Evening Star Newspaper, February 3, 1928, Page 8

8 THE EVENING STAR ;’:al with a boulevard communicating With Sunday Morning Kdition. directly from the station to Pennsyl- e ——————— | vania avenue, has been held in abov- WASHINCTON. D C. }:nre for & number of years. It wac FRIDAY.......Febraary 8. 1028 checked frst by the interposition of ob | jections to the manner in which con- Ed“mldmmuon proceedings were being con- _ |ducted. Then the war came, and al wspaper Company | Works of this choracter were suspended v | Temporary siructures were erected on ho already cleared portion of the pro- sod plaza and utilized as housing ac- commodations for women of the Gov- ornment service. They afforded com- [ fortable homes for many hundreds of woman workers at a time when Wash- gton was greatly congested. But the | need for them has passed with the re- ¥ {tumn to normal conditions at the Capi- | tal, and. although there remains a senti- | ment for their retention. it is the un- doubted purpose of Congress to ord: | inir demotition at an early date. The aspect of things presented to the incoming traveler, perhaps visiting | Washington for the first time, is disap- THEODORE W. NOYELS. The Evening Star Ne: Bust 111h St a0l Pennsalvana Ave. New York Office Chirago Office Tow Rate by Carrier Within ta he City. n « per mont! per montty pointing. Assuredly the time has come | el Lol to complete an enterprise which wi correct this condition, *o make the first | Member of the Associated Pres: The Ascociated P'ress is exc 10 1 patches cre aed n 1h published he: of epecial diep o Fall River's Disaster. A heavy con! to the year's es in this country was made ght at Fall River, where a blaze, starting in an old textile mill which was being dismantled, spread through the business district. and before it was hou.s of oved more ) | dign ! |keep its “front yar { view of the Capital a pleasant one anc | create a favorable impression on the | minds of new arrivals. It {ll befits the of the American Government tc " in its present 1<h:|pe. and the sooner definite steps arc taken toward this measure of house | cleaning the better for the prestige of the seat of Government. e The Speedbcat Regatta. A treat is in store for Washington speedboat enthusiasts next Summer. The Corinthian Yacht Ciub, which has !sponsored for two years the annual s, including banks and three theaters, flicted a loss of be- tween seven and twelve million dollars, sccording to official estimates. Anarea of several squares was devastated. For- tunately no lives were lost and only half a dozen persons were injured. firemen. none seriously. ‘This blaze is a typical ilh ation of the risk that is run by modern cities that have developed during the vears with accretions representing vary Cegrees of fire-resisting architecture | It proves anew that no community is more secure than the security of the least substantial structure within it A fire which starts in an old building. which has been outdated by the im- provements in construction methods but which remains in service, may spread to envelop structures of a mod- em type. in which fires will not orig- tnate. but which cannot resist the in- tense heat generated by the blaze in has decided to hold the event again in September, and the American Power | Boat Association has placed its seal approval Washington's third water | meet by rding to it the Gold Cup i race, the classic competition of motor speed craft for the past twenty-five years. With the addition of this event to the regatta. Washington will have four of the five major races sjaged in America. The decision of the Corinthian Yacht Club is particularly gratifying to the National Capital because of the doubt i hold another race. Although more than | the first regatta here in 1926, the club !1ost heavily in sponsoring it. Last year's | disappointing fashion. but -support came at the last moment and the club broke | even on its venture. It was for this rea- the premises of origin. son that a feeling prevailed that the It 30 happens that the bullding 1 Club would be loath to undertake a which the fire started in Fall m\."‘lmrd ‘water meet. was in process of demolition, It 5| The cost of holding a regatta is smi 1 described as a tinder box, an old-fash- | when compared to the amount of enter- | foned mill erected many years ago., lAlnment and enjoyment it gives. Five Doubtless at the time of its erection OF ten thousand dollars is sufficient to 1t was regarded as a good example o‘ls’.ue one of the big events here. This construction. Had its destruction been 'MOneY is used for freight charges on effected in safety, with a replacement | SOme of the speed craft, patrolling the ; by a stout modern building, Fall River COurse and the various expenses inciden- would have been much safer. ital to such an undertaking. The club Evidently there was some ecareless. | ©XPects no profit from the venture, but ness, else the blaze would not have | insists that a few of its members should started in the debris of the partially DOt bear the entire expense of a spec- wrecked building. jucu that is a magnet for more than a The question arised whether it is not | hundred thousend Washingtonians. Ex- incumbent upon all municipalities to CePt for the boat that is chartered by require the maintenance of a high de- the club to be stationed at a vantage gree of fire rvesistance on the part of | Point along the course, no admission i/ all buildings. Certainly there should |charged. and the ciubs attitude that | be the most scrupuicus care in all 'he expense fund should be raised with- clearances of decrepit structures to in- Out undue burden on the members 15 sure sgainst the beginning of blages | CRUirely justifiable. that may spread to envelop entire busi-| Speedboats are frail and expensive ness sections and possibly residential Craft. The men and women who bring President’s Cup regatta on the Potomac, | that existed whether the club would | {one hundred thousand peopie viewed' | race threatened to result in the same areas as well —————— i them to a regatta are digging deep into ! their pockets to do so. Of all sports it . | 1s probably the most expensive for the a Smith vs. McAdoo. | participants. They race for neither - Smith of New York comes sharp- | money nor commercialism of any sort. Iy back at Mr. McAdoo in the matter of | puy gojely for the clean sporting thrill. prohibition enforcement, but in termt | wasningtonans should, therefore, sup- that do not definitely establish him a5 & | pory jig regatta liberally, and be grati- candidate for the presidential nomina- | feq that g progressive organization wiii tion. His rejoinder is brief. Interpret- | uoqin sponsor it. National events of this ing the Californian dry Proponent|ying give prestige to the Capital, and statement at Richmond as an assertiod | wagnington as the speedboat mecca of that the Volstead act 15 not part of the | tn, United States is an object for which laws of the State of New York, Gov. g1 should strive. Smith cites article VI, section 2, of the | Constitution, which says: “This Const!- tution and the laws of the United Statcs which shall be made in pursuance sishr st :,,:!fh:ufifx: :,::,::!sm;er. no doubt, thinks the manager of der. McAdoo's argument that the pro- | D88 OnlY the last-named quality. These visions of the Volstead act are not bind. | GUAITels are sad and often cause lots irig upon the Btate of New York withou of fortune. The public takes its music the additional enactment of a Btate pro. | ‘0 blissful ignorance of the mental, hibition enforcement law. As the gov. “EOTI Khatiianionismobeceaed i it ernor replaced the copy of the Cons- | POCUCHOM- tution in the reck from which he had L withdrawn it for the purpose of the citation, be remarked: “The gentleman simply does not know his Constitution ————————— New York opera manager says he has a singer who is competent and e A slip of the tongue caused Sccretary | hearing as “President Hoover.” Some Purther than that, the deponent s :mu are accidental. As a “try-out” nothing ” this expression appears to have been This starts the ball rolling. Mr. Mc- | 3 Success Adoo will doubtiess come back in turn | i and defend his knowiedge of the Consti- | A Merited Award. tution and extend his remarks on the || The award of the Collier trophy 1o subject of enforcement. His Richmond | Charles L. Lawrence, father of speech has already caused considerable | radi -cooled engine in this country uneasiness n Democratic circles, al-| and builder of the famous “Whirlwind R though leaders, it 1 Teported, are cuu- | power plant, by the National Aeronautic | Uous in thelr comment, fearing that Association, serves to elevate Mr. Law- whatever they say might serve 1o stir up | rence to the pinnacle of fame which he further wouble. But if Mr. McAdoo 3 deserves and which apparently was bent upon ralsing the prohibition issue overlooked last year during the tumult ke will probably sccomplish that pur- and shouting for those who thrilled the pae. The feeling deepens that tne' world with remarkable fiights in planes choiee of Richmond s the scene of the using the “child of his brain” opening gun of the Mchdoo c of opposition W the Bmith nom: was deliverate, and that It has 1 signifi- cence s an endeavor v furnish pre- convention material v the Gry South tnibution tovard the advancement of aviation during the past endayr year wnd no one can question the accuracy and sincerity of the honor bestowed upon Mr. Lawrence when 3t ix consid- ered that there undoubtedly would not have been such an er of progress had 1 5ot been for the Whirlwind ergine Charles A Lindbergh and the et puccessful ocean fiyers have made known el attitude with respect U the ine, and if they had bren present st e meeting of the Collier trophy com- witkee Lere and had been given a volor 1 the proceedings, the result woull liave been even more Impressive On \ne Aay the award was announced | Col Linabergh gave another demonstin- ton of the value of the Whirlwind en- P2 Ucular, and the air-cooled redial principle that 1t embodies 1n gen- eral by a hazardous fght of 1,100 mi the Ureacherous Canbhesn, This came on the heels of fights i Boutt America over country that will prob- whly ot be on scheduled mirvays for a Long Lane W eome. owing 0 s danger S Contessions are s 8140k biooGed el some criminel In ungertpke Vi antl e @rem end issue & Prospectis y cold- ¥ next e untigl pro- Ccol Complete the Plaza' Yesterday x action by Uhe Senste com bile bulldings end ground: n e Wil for the creation of & OOl w recominend s plan tor e lanGuape trestment of the Capivl Bustion Fleza probably lusures early enmetment ol ! It s essen Usl thatl & Cehiniwe plan e devised 10) the Qevelopuent of e enlarged pliza Acguieition of Whe Jand remsining v e secured has sdvanced W the polnt where iding Ve wil mitkee o g e 1 s ncasure m Uk clewrance of the removel of \he Government Hotel soon b in order It 3 desiiable thial 0o Vme be the waoption of o lendscupe b e This project of Ueeting sa & PRIk e etk lalwens Lt slalion a6d L Capi- charanter My seceived help from Ve Guiesnment in the development of the Lawiens o The award was for the greatest con- | THE _EVENING Whirlwind engine, but that does not de- tract from the honor due him for con- ceiving the idea and pursuing it in the face of overwhelming odds, and when his own company at the time was man- ufacturing as reliable a water-cooled engine, the Wright E model, as has been produced to date. Mr. Lawrence | scrapped this manufacturing equipment and plunged onward, until he succeeded in equipping the Navy's observation planes with these engines. The Navy now is virtually 100 per cent “air- 200led,” and the Army gradually is com- ing around to this position. As for commercial aviation, the Whirlwind has contributed more to its advancement than any other element. oo Good Taste of Girl Graduates. To be commended are the recent voung lady graduates of the Kingman | School of this city who were recently pictured in The Star clad in identical costumes which they themsolves had made for the most important day of their scholastic year. Here are no aried frills and furbelows, no diversity of cut. pattern or the accessories which | now play such an important part in the costumes of both young and older | femininity. Each lass wears over a white bodice a double-breasted dark jacket ornamented with four utilitarian white buttons. White stockings and footgear complete a garb as effective as it is simple. In practically every group of gradu- ! ating girls there are some whose parents can afford extremely pretty things and others whose families cannot. Like- {ilies in which mother or daughter, or both, have good taste and others in | which they have not. The usual result is a hodge-podge that leads often to | mirth and sometimes to sensitive [x'it‘l.l Uniformity is efficacious in preventing | such undesirable results, notwithstand- | ing the fact that in some cases the uni- | | formity does not do entire justice to certain individual Washington can remember vividly the nattily uniformed “Yeomen F" and the “Marinettes” of 1917 and the few subsequeud bustling years. Some of these may @ot have been beauties. but let three @r four be gathered in a pleasing to the eye. Some of the large and famous boarding schools of the coun- try. often enjoying clienteles of great wealth, have adopted uniforms—that is, attractive costumes of similar cut and material—for daily school wear, as well as for commencement occasions. marked success. Smocks for office wear, i which cover and protect a wide va- riety of finery, appropriate and other- wise, are also gaining in popularity. The whole idea is a good one and de- serves a commendatory word from every discriminating person. R Hope 1s entertained that the Ameri- can enthusiasm for politics will soon enable the election forecasters to over- whelm the detectives who are announc- | ing the crime clues. — et Thirty-five years of devotion to base ball is a record for the late Hughey Jennings. Thirty-five years of admira- tion in any active pursuit is something for any man to be proud of. ———ete—. One of the complications in the search for her is that Miss Smith can mention her real last name and yet give no imporant suggestion as to her identity. ———tate his tax return and vaguely wonders what became of all the money involved in the calculation. e Houston, Tex, is one of the towns | that place a special local emphasis on predictions of great prosperity for 1928. —e——. SHOOTING STARS. BY PHILANDER JOHNSON, | Mere Question of Temperature. 1 was reading one night with the rain on the roof, | With its music so soft where the stars | hung aloof, | ughnt ‘Mid raindrops like tears falling on | through the night | And 1 said, “Though you bring me a sadness profound, ke ‘raln on the roof' ‘snow on the ground! 1 more than | “Por the rain from the roof will go | lightly away further delay. But the snow lingers near, all unwilling | o lose | A chance to obscrve the effect o | news | The ‘rain on the roof’ brings a delicate lay But the ‘snow on the ground’ must be shoveled away!” J Languages, “You think a statesman should know more than one language?” “1 don't belleve It iy necessary,” an- | swered Benator Sorghum. The aver- age statesman has all he can do to ! bad express himself mccurately in his sim- | ple native tongue Judd Tunkins says there are 50 many Utles at present that when you ask what anybody does” the best folks | can do 18 W tell you what he s [ Regulation. | Red tape 15 twined around the spot That shows Campaign elation, |Ihe old bend wagon leads @ lot | Of uame yegulation Perfect Understanding. never have & cros motoring, do we?" “We ure Chuggine | “What woutd be the use? The old | flivver makee s0 much notse tha' | nesther of us could hear one.” we sald Mrs sald HI Mo, “1s ke rain the sage only ap- | “Leadership,” of Chinstown | they neea " Time Limit, A Wt of bustiess we stike I sentimental ways A marriage contract now i A note for ninety days. ds like "1 man dat believes everything he nirare,” vald Uncle Eben, “don't ook for Wwuble, e Mstens for 0" i wise in each group are represented fam- | group and the result was exceedingly STAR, WASHINGTON, TH o, Bored children! Probably there is no more pathetic sight in the world than a group of little ones going through the motions of play without the spirit of enjoyment which ought to be associated with such acts. Some of the old-timers around Wash- ington felt such pity this weck, on watching boys and girls trying to have a good time in the snow. The children did not scem to be having much sport—at least, that was the way it struck the old-timers. Com- pared to the fun they got out of it. they declared. when they were little ones, these modern boys and girls were putting up a pallid counterfeit of joy. | “Why, do you know.” remarked one | man, “T nev {and vet it was the sort of snow that makes good snow balls. “Personally, I was glad the Kkids didn't find any fun in throwing, be- cause this new derby I have on would have made one of the greatest targets in the worid. “Now, when I was a boy, no man with an fron hat could have gone a block without being the target of several score well intended missiles, some of them with ice fn them, too. | “The boys in those days seemed more | fiendish, if you wiil let me put it that | way, than they do today. I haven any doubt that the kids are more civil- ! 1zed today. making a bull's eye on a new der! Well, perhaps they are right. IIn a sophisticated age, such as this, perhaps even the children must be sophisticated.” * o E T's be e While one must accept this speake: | ideas with reservations, there can {little doubt that the play habits of th children have changed No one expects, of course, that chil- dren of 1928 should be exactly like the children of 1868 or '8, or even '98. There can be little question that the countenances of boys and girls today in America differ materially from those of the little ones of past generations. This is not to be wondered at. since the cast of features of their fathers and | | mothers is somewhat different from the | physiognomies of their grandparents and great-grandparents. We have heard this disputed. but offer | in proof any photograph of soldiers ! during the Civil War. There was one | printed in The Sunday Star of recent \date which shoved this to a nicety Those men in blue did not look like | the men in khaki, especially around the BY CHARLES E. TRACEWELL., saw a snow ball thrown, | | B they don't see much fun | i D C. in life. National advertising has served to acquaint people everywhere with everything, so that standards only held | by certain classes in the past today ob- tain for practically the entire mass of the population. * % ok K Thousands of Washingtonians en- joyed the sledding afforded by the snow, both the children and thelr elders: but ii seemed to some, such as the speaker quoted, that the fine edge of the old-time joy was gone. It is difficult to put an exact finger pon the lack, to definitely declare that ven-tenths of .1 per cent of happi- ness” is missing from the sport of mod- ern youth. One is always faced with the charge, | too. that he is growing old, and pa | takes of the spirit of Lucretius' plow- man, who leancd on his instrument of | toll, about the year 200 B.C, and la- | mented that “the times were not what they used to be,” and that the world was plainly wearing itself out. Well, these are serious charges, it is and yet one may feel, and per- ightly, that a little first-hand ob- | servation will show them unjustified. We watched a little girl the other playing, or rather trying to pl with a doil. Little girls have always played with dolls. It is a tradition among little girls. Even a very modern little girl knows at it is quite the correct thing to play with dolls. So she has an assort- | ment of them and an elaborate carriage, {in which she trundles the favorite of | | th moment up and down the sidewalk. But she is giad at any moment, it is | plainly evident, to drop the caravan and |turn with animation to some sport | which involves running or leaping, or | juvenile emulation of automotive activi- ties of parents. | The wheel and the ball—these are| | the two symbols of the modern child. “Give me something to ride on, some- | thing to throw,” is the song of the American child. Hence the long pro- cession of scooters, velocipedes, wagons, bicycles. roller skates, motor cycles. au- tomobtles. of base ball, foot ball, basket ball, tennis, golf. Even if one accepts this theory, it | ! may seem difficult to reconcile the fact | | that snowbailing is done with balls— | why. then, does it not appeal to the | modern child? | | The answer must be that it smacks | of the olden times, and anything which | does that is viewed with at least a | little suspicion by the ultra-modern | young man or woman. The movies and other up-to-date diversions have made them look askance at the simple old | | | uj FRIDAY, FEBRI ARY PHILOSOPHIES BY GLENN. FRANK Max Mason. the alert-minded presi- dent of the University of Chicago, has thrown up the conception of a college in which students shell learn by doing rather than by being lectured at and cross-examined. E The world of education must sooner or later respond to the challenge of | this conception. The incisive mind of Thoreau saw all this long ago. “How could youths better learn to | live than by at once trying the experi- | ment of living?" Thoreau asks in his | “Walden.” | “Methinks this would exercise their | minds as much as mathematics. “If I wished a boy to know some- thing about the arts and sciences, for | instance. T would not pursue the com- mon course, which is merely to send him into the neighborhood of som- | professor, where anything is professed and practiced but the art of life.” For, thinks Thoreau. his adventure | with the professor would be: “To survey the world through a tele- | scope or microscope, but never with his natural eye. | “To study chemistry, and not learn ANSWERS BY FREDERIC J. HASKIN. This is a special department devoted | solely to the handling of queries. This paper puts at your disposal the services of an extensive organization in Wash- ington to serve you in any capacity that | relates to information. This service is | frec. Fallure to make use of .it de- | prives you of benefits to which you are entitled Your obligation is only 2 cents | in stamps inclosed with your inquiry for direct reply. Address The Evening | Star Information Bureau, Frederic J. Haskin, Director, Washington, D. C. Q. What are the different grips on | a base ball bat?>—H. T. W. | A. There are three methods of grip- | ping the bat: The full-length grip. with hands at extreme end of handle; the standard grip, with hands three or four inches from end of handle. and | the choked grip, with hands far up the | handle. | Q. What Army airplanes are in the | Smithsonian®—M. P. ! A. The group inciudes the first Army | plane built by the Wrights in 1903; the | T-2, that made the transcontinental | non-stop flight; the Chicago of the acre yield of sweet potatoes, with 6.- 160,000 calories, approaches closest to the banana. Of the fruits the banana is much the richest in protein, having approximately four and one-half times as large a proportion as the apple nearly five times the pineapple. . What were the perfumes of odors most popular i ancient Greece? —N. D. A Among the Athenians at the time of its greatest glory the use of perfumes =as aimost universal with both men =nd women. Viciet was the favorite perfume. int, thyme, mar- joram, and other aromatic herbs were used. Q. Was there a mistake in Monday's column as to the weight of a :ocomo- tive on the Canadian National Rail- way?—W. H. K A 4 The figures were eorrect bu oliowing word each time should have been pounds. not tons. Q. Is there 24-hour guard duty 8t Army posts’—L. M. B A. At Army pests some are on duty 1924 round-the-world flight: the 1925 | during the entire 24-hour period. De- how his bread is made. Curtiss Armv racer. and the San Pran- | “To study mechanics, and not learn | cisco. the first airplane to make the ' how his bread is earned. complete circuit of the Western Hemi- | “To discover new satellites to Nep- | sphere. 1 tune, and not detect to what vagabond he is a_rateilite himself. Q. “To be devoured by the monsters of 12 an that swarm all around him, while con- much food as adults?>—C. M. templating the monsters in a drop of A. Boys and girls in their teens vinegar.” {need 2s much food as grown people, | Thoreau is here striking out’ against | and sometimes more. They have not| the unreality and bookishness of con- | completed their growth and are as| ventional education which has chai- |active as adults, or more so. lenged the attention of President Ma- | son. “Which would have advanced the most at 2 end of a month.” a: ‘Thoreau, “the bov who had made own jackknife from the ore which he | had dug and smelted. reading as much | Should children between the ages | 20 be permitted to eat as, Q. To what American Jew was a |ctatue ecrected during his lifetime?— | G. A. M. A. Nathan Barnert had this honor bestowed upon him. He was a philan- | tafls are two hours for each man on guard duty. with four hours off duty. : whom was Dallas, Tex., named’—L. R. A. It was named for George Miflin Dallas, vice president of the United States in Polk's administration. Q. How shouid the crust for meat ple be made?’—H. Y. S. A. Crust for meat pie is made i the same way as biscuit dough by us- ing a little more fat. Fat from the meat may be used for shortening. The dough is rolled or patted out about one- half-inch thick to the proper size for the baking dish. placed on top of the filling. and baked at about 425 degrees F.. that is, at slightly lower tempera- The i result to the eye of the visitor is a This is the month when a citizen files | | fawbones. An anthropologist would be | { able to explain the dmc_rcnre Eoizely | In rather extensive ramblings around All this being true—it is our bellef | washington during the week we came | that it 1s—it is easy to believe that the | ynon'but one snow fort. It was a good | children are different not only in fea- ondthere was no doubt about it: but. | ture but in the way they approach P2y | as far as some minutes' observation | and study. | went, it was for display merely. The The very habits of the Nation help | boys wanted passersby to admire it. as account for this in some measure, for | most of them did: then every one it is to be believed that neither man |seemed to be satisfied. nor child can exist today without feel- | Yes. sir, if this thing keeps up. before ing the pressure of the mass. another 10 years has passed away sled- Isolation. both in a physical and men- | ding itself will be in the discard. Snow- tal sense, helped keep alive a more sim- | balling already is practically an anti- ple spirit of play in the days when aquated sport. Dolls will be one with single orange was looked upon as a suit- | the Dodo. and electric trains— able Christmas present for a child. Well, one ought to be ashamed of Today scarcely a poor child would be | himself for such thoughts in connec- willing to accept an orange or one pop- | tion with the vouth of our dear land! corn ball as a present. He would look | After all, we suspect, boys will be boys around and sav. “Where is the rest of |and girls will be girls, and the sporis 1t2" He would be right, too. This is|of their forefathers not entirely dis-| an age of plethora, both in gifts and regarded or discarded. WASHINGTON OBSERVATIONS || | The storm center of this session of three more delegates than four years | | Congress to date is the Senate inter- ago. 26 and 29. respectively. Alabama, | state commerce committee. It has been | Louisiana and New York each lose one | the battleground of the preliminary delegate, Georgia, North Carolina and | skirmishing in the prospective sena- Virginia each lose two delegates. | torial investigation of public utilities— | Arkansas. Oklahoma and Wisconsin | the so-called Walsh “power trust” probe. cach lose three delegates. Tennessee It is soon to start hearings on the drops from 27 to 19, a loss of eight. All Johnson resolution for an investigation the other States will have the same |af the troubles in the soft-coal flelds. |number this year as in 1924. Under the | It has just bren handed still a third fn- 'Republican apportionment plan, every | | vestigation resolution aimed at the tele- State has one delegate for every con- phone companies. All three are heavily | gressional d'strict and four delegates at charged with political dynamite with large. Every congressional district that far-reaching big business ramifications. polled more than 10000 Republican But these are only a part of the com- | votes gets a second district delegate, mittee’s assignments. Pending before it and every State in the Republican is the confirmation of John J. Esch to column in the preceding presidential |the Intersiate Commerce Commission election gets three additional delegates and the confirmation of O. H. Caldwell |at large. In eflect. it is a system of re- games, the natural sports, as it were. | | | And. although they may contribute mi! as would be necessary for this, or the | boy who had attended the lectures on metallurgy at the institute in the meanwhile, and had received a Rodgers penknife from his father? Which would be most likely to cut his fingers?” President Mason is not suggesting ' the Thoreau formula of sending the | student into the flelds and forests and | i factories, but he is suggesting that we | might break away from the artificiality of spoon-feeding by lectures and me- chanical memorizing of text books. He throws out the conception of a college in which the undergraduates will work on problems very much as the advanced rescarch scholar now works on his problem. resident Mason has here hit upon the heart of all learning. There is no learning, inside or out- side college, save by doing. We are stuffing minds as butchers stuff sausage skins and we call it edu- | cation: our descendants will laugh at us. | (Copyrisht. McClure Newapape: Syndicate.i | o n Seeks The Franchise From the Minneapolis Tri | Residents of the District of Columbia | are drawing up their battle lines again to win their long-sought objective, na- | tional enfranchisement. Militant ac-| tivity in this direction has been reported | from the Nation's Capital for a good | many years, but at the present moment | there seems to be greater promise of success than ever before. Washington | is now thoroughly organized to win the | vote, is desperately determined to get it and has enlisted practically every civic | leader in the District in the enfranchise- | ment campaign which is now being vig- | orously pushed. | ‘Washingtonians. of course. have long | occupied a unique niche in the govern- mental scheme of things. The half-mil- lion inhabitants of the District of Co- lumbia are about as well qualified to vote as any group of citizens in the United States. Furthermore, they have ! about the same incentive for voting: to | have a hand in the spending of the pub- | lic funds and to express their politic: preferences and prejudices through the | substantial medium of the balk h District, of course, is governed by Con- gress, yet the District's half-million res idents are entitled to no representation in Congress, nor are they even privileged to take their part in a presidential elec- | tion. They may not even bring suit in Federal Court. nor may any of the Dis- Washingto thropist. Twic> he was elected mayor | tyre than for biscuits. T of Paterson, N. J. In 1925 ihe people | patcer if the filling is hot at the start. of th= city erectad and unveiled a statue — of Mr. Barnert in th» City Hall Plaza. Q. Why are criminals usualiy exe- He died last year at the age of 89. cuted }a{t night or in the early mom- — | ing?>—H. G. Q. Why was Indianapolis chosen for A. The reason that electrocutions th~ headquarters of the American Le- | take place in the late afternoon or eve- ing is that during the day the con- t national convention of the Legion, at Minneapolis, November 11 to 14, 1919, Indianapolis was selected | as permanent national headquarters. defeating Washington, D. C.. and other cities in a close vote. Indianapolis of- fered the advantage of a geographical central location. and the State of Indi- | ana, Marion County. and the City of Indianapolis agreed to give to the| Legion its own building. as part of the World War Memorial Plaza group which | was planned for the center of the city. ky n Building is now finished and occupied. and work on other struc- | plaza group is going for- | It wili cover several blocks of | uildings and parking and be one of | the finest memorials and civic centers in any American city. The Building is 2 handsome structure of stone, and contains elaborate offices and a magnificent executive committee chamber. Q. What plant yields the most food Der acr: N. E. T. A. A study made by a representative of the Department of Agricuiture in Haweii shows tha! the banana leads in tota! production per acre and in fuel value per acre. A fair yield of wheat is estimated at 1620 pounds per acre. In the banara it is 32,000 pounds per \cre. And the comparative fuel velues om an acre are 2.673.000 calories for wheat and 8.320.000 for bananas. Of rice. corn, white and sweet potatoes the victs are working and are not in their cells. A pending execution in a peni- tentiary exerts a depressing infuence over the convicts, and to avoid any out- break or manifestation on the: Tt the hour is deferred un! re in their individual cells. Q. When was letter postage first placed on flat rate. and when did the rate of 2 cents an ounce go into ef- fect?>—J. M. R. A. The act of March 3. 1853. fixed the standard maximum weight for the single rate of letter postage at one-balf ounce avoirdupois. and the rate of post- age on domestic letters not exceeding one-half cunce weight at 3 cents. with 3 cents additional for each additional one-half ounce er fraction thereof to be prepaid by a pcstage stamp affixed. This was the first law which estab- lished a uniform rate of postage re- gardless of distance transmitted. The act of March 3. 1883, postage rate on first-class mail matter to 2 cents a cne-half ounce on and after Octcber 1, 1883. The act of March 3, 1885. provided for 2 cents for | each ounce or fraction thereof. Q. Who was the first woman o en- ist in the United e World War’—E. J. R A. Miss Loretta T. Walsh was firs: woman to enlist in the United States Navy during the World War, and was enrolied a: Phila: | Mareh 21, 19 International Oil War Stirs Interest of American Press The oil war going on among American and European oil interests is being fol- lowed with interest by American news- papers, which speculate both on its tnter- national political significance and its possible effect on supplies and prices at nome. It is a complicated affair, involv- ing oil fields almost the cluding Russia, with the Standard Oil world over. in- | trict's 65,000 Government employes serve | CO. of New York combating the Roval as jurors in the trial of criminal cases | Dutch Shell Co. & British and Dutch | much. In ‘this’ corner we have Dutch’ ! Roral (weight not announced). They will meet in a battle t0 a decision. with Mr. Tltimate Consumer as the referee. Lay on. big boys. and cursed be he who first cries ‘Hold. enough!' ™~ T “Controversy between Siandard Oi of New Jersey and Standard Ol m N k" as interpreted by the word when | | preciated by people who have Lo admit | and Sam Pickard as members of the Radio Commission. And .the commit- tee's biggest undertaking at this session is the reilroad consolidation bill. No wonder “Jim" Watson, the chairman, declared the other day: “This is a pretty | latitudinous committee.” *x s Into the question of the confirmation of Commissioner Esch enter issues of | fundamental policy. which the Senate | interstate commerce committee is at- tempting to determine. The issue is whether the I. C. C. ought to frame rates solely with an eye to providing the railroads with an adequate return. jor whether rate regulation should be ! motivated by considerations of the eco- | | popular, but hard to get on with. The | Disdaining to show their encouraging poncilis and benefits of industries and territories. Admittedly this is a knotty question, inducing sharp divergence of opinion. With respert to the radio commissioners, there 45 an_ overshadow- ing question of radio policy— whether | the chain broadcasters should be fa- vored in the matter of licenses, giving to them a preferred status on the air on | the theory that their programs are best and the radio public s thereby best served, or whether the “little inde- pendents” shoiild have equal considera- Hoover 1 be mentioned in eminent|Like & singer whose song wants no|tion on the theory that the commission | o should treat all applicants alike. Here again the Senate committee 8 tackling ' n difficult problem | oo | Though Tom Hefiin frequently orates to empty benches in the Senate cham- | ber. one Senator at least has been noticed to sit through Heflin's lengthy diatribes and to give him the closest at- tention. That Senator is the erudite and jcultured Bingham of Connecticut. Bing- ham’ Republican colleagues noted it |and marveled, and sought an explana- tion. Bingham then confided that he had been told that Hefin, even in his most impassioned moments, never was zuilty of a grammatical error. He was loath to believe it, and concluded to listen. Day by day he sat watching for | the wrong pronoun, the wrong participle or the split infinitive. Several years |have passed and several milllons of words have passed from Heflin'’s mouth, and Bingham 15 still watching and wait- ing for the grammatical slip. w O | Two Irisn wolfhounds, by name Irish and Bhane, by all odds the largest | specimens of dog flesh the Capital hus [ever seen, ure the particular pride of thelr owner, the honorable — Gifford Pinchiot cupled fenced-in inclosure on the lawn {of the Pinchot domicile in Washington A1 mposing stone mansion in_the old downtown residential section, Though temporarily on the political side lne |andin - Washington without title or | portfulio, the former Governor of Penn- sylvania 15 playing the game of politics for wll it 1x worth [ here this Winter gave tise Lo w report | thut he was attempting to emulate the sftorts of Frank A. Vandsriip, the New York banker who came 1o Washington [tawyers and sleuths and - publicity agents to “turn the searchlight of cor- ruption in government.” Gifford Pinehot dendes this soft impeachment he difference between what 1 am doing [ here, hie states, “and what Frank Van- derltp was trying to do fs, as I see 1t that his efforia were deatuctive while 1 am Gyl 1o be constructive I my participation in public affais e There will he 1089 delegates In the Republican convention thils year which 15 20 less than sat at Cleveland i 102 Texns and Kentucky will each have Until recently they have oc- | His many activities | | couple of years ago with a battery of | | wards and demerits. * ow o ok Though there may be a few less dele- gates at Kansas City than there were at Cleveland four years ago, there will | be many more guests and visitors, and {many more headquarters and workers, i for there is going to be a lot more ex- citement than when the nomination of Calvin Coolidge was a foregone conclu- sion. Already the housing committee of the Republican organization is in a jam | about rooms. Kansas City boosters said | there would be 6,000 or 7.000 rooms avallable. All the big hotels at Kansas | City are referring requests for room reservations to the committee, which | has taken over all hotel accommodations | and is regulating their allotment. But | to date the committee has got a firm erip on only about 1,800 rooms, scarce- Iy enough for the delegates and the press, and has received literally thou- | sands of applications from outsiders— but outsiders, in many cases, (0o influ- | ential to be turned down | ow o | One feminine member of Congress, who for the purpose of this paragraph shall remain anonymous. has bee: ned “Alice” by one of the male members of her State delegation. “Ask |me why I call her Alice," says the | masculine member. So the question is “Why do you ecall Mrs. ‘The answer. “Alice in Wonder- | | (Comvrizht Legion’s Draft Law Urged on Congress From the Chicago Daily Tribuae. Comdr. Spafford in the namb of the | American Legion is asking Congress for A law automatically drafting all men and all the capital resources of the Na- ton in war. Men between the ages of | | 21 and 30 would be called for the Army | . and Navy, while older citizens would be | | obliged to work. Prices, and conse- | quently wages as well, would be fixed | At pre-war leve | The Leglon has rapeatedly sought legialation along these ling The plan springs from the sense of wrong suffered by men who served at $30 a month, while acquaintances who remained in | the factorics earned alihost as much in a day The men who went into uni- | form” lost time, money, and advance- | ment and they propose to prevent the repetition of the injustice 1f they can | The motive is understandable, but not the bill which attempts to express it [IU ds difficult to believe that Mr | Spatford has given much thought to the consequen of the legislation hs Is asking. With his law on the booka | the declarntion of war automatically | would result In such an economic dis- | organization of the country as has | never been witnessed The vesults | would be identical, whether the r was against Guatemala or Great Britatn - The war might require 50,000 ¢ 5,000,000 men, but all would be sum« woned. 1L mIght atrain the resources of our farms and factories or it might be fought with only the weapon nu”mnn on hand, but automatically an | arbltrary vegime of prices, profits. and | wages would be instituted Initiative L would be destroved Quitting w job would constitute an offense comparable [ (o treason. The enactment of the law would encourage s declavation of war 'm W tme of industial unrest, for w declaration of war would legalise the Fvirtual enslavement of the industrial | population | The Legon's bill s intended to pro- tect the uterest of the Nghung man as | service at the lowest grade dent excusable except for the I A o ki lions in tax money to the District ax songrassional committees. recruited from | pleased to spend it For the count t large, the quest as to whether Washington is well gov erned or ill governed is not the primar one. More important is the question as to whether or not there is any good re: son for the permanent disenfranchi ment of 500,000 persons who seem, in the main. to be just as much entitled to | representation in Congress as the 332,000 inhabitants of Vermont, or the 241.000 inhabitants of Wyoming. or the 7 inhabitants of Nevada. As matters, stand. Nevad: to say about irs than residents of the District themselves: and A8 matters stand. too, at the very citadel of representative government is A very large body of po) on to whom representative ‘government is no than a rhetorieal phrase Control of the District of Columbia by | Congress 1S & Wise provisi conflict of local and Feder tion: withholding the fr: the District. however, is a pr does not square at all points with th principles of American Washington's cause is derlaid with common certain to be realized though probably not withot test from the 48 States reach a decision in the mat wdl e Retirement Plan Approved by Writer To the Editor of Tha Sty The article published in v of & few days ago signed ar MacDonald fs the most and equitable plan for retirement of old em- | ployes of the Government that has yet . been suggested. T personally know of & clerk who passed the civil service ex- amination for spectal pension examumner and served as such for & number of years, who met with an a lent whieh paper Al deprived him of his job ary. | He was reduced fo the very grade of civil service employes, kept at that salary five vears. when he wus retired. The last five years of his cut down to nearly one-half what 1t should have baen —all on acount of his diability resulting from the unavoidab! which was and fs unjust and in- o H DAVIS Dating by Statistics. This Is the year 19271 approximates ly. mccording to the aversge way weve Written 1t on checks and things o far Where From the Philadelphia B JRSETE nerosity Doesn’t Huet, | | Harry Lauder arvived in this country last week for his Ofth farewell Scoteh though he be. Sir Harry cevtain 1y 18 generous with his farewells | oppased to the stay-at-home. but that mterest 13 poorly protected 1€ the sup- | Plies for the [ghting man are inter rupted 10 will be small satistaction to Wm0 know that no one at home i | getting vich It e himsell lacks food | othing, and ammunition. The world nows that 1t can increase production | by ncreasing profits and wages Brof o | tteering 13 ugly and 1 posaible should | ba prevented. but the cure chasen by the Legion ts worse than the disease | concern. with which the Standard O | comes out o | sumed, | areatly altered. and advises | Co. of New Jorsey is said to be working | nually, thev may have no voice in the | it close harmony. “The announcement by the Standard | the 48 States of the Union, which are Ofl Co. of New York that it is locked in battie with the Royal Dutch Shell Co. a British institution and the former's principal rival in the world. both in the race for markets and in the contest for sources of raw material to supply these fields.” savs the Cleveland News, “is & frank m of & condition which has be g but a secret for & does not seem prod- versy will be settled early compromise. Sir Henry chairman of the board of 1. appears 10 speak company and the British foreien office when he seeks to line the American concern with him i a policy of open hostility toward the Soviet gov- of the situation emphasised ning News is an an- Vildur of the to Con- o prevent to foreign Paper feels sigatficance he action 1s akes on added admission that inues the re it will be mter- note the de that will de en by the sur tn Senate and Housa of the Standard-baiters of other years.” e ow “Considering the tremendous sources of the companies mvolved, ™ ac- cording to the St. Louls Times, “a ruth- less price war waged on this side of the Atlantic might conceivably result i se- rous disaster to A la number of smaller ofl companies whose resources would not withstand losses over any long perod of time. particularly tn View of the already disorganised condi- tion of the mdustry. And such an Lty naturally would directly af- ty of other industries. 1t L of course, that the war ritory i whie ¢ brief, but castly. price- tion, the companies b volved Will compronuse their digte: SNCCS A8 A measure af self-protection Ol 18 combustible from ths time the ground untal it is o= observes the Newark Evening and & war for markets may MANY Confagrations as a W 1t §s such an essential o Modity M our present civilisation that \ &8 international complications Far the time being the public AoesIl Know very well what the serap 15 all abont® The Dayton Daily News suggests that “one may woader What our manster modern carparations AT AINE o gel us and the warld mia as they g out to fight far i, as the East India Co fought for trade and ihe Hudson Bay Qo for fues. Pomting o & ropart of & credit ex- | tended to the Soviet goverament by a syddioate of Rritish bankers. the New Yoark Waorld draws tha conclustoan that “the status of the quartel’ may be “One witl well 0 keep an eye an Rusvia Where impartant eonamie dvelop- ments may be enpevied at almo b oany thne The Little Rock Avkansas Democrat remarks CReducing it down o normal language. we Nave m this cormer Kid standard of New Yok, weightng (A= nancially) heaven only knows how’ MOV ieal As & member of team says. ‘Who cares adout thar S:md:{’d Oil anywhere can take care o . The Wichita Beacon ad gastion “eama premacy in the past has play w1 \ of the future. The Units produces 70 per cent of sll the petro- leum produced. but it only has zdbout 12 per cent of the worlds reserves ot * When billions are working competition. that competition will aither t * ACtion o nava! reserves be this country. the Providence expresses the view: “The very unce of discovery has . n The adoption of a smiar poley dv our own government has come none oo soon concerns are detter éhan any others and no doudt will do UNITED STAYES IN WORLD WAR Ten Years g0 Today Americans face heavy domda: SACIOr they ROW doewy wounded and one suffers shay domdardment. Amers: several enemy dugou! o ne g A R raid an Novemder camp at Tuchel West Prusaa * * * whale American savtor i mesun with boom of guns and airmen have Davoeme encendtingly active. * * % Ame oan forces are clwe to German dorue: M AACK nate of the Allld troops are so close exvept the Freach m Ao Brittaht odserver sstunates the mmanam strength af the Germans on west frong A LS00, ¢ ¢ ¢ Al sgveme war counetl rejects MY Peace ader and will m\ the War with utmost vigor Ml N Terns ety and after- g 0o dass for peace - wes - —— Big Chance for Mexicans. From 1he New Yok Horadd Tridune If the Houston aanvention should b Anrihing ke (he ane It Madison Square QGandan. the MeAM can cume over and see what real fghiing » hle, B ) Movies Are Preferred s Bt Bas e We dauale of (de Latn Amerieans Here we have boen tryving 1o sevute them ivums\ D3 ey waak deller