Evening Star Newspaper, February 7, 1928, Page 8

8 STAR. WASHINGTON « THIS AND THAT "THE EVENING TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 7. 1928 understanding. A chance word spoken |a sound economic reason therefor, and In the street may spread with rapidity. | these cases have nothing to do with any and, magnifying as it goes, may start a [ loss of American commercial prestige. rush of people to the tellers' windows. | He shows that the decrease in exports is THE EVENING STAR With Sunday Morning Edition. TTWASHINGTON, D.C. LW BOOKS ANSWERS TO QUESTIONS AT RANDOM BY FREDERIC ]. HASKIN. TUESDAY. THEODORE W. NOYES. The Evening Star Newspaper Company siness Offioe: __11th St and Pennsvlvanta Ave. New York Office: 110 4 Chicago Office: Tower Building. European Office: 14 Regent St.. London, Engtand. Rate by Carrier Ihe Evenng Star. ... 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Just why the writer of these letters—there seems to have been but one “poison pen” at work— sought thus to precipitate a panic is yet to be learned. It may have been a case of individual spite. perhaps a desire to bring about a business depression, and yet why any one, especially a member of the immediate community, would wish such a condition cannot be concelved. In such cases there is nothing to do { positors appear with demands for their funds. The invocation of a notice rule {is dangerous. It is always interpreted as a confession of weakness. Nothing fs gained by delays, for as obstacles are more than accounted for by Mexico alone, where conditions have been un- settled in the last few years, while the decrease in imports from Latin America is one of values alone, the volume re- maining firm. This latter fact—the sharp decline in the average level of world prices—has been an outstanding | feature of international trade in 1927, for the decline was shown in a decrease of from eight to ten per cent iIn the !average prices received for American commodities shipped abroad, and al- most as large a decrease in the aver- age pald for imports. The revival of European industries since the war has brought about sharp competition In the markets of Latin | America, and it has not been expected that the United States would continue to command the same proportion of trade with the southern republics as during the war years. Every year since the war, however, has brought renewed demonstration of the ability of the 1 American manufacturer to hold his own in the face of this competition. As Mr. placed in the way of withdrawals the | Eder points out, a trade founded wholly |upon the debility of our competitors is BY CHARLES E. TRACEWELL. Recent consideration in this. column of ‘“exterfor decoration” of .home grounds has put us into the mood for writing on the subject of the general upkeep of homes. ‘The_reader offhand might think this is a plain matter of property pride and personal economy, but a brief inspéc- tlon of properties will suffice to con- vince him that much yet remains to be done. Too many home owners expect that nothing will ever go wrong with gut- ters, downspouts, back porches and 50 on. When repairs become necessary they raise a clamor that they have been de- frauded, and feel that their children are being robbed of bread. Yet depreciation is not merely a the- oretical thing, but a very actual entity. The moment a purchase is made, either of home or automobile, it. becomes sec- ond-hand for the next purchaser. The car is new when it leaves the hands of the dealer. but the moment you sign on the dotted line, alas, it au- tomatically goes into the second-hand classification! You might run around the block merely, but if you tried to dispose of the car upon that basls probably you would find that the trip had cost you a couple of hundred dollars. “needs painting.” This is the very pro- crastination to he feared. If & complete painting job is done before there is any evidence of “wear and tear,” the probability is that faults will be nipped in the bud, small leaks will be filled and prevented from grow- ing larger, and the trim protected from the start. Even if the original paint job was a good one, this painting again soon, rather than later, is called for, in order x;, secure this measure of superprotec- tion. We are irreverently reminded of the manufacturer who first branded his product “ultra.”" When he put out an improved model, he called it “super,” but when he marketed a still further improved article, he had no words le| but was forced to call it simply' by name! “Superprotection” as the result of superpainting, however, is no catch slogan, but a real fact, which any one can test out for himself. fences, too, respond beautifully to kind treatment in this respect. A coat of stain now and then will preserve them beyond the belief of the man who allows them to simply rot away. * kK K There 15 a certain amount of sport, too, in pitting one’s Intelligence Wooden | LG M. The two were not standing together, i not_really, though they seemed to be. This was because the rest of the big company was massed away from them at the far qud of the great hall. occaslon was one of those familiar bits of Babbittry, the “getting together” for comradely exchanges of every sort of confraternal intent-—league, guild, so- ty, club, gang, whatnot. great body of American novellsts, now writing, that s assembled for profes- slonal contacts and accountings. The stamp is clearly that of very high qual- ity. Nevertheless, upon its surface, the meeting is like all meetings. At the door you are met by the murmur of in- numerable monologues, simultancously rising in a din beside which that fate- ful day of Babel was pure simplicity and complete clarity. However, by dint of sharp hearing and keen sight and the gift of disentangling decp con- ‘fusions, you come upon the important fact that, despite so many diversities of purpose and power and achievement, these are all bound together in a single bond of literary fellowship. Every one of them {s absorbed in skimming off The | It is lhl:’ ‘Take advantage of this fre lwrvlc'.] If you are not one of the thousands | who have patronized the bureau since | s establishment, we want you to start | now. This is a service maintained for | the benefit of the readers of The Evening Star, and we want you to get your share of benefit from It. Send your questions to us. Inclose two cents in stamps for return postage. Address | The Evening Star Information Bureau, | Frederic_J. Haskin, Director, Washing- | ton, D. C. Q. How much clothing did the Red Cross gather and distribute in the Mississipp! flood area?—C. R. A. Following the appeal of the Amer- ican Red Cross on September 26, con- iributions of used clothing were made to such an extent that by December 31 48 carloads were sent to the stricken area, | | | Q. Can buildings be made actually fireproof?—H. L. | A. The word fireproof is probably a | less appropriate term than fire resistive. | Buildings can be constructed so that | they can withstand a complete burning out of contents without any collapse of | structural members. There will, of | cour e damage to finish and trim They can also be constructed to with- | stand exposures from fires in adjacent | | —M. 8. and then the first ring of the rattle is uncovered or added. Q. Please give the history of the handkerchief —M. M. A. The handkerchief is one of the refinements of Roman civilization. 1t came into general use in polite society during the reign of Henry VIII of Eng- land. It is probably connected with ecclesiastical costumes and may have been an outgrowth of the maniple, which was originally of linen and worn over the fingers of the left hand and used for the same purpose for which the handkerchief i3 now used. The pocket. handkerchief was used to a tain extent in Fran n the eighteenth century. At this period handkerchiefs were richly ornamented. Women adopted the wuse of colored handker- chiefs as soon as the taking of snuff became an established custom. Q. In what opera was “Home, Sweet Some"” first sung?—F. E. A. It was sung in May, 1823, in “Clari, the Maid of Milan.” The air used was a transeription of an old Sicilian air made by Henry Bishop, who wrote the opera. Q. What part of a banana is water? The 1.3 per A It 18 753 per cent water. other constituents are: Prote not built upon a very strong foundation. * K * the top of things as these oddments | poigings without communicating fire | cent: fat, .6 per cent; carbohydrates, 22 The Specter of Intervention. Tntervention, which has been waiting 2t Havana “like a ghost that is speech- less till some questioning voice dis- solves the spell of its silence.” now pre- sents ftself in the fuil light of day. The questioning voices have come from | Argentina. Salvador. Guatemala, Do- minican Republic. Honduras and Mexi- c0. Divested of its shroud of mystery. how Rerrifving is this gaunt specter Will the unwelcome intrusion of this rude apparition scatter the delegates— suse them to flee from the erstwhile ¢ shores of Cuba to the under- anding safety of their homelands? Intervention has been pictured as the sock which would split the conference 3t Havana. Now it looms ahead. To inderstand its nature it is necessary to | “eview briefly its history as it concerns | _ ‘he Havana conference. The preceding conference at Santiago. Chile, in 1923, from clamor spreads the panic spirit. Let the line of withdrawing depositors once get bevond the doors of the bank and the rumors spread swiftly And the line grows longer still. The writer of these anonymous letfers has committed a grievous offense, for severely punished. Whether his act was thoughtless or malicious, he has sought 1o destroy confidence, and in so dofi has contributed to the very conditions iwhich he pretends, at least, to seek to {avoid, the loss of depositors’ fund: | though fortunately in the .present state (of the banking system of this country | !the institutions, if sound, can weather | such storms. S Hoover in the Primaries. which, if he can be found, he should be | "VIy awakened desires for goods which | was barely adequate for the mainte- Our future trade with Latin America {must rest upon the morg permancnt i footing of superiority in the face of competition, upon the growing prosper- {ity of our Latin American customers, upon their increased needs and their were unknown or unavailable to them until they were sent south and sold by our exporters, ——— et “And the Greatest of These.” A few days ago a man was found | dewd In the Kitchen of his home, as- | phyxiated by gas. His occupation was | that ot a truck driver. His fncome | nance of his family, consisting of a wife and five children, with another| Friends of Mr. Hoover are of two | child soon to be born. The Star told | There is nothing surer than that a house begins to deterlorate from the moment construction starts, This is not the buflder’s fanlt in any sense, provided that he has buflt hon- with good materials and crafts- manship. but is simply an _inherent quality in everything that enters into home construction. The drag of gravity, the shaking of trucks and busses, the clements—these are some of the important factors which tend to wear out & house, for a house wear: even i it i p How much sooner. show decay if it is not adequately cared for? This is where the inevitable repair bills come in. It is probably not pos «ible to construct a house where som thing will not go wrong, now and then: vet too many persons scem to feel that COMP NECOSSATY. Well. perhaps they should—but it is common experience that they do not! And the surest way to_make certain suit of clothes, | decades should go by before repairs be- minds regarding the wisdom of entering ! the Ohlo primaries as a candidate for the presidential nomination as a com- the story of this tragedy in the course of its printing of the news of the day. Its account, which set forth the lam- that they shall be held off as long as possible is to keep a property right up- to-the-minute all the time, from the day one moves In. | against the well known team of Time and Chance. The elements have a habit of out- | doing man, n the end, but for a long | time it 35 possible to give them a real battle. | Fighting fhem to a standstill f5 a possibility. All one has to do Is first to get placed in his mind the idea of the game which he is playing. Then he probably will become interested in home upkeep. Where some_houschold- ers fall down Is that they allow a home to bore them find the whole subject, which tiresome 10 a degrec, find no entertainment in inspect- | ing “the gate posts to see where the I st signs of disintegration show up, Less enjoyment would they derive from the work of patching the splits the post. Such inspection and such patehing strikes them as absurd and futile, yet {they are the . first to holler when they find the post rotted beyond repair. ! Truly, the ancients knew whereof they | spoke” when they enunciated the plain truth, “A stitch in time saves nine.” The man who keeps his property that water may not enter, and thus rot | ' of life go floating by. Thelr common inspiration s external. Realist and | romanticist_alike are bent to the sole fbusiness of picturing a_ hit-or-miss to the inside of the building, although | her: again there may be damage to facing material and window glass and shutters, Fire resistive buildings greatly ! world. This novelist may be an expert cameraman, snapping the soul and body and exact setting of this one or that one in world of chance. A I realist. That writer may be an adept decrease the destructiveness of fires in | providing less opportunities for fires to start, less likelihood of rapid spread. greater ease of extinguishment. and less hazard to neighboring structures. i with the colors and shadings and drifts | f events. A romanticist. But in | nefther—splendid as_their output may be and often is--is there any sign of a ! personal cosmic consclousne: | These two standing over there? James | nd John Erskine link between thelm Is a single one, it is vital. Eachy from somewhere with in his birth and nature and upbringing, a philosophy of life that the mainspring of his that exists as the source of his that shapes the projection of these, that defines their spirit and ob- jectifies their purpose. Not identical | philosophies, those possessed by these two novelists. Not at all. That is un- | important. come upon a guiding power of human | art, ! novels, The point is that each has | Q What does the term ‘“certified milk" mean?—S. G. J. A. Certified milk is milk from in- spected cattle, prepared under medical Jupervision and under thoroughly sani- y conditions. alfalfa grown by the 2. D. M. A. The colonists made repeated ef- | forts to establish the plant as a forage crop, the first recorded attempts being mae in Georgia in 1736, but as its soil and cultural requirements were not well understood, the early efforts re- sulted In failure. How many rings does a rattler G acquire each year?—C. D. evaluation that serves invariably as the | ““4"rpa Biological Survey ‘says that | foundation of literary effort. | cer cent! ash. 3 per cent. Fuel valie per pound, 460 calorjes. Q. On what American_coasts are abalone zhells found?—P. W. A. The Bureau of Fisheries zays that the abalone shell is not found on the Atlantic coast at all, and is found only near California. Q. Is there any place in the worl where the sun does not rise at all dur- ing the Winter season?—H. J. A. As the axis of the earth is in- clined at an angle of 23!, degrees, the Arctic Circle is not slluminated by rays from the sun during the Winter period. ‘The sun s below the horizon practical- Iv the whole of the 24 hours of the day. only just touching it at one mo- ment. In June the converse is true, the sun remaining above the horizon dur- ing the whole 24 hours and just touch- ing it at one moment. The period of darkness in Winter persists for the whole six months between September | and March. On March 21 the Nortn Pole is on the boundary between lignt and darkness and from that date until September 23 it remains in the light. ‘There is, therefore. a day of six months and 2 night of six months at the North appointed a commission of jurists to 4 . | pai " . ” i 5 v v Ses t th me owner | painted and repaired up-to-the-minute from two to entable situation of the widow and | This presupposes that the home o D M urgen,” the - adventures of Dom | the ratilesnake acquires Fum €U0 f0} and draft a code of international law. After | PeUtor foF the delegates from that State many delays the commission met at Rio de Janeiro last year and adopted a number of projects for this codifica- | claimed as Buckeye's fayorite son. There are those who feel that it is his duty to well as his right to go Into any juris- | against Senator Willis, who has been pro¥} her family, aroused the sympathetic interest of all Washington. Immedi- ately, without any appeal having been made, contributions for the aid of this tion. At Havana they were referred to the committee on public interna- | diction that he wishes, and in which tional law. Victor Maurtua of Peru,|there is a possibility of getting dele- the committee’s reporter. submitted ms{nlea Then there are those who feel report Saturday, in which he discarded ; that it is poor strategy to antagonize the declarations of the commission of jany favorite son, on the score that by urists regarding intervention, substi- |so doing he alienates a possible reserve strength of value in the secondary stages of the Kansas City balloting. ‘There is no law governing such a situ- ation. Favorite sons do not always have an undisputed go at the primaries. They often have to fight for their dele- gates, have to demonstrate that they are, In fact, favorite sons. If the prin- ciple of pre-emption were carried out fully a ngginating convention might find itself confronted with forty-eight presidential possibilities, each backed by his own commonweaith. In this case Mr. Hoover has some warrant for his decision in’the invita- tion which has been extended to him by his Ohio friends, who have formally placed him in nomination. Shall he tell those friends that they must abstain from expressing themselves at the pri- maries because an Ohioan is himself in the running? That would hardly be conducive to enthusiasm. This decision, it is made known, was reached’ by the so-called board of strategy which has taken charge of the pre-convention Hoover movement and is directing its course. Mr. Hoover him- self has not announced his candidacy uting therefor declarations prepared by | *he American Institute of International Law in 1916. 5 | In drawing up its projects concern- | ing the existence, equality and recogni- tion of states. the commission of jurists at Rio de Janeiro included the un- adorned declaration that “No state may | intervene in the internal affairs of an- | sther” It is a long-accepted principle of international law, however, that a | itate may so intervene when certain rights of its nationals are at stake. Instead of attempting to codify exist- inz international law, the commission af jurists set forth some brand-new orinciples. As international law is in | reality the law of every state, it is fu-| ‘e to set forth new theories, which have not been generally accepted as; ‘undamental and conveniently label them “Principles of International Law.” As opposed to the declaration of the | ecommission of jurists that “No state may intervene in the internal affairs of another”—a declaration that is fervently indorsed by Argentina, Salvador, Guatemala, Dominican Republic, Hon- duras and Mexico—are the pflnnlplu‘: st forth by the American Institute of | International Law, which declare: | Every nation has the right to exist| and to protect and conserve its ex- | istence; but this right neither implies | the right nor justifies the act of the state to protect itself or conserve its| rxistence by the commission of uniaw ful acts against innocent and unoffend- ing states Every nation has the right to inde- Prndence in the sense that it has the right to the pursuit of happiness and is free to develop ftself without interfer- ence and control from other states, pro- vided that in 0 doing it does not inter- fere with or violate the rights of other states ¢ Every natlon has the right to terri- | for the nomination. Yet he is undenfably in the field, easily the most-talked-of possibility on the Republican side. The strategy board has selected nine States in which Mr. Hoover's name will be placed before the Republican voters— New Hampshire, Michigan, Massachu- setts, Ohlo, Pennsylvania, California, Maryland, New Jersey and Oregon, with a total of 305 delegates. While presiden- tial primaries are also held in Florida, Diinols, Indiana, Nebraska, North Da- kota, Bouth Dakota, West Virginia and Wisconsin there is no decision to pre- tory within defined boundaries and to | sent the Hoover name in them, though exercise exclusive jurisdiction over its " there is an inclination toward West Vir- territory and persons. whether native | or foreign. found within. In other words, these concepts of in- ternational law recognize that states have responsibilities, as well as rights, and their rights depend upon their mbility 1o fulfill their responsibilities. To attempt to lay down an unqualified ban agsinst intervention, or “friendly Interposition,” 1s as inconcelvable of achievement as an attempt to lay down #n unqualified prohibition sgainst In- terfering with the rights of individuals. | “To belleve that the Havana eonference | enuld come o grief 4 impossible. To believe that United Btates, in failing 1o accept the Argentine point of view, 15 seeking relfish exculpation of s own actions 1= 10 acknowledge & woeful lack of un- Gerstanding of our motive: plete underappraisement of the intelli- gence of our representatives .o Trotsky 38 not nesrly ss much of an $ufiuence as he was when the firm name was “Lenin and ‘Trotsky” “Poison Pen” Bank Runs. A determined, persistent Tun on sev- eral banks nt Misim ocrurred yeswerday. T pesuiting, iU 38 believed, from the eir- eulation of 1eports, by BLOBYIOuS leLers mainly, that the institutions were In Gintress uud Wit deyositors were in dan- | ger of loving Wheir money. AL lesst 8 Gomn leturs were delivered wll evident- 19 from the seme source wnd sl speeifi- cully mentioning one partcular bank as being i The Hlate contioller ok Charge of Uis bk dur Iye tie duy wnd ordered tyu ol shisky” condivion Clrad Vemprariy st they in tarn be | ombsriaseed by the constantly growing ! L] ds for funas The tun extended %o wther dstitutions, neluding one of e pational banks, but they were able 1o et W)l calls, especinlly Vhose wAthin Ve Federsl yeserve system, the re- wourees of which were made svelishle A tur ws cun be Jesrned there was B e o whistever for this demon- stemtion of doubt. While 1he Elale con- Gobler b pol yet seponted on Ve con- it of Ve bunk sgaiiet which U Wtiers were directed 30 18 belleved that $Uowen I sutliciently sound condition o Lhis P e st aonenon of & DRk 1 pess #nd 8 com- | ginia and possibly in other States. Primary contests are somewhat risky for the candidate who is supposedly leading the field. A defeat in any one of a sequence of primary contests is cal- culated to have a depressing effect. The primaries in which Mr, Hoover's name is surely to be entered begin with New Hampshire on the 13th of March, fol- lowed by Michigan on the 2nd of April. ‘Then on the 26th of April comes 2 unhappy woman and her children were received. Spontancously a subscription list was started. Generous gifts came from all sources, until at the close of the reckoning today more than twelve hundred dollars had been given, and | the gifts are still coming. The helplul: interest of people was aroused to the | point of undertaking to get a position | for the eldest boy in which he could | earn something to ald his mother. This has been a most inspiring in-| stance of public sympathy and zrm:r-’ osity. The Star is proud to have been the means through its uncalculated ap- | peal, by the mere printing of the facts, of thus evoking the instinctive charity | of the community. To every one who has given to this fund it expresses its | thanks for their confidence, which has | taken substantial form and has been| the means of saving this famlily from separation. Through this liberal reac- | tion of helpfulness a home has been | kept intact. i ) | An ofl nfagnate has a position of high responsibility, and, where a threat of penalizing wealth presents itself, throws a great weight of influence against “capital” punishment. B O Engaging personalities are interest- | ingly revealed by motion pictures. The camera may yet be the declding iIn~ fluence as to a candidate. oo February is the month of holidays | ranging in subject from the ridiculous | to the sublime; from the groundhog to | George Washington. e RS Bome of the methods of denaturing aleohol bring up the question of capi- tal punishment in a new form. S — SHOOTING STARS. BY PHILANDER JOHNSON, Income Tax. I'm writing figures tiny, In spaces small, anew. My brow grows long and shiny. My Income tax ix due. Oh, what care I for springtime ‘That ventures through the frost? ‘This is the real-thing-time When we must count the cost, What good 1s the elation When hope bids men relax? A volce comes from the Natlon - crists, with voting in progress simulta- neously in Massachusetts, Ohlo and over such an issue | Pennsylvania, these three States having | the | & total of 169 delegates, Thus that date | | may be the tumning point in the pre- | convention campaign | s-vee | | Senate investigations and court proce- dure. But in order to get. the full bene- | it of them, 1t 4 necessary o be a fair | Jawyer and perhaps & good politiclan. ! - oo Latin American Trade. While the world export trade of the | United States In 1927 showed & sub- | stantial gain over 1926 and wus larger {than In mny other recent year, | while smports retained their high level of 1926, reports of the Department of Commerce show & decrease of slightly more Lhan two per cent in our exports t Latin America and a loss of abont Isix per cent In dmports. The fgures may offer some encouragement, seant ne It may be o those who have mulntained thit the ascendency of our rade with Jatin America s the result of chanc e Waorld War, in fact, which demoral- Jwd Evropesn Industry, shul off the Junes of Lhie sew wnd resulled 1w clear- cut demonstration of the interdepend- ence of the United Blates and It sls- ter republics of the Bouth 1t has heehr U msinitedned in some quarters that retirm 1o normal conditions in Kurope wouliy find Latn American countries resim- {Ing their pre-war trade relations, with | venilting losses 1o the temporaily iri- {umphant Yenkee L George 3 Baer, ohlef of the Latin | Asericun DWistion of e Department Lot Commerce, W wn mnslysts ol our ’llh‘h’ with Latin Anieries b 1027, polnts [t the wenkniens of such wssimptings VIn ench dustanee where there hiss heen » decline duning the Jast yewr there by There are many thrills incident to | wnd | Ever Practical. “Do you enjoy going Into soclety?” “Not much,” answered Senator Sor- ghum. “I'm interested in political | leaders, and soclety leaders are alto- gether different.” Peremptory. “I would not be a candidate!” His volce was loud and bold, The populace arose to state, “You'll do as you are told!" Jud ‘Tunkins says a competent servant ‘, tis o haughty to leave any doubt as | |10 his Nability to the Inferiority com- | ! plex, ! The Road Amateurs, “The motor cop 13 sIgnaling you o stop,” sald Mrs, Chuggins, “b don't know how to control this | new car. In w few minutes maybe | we'll run out of gus. And then every- | thing will be wll right Ca-ordination. A big dden comes ulong, Disclostng great shlity I needs more geniis golng srong ‘To show us s utiity Ben Franklin saw the Dghtning mit, And long ago got through with it ‘Tom ¥dison next made n hit By showing whit 1o do with it “Bome folks ok 1o religlon,” wald | Uncle Khen, “foh peace of mind Others tse 11 Lo atart an argument.” RS Living in Glaws Houses, From ot Few York Merald Tribine England regards “Blg BILY Thomp- wonws e Joke Chicago knows hetter ‘- Rather Slow, at That, | needs. | average shall have at least enough surplus funds paint, up—clean up” even before the need becomes apparent. If there s any secret of home maintenance, this prob- ably is it. Such an_inspect employ on railroads, to find slight faults and to repair serious, is exactly what the home owner He must become his own track walker. He can tap his own wheels, as it were. > x kK Paint is the first necessity for the house, particularly the sort called “a moderate price home.” There is likely to be more exterior woodwork tin_roof. Some owners wait until wood splits. or roofs leak. before they paint. In- vestigation will prove to any one that there is less wood deterforation and far fewer leaks as the result of early paint- in} 3\ good rule would be for the home purchaser to paint the first Spring after moving into a new house. At any rate, he should not wait until the fon service as they them before they become | | not_only has less repair bills, in the | !long run. but he experiences less an-, Manuel. and. better stili, | noyance as he goes along. Above all | €ive the substance of and this is probably the most impor- | Phy and of his ama tant of all—he constantly has a sense | Helen of = Troy,” of having done his duty. not only by | ‘Adam and Eve" perform equal serv- his possessions, but by himself |tce for John Erskine. Cabell pursues Dofng one’s duty by one’s self is a|romance as the only means of making need too often overlooked by busy men. | life livable. Erskine pursues the quest They are willing to do their duty by |0f that beauty which shows itself only thelr families, thelr work and their|in bits of flying loveliness that can lodge. but too often forget that they | never be captured as a tantalizing frag- owe & duty to themselves. One of the | ment here or there. With John Erskine first duties, it would seem. which a | beauty does mot exist apart from in- Beyond Life” abell’s philoso- g art as well. Galahad” and about such a house. Maybe there is a house ' decent man owes himself. s to kee own property in first-class conditfon. This means either that he must do the work himself or he must pay some one clse to do it. The work ought to be done. trom every standpoint. Procrastination not only is the thief of time. it robs the home owner of | peace of mind. at the same time it in the destruction of his property. The lold saying, “If it were done, it were well it were done quickly,” applies wonderfully well to home ownership and upkeep. the Good-humored wonder marks comment of the press on Glenn Voliva's announcement that he and his wife are about to start on a voyage to demon- strate the truth of his theory that the | world is flat “Mr. Voliva is perfectly logical.” says the New York Evening Post, secking an explanation for the success of the Zion City leader, who, nothwithstanding his disregard of modern learning, —has amassed @ fortune of millions and en- joys & very comfortable position in life ‘Like the medieval geographer, he has {0 be shown to be convinced, but where- in he is different from the rest of us is that he has to be shown these things first-hand. Why should he accept an- other man’s word for a thing? His skepticism of modern sclence is a little exaggerated, but we do not doubt that this literal upon personal observat factors in his success. And in his ob- stinate retention of certain beliefs, which he holds despite the best-informed opinion ¢f mankind, he may lay claim to the same qualities as those of such a man as Christopher Columbus, who held the view, equally fantastic to his co- temporaries, that the world was round “Doubtless there are good arguments for the flatness of the world,” con¢ the Detroft News, “us good as which Columbus brought forward for its jon have been those ing West far enough he could reach the in any direction far enough he can reuch the edge. He now sets out, a sec ond Columbus, to prove his bellef based on fact. it 15 greatly to be hoped that Mr. Vollva succeeds in reaching the world’s edge, and walking some dis- tance on it, and that he comes back to reveal how to get there. For think of the excursions that might be taken to such & place—with n personully selected. personally conducted party and a round- trip teket!” R The Grand Rapids Press contends that, Mr. Vollvasowes to the inhabitants of the earth “all the research he can bring to bear in support of his hypoth- ests. 1t th,” continues that paper clear that he iy salling n a the ship's course will hiwve to Al frequent tervals to prevent it run- ning off ut n tangent into space. A captain salllng on @ ‘great cirele’ ke Lindbergh's, following part of an imag - inary Equator on the mistaken theory that the earth i round and the stralght - st Hne the shortest, will be satling on U Is quite L and hanged | worse than s tangent; hg will be lay- g his course i cirele opposlte to whiat which Mr. Volivi Ards as ensen - tial, and & suceession of such will soon drop the divector of Zion Clty off the edge of the pancake nto the fire, or whate his philosophy tenches him bs the element surrounding this hadly misled world, 1t would seen that thin should be s matter of some ap- prehension to My, Vollva Copernteus, Kepler and other glant o the contrury,” asks the Litte R Avkansuas Democrat, "'t there evidence thit the world is flat? wn automobile onow flat te And doesi't the enrth wobble? mere fact et water uns down hill doeni’t prove gravitatonal attraction I merely shows thiet the tlat earth s tlted w Nitle, The precession of the equ 5, the periodicity of eclipaes, the pinstig of (he seasonns, the course of wrent eyclones, the washing of certain Binks of the vivers, the long duys and Wights I the Aretie veglons, the tend- eney of certaln planets o become morning, (hen evening atars; the in- numerable other bits of so-called evi- dence which prompt shallow thinkers 10 belleve that we live on an ellipaol wre wll the bunk " AL bt only dHumingting, bt ve- froshing Indeed ” piys the Providence Bulleting, o tnd o ‘ dogg sl prnetical view of trath, and Prospering on 1 His oty I vemark ably well fixed financially, He Wibnnolt He bon N k v n't B O Boomton Dranm gl Fven when patlence ceases (o he o virtue 10 st dacks tmportast elements | thought which teaches that the way to ' ¢ ol popularity as & vice, 1 Dlossed with abundunee ohtning example of that sohiol of Prove whether o theory i true or lalee Voliva’s Flat World The Stirs Good-Humored W(mder? I-mindedness and his "‘llnll('l-‘ ~ {is to try to make it work. A most wholesome doctrine! very well upon the assumption that the earth is flat. So that there will be no question about it, he has set out. with | his wife for a witness, for North Africa, where they propose -to approach the outer rim, hand in hand. and gaze into the chimerlan abyss. He has only to tell an Egyptian guide what he wishes ! to see, and the guide will lead him to a ' point of vantage. Wonderful men, these Ruides!™ o A practical point i« made also by the Bellingham Herald with the statement that Voliva “had 83 cents 22 years ago," | and.that “now, he says. he has $7.000. 1000, Most men would believe , almos! | anything for half of that,” conclude: | the Herald. | “Wilbur Glenn Voliva is among_the happy ones of earth.” observes the Kan- sas City Post. “Uncursed with this modern_slavery to verified knowledge, he dwells, a priest of the saving rem nant, in & world of the willfully blind. To divest one 3 to have exclusive knowledge of the di viding line between truth and error, to possess rigid opinfons about all matter: | | He has got along | his | telligence, its greatly vitalizing element. | | So out of the past he has moved re- { mote and mythical characters into the | present, endowing them with the in- herent powers of all human nature to ! It is a paying proposition | meet life according to the instincts | { and impulses of the human in every age. | One reads them all | Adam and Eve—first. as | futile mythfolks. Then he reads them again, and again, in a growth of melan- | more complete view of the fast-flying vision of human worth and sincerity and beauty. The comedy ceases to be stch, since in sincerity the matter par- takes of tragedy in its errancies an@ ultimate unfulfillments. “Adam and Eve" is not comedy. Rather is it an epic of loneliness in a peopled world. “God made man, like Himself, lonely.” So the story of Adam sets out. So the story of every man sets out. Thercafter, the purpose of both Adam and you is to dispel lonesomeness by way of companfonship. Adam. lonely, did the natural and sensible thing. He busied himself with the things round- about—the animals and the fields With these he made many discoveries, all of them interesting, some of them useful, some of them disturbing. But a man can't forever keep loneliness away through an assoofation with the | So. in no very long time, Adam was too low in spirits for any kindergarten va- ntertainment to help him | much. But in the day of Adam. just as in this day. there was an overlooking Providence. And at the moment when Adam was at his last gasp, so to speak. right before him stood Lilith. No, 1 | know we don't comt Lilith, but she s important in this case, and we ha to accept her. Adam and Eve, alone ould never have made a go of it, any more than one man and one woman could today. The triangle is much ridiculed as a modern invention to give soclety leense and the novelist lati- tude, But the triangle is not an inven- {tion, not a device. Rather is it a ,rlllln‘ essential in the development of human relations and the art founded 1pon._these. At any rate. in a short Helen, Galahad, | delightfui | alds | comedy which makes enjoyable and ac- | | ceptable companionship out of old and | choly and yearning for a longer, for a | cat and the dog. the horse and the cow, | of importance, to enjoy the pleasures of | Argument without the need for equivo- | e hete we find Adam. pulled hither | and yon by the perfectly just claims rotundity. Columbus said that by ge-| East. Mr. Voliva belleves that by going | he s salling nround w flat Worntnent itk - cation—that Is Héaven, in an age when hardly anything ‘remains definite and certain. ‘There are others like him, even among those who believe that the world 15 round. They know all things and can prove it Without limitation, they can say, ‘You are absolutely right.’ or ‘You are’ absolutely wrong' They are to b envied. ‘Their Heaven Is here and naw ’ Reviewing Vollva's points of bel that “the world has seven years mg to exist; that the earth 13 flat —sunrise and sunset optical Musfons; that g 15 myth; that the sun is only miles away,” the Decatur Review re- marks: “These bellefs are taught in the Zlon schools. ‘There are about 6,000 in on_that are followers of Vollva. In the light of the modern world, 1t s strange to many how a man of Voliva's | beliefs can be the leader that he is " UNITED STATES IN WORLD WAR Ten | Years Ago Today en of 44 vietinw of the Tuseanin dlsuster wre washed up today on the vocks, 15 miles from the scene of the torpedoing. mutilated beyond descrip- ton. Although men all ‘wore tags, no Identification numbers had been put on them because the mon had ot been , wssigned o any definite anits. Al are | hurled 1n one grave. = * * The subma- (rme that torpedoed the Tuscanin was | subsequently attuck w Hrithh d yatroyer and an Ameriean oeer muin- talnn 1L wan sk, * ¢ * Ameriean artillery s keeplng up o havassing five jon the German lines, hombarding bt - tevles, trenches, crossronds, dugouts, Lhight ratiwiys and enemy billets, Amer |luln tuetles anger the Clermans and they vetahiate with heavy shelling of A Lleries, it o American I heavien stlen the Clern .Y e ate le s doubt 11 Judichary commitiee will even report the Over man measiie ws oo wbaolute. Home Henators hold 1 wonld virtuadly estab Hah i antocracy, * * * In the last 11 days Halin, Beitlsh and French avin Hlors have destroyed 86 Austio-Gierman | planes on the Ttallan front . ave- The Map Proves, b ‘Iw Partlamd Oregonian Col” Lindbergh has accomplished wreat vindloation of whatever travel map he ix kg ) Nivens amd Sohol Prom (e Hamiiiom St Gils are botter students (hin boys, peent survey revealed - probahly he se the ghls are mdlalmuw o the hoya, “ ¢ both Lilith and Eve. Every man worth mentioning, s more than one man. Every woman, oo, but that ts another story. Lilith knew nothing of Eve's man and cared less Eve did have suspicfons of Lilith's Adam. She afsed the very devil about him Eve would. And, in the long run she proved herself to be right. For | Adam, despite the jov he had in the fine intelligence of Lilith, in he sense, coupled with a most seductive sympathy for his every mood. stirred as he was in their full meeting of nind and thought, entranced s he was by the beauty of her body and soul-Adam was, after all, » man. And fn man must be foremost in the affairs around him. What would have hap- {pened 1t Adam had let out a single ! indication of the power of Lilith over {him' Or of the larger fact that she should have had such power by virtue of her superio telligence ™ That would never do- never i the world Hexides, LML was careless about no end of things appearances and such Unconventional we would call her to- day. And that frightened Adam, for, in fact, Adam was a slave o things as they are, And vight (hen Eve came [along I w very Eve-ish attitude over | the bad behavior of Liith— And. | lesaly, Eve ahit hood and womal of t women. Al aver with Lilith one can ace that At a glance —even though Adam Ldid not know it for quite a long time He wan just afraid afraid that Lilith [ would do some seandalous thing, though there was nobody (e be shoeked except the cow and the dog and the vest of | the unimaly - nobody but Eve, and st was shoeked from the start - shocked at the very exiatence of Lilith Bt wivald, and constitutionally conven- tonal for his womentolks, Adam gave WAy under Eve's fattery and other cafolements of her own devising, sieh wi el the worthy tather of posterity, the mpeceable husband, e head of the wWhole viace, and so on, aid o on Adunt had an o anaalngly - soft o spot toward himselt, Eve knew this and worked at it s peraistently, and often horingly, that Adam gave way — Now, to e aure, Adam, Hike all of his el dren. was questing the tmortal vision of beauty, But, agaln ke thew, he heeame confused by such an onaset ot conflivting forms ofgappenl that Adam veached the polnt, fnally, when he oonlin't vecognise heauty W ita veal ensenee wWhen 1t stood vight before him FOther things got In the Way- 1o apectability, personal cowardive. the foar of Kve and of hweelt. Ol @ world of things wid - things - blinded Adam o fhe beauty which he loved and for Which he yoarned, st ws mlnr‘ wndd things bl the vest of ws v Carthe new and then! fo thin slusive divindty that visits the Inatead, w vision of Wi that b heve | | i | No, ot pamedy good | four rings a year, usually three. normal conditions one ring is added each time the snake sheds its skin The voung rattler is provided with a single button at birth, and within a few days it sheds its skin and com- mences feeding: in about two months it sheds its skin for the second time { BY PAUL} A few days ago the Government of formality, as well as cordiality, the “president of the Irish Pree State. Mr. Cosgrave.” He was so acclaimed by press and public. The high dignitary was taken to Congress and tnere fo mally introduced, first in the Sena and then in the House. and he made Speeches in both halls of legislation. It now transpires that Mr. Cosgrave is not the President of the Irish Frce' State and never has been. What is he Surely not “an Irish bull.” of which we hear so much. The mystery deepens when we read that his majesty. King George. has just appointed & new gov- ernor general over the Irish Free State. How can a British King appoint a gov- “Erin ga bragh”? Is or have we been independent and | | | | | | ernor general if | Treland a “free state.” | dreaming? s it not | tree? | No, the Irish Free State remains a | part of the Commonwealth of the Brit- ish Nations, which is the successor of | the Empire of Great Britain and Ire- Jand. with its several dominions. ok ox % | the same status within the Common- | wealth of the British Nations as has | Canada. It is conceivable that if the | same status had been offered to the American colonies in 1776 there would have been a Declaration of Inde- | pendence nor even a Boston tea party In the official report (known as the Balfour report) of the Imperial Confer- ence of 1926 appears this definition “There is, however. one most impor- tant element in it. which. from a strictiy constitutional point of view. has now, { as regards all vital matters. reached its | full development - we refer to the group of self-governing communities composed of Great Britain and the Dominions Their position and mutual relation m: | be readily defined. They are autono- | mous comminities within the British Empire, equal in status, in no way sub- ordinate one to another in any respect lof their domestic or external affairs. | though united by a common allegiance to the crown. and freely associated as members of the British Commonwealth of Nations.” | never » . x Tt is vital to note that that last word, “Nations,” s plural. and that it takes the place of colonies or de- pendencies. In_ all essential respect ch “dominion.” like Canada. the Irish Free Stat., South Afrgea. Australia and New Zealund, is free and self-govern fng and as independent of interference by Great Britain as. for example, Can- adn fs free from Australian interfer- . the seat of power of the empire was_in the “United Kingdom of QGreat Britsin and Ireland” - the heart of the empire was “Great Britain and Ireland.” meaning England. Scot- | and and Wales. with all of Ireland Now Great Britain consists of England, Scotland and Wales, with North Ire- land only, and Great Britain holds the same status i the empire as does any | one of the dominions: she has no power whatever, through her Parliament or cabinet, to legislate for any dominton-— ncluding the irish Free Stade But the crown is the rallying point ot all domintons alike - the Irish Free | State, Great Britain and all the others belng on the same status. 1t would be quite a8 conceivable now for the Legis- tlature of the Irish Free State to undet- take to regulate the commerce of the Thames or the fisheries off Scotland as 1t would for the British Parllament to put a duty on tea for Irish Free State tmport A Canadian statesman has summed up the whole matter by saving Al the dominions ave of the same status but not the same stature " Each dominton not only self-government, but also its forelsn At A A independent nation | Thix % (he most remarkable revolution I human RIstory . 10 has come as st Tontly as W osunvhe, so (hat the workd ! hax hardly tealized s develament e e World War, caliminating s stnted in the Malfour vepatt of the ! Tperial Oonference of a Dttde mare (At n vear ago This conference was held by representatives, teluding the Prime mintsters, of all the domiintons | And fepresentatives of tadia R So epochnl s This development (hat | WY, tor the st e i ity Whelt & Lrenty Was under negatintion | between the United States and his wal- | eaty, Cloorge V.o of the Untted Kingdom | of Chreat Hiitain wnd Ireland (meaning | Notthy treland or Ulster), and of the BEitish domindons bevond - the sens King Buperor of England” - the halt Formerly controls ¢ At there uminated by worth and Bt Wit Intelligence and the ooy essentinly of tue boauty. An hour of Twating and NG A SAVaNE oF this delectable Rt the hand of Joliy Bishing awatts you heve the United States received with great; The Irish Free State has identically | D assemblies | Canada bemng inhatited by B Q Where was the first electrically lighted outdoor Christmas tree?—C. N. A. The Madison Square tree. in New York City. is said to have been the first. It was first lighted 15 years ago. BACKGROUND OF EVENT . COLLINS. but fishery treaty—the King was r ferred to as the “Emperor of England —not of India or the British Empire. When the first draft of the trea'v was submitted to Canada. the government at Otawa cabled, “Substitute the words ‘the Dominion of Canada’ for the words Great Britain.” and it was so. Canada insisted that the treaty was to be signed only by Canada. When our Senate received the treaty. it put in a feservation that it was to be signed aiso by Great Britain. but later the Senat> | was obliged to recede. and the treaty was accepted with only the sizuatures {of Canada and the United States— | first precedent. o ox = Both Canada and the Irish Free aave their own Ministers plenipotenti: in Washi n, and we have similar | representatives in their capitals. No | treaties with the dominions are now | negotiated with the British Ambassador, | unless the subjects affect more than one dominion of the Commonwealth of | British Nations, in which case the Min- ister initiating the negotiations invites the co-operation of the Ambassador. D Article I of the constitution of the Irish Free State reads. “The Irish Free | State (otherwise hereinafter called. or ! sometimes called. Saorstat Eirann) is & co-equal member of the community of nations forming the British Com- wealth of Nations.” All of the dominions give allegiance to the King, but the King has absolute- Iy no power to affect legislation in anv act under the 1] aavice of the jon. and they accompany a which have been adopted by their re- spective legislative bodies with direct advice to his majesty not to veto it. And the King does not veto . v In a review of the Imperial Confer- ence of 1926, by President A. Lawrence Loweil of Harvard University, this para= graph appears ‘The sole legal bond is the King. It is more accurate to say the King than the Crown, for the latter in Great Britain includes all the functions vest- ed therein by act of Parliament “Again, it might be misleading in this connection to speak of the Ki as the sovereign. for the British that term in two different sense Popularly it i used for the wearer the crown: but among political phil- asophers it means the ultimate source of authority, and in_that sense the sovereignty of Great Britain, aithough delegated 10 Parliament. resides tn the last resort in the electorate. as o this time forth it will also m the dom fons. The only bond. then. s the K not the King m counctl, but the Kin i person.” S0 the King appoints & governor general for each dominton, as he does for the Irish Free State. But the gover- nor general ts a figurehead m Kovernment. The practical government of the Irish Free State les tn the lead- er of the dominant political party. who I8 requested by the governar general ‘o form A government” by orgenisng 8 cabinet. That government holds power. so long as it holds the support of s dominant party. to wWhich it is vespon. sible When s Parliament votes “Na confidence,” the government goes ovt of power, and the governor general turns o Parllament to indicate whom. next he should invite t0 take the reins At present Prime Minister Qosgrave is President. not of the trish Free State for 1 has no president. but of the council oF CADINEl Or WMINISITY, vespan- atble to its Parlament There was o deception i his status as president’” when he visited Wash- mgfon. but there was & great deal of misconeeption about 1t He was not stven the formalities acoorded o the svereign or head of a state. but only such a8 Are proper o ane of his high thoush subordinate, position e s 90 vears stce (he agitation be- Ean which has Anatly given mdepend- enl status (o the Botsh dominions THIEY Vears after the Brithhl cone AUt of Catada. tepresentative. asseu Blies were created In Upper and 1ower Canada T cach of fhese provinees thete Was & ROVeTIOr, appainied by the King and thore was chuanie fiiction Between the governaes and the elected T oculminated Wy 1887w rebollion i Doth the provinees - Narth lish, and Lower Canada by Freneh Buth rewalts Wete suppressed. and then Lord Dur- am roposed hat theteatter the wan- BEers e minisiers) appoited by the taval governors should e ve- Monaible o dumestie watters o thei respeviive assemblies Ten years later ord Db s saicim-taw. Lord Bigin CARTICE ouE (Al prnciple. and that has been the cantention e W vear o whieh l‘?n Was i s uukmmkmr dren anainy (o Al hevself, Which the R ot vela Wennan AR b Paut Vo)