, of course, to uld possibly be moldy” , and Dy, Bledsoe pointed to the silly notion that Bacon could have written Bhakespeare's plays ws u parallel of the impossibility that | women were the same as men. Waa Bacon poetie? Here 1s an example of Bacon's poetry which flustrates the dissimilarity between man and woman Dr. Bledsoe sald “First, a strong-minded woman wrote w great hook consisting of some 600 pages or more to prove that Lord Bacon | winte Bhukespeare's plays " To demonstrate the tmpossibility of so unpoetic & philosopher's witing ac- | | —and they came to the conclusion, | after long~ discussions. that they did i rot know what caused wars; therefore, | being unable to agree on the diagnosis. all growing older every day. But these patriotic women now in ! session~-mark the adjective in this latter cass!—do not undertake to tell the President and Secretary of State [how to handle diplomacy; they are |teaders of history, and they, too. | Senator Tillman and Dr. Bledsoe, “view with alarm” the trend of events. They | find public sentiment flabby on the need | of patriotic example and teachings, in the churches, the schools and colleges. |They are alert to point out that when the anctents refused to listen to women of intelligence they lost battles and em- pires, | CEER Long before Rome was founded, {3000 years before the Christian er. Queen Hatasu, wife of King Amenoph | Induced her royal spouse to “outlaw war’ so tar as he was concerned, and thereafter, 11 Egypt, religlon rose to a tate; art, music, education and flourtshed. Read the higro- and see the result of women's influence 5000 years ago. In Babylon, Queen Semiramis guided King Lush 111, and there was s rest from war. Mistory telis that King Cyrus found- ed Persla, but it overlooks the fact that Cyrus was down and out after a defeat of his 100,000 men by the Army of a Million, led by Astyages. Then yose hix Queen, and she inspired Cam- byses o lead relnforcements to Oyrus' army, and victory made Cyrus King of the Medes and Persians That race is | noted for ita never changing its mind, but that does not oust woman from its foundation. The great Cyrus almost met hia match when he went against & woman, Queen Sparethra When Darius and Xerxes prepaved to invade Grecce, they were rash enough to deaplse the council of Queen temtsta, i w certatn battle maneu- Result, defeal, so that Xerxea eried out, "My men are women today, [and my women ment” Who adorned Babylon with {ts fa- | mous hang wardens? (No, 1t was by and fo IThe King merely gave | the bl Who made the Roman Oracchi great {but thelr mother, Cornella? Compare {the Influenes for good in Rome exerted Ly Octavin with that of Mark Antony! his check for subvay congestion, hut ls Uask hn-lt.n.:‘wny (paratiel with the tmpossoii'y Compare Portia with Bratust under the Vulslead act? & fuly woman's knowlng anything When Moses was led by the piliar of jon of their cleverness rises eVer¥ ' Government how to end wars—on pape: | 2l chasing off birds which are a help to | the garden and especially to the farmer by devouring insects and worms | The starling is & dapple. almost b bird. somewhat smaller than a g n- | they could not safely prescribe a rem- |blackbird, wish a long sharp bill. and 1s | he Government | edy. Was not Thackeray right? We arc | especially spiteful and steals other birds ! nests for hatching, and to the writer | knowledge is of no use whatever to th | garden or farm: to the contrary, is very destructive, preferring wheat, corn. oats or berries, cherries or apples to worms, | or insects or grasshoppers ‘This bird can devour as much as a young colt, and there is no capacity for consumption of food g0 in large droves and swoop down on ! they do not eat they destroy. p { holes in apples, picking peaches, pears before they { enough to market. In fact 3 I or has {1 many communities become | an infernal nuisance and should be slaughtered before 1t gets so numer- | ous that 1t will be tmpassible to eradi- cate this pest on wings J. ADDISON HICKS [ Lintle for lts Age. Prohibition i 8 yeass ald whi will move some people With menmorics to say that It is very little for its age cloud by day and of fire by night Miri- am. the prophietess, sang her tatth and Linapired the courage of the Israelites | Queen Esther showed the grand spirit of self-sacrifice when she went before | the King. at the peril of her life, to {save the people. When the men i the Babylontan capvity (sons of Asaph) hung thelr harps upon the Wilows it was the women who continuwed to [6ing their falth and hope, until Av taxerxes was moved with sympathy, and resolved w0 send the capilves back W thetr lost homes. 1t was women who were last at the oot of the cross and | st at the Tomb of Christ Not unii | the spirit of Christ began to mold the I ideals of the world was the place of | womankind understood. As (Gall Ham- flon has sawd aul could never gt out of his mind the noation of woman sphere. Into the mind of Cheist 1 never came Christ made no distines thon, but opened the door wide to wom on as to men” The recent World War found out where wamen stood in the erais 1 s oo vivid yel in memory to need ve citing A€o he 1020 by Paul ¥ Coltine ) truck gardens and orchards and what |© ! teache |of work 11ty and great generostty of hea | indergraduate at his school. Yet he ha | 1hs questian |the State. It was built in 1644. Q. What animals and birds cannot swim?—B. C. T. A The following are creatures that cennot swim. but will struggle 10 or IS of real property and “dequeath” for the | converyance of personal property. Dr. Taleott Williams Lauded For Efforts Eulogies of Dr. Talcott Williams, pio- ctor of the Pulitzer School of m, reveal a national apprecia- n of this scholar and teacher, whose ecent death closed a life devoted to fruitfu! labor for the best in newspaper maxing. He is credited with hasing boen a propagandist for a profession which frowns upon propaganda and 1 Pave demonstrated that personality may be retained in conjunction with impar- | tiality toward the news of the day. For almost 60 years.” says the Bir- mingham News, “he had given his life dly to causes whose beneficiaries aware of his labors. Patient- i y and with unflagging industry had, day after day. sown. quite con- hat others might read. Thougn nown to the country's intel- rd cultural elact. his name was ¢ horalded along earth’s highways « byways. For the last 16 years he n the drillmaster of an army of 3 men trained for newspaper work Columbdta. Por preceding 40 ars he had been an obscure Titan. ming the country’s and in no mean sense the world's thought, ectng the finer and higher issues of human life ™ “Without pury ton for Rochester soek 1 in A t i posely seeking distines ‘Y." according to the Democrat and Chronicle. d r the newspaper profession, and eving that object carried himsel notice with such ideal: or 1d declares that could have better carried out for years the purposes of Joseph Pu- in founding the school to make nowspanar profession & still nobler ne through the better equipment of hose who adopt it, and by attracting o it more and more men of the highest pacity and loftiest ideals CEE I “Dr Williams was one of the few ournalists,” observes the —Serzntan mes. “who had never turned publisher Back in the bramn of most newspaper men s the hope of some day owning paper, It Dr. Willilams ever enter- tatned (he notion, he never sought fulfill 1t He was writer, executive and all his lite & forcetul advocate asional tralning {0r newspaper The Hartford Times recognises in him “a man of remarkable intellectual nu‘x‘!» possessed ™ continues that —paper. s radiant enthustasm for journaliste work that made him & stimulating mfuence m the editortal chatr or the classroon rostrum He spoke several Janguages meluding Arabie, and possessed an mate knowledge of mare things thar most of his evtemporaries had evex dreamed of His fund of historieal aeTADRIC And Jterary lore was such as to make him an awesome figure o lh: that sweet humbleness of spirit that mads him-anvious to learn new truths from alt * For the propagandist. it propaganda connotes the pressing of some harticw: ar i hanacea o prefudice, the better newsnapers couragement Attty verges upan the negative onall remarks the Baltmare Sun les & danger (o the professton. Can tivact the gifted and the ambit A' tha same time. it dendes o them ex- Wresston of the hersanal viewpaint* - e Willtams exemplified i his kg Hee o | Aesa Ity of AR afirmative answer t b * Since for the spe- 1Al pleader thare s N0 rodm an news napers, he made his cause the forwant ng of the wrofession ™ D i “He was particulaly fitted W teach can affer no en- | And i that, sinee pure ous, it | 1Ne ATIY R stop them to Better Press ! journalism as a profession™ In the opinion of the Springfieid Republican. “because he understood the philosophy of journalism. As he stated in an ad- dress. he knew that the newspaper has two basic tasxs to perform It must record completely the affairs of the time and express what the public feels: representation. it allows the pullic determine the tone ft shall adopt: i@ ite task of lsadership. ‘it possesses both the opportunity and the duty to be per- petually leading the community and i- luminating it * “The chief accomplishment of his Ne. the one by which he would himself { chocse to be rated.” savs the St. Louis Post-Dispatch, “was his career as di- rector of the School of X " which Jossph Pulitzer endowed st Co- lumbia University. Conesrning that accomplishment re is ORIy Qne ver- dict which informed judges have ever rendered. namely, that it Was an un- qualified success. The difficulty of Dr. Williams' task mayv to some degree de appreciated when it is realtzed that he was faced with a prodlem in educa- tional pioneering of great magnitude ” Cn this phase of his work the New York Times comments: “He knew what could de done by skilled organi- zation and by patient and capable In struction. And all this he and his col isagues did during those carly years o experiment.” Referring to markable talents and mem Binghamton Press tells of his dous output as a writer show DR, v 20w Row UNITED STATES IN WORLD WAR tze Today ' A OORS I AdS arenche o i the French front at ane place are o 80 feet from dhe German e, other place a mue of ground separ Amerwans Ten Yeors | the OPPONING PR quired 10 NAYE §as masks ready a: & tmes. ¢ ¢ * Gen Pershing arm army moompetants Reports some ¢ crals and colutels gnorant of the Hos af open waslare on their arviv France ¢ * * Maj Gen. March of artllery of the A B P, will rw W the United States as chief of it Noiad a3 an organier and & foe of Army red . %% Secretary Baier will soon ;f\‘ France on an speviay :‘mu of ‘l A:«n}u WAr ackivities & general review af Pershing's forves av the front. * + \‘\\l\m‘hn st ments W the Regular Army sowe ihe Unitg! States declared war pow il 383 v apor strikes @ ey MARY AT sprvading despute efforts of Qovernment arvests Soctalist leaders dut treats with A strike comumitiee. ) Has a Fanuliar Sound. and News Nebraskas ex-governar. Charles W Brvan, chooses not o tun o e D cratie presidential nombnaton sy I:‘"flm\ Do run [N someldag st