Evening Star Newspaper, February 4, 1928, Page 6

{THE EVENING STAR With Sunday Morning Edition. WASHINCTON, D. C. SATURDAY....February 4, 1928 . NOYES....Editor ar Newspaper Company s Office The Evening 11tn St and Penn New York Office Ch Ofce Carvier Within the City. r 43¢ per month per month > per month er The Shipstead Bill. < have become 15able exercise relating nd safety. ome possible ght of build- vet attempted to e of structures the provisions Commission t of controlling color and texture in construction of | owned property, is mot to | rued, therefore. as an extension d be regarded as a n to meet conditions pe- National Capital. As such d. aim of the Shipstead bill 1s tent of taxpayers’ Government building pro- th side of Pennsylvania 1t which may ex- s volved. In a 3 to the mere pro- vision of ho r its workshops, the Government is planning to spend mil- | lions i the beautification of its National here is no control over the | of private buildings on the north side of the Avenue there is real ss already exemplified, that| rasts will deleteriously affect the appearance of the buildings on the | n side of the Avenue. The same applies to the Capitol grounds. | and to other sections of the city where lic funds have been spent on beauti- | ctures. The right of the tax- to protect their investment can- not be reasonably questioned. But there is another side to the pro- | posed legislation which deserves as much consideration. In addition %0 pro- teciing the investment of public funds, it would likewise protect the investment of private capital. The builder who spends money in so improving the ap- pearance of his structure that it con- forms 2nd perhaps adds to the appear: ance of public builldings across th‘ street has a right to some guarantee that ding to be erected next| €oor detract from the appear- | ance own, The Shipstead bill should be regarded, therefore, as pri tecting the invesument of private as we 23 pub! sider | One of the dangers of this type of | nat it may attempt t0 g9 certain areas, investment of public funds is ed, it is desirable. But its exte: d such areas is not L be per- for 1t has not come | It may never come. But if it does there ‘ be a public demand and neces that Go not exist now, and which wil oversnadow importance tne many us Cppo: s for arbitrary ver such an intangioie and de- ng as appearance. B a nervous breakdown have zbated. Al for who gets into blic a litte re- % interest them Guing After the “Fence.” ¥ check crime in g the sdoption of & law it 1 believed, materially aid ion of the re- whs, called he artual large scale pared by the wh in i sa b A e Conm ne Le persn wno with stolen goods ie purposes of giving med wn eceompice. A tlared and ntros s L6l & person who reasneble ingiry ing or @elivering L@ kgel rignt v 4o Jmed v Lave purchased h the knowlesge 1hat & silks, furs dres Lirg ane the . ] nis own ke Viwre inmediate aud wssuied ! mey e opeisting initiative, with confidence Gispose of bis ool wt en estabishied place of sale, or he may be merely \he egent of the recelver of sninues vionanly isrest " that Le can | matter to determine whether the reso- | | { grown out of a movement, started many | A Strong sense of humor is attributed | unsuitable to | Washington's first induction into office | , | the amendment falled of adoption by | o | bk In either case the receiver is the pro- moter of the crime. It is known that certain receivers maintain gangs of burglars who are at the same time gun- men, whom they assign to particular Jobs. It is known, furthermore, as a re- sult of investigations that have been conducted in New York that a very large percentage of goods stolen in quantities, especially from warehouses is turned directly back into trade, and there is & suspicion, strengthened by specific discoveries that have not been sufficiently fortified by testimony that could be accepted under the laws as they stand, that the fences in these cases have been closely identified =ith | | the business interests themselves. If the “fence” can be reached by this | proposed amendment to the law in New York, a reduction in the number of large-scale burglarics is certain to be |effected. This will benafit not mereiy New York. but other eciti®s, stolen g | from which are now dispased of in and {around Manhattan. The adoption of proposed legislation is likely to be followed by similar enactments in other States. which will further close the |doors to the thieves and afford addi- {tional security to propeitv and. inci- | dentally. to lives, | e | The Federal Calendar Change. | Yesterday's action by the House com- | mittee on rules in giving “pre!erred; legislative status” to the joint resolution proposing an amendment to the Con- stitution effecting a change in the cal- endar of congressional terms and meet- ings assures that at some time during the present Congress, perhaps at l‘wi present session, this measure, already passed by the Senate. will be brought ¢ before the House of Representatives for vote. This is the so-called “lame duck™ amendment, designed to put an end to | the practice of bringing into session | after the elections the Congress which is closing its term. It involves a com- plete change in the schedule, including a shift of the date of the inauguration of the President and Vice President. | It eliminates the “short session,” which | begins in December and ends automati- | cally on the fourth of March. It starts in action shortly after the November elections the Congress just chosen by the voters. It makes the newly elected Congress the judge of the election of | President and Vice President, instead | of the retiring Congress. ‘This resolution, proposing & consti- tutional amendment, has now passed the Senate four times, and on each oc- casion heretofore has been ignored by the House. The action of the rules | committee vesterday brings it closer to | concurrent action than ever before. Yet it is not assured that it will be adopted. For a two-thirds vote is re- quired to pass an amendment-proposing resolution, and there is eonsiderable | opposition to the plan on the part of | members of the House. A study of the | lution as it stands covers all necessary readjustments incident to the proposed change may be ordered before a vote is | finally taken. In the judgment of some | who have examined the question it does | not comprise all the essentials of such a drastic change in the Federal sched- | token. nor will it have any commercial | ule. Others believe that it affords the requisite foundation for the alteration and enables Congress to make any | further detailed changes that may be | found to be necessary. | This “lame-duck” amendment has | years ago, to secure a more clement season for the inauguration of the Pres- | | ident, which, scheduled for March 4, | has on numerous occasions been marked | by dangerously severe weather, wholly | an outdoor ceremony. The original plan was to shift the in- | auguration date to the fourth Thurs- | day in April, to make it conform ap- proximately to the date of George | and to assure & mild season. On one occasion, following the inauguration of President Taft in 1909, which was marked by a storm of violence and which exposed many thousands to the | intense bitterness of zero temperatures, | only a few votes in the House of Rep- |resentatives. After that began the | movement for a reform of the calendar | in quite another direction, advancing | |the inauguration to January and | | coupling with that change the shift of congressional terms and meetings. | ‘There are weighty arguments in favor of a change of calendar. The present | system was adopted when the country's | means of communication and transpor- | tation were primitive. Months were on some oceasions required for the ascer- tainment of the results of elections, and members of Congress could not peedily reach the Capital. Now it is | possible to determine the personnel of | the Congress within a few days after | the closing of the ballot boxes and, save for the distant territorial possessions, it is possible for members and delegates | elect 1 regort for service at the most | | Within & week from the receipt of their | credentials | This change will undoubtedly he eventuelly ordered by eonstitutionsl amendment. It would seem to be nearer at hand now than ever before, and may be on the point of being effected at the present. session | Plans for regular air seryice between | Americn and England are already den- | nitely made. It hus taken mauny years | W perfect tosdways weross the conti- | nent. Pioneers of the sir pave the way for much more rapld dev aid the patient and bra b plains opment than | i of | “Thiis 15 the era of swift and briisnt achiesement c-v— The Deleterious Doll. History and fable are replete with examples of optimistic and persevering soule Who set out v accomplish the | impossible webe out of the sky, the boy who stood [on the burning deck untll the upward thrust of the explosion of the ship's magazine left him no deck v stand on | the man who Lried w WL himselt by his | booL-straps; Daedalus with his waxed-on wings. come readily W mind, and there are & host of others But the septuple-palmed, triple-cor Aviied grond cross of the Order of the Unattalnable must be conferred on the | Bovier | bolehevistie newspaper, U Woman, which hes lssued & ukase compareble W some of those promul vatled by the Med ¢ Paul that ttle Russisn girle must ne longer play with avers, represent the bourgeois idea of family life; awaken a love of mother- hood and develop a taste for household duties, with the result that the Teachers’ Unlon of Moscow has banned them. Yes, indeed. They do all these repre- | hensible things. Also they are likely to keep on doing them, for one has a bird's-eye view of any national group of little girls who once have known dolls doing without them. They are found in early Egyptian tombs; they are found in the tumull of prehistoric peoples. They are visible evidence of the deep implantation and persistent early development of the mother and the housewife instinct in the female of | the species. Deprive a woman child of | {1 dolls and she will mother a lamb, a puppy. or a chicken or a stick of wood Deprive her even of every tangible sub- stitute for the baby she instinctively hopes some day to cuddle, and she will fold her empty arms In the mothering attitude. The overardent Bolshevists have pulled some extraordinary eco- nomic, soclal and moral “guff” in the mad, murderous decade since they have been in the saddle, but this latest effort rings thirteen. On the same day that this juley bit of news came out of Red Russia, an- other dispatch arrived. credited to a Leningrad newspaper. It stated frankly that the soldiers of the capital's garrison were openly avowing their weariness of the endless Soviet propaganda of the Russian “movies” and were clamoring to see motion pictures of foreign armies and other interesting scenes. daughters of such fed-up fathers are going to have their dolls, all the teach- ers’ unions and powerful public press to the contrary. The French Revolution performed some odd tricks with religion, with morality, with the calendar and with social usages. But even it, crazy as it was, knew better than to try to tinker with the human nature of curi- ous soldiers and tender-hearted girl children. - ——— The “Lone Eagle” Medal. The proposal to strike a medal in honor of Lindbergh's fiying ‘achieve- ments of 1927 and 1928, which has taken the form of bills introduced in both houses of Congress, will strongly appeal to the American people. These commemorative medals have been struck on previous occasions in honor of Presi- dents of the United States, naval and military heroes. and some others whose achievements have warranted special note by the Government. One of them was struck in appreciation of the con- tributions of the Wright Brothers to the science of aviation and it is decided- ly fitting that another should be now prepared in honor of the man who by his flights over seas and over continents has not merely demonstrated the utility of the “fiying machine,” Lut has con- tributed greatly to the good will be- tween the United States and other nations, The Lindbergh medal, if authorized by Congress. will be struck by the mint at Philadephia and will be offered for sale in bronze at $1 each, the approxi- mate cost of material and production. It will not be in any sense a money aspect. It will be the tribute of the United States Government to him who has been so happily styled by Justice Stafford, in his sonnet, the “Lone Eagle of the wild Atlantic plain." ——e. to the Prince of Wales. A sense of humor is often admirable, because it implies extraordinary patience with in- ferior jokes on the part of men and horses. e Raising the rediscount rate in New | York from 314 to 4 per cent will effect little restraint on speculation. A half per cent means little to a regular gambling man. ————— Opening headquarters for James A Reed in Houston is referred to as only a local demonstration. Nevertheless it definitely removes him from the “do not choose” class. e~ ‘The Prench welcomed Lindbergh with such gracious enthusiasm that hope is entertained that there will be some measure of cordiality even when the | bill collector comes around. v - Bt. Valentine will soon be due, with |a gentle reminder that it is a mistake to belleve everything you see in print or pictures. . -one SHOOTING STARS. BY PHILANDER JOHNSON Forward Looking. 1 dreamed of a golden morrow As the twilight darkened slow And, dreaming, forgot the sorrow Of days that T used to know. ‘Though wondrous may be the story Of the bygone frown or smile, It's the dream of a future glory That makes this life worth while. Early Bud. “Who 18 your favorite candidate?” “I hesitate o say." answered Sen- ator Borghum. “My efforts to get into touch with agricultural conditions re- veal the fact that the earliest bud is| the one most likely to be frost bitten ™ Bald 1, “A smart man loves o rule His tark he never shirks " Anud o 1 trusted to a fool — Who wrecked the blooming works Tud “Tunkins savs a good laugh reward of an honest and mind. s the discerning | . | Visions of the Future. E “Bome day you'll go W work In an #liplane * “Maybe. But that duy Il probably | ¢ 00 nervous Lo do anything" Bimple Bimon; the old lady | who was determined 1o sweep the eob- | “He who cheats,” sald HI Ho, the i-l(t of Chinstown, “must play with those who do likewise and And no | *portamal A little thought came glimmering |1 passed some long hours through with 1t | 1 stened. * Though its s wondrous thing | 1 don't know what to do with 1t » we salute the hero Nine Whose name brings cheers anew with it put an old thought into lne And knew just what to do with it e “A political Joh" said Uncle Eben, @ Sl e, working ou s comvgeevs. Gylel Dolls, \bis pondsrous periodical s eeky 1 Al bub Laid 10 hald 0B 1" The | Those who live in glass houses, as well as those who dwell in brick, stone, stucco and frame houses, ought to be interested in foundation Fllntlm:. The art and sclence of beautifying by means of plants the immediate frontage of the house, and, when op- portunity serves, its sides and rear as well, is explai | in “Foundation Plant- ll‘ by Leonard H. Johnson, published juSt before Christmas by the A. T. De La Mare Co., New York. e publishers folt “the need of, and demand for. a simple, practical, phic text book dealing with that ex- terior decoration of flowers, shrubs or | everzreens which, planted in front of | and around a house. completes the pic- ture of & verfect home and gives its jowner the full satisfaction of a well | balanc~d work of art.” | "I may be stated that Mr. Johnson's book adequately meets the expecta- tion of home owners in regard to a volume which will help them give their home this good bit of “exterior deco- ration.” The custom of planting shrubs in front of houses has grown in recent yvears, due to the widespread interest in landscape gardening. This latter term, however, is too inclusive for the aver- age home owner. He is more concerned with his own property than with the general “lay- out” of the landscape at large, over which he has little, if any, jurisdic- tion. Especially in the city and the suburb the home owner 4nds that about all he can do is to take care of his own property. Real estate operators, in many in- stances, have made a practice of plant- ing the foundations of the new homes they have erected. but purchasers often will find that betterments seem de- manded. It is to meet exactly the need of these home owners, as well as the thou- who already own their homes, Foundation Plenting” has been . ‘This handsomely illustrated volume might well be called a picture book for grown-ups. Its 235 large pages are filled mostly with photographs of ac- tual homes, mostly well planted. but in some instance showing faulty planting. The author explains that these photographs do not show his own work, but are simply a collection which he made while traveling in all parts of the United States. “The prime pur- pose of this book,” he declares, “is to offer to the average home owner in both city and country some helpful suggestions as to the adaptability, se~ lection, arrangement and care of orna- mental plant materials suitable for use, looking to the outdoor home adorn= ment.” i Those last three words constitute a fine phrase, one which ought to be held {in mind by every home owner, whether | of large or small house. whether in a city row or in suburban arca. “Outdoor home adornment” is as much a necessity, if one is to get the greatest satisfaction from home owner- ship. as Is interfor decoration. Just as the householder must adapt the formal decoration of the interior to his own needs, and ought not to allow himself to be bound down by too slavish ad- herence to rules, so he must first get the idea that the adornment of the immediate surroundings of his home is necessary, and then he snould feel that A man who has made tnis his life work is able to give him real suggestions. This is exactly what this new book | offers the reader. He will discover that there is not so much mystery as common sense in foundation planting, and that while the subject is new In treatment, 1t is & very old one, for those with pride in" property—not avery one seems to have it today, alas!— always have felt that some planting near the home was desirable. The frontispiece to “Foundation Planting,’ in fact, shows an old colonial home with typical planting of handsome specimen_boxwood. Just which shrubs and other plants to set out, however, is a matter with which not every one is familiar. Many a per- son has purchased a house and set out lilacs, not realizing, in his innocence, that these shrubs grow into trees of no mean height. There s such an abun- dance of material in Nature that even the man interested in making the ex- terior of his home attractive by the use of plants often fails to secure the proper effect. He realizes that mere abundance is not enough; there must be harmony between the different units, and be- tween these and the house, and be- tween the house and the remainder of the neighborhood, if possible. The primary reason why it is fash- lonable to plant evergreens and shrubs around the bases of homes, public buildings, garages, etc., the author ex- plains, is simply to blend the buildings —"which, being man-made, are there- fore artificial"—with the natural sur- rounding landscape, the idea being to produce, if possible, one harmonious effect without lessening usefulness and convenience. a3 ww When it comes to the specific task of blending the house with the grounds, Mr. Johnson declares, the following fac- tors should be considered: 1. The type of architecture of the house. 2. Will the plants be in a shaded or exposed location? 3. Is the soil adapted to the kind of plants preferred? 4. Is an all-year-around or a seasonal effect desired? 5. What is the height of the foun- dation? 6. Are there any undesirable features of7v.hxe hnttlueh'g be fircwuled? . Is the house located in a smok: district? e The beauty of “Foundation Planting" from the standpoint of the average reader is the fact that there is a photo- graph here of practically every type of home which any one might buy, and each such picture has beneath it the exact planting plan. with the name and description of the shrubs, etc., needed, and the number of them. Thus one may “look in the book and see,” as the song in “King Dodo” had it. An owner without the disposition which makes research a pleasure may nevertheless find from this book exactly what he wants in relation to his own home and be enabled to correct from the picture the planting of his own home or make an entirely new planting. Those who love their homes will find this a veritable treasure book of the homes of others. The real home lover, whether he lives in a mansion or cot- . Is interested always in pictures and plans of other people’s homes. On page 96. for instance. he sees that a tny cottage is beautifully planted with two plants, Spirea Vanhoutte and Jap- anese Barberry. Often enough it is not so[{numlmone;' as l’no"}nl how! unique feature of “Foundation Planting” is the last portion of the book, which gives actual {llustrations of specimen coniferous evergreens, spec- imen broad-leaved evergreens and spec- imen shrubs. These constitute the most useful and widely used species and va- rieties. This section alone will prove invaluable to the earnest home owner. Further evidence that women in poli- tics to date have not contributed to & higher standard of public service is seen by some newspaper observers in the case of Mrs, Florence Knapp. In- trusted by New York with the task of taking a State census, Mrs. Knapp is charged in an official report with crim- inal irregularities in the spending of something more than $1,000,000 appro- priated for the job. ! “The tone of newspaper comment on the case,” as noted by the Albany Eve- | ning News, “appears to be that no dis- | tinction can be made because she is & woman. That is the only view that can be taken. * * * This newspaper | has said that the case is not a reflec- tion on women in politics. It is the | case of an individual who happens to |be a woman and it must be so con- | sidered.” . The Baltimore Evening Sun holds that it s “almost impossible to find | any real distinction between men and women, once they take up professional politics.” and the Newark Evening News draws the conclusion: “It does not seem to be a matter of sex at all. ”( anything, it is merely a case of & dved-in-the-wool organization member | following precedent, no matter where it leads.” “The women of New York,” advises the Dayton Daily News. “can do nothing less than fnsist that justice take its unpitying course. They can't afford to have It appear that a woman in office is chivalrously exempted from the legal consequences of her misfeasance in of- fice. That would give the men too good an argument against giving offices to women " Pointing out that “she was the wom- an in politlcs—the woman in office,” the Utica Observer-Dispatch argues: “If ever a duty lay heavily upon the shoulders of any one, it was the duty that rested upon Mrs. Knapp when she came to the high office of Secretary of State, and the privilege of taking a census of the Btate at an expense of 41,200,000 was committed to her hands. Here was an opportunity to make @ record; to show that the woman in politics would purify the stream of graft and incompetence, and wasteful extravagance, and political mantpula- tion which has been injected into pub- lie service under the ~domination of men. Mrs, Knapp falled, miserably, to {do this, if even a small part of this re- | port 15 true,” CRUEEa “When we adopted woman suffrage,” recalls the Fort Wayne News-Sentinel, | “we were solemnly informed that s T'ED STATES IN WORLD WAR Toduy Years Ago American officers are elated over re- cults of firsl artllery duel between American and German gunmen. Aerlal reconnalssances show the American gun- fire had a very destructive effect and will niecessitate several nights' work to rebulld, while damage to the American trenches was amall. = * ¢ The sector occupied by the Americans is northwest of Toul, on the southeast side of the 5t Mihiel sallent—a fact kept secret untl ita discovery by the Germans. No detalls are given out as Lo the number of men In line length of sector. ete * %« War Department announces movement of last increment of men se- lected in frst draft will begln February 23 ¢+ * Government {8 considerin plan to withdraw from forelgn trade al onnage Lo maintain enorn supplies o Fra ‘There are 1,000,000 tons of ammunition and other hllrblllm accumulated at Atlal ports Lo be moved before additional output of war fuctories can be sent (o terminals, * ¢ ¢ Beeretary Danlels authorises statement (hat the Navy 15 assured of enough ships to make sure there will be at loast 500.000 Americans i France early this YoM, ——— Woman’s Part in Politics Debated After Knapp Case great, far-reaching purification of poli- tics was immediately ahead: but thus far we have seen few evidences of the fulfillment of this prophecy Although A4 great many women who have at- tained office in various parts of the United States have turned out to be honest, effictent and above reproach, others have been proved to be as in- competent and untrustworthy as any man could be. * * ¢ Mrs. Knapp may be as tnnocent as a lamb and as pure as the deep-drifted snow, but she fur- nishes an example of the continuing truth that woman suffrage has not thus far been able to elimin politi- cal scandals in the high place: On the other hand the Fargo Forum says: “Papers ir. some sections are em- phasizing the fact that it is a woman Wwho is accused of maladministration, and making use of this for all sorts ©of arguments. Inevitably the ‘parallel’ of Mrs. Ferguson has been dragged in. The cases have nothing in common, and they prove ncthing in the argument against wome. in high office. New York and some other States have had their derelictions on the part of men in office, and they will have them agair S0 1t would be well to wait until the criminal suits recommended are ended, and the facts are known. Even then. nothing may b proved save the matter of criminal culpability. e ‘The report of the investigation is commended by the New York Times, which finds evidence of “ability, cour- age and judgment in the discharge of a difficult task.” The Times makes the further comment: “In spite of the fact that Mrs. Knapp first rejected the sug- gestion that adequate census accounts be keJ)t currently. later burned all the records she could lay her hands on and, finally, when the investigation was on, refused to co-operate with the gover- nor's commissioner, he was able in the end to reconstruct the whole framework of the finances of the census from its inception, * * * The work was done 50 painstakingly that they were able to allocate all the moneys expended, and to show that of the $1,200,000 census funds, nearly $120,000 w. disbursed Irll;lnlly and another $80,000 waste- ully." ‘The report is described by the Scran- ton Times as “a scathing denunciation of the inefficlency and worse in the secretary’s office during the time that Mrs. Knapp was in charge.” Yet it is pointed out by the Hartford Times that “eurlously enough, Mrs. Knapp repre- sented. not only the woman voters who were o reform things at Albany, but the ‘better element.’ * * « My Knapp was having herself written up as a good influence in politics. * * * Another thing for New York State voters to think about s the utility of a State census which duplicates the national census and_apparently s designed to make population figures it political needs " “One 1s bound to ask.” concludes the Springfeld Republican, “if there is still not something in the moral atmosphere of political administration in America that subtly corrodes any character that Is not well fortified In advance for the experience. Public offclals seem to need In their characters the moral equivalent of the gas mask used as a protection against poison gases in mod- ern warf; s JEP—. - Pot of Beans Filling. he Frovideuca Journal This years automobile license plate In Idaho has a potato as an identify. ing mark and that of Massachusetts, as we all know, carries fiah. Now I some State would only adopt a come bination of the two symbols there would be a glorification of one of New Eugland’s popular dishes. ‘.- g n Waste Energy. From the Cloveland Plain Dealer University of Pittsburgh professor says that & sound sleeper changes his position about 38 times during the course of a night. What are the pro- ¥r Designs o Lfeasors dolng - scheming (0 hariess &" aolie Of this Waate en THE EVENING STAR. WASHINGTON, D. O, SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 4, 192. THIS AND THAT BY CHARLES E. TRACEWELL. THE LIBRARY TABLE By the Booklover Ole Edvart Rolvaag, author of “Glants in the Earth; a Saga of the| Prairie,” has been given by life the equipment needed for just such a big novel, He was Norweglan; he Is American. He was born in 1876 on the bleak, almost treeless island of Donna, in the district of Helgeland, Norway, only a little south of the Arctic Circle. His name there was Pedersen, because his father's name was Peder, but on coming to America he ex- .changed the patronymic for a place name and called himself Rolvaag, after the granite-walled e at the head of which his father lived. In his novel Per Hensen and Hans Olsen do t same thing and become, as Americans, Peter Holm and Hans Vaag. Rolvaag's family and neighbors were all fisher- men and fished in the open sea in Summer and went off in larger boats to the Lofoten Islands in Winter. When he was 15, Rolvaag himself had his first experience of the bitter cold, the icy storms, the hardships and dangers of a Lofoten Winter. He disliked the life and was saddened every year by the accidents and illnesses which took a heavy toll among his friends and which he himself narrowly escaped; but he continued going until he was 20, because he had been pronounced hope- ANSWERS TO QUESTIONS BY FREDERIC ]. HASKIN. The keynote of the times is efficient | tened before slaughter. the meat will be service. In supplying its readers with 'improved. Hogs may be killed for meat a free Information Bureau in Washin: me after 8 weeks of age, bub u?‘n The Evening Star is living up to the most profitable age at which t0 this principle in deed and fact. We are | slaugnter is between 8 and 12 months. paying for this service in order that it | may be free to the public. Submit ! your queries to the staff of experts| ' whose services are put at your disposal. | ¢ Inclose 2 cents in stamps to cover the | return postage. Address The Evening Star Information_Bureau, Prederic J. Haskin, Director, Washington, D. C. Q. What horse racing on American tracks has won the most money in any year?—8. an o' War cames first, winning s totaling $166.140 in 1920. Next ll:')g; 5 Crusader, winning $166,033 in 926. simply es are there in L contain at least 200 libraries of e marria, Q. What will be the cost per gun of ized the latest type of high-powered 8-inch | dive naval guns, which are to be installed | . on our new cruisers>—E. P. 8, A. The Navy Department says that the new high-powered 8-inch guns, which are to be installed on the new cruisers, exclusive of the mount, cost | between $44,000 and $45,000. Q. Was Leonard Wood ever Gnvemor: of Cuba’—R. L. oo A, Leonard Wood was Military Gov- | " ernor of Cuba from 1899 to 1902. In| Q Was Jumho . Q. How many Am thousand less as regarded education. He had al- ways read eagerly all the books he| could find in the government precinct | library, but was never able to learn | much at the school, 7 mil away from his home, across wind-swe moors, which he attended nine weegs a year for seven vears. When he was ! 14 his father decided that further | schooling would be wasted upon him. | But he seems to have been a good | fisherman, for when at the age of 20 he | decided to go to America, the master | fisherman for whom he had worked | offered to put him in command of a boat of his own. He thought it over and was firm in his determination to | try America. | e Landing in New York in 1896 with! only a dime in his pocket. he set out for | South Dakota on the ticket sent him | by an uncle. One loaf of bread, with no butter, jam or honey, furnished his | only food on the three days' journe: At the end of the railway journe; forlorn, hungry, knowing no Englis] he walked for hours through the night. over the spreading prairie, to reach his o uncle’s farm. And then he found that he did not like farming any better than | fishing, but he worked at it for three years. Then, without much hope, for he was obsessed by the family verdict on his stupidity, he decided to make another attempt for an education. He | entered & grammar school in Canton, S. Dak.. at the age of 23. There he soon discovered the injustice which had | been done him by removing him from | school, for he learned with such rlpld-" ity that he almost alarmed hims In| two years he was able to enter St. Olaf | College, at Northfield, Minn., where he was graduated with honors in 1905 Borrowing & small sum, he went back | to Norway and took graduate work at | the University of Oslo for a year. On | b return to America, he became a member of the faculty of St. Olaf Col lege, where he now holds the chair of Norwegian literature. His writing be- | gan during his senior year at St. Olaf | and has been adily continued. He | has published six novels. a volume of | essays, and several readers and hand-| books of Norwegian literature and | grammar. But all of these were Writ- | ten in Norwegian, published by a Minnesota firm. and circulated onlv among Norwegian-Americans. In 192 Rolvaag secured a vear's leave of ab- sence from his college and began work. in Norwegian, on “Giants in the Earth. During the year he revisited Norway and there met the world-known novel- ist, Johan Bojer, whose novel, “The Emigrants,” published at about the same time, bears so much resemblance | to “Giants in the Earth” In talking| with Bojer, Rolvaag found that lhelrY points of view were very different: | Bojer saw the Norwegian-American problem from ths point of view of Norway, Rolvaag from that of America. | The first book of “Giants in the Earth,” called “The Land-Taking." was published in Norway in 1924. The | second book, “Founding the Kingdom.”| appeared a year later. The complete | novel has gone through many editions in Norway and has resulted in placing | Rolvaag among the foremost present- day Norwegian writers. The transla- tion from the Norwegian was published | in the United States in 1927. - 1902 the Government of Cuba was pered transferred to the Cuban Republic, so A |that after that date the United States had no governor general there. times. e ra; Q Why was the city of Peoria, Ill. circus h 7—A. M. S. i Peoria Indians. to the site of the present g Q What proportion of our linen imports come from Ireland?—I. L. More than half the linens ex- ported from Ireland are sent to the United States, and statistics show that fully three-fourths of our linen imports are received from that country. Q. Where is the author of “Home, | Sweet Home,” buried?—R. H. T. | 3 A. The body of John Howard Payne | @ mountain t| is buried under the trees of George- , —E. T.D. town, D. C, in Oak Hill Cemetery. . The wel ;nhere Payne used to walk with his ure of riends. prepared for shipping?—E. T. C. A. Marketable water cress consists | f young. tender shoots and leaves. A n equipped with hip boots and a kno suitable knife cuts the tender shoots v grasping them in the left tting with the right. The | seven stems of the plant. generally about 4 to in its m 5 inches long. are tied in a compact ' %ork of hand and cu |bunch before being released from the ¥ho grasp. In some cases. shippers pack the cress in berry cups instead of tying it in bunches: but whatever the plan followed. the product should be packed in barrels and iced re shipment. | What city in Nevada has a radio broadcasting station>—J. G. A. The State of Nevada has no! broadcasting station. Q. At what age are hogs ready for of slaughter’—M. E. G. wassail bowl A. The meat from very young bogs | meaning "I lacks flavor and is tery, and that | drinking fr from old hogs gene: is very tough. |around was observ However, if old hogs are properly fat- hal supper. BACKGROUND OF EVENT BY PAUL V. COLLY Is the increase of risk? es of the United States killed 10081 | 278 In froot of L victims of aceidents; in 1926 they killed | concerned about fatalities and even 23,264. While the fatalities increased a f about non-fatal crippiing. 3 littte more than twofold, the number| IR a conference on street ard Righe of automobiles on streets and highwars | way safe 924. Secretary of Com- grew from 4,983,340 in 1917 to 22,001 - 393 in 1926. The menace, therefore. in- creased nearly fivefold. Twenty years ., ago there was one killing for every automobiles. In 1917, for every 494 au- tomobiles there was one fatal accident; | in 1926 it took 946 machines to kill one man. Hence it is evident that efficiency in preventing accidents doubled in the last decade and quadrupled i two decades. In 1917 automo- | A vear ago there died at Bagdad an | lec Englishwoman about whom had grown up a body of stortes, true and m\-en'.ed’. suggestive of the medieval cycles of heroic epics. Now the “Letters of Ger- trude Bell,” selected and edited by h(‘\: stepmother, Lady Bell. D. B. E, reveal the authentic personality of this modern feminine King Arthur, who was called “the Uncrowned Queen of Arabis ove of adventure was from childhood the | dominant tone of her life. This passion led her into situations which made h of the utmost political tmportance bo! to England d Arabia: the rec these situations is history ar the most valuable part of the But the story of the adventur selves is unadulterated a romance and will be of as g to most readers as the servi by Gertrude Bell for responsible for the crowning King of Iraq, partakes of both histor and romance. Her crossing of the desert to Damascus Was a feat successiy complished by few men otr Arabs. Her attendance at a sword | dance of the Druses just before they | set out on an expedition to aghter a neighborhood tribe was an adventure which most people would consider too perilous to be a privilege. but the Druses, though bloodthirsty against their enemies, were friendly to her, and she saw the inner secrets of Druse cere- monial and went away in perfect safety Her letter about this says “Tomorrow the Druses are gomg forth. 2.000 horse- men, 1o recapture their flocks and ta kill every man, woman and child of the Sakhr that they may come across * ¢ ¢ Then several came up {0 » me. ‘Upon thee be peace.’ they ‘the English and the Druse are one I sald: “Praise be to God. we too fighUing race!” And It vou had lstene to that song you would know that 1 finest thing i the world 15 to Ko out and kil your enemy!” » . How quickly romane had just become aceus pleturesque Trader Horn peddl Kitchenware to West African buy by day and writing memotie bunk of a tramps’ lods night, when hete comes 1 ounces ment of his American publishers that he has abandoned the free lance ped- dling business and taken up his resi- dence at Durban. in Natal. where he 15 1ving comfortably - and_convention- ally —on royalties of over $2,000 a week e * . in the use by The American farmer i3 able to take care of himself, according to E R stman, editor of the American Agri- oulturist and author of “These Changing Times * Though suffering temporarily from world readjustments. he s going to hold his own, becawse he is so far superior to other farmers of the world 50 efMicient tn his specialised business Mr. Eastman's book tells the story of | farm changes and development during the twentleth century. The change from ON-ATE o motor truck s typieal of many other changes, affecting not only the work of the farmer on his land, | but also the work of his wite in her kitchen In fact. the automobile is shown as the Keyiote of favm change 1t has anniilated the distance between | farm and oity, and by so dping has brought to the farmer markets, educa ton, recreation ehurches. postal servioe everything which the clty dweller en- o he length o uld It may be stated that while (the latest year for which statis cities av Why the = ers who p ased percen due to the tenden e and satuted |; arelessness i mat s or personal a For example. they point to the b entore Against violations of parking of dayhigh Here Is the typic of one “automobile vie desited t0 park “dow our. late one ev No parking betwes platform,” b atform®” ‘verboten” did not rea! AR tocale, but that the sigh Was misy: | He parked, and when he returied t s machine later disovered a lide was lost What could it have meant Expecially was that prodadle when. out of curisity, he tapected that dentical [ ourd half an hour later and discovered unodiles n Ehat 30 teet dacorations ™ Hence 1t NO parsing be- thiee other au without any WAS cunvineing that & tween platform and curd” where there WAS N0 vestige of & p mcould ned Mean ANYLRINE, except as twisted by & temperamental and - overaMokous at- ficer In what other lihe of “ortme 18 law enforvement s trregular? . oe Unlike Mark TWains complaint about the weather, with which he declared everybody found fault. dut nobady didt anyihing about 16 thete are many engineers Who ate aleit 0 abalvee the aufamobile situation and propose vem- Acvndent cal and » accidents o driver as & thewr and 1t takes ¢ Degin to show eftecis CCRRITAAL 1R b Bawl V. Cvlimad