Evening Star Newspaper, February 11, 1928, Page 6

. [ 3 F{IHE EVENING STAR 14 With Sunday Morning Edition. WASHINGTON, D.C. ~BATURDAY...February 11, 1828 THE EVENING STAR, WASHINGTON, D. €, SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 11, 1028. daily papers are at present subjecting all | “Baltic fox.” whish was just as warm, colleges to sharp and often undeserved | although made of rabbit skins. Many criticism and that Smith seems to have | people will not wear dog fur who have come in for a particularly heavy share.|no objection to wolf; yet mot all fur All the machinery of the college and |experts can call the turn successfully. the police was put into action in this |So such terms as “pointed fox,” “near , THIS AND THAT BY CHARLES E. TRACEWELL. latest case, and in co-operation with detective and police agencies throughs out the country cvery clue has been painstakingly investigated. The case remains absolutely baffing.” It appears that a rather young girl unaccountably disappeared from her ac- customed surroundings, something that is happening frequently in all com- | munities. The fact that she was one | of several thousand girls gathered at a certain spot for education seems to have resulted in inferences dnd innuendoes | entirely unjustified. Every one is sorry | for this freshman’s parents, and should likewise be sorry for and sympathetic with her institution. Smith College hac o' been criticized for its tardy announce- ment of this student’s continued and inexplicable absence. Other similar in- stitutions have been given the same | criticism in similar cases. Crities should remember that such a e must con:- serve the best interests of very many young women, and that more harm , might easily be done to an individual {and to the student bddy collectively by | announcing a disappearance too quick- 2 Iy than by taking the risk of announ;- S = | ing such too late. It is & problem the A New Market Angle. ot aetbrianini hiniat e oo A new development has occurred in | women would be reluctant to under- the market situation which presents an | take. angle of departure from the lines pre- | = wionsly I2id down. The Commissioners Hickman Case Delays. in their report to Congress on the sub- | The Hickman case at Los Angeles Ject recommended that the Farmers' | may with all its horrors and shocking Market be removed to a temporary site | circumstances prove a blessing after all. on the Mall. pending selection of a'It may be the cause of a determined permanent site. They at the same and successful movement by the people time expressed their preference for a | of this country to cfiect the amend- THEODORE W. NOYES....Editor *The Evening Star Newspaper Company Business Office L1th St and Pennsyivania Ave. New York OMce: 110 East 45nd St Chicago Office: Tower Building European Office” 11 Regent St.. London, Engiand Rate by Carrier Within the City. s Evenine Star . . ... 45¢ per month “The Eveang and Sunday Star (when 4 Sundays). . e Evening (when 8 Sund: The Sunday Star. . L0 3e per copy Collection made at the end of each month Orders mas be sent in by mail or telephone Main 5000 Rate by Mail—F Ma d .. 80c per month day Star v+ ... B3¢ per month able in Advance. Virginia. Pay States and Canada. SLSrL $12000 1 mo § —— e Southwest site for a permanent loca- tion. but“fuggested that no decision be made until the wholesalers or commis- sion merchants had themselves chosen their future situation, in order that the two establishments. the commission houses and the Farmers' Market, might be closely associated. Now a group of wholesalers and distributers of food supnlies have notified the Commission- | ment of the judicial procedure in the | United States in criminal cases to en- | sure speedier and surer justice. ‘The invocation of the plea of insanity {in behalf of Hickman greatly stirred public sentiment in view of the abom- { inable nature of his crime. Rarely has the mental irresponsibility hypothesis, which is the outgrowth of successive | medifications of the law on this side of { | ers that they have arranged for the acquisition of a large area in the North- eastern section. in close contiguity to the Baltimore & Ohio Railroad terminal, ‘where they proj to estab! selves. and ask the co-operation of the « District heads in “creating a food handling and distribution terminal com- smensurate with the size and dignity of | the Atlantic favorable to evildoers, been carricd to such an extreme as in this { instance. When it was rejected by the {jury a great sense of relief was felt, but even in the light of the verdict ren< |dcred on Thursday there remains a | | feeling that the laws of the States | should be amended to lessen the likeli- | hood of escape from full punichment of | the city, which will s‘and as a model | those who take human life. | for other communities.” | Now comes the announcement that, | 1f the purchase of this area is effected | by devices permitted by the statutes and | for the purpose of accommodating the | the practices of the court through mo- | wholesalers who have joined in this | tions for new trials and appeals, the | Fepresentation to the Commissioners, ! disposition of this case will probably be the latter may have to modify their |nestponsd for many months, Ther fecommendaticn to Congress favoring a jeven some question whether the sen- Southwest site for thy Farmers' Market | tence will be pronounced today as the unless they decide that the group which | presiding judge has stated. E favors the Northeast location is not| If this protraction should result from sufficiently representative of the com- | the use of filibustering methods in a mission business to determine the mat- | case in which there is no possible doubt ter. Obviously there cannot be two and in which a just verdict has been farmers’ markets. There should not be | rendered, the public feeling against de- two market centers. Whether the main | lavs will be greatly intensified. getail market, replacing the Center| This is a matter of cumulative ex Market socn to be removed to make | perience. The people of the United way for Government building work. is | States are with few exceptions con- Jocated in contunc inced that one of the provocative ers’ Market and the wholesale estab- | causes of crime here is the case with | Mshments, or on a ‘site chosn w th | which justice is blocked by pleas of | Teference o the convenience of the in- | irresponsibility, by technicalities and by @ividual buyer, there should be but one |appeals and delays. Case after case Mzin food distributing point. | has ariten to give substance to this be- In this connection it is to be noted |lief. The execution of the law upon a | that the latest proporal for the acquisi- | condemned murderer within six months tion of the Patterson tract for a whole- | from the date of a crime s regarded as sale food area counters the long con- |an extraordinary Instance of expedition. templated plan for the development of | The average is approximately two years. that area as a public park. Congress | Hickman's case, to take this specific - bas had repeated opportunities to se- ady been protracted for cure this spzce for that purpose and | weeks. when in the nature of the crime has neglected them. It is included in | it should have been disposed of to the ! the general pls of the Park and Plan- point of punishment ere now. ninz Commission as a public recrea- | ——— ¢ e tional area. It cannct be continuovsly | A celébration of George Washington's beld out of the market. Unless im- | birthday is urually too gay an affair mediate action 15 taken dezignating it | '0 Temember the serfous thought of the ®f a perk and providing for its pur- | “Father of His Country.” Attention is chase its owners may 21l 1 any private | s | | | | | purchaser or group of purchasers who ' may desize it for their own um{ It wo seem, therefore, that this| Pproposition fust made to the Commt: devoted entirely to the mythical hatchet | and the fabulous cherry tree, v American art makes rapid strides in| | spite of the fact that art and alimony | sioner might precipitate action upon the | 27® oiten complicated in & manner | Farmers' Market question or upon the | Which causes loss of time, Patterson trect park question, perhaps A a e 4 upon both. In 2ny case, the proposal Fur Fashions and Fur Facts. ©f the group of wholesalers who have | What has been styled the oldest in- | Just addressed the Commissioners on | dustry in the world Is renewing steps | the eubiect 15 1 be considered as made |t purge ftself of & certain opprobrium in good faith and s indicative of 1% | --by no means entirely its own fault-- purpose 1 proceed with thelr enterprise. | which has developed through a num- — -t {ber of centuries. Representatives of abergh feels tafe when he 14 1n a0 | the fur Sndustry—can one call to mind ne. Pernaps b steering his oy 10 fear t adopt a system of naming and marking | vian & motorist bating | furs under which the real name of the his vay through traffic congertion, |animal from which the peit was ob- 5 P 3 [ tained will be stamped plainly on the | The Limelight of Collegiate Life.|skin. This system will be submitied g Women's mention | the Pederal Trade Commission and, §f wlied 10 | approved, will he adopted as standard n every | by the industry and enforced by the e ap- | commistion. 1t will solve a number of | world: to 2 | difficultics, although not all, in con- understons | nection with the trade ppearing re- In the first place, it Is & mistake, | Iy flouteq according o experts on the fur trade The fantactic publicty from whiets | 10 regard misleading names us proof esa B olbege, Horthampior, |of the perverse dishonesty of the fur- Mass . bt recently been suffering s de. |rier. These srose in the frst place | plored and controveried largely from the ignorance of the small betrer i { enler as to the real character of his Bl Eng- [own wares, Two outstanding examples tand 1 B sgned by the five | of such ignorance, often excusable, are | officers of i alimnae wociation, In [#1ven In an authortative work on the | Py facts gre gven of tne | fur trade ppesrance of the freshman |on & bet falled 10 distinguish Alwska John Bmith, who I8 sl I from Mudson seal, which i really pisting, o 1he griet of Ler family snd | muskrat, with the result that he chose s B0k 15 e consternation of her |8 4300 cont for his wite when he might {have bud & 82,000 one, while w North- an the [ern tur trader setually fuiled 10 difter- thenty-eg | entinte between m fisher pelt and thint wocording o Lof w genuine, first-class Belgiun tomeab, . o | What with retailers wnd sslesmen viho no | probably had never seen s wild fur- In owll the Bftythree | besnng animsl, and s purchasing pub- With thoussnds | e that did not know gost from wolf, sy through ite course nt b Dighly | and cared less, 15 10 slrange that cone S o onable Uime of Life |1 cheating, and & variely of offiere doclare, only two eludents Leve | impossible synthetic numes of furs came Grappmsred, gnd Lhough Vhese oocur- 0 being? Fencet came witlin & tpun of two vears, | Public prejudices huve also played a Uire sems 1 be not e shghtest | l8rge ppit i bringing bout a it Soundation for any Vhought of connec- | Uon which, though partly excussble, 18 L Wwtween, Ve Ly "drumumr Witness the long-standing ik Wi B i Ve et of tie | wntpathy ward skunk, aa sich, and enliege now Lell us Whet there ik s mueh | 'he low esteem in which eoonskin onee WAt wnd closer eupervision over mh- | was held, No young lady was willing ®enie Do campus and fiom own than | dig oo her pockethook for & neck- colleges, not 1o ris’ boarding schools, sre on sy r reputatio Particulsr which sometm precated by the outside e of procedure often m; and W a vzl of sustere 8€rve sometimes fagra in & general a4 1o the many thoussnds of . well known Ne reign ot verror nor have sppwared There el ) v PRI s “goni « b ¢ hwen 5o of pirls,” s yeu tie ool the plumnse | fusion, A professional fur dresser | seal,” electric seal,” “Hudson seal, “Asfatic lynx,” “Iceland fox” and many others, each and every one of which was fundamentally false, came into being, and furs are flaunted as coming from many beasts which never existed on sea or land. As carly as 1887 the London Chamber of Commerce announced that users of such misleading names would be liable to prosecutions, while Canada in the past has recommended that many false fur names be abolished. As long ago as 1920 the trend of the American trade was to give each fur its true name and let the buyer choose with all the facts before him. As far as the great fur auctions and the most reputable retailers are concerned, this | has long been the rule both here and in Canada. That every one participat- ing in the industry, from the lonely trapper to the ultimate consumer, have the benefit of such a movement as the whole trade ftself has decided upon will in the end prove a benefit to all concerned. = e Sense and Nonsense. ‘The mountain labored yesterday and brought forth a mouse in the form of a resolution declaring it to be the “scnse” of the Senate that a departure from the precedent set by other Presidents of re- tiring after two terms in the White House would be “unwise, unpatriotic and fraught with peril to our free institu- tions.” As the Senate had assembled to bury Cacsar, and not to praise him, it | struck out the clause commending Prest- dent Coolidge for observance of this very precedent. Possibly because of some oversight the Senate failed to include in its resolution words to the effect that when & President says “I do not choose to run” 1t is no fair trying to make him take it back. Nor did the Senate de- mand that in future a President should say, instead of “I do not choose, will not be—in spite of Senator Fess.” With these grave omissions, however, the Senate of the United States ha: gone on record against a third term for | & President. The vote was fifty-six to| twenty-six, and while it was made pos- sible largely through the Democrat| Progressive coalition, no doubt there will be attempts to interprat it as politically significant. As the President has al- teady anticipated the Senate, much of this significance is lost. And as to the pronunciamento of the Senate itself, it is empty and flat. It has no legal stand ing and is frrelevant. If a President de- clares publicly that he does not believe that the moon®is made of green cheese, and the Senate austerely resolves that it is the sense of the Scnate that a President should not believe the moon is made of green cheese, a condition would arise comparable in many ways to the tense situation which prevalls to- day as the result of yesterday's action by the Senate. But suppose there will “come a day,” as the movies say, when there is an- other Senate and another President There is no escaping the troubling thought that this Senate of the future may resolve that while it was once re- cordec. s the sense of the Senate that a | President should not break the two- term precedent, more mature delibera- tion has uncovered the fact that the scase of the Senate of that day and age was nonsense, “and such is the sense of the Senate today.” st Canada and the U. 8. A. maintain ' cordial relations through simple recog- | nition of the fact that there is nothing serious to quarrel about. Between | ‘riends a difference is easily adjusted. | A continent free from “jingolsm” sets | & hopetul example to the entire world, | —tee It was Theodore Roosevelt who referred to “malefactors of Rreat wealth” at a time when wealth was | reckoned not in billions, but in mere | millions, — e Keeping peace in the Western Hemi- | sphere is a large undertaking, the suc- cessful management of which is worthy of study by the entire world, . How slow world progress is becomes apparent when it is known that a num- ber of countries are still agitating the right of women to vote, e SHOOTING STARS, | BY PHILANDYR JOHNSON, ] Working Hours, Used to toll ten hours a day. Didn't harm my health, To a state I found my way Described as “Ease and Wealth " Now, when my hair 15 growing white, My fate 1 must deplore. I tolled ten hours through dny and night— I now work twenty-four, 1 dream 1 sce the ledger page, And scan the market news, Inventions strange my thoughts engage, 1 read each expert’s views. I sometimes think that life 1s spolled. 1 miss that time of yore When once ten hours & day 1 tolled - I now work twenty-fou Important Consideration, “48 your pelitical altercations, do you “vey Belleve In peace at any price oL mnswered Senator Borghum, less I can dictate the price,” The Unattainable, He suid he was n highbrow elf, He talked us all to sleep, He couldn't quite explain Becaise he was w0 deep, himself, Jud Tunking says he kind o' longs for the old days when orators quoted more fhakespeare and less statisties, “Both the hride and the groom be- long 1o familfes of great fortune,” "I it a wedding,” asked Mr, Dustin Blax, “or & merger “The world grows serious,” sald H) Ho, the sage of Chinatown. “Ve who few kiter for pleasure must now study seroplanes” Favoritism, YL omm A favorite son,” suld he, Quoth Vox Pop wilh regret, "It dnesn’t mean & thing to me thore was Snoour day, " the slumnse |plece made of Unncat. Butl “genst ore weeured by tieir officers, whose | (hst was quite different. Ermine was eleeres yenge from 94 1o ‘16 4L fx) “miniver” centuiies ago. Few could Spprient 1hat current magaziney and sflord silver fox, lful. most could sftord “That you were ralsed a pet.” “De man dat hollers loud," sald Unele ‘den dreams are sprinkled strange- with roses. Yellow roses, fvory-tinted pink roses, red roses, roses of every hue, float through the garden visions of the en- thusiast at this time of year. No matter what may be the flower love of the moment, one comes back to roses with the greatest satisfaction the garden knows, ‘When the gardener dreams, he thinks of toses, When he plans, he plans for roses. The queen of flowers is his queen of hearts. No other bloom in the world is at once so human, so contrary, so beauti- ful, so lovable. Failure follows failure, but the amateur persists. Roses haunt his garden dreams, and roses he will have. Nothing else will do. There was Atticus, “plucking ros all along his lifeway so carefully as never to incur a thorn prick.” Down the ages the lovers of this flower have petted and coaxed it, swore at it. praised it and maligned it. Yet forever and always it blooms in the Springtime of our gardens and our hearts. Let the rose lover but dream of Mme. Putterfly, he wants to go into the par- den to see how the bush is coming along. Wonderful beauty of pink tones, with gold half concealed at its heart! She is not the “perfect rose,” but is wonderfully beautiful. with her stems of half a dozen blooms, one making a vase full. And the Sonvenir of Claudius Pernet! ‘What a monument this great rid- izer will leave behind him, in this glori- ons sunflower-yellow rose, which makes one dream of water lilfes Water lilles meke the amer think of bygone days. days of childhood. when he saw the pond lilies for the et time, They were pure white, with rolden conters. and their green leaves reflnctor! ‘hemselves in the water. the whole mak- ing_an. unforgsttable picture. There s something abont the wav WM. Pernet's Souvenir opens its grand Rossoms that makes one think of weter lilies, As if its clear tone were the gift of th ereat sun ftself, the Sonvenir doss nat fade. hut holds its own in any but *vet weather. Most beantiful of all it shines. how- aver. in a bouauet, when it brings the “unbsams themselves into a houss, * ko ox A beauty of rosedom. known and loved v her thousands, 1s Los Angeles. De- spite_her evident faults, she wins uni- versal praise She might be called a sort of cousin to Mme. Butterfly, but is not like her a bit, although her col- ors are vaguely related. These are aristocrats of roseland: but one loves as deeply the healthy, whole- some, everyday rose ladies, Radiance Red Radiance and the Duchess of Well- ington. Some wav, one finds it hard to think ot the latter as a “Duchess,” she is so turdy in the garden, so unfailing in displaving her lemon and flowers. As for Radiance and Red Radiance, these are the standard roses. All othey roses are ranked as they deviate for better or for worse from these two, They have their faults. but, better, they have great virtues. The referendum of the American Rose Society shows them to bs the most universally roses in America, Iy popular Wisdbm ofi Loa Vigorously Debated Americzns are not in agreement as to the wisdom of the Siate Departm-nt in announcing iis disapproval ot a pro- posed Russtan railroad loan of $30,000,- 000. ‘Thoss who recall the repudiation of other obligations of Russia feel that the Government action is a proper step | for the protection of American investors. | Others who profess to brlieve that sounder policies sway the Soviet gove einment point to the existing trade be- tween the two governments, as evidence that there is a new attitude in this ountry. R Cannot be considered as at all out of the way,” says the Utica Ob- server-Dispateh: “for our Government 0 object to ‘financial arrangements de: signed to facilitate in any way l):n m\lo' of Soviet bonds in the United f'""’f' ‘f'o have done anything less \A'livutd have been to be remiss in duty. There are auite enough suspicious speculation op- portunities in_our own country with- out inviting those from a government which has repudiated every obligation which it fell heir.” ""-u','.'ul‘m. Soviets are ready to rec- ognize their obligation to restore cer- tain American properties confiscated in the revolution of 1917.” states the Kala- mazoo Gazette, “our Government does not wish to become assoclated in any fiscal transactfon with Moscow. The polley may seem a little severe in a way, but it represents an altogether sensible determination to play safe Other nations which have recognized the Soviet regime, either in a diplo- matic or in a commercial wav, have found their experience anything bu* “ntisfactory. It may be true that the new trend at Moscow is toward mod- eratfon, but the Soviet leadgrs have much to ‘live dowd' hefore Thev can hope to enfov the resnect and confidence of the outside world.” CRE pparently the Soviets labor under percentage of the people In the United States are sympathetic to their revolt“against civ ilization, and that it is only necessary to get 1o the people themselves aind they will win their support,” according to the Manchester Unfon, “This bellel springs naturally from the Holshevist theory that the workers of the world are hostile (o their extablished govern- ments, Moscow's program of world ves olution has been based upon this theory, and notwithstanding the fallure of that program, the Bolshevists still con- tinue under the obsesston of this fal- Iney.” The Unfon points out that R sla’s unrecognized debt to Amerien to- day 15 approxtmately one billlon dol- lars." A point which s made by the Chi- cago “Tribune 15 that “the Sovlets n trading on the cupidity of forelgn cn) ftal, It I8 thelr expressed doctrine. continues that paper, “that avarice will send forelgn: capital into Russin i the face of any record of bad faith, pro- vided only that fhe prospectus 15 sut- feiently alluring ‘There may be some- thing In what they say It 15 a fre. auent souree of astonlal; that hankers who would not lend 850 1o corner grocery with s smelly record of hankruptey whl negotinte loans of mil- Hons of dollars o n government which hansts of its vecord of repudiation.” “IC IS ot 1o be wondered,” remarks the Indianapolis News, "that. with tm- verial Russian bonds held in the United Mtates long In default, thetr holders should have protested ngainst permit- g the new finwncing scheme. The Hussian authorities, while they muy e heeoming more temperate, have et to wive canchisive evidence of w willing ness 1o abide by atrict standards of honor - ternational dealings We Wl do well 1f we walt somewhat longer hefoke commitiing ouraelves 1o eorses that while they mny meet the lotter of ofoinl requirements, challenge (he St and thelr purpose.” LB B R In erttietsm of the aetion of the Btate Ih?nnrlmml, which It describes as “not only unprecedented, but extraordinary,” the Baltimore Bun declares that " fair and eandid statement of the depart- ment's posttion ought to he made, It Ehen, "oan't think | gon't want anyhody else Lo, [ OUEHL Nt Lo he possible," continies thiat v, Ctor sueh motlon ws has heen N In Lhia case o be taken at will, orange | ‘Why this is so is not difficult for any one to realize who owns one. When they bloom, they bloom all over. Nelther Radiance nor her sister is perfect, but they are so easily grown that home gardeners everywhere plant them by the thousands every year. Radiance is this sort of rose: If a dozen varicties, without names, were grown by the average amateur gardener, at the end of two years he would place his hand on one bush, and | declare, “I like this one the bes The chances are 1,000 to 1 that his sclection would be Radiance (pink). 1 it were not Radiance, undoubtedly it would be Red Radiance. When one mentally plctures a rose, he sees just a flower as the blossoms of these grand varieties. They do not have the individual something whicl, distinguishes the Souvenir de Cland Pernet. It Is true that Red Radin (§ “balls” in wet weather, Some clq nt:m| |hp' stems of Radiance are to short. (vet often they are 2 feet 5 i [l 2 long) a more satisfactory rose for the ama- teur to grow. * ok ko Mme. Gregolre Stachelin of Barce- lona. Spain, seems to be the latest new. ficomex (o l':lluckrmr admiitance at our garden gates. From the ‘¢ e Star Guide description: “Mmec. Gregolre Stacchelin has aris- tocratic parents, Frau Karl Druschki and Chateau de Clos Vougeot, and has inherited the best traits of both, “The long pointed buds are crimson at first as the sepals divide, then the firm outer petals show splashes of carmine as the flower opens, with an Iridescent pearl-pink fnside. Tt e tichly perfumed and when full blown has ‘a pleasant citronelle fragrance s 12 or more in a season, and ge. discase-resistant foliage. “The main stem of the plunt shoots upright and the long bloom-spur: out 18 inches or more at right wiih exquisite, full, fragrant bloon the tips. These blooms come car! June and last over a long period. they come in Succession. and each |bloom is long lasting. There s no bush rose grown to which we can com- pare this queen of climbers.” The colored fllustration shows the flower to look for all the world like |some beautiful tulip. Tt was awarded |the coveted gold medal at the Baga- telle Gardens, Paris, last June. Ville de Paris, another one of the | Pernet roses, is described as better | than Claudiu Well, if it is, it is | “going some! Here is what the introducer says of ft: “The buds are long and flowers falrly large. not very full, but their | charm lies in the fragrance, the gleam- ing buttercup-yellow color and as very handsome. tall with rich hol green foliage on wiry and attract {bronzed stems. For garden use thi- {scems to be the best clear yeliow rose as it holds its color in an astonishing { way, even in bright sunlight. It 15 also Rood for cutting." Well. here we have a nosegay o! old | and new favorites, pay vour money and take your choice. Roses are like most | things worth while, the more vou put {into them. the more yon get’ out of them. A perfeet rose, with the dew of morning on it, is ths most beautiful | flower in the world, and is alwavs | worth the struggle it costs to attain it, Garden dreams are s| h roses! n to prinkled strangely Russian by Public| And it seems particularly important. to have a clear understanding with regard to Russia. For, while we refus» to recog- nize her government, our business peo- ple appear (o be more and more dis- posed to aceept it as a permanency and to seek business. The course of the Chase Bank in this matter is an {llus- tration." “Numerous observers in this and other countries,” a5 viewed by the Charleston Evening Post, “see in Russin a move- ment toward conservatism in the recent | dismissal and extle of Leon Trotsky. Rus- sla, it 1s said, is gradually getting back to a normal attitude toward capital and getting over its more violent radicalism That is what Washington wants Russia to do. The way the Russians are en- couraged to think well of capital, how- ever, is for Secretary Kellogg to forbid American_bankers to lend them any it Is all right for the bankers to lend the money to Germans and let the Germans lend 1t to the Rus- stans and pocket the difference in inter- est, 25 they are sald to have been doing for several years, but to lend it direetly to Russians- -never!” LY The Little Rock Arkansas Democrat, reviewlng the situation, says: “The Rus- lan bonds were advertised at 95 and mised to pay 9 per cent. Such fig- ures Indicate that the securities hardly Wil go begging with the bond buyers But there are othar reasons why Mr. Kellogg's warning probably will not be heeded. not the least significant being that, dl‘.\!!lh‘ many similar warnings, America did $100.000.000 worth of busi- ;I&':-:' uwnh the Russlan government in “OlL I8 oll, according to the Standard Oll Coof New York. Ofl Is ofl. accord- ing to the United States Shipping Bonrd." \‘3 the Springfield Republican, With the added comment: “Their con- cerns are not alarmed lest contracts and orders for Russian oil should put money In the Soviet government's treasury. The Kellogg principle, it sound, should be applicd to the Standard Oil Co. and the United States Shipping Board.” - o won o A Governmental Achievement. From the SU Lonia Post Diapaten The Panama Canal made $5.049 500 L years, bestdes the enormous sums ‘o has saved shipping In making un- neeessary the wild and - interminable trin around Cape Horn. ‘The recent death of Gen. Goethals revived vividly the Ametlean feading of pride in this grent work It I8 A governmental achievement whove faction, partnership und controversy, and we all rejolce in It That the investment s paying dividends Is Just so much “velvet* UNIT ! IN WORLD WAR Ten Years Ago Today, Addresaing nJolnt sesson of Congress, President. Wilson today anawered the recent speeches of German Chaneellor Hertlng and - Count Crernin, the Austro-Hungarian mintster for foreign affuivs. Asserting that the German military vty alone blocks peace, he Weloomes Coernin's views as more con- cllintory. Hayn (here will be wo tiining back for the United Btates until u new order prevalls, the Qerman chun i world dead and gone many de- Alren peace, talned sho maintaing that her enemien MUAL Yecognies that Germany has been victorious - ¢ 58 Ameean forees, Though oecupying (e dampest snctor e France, are cheerful, for st least thelr trenches have the victie of being Without vats. Our men destroy Gy - man nmplnr postas, rushing seven of them i w slngle ntght. * % ¢ Hritlsh military obaerver doubts early hlow on western (ront, Pointa out that weather and transport - will - delay Gevimans. Fatimates ey mny bring thelr total strength up o 3,000,000 L S Herlin - announees oessuth; Agatnat the Bolshivi g of the Russian of war however, there is scarcely | we take the following | the | | great freedom of bloom. The bush is | ! the “ and the dishand. THE LIBRARY TABL! By the Booklover ‘The old Hebrew prophets assume a modern air through their treatment by Lewis Browne in his short history of the Jews, “Stranger Than Fiction.” He considers their significance pro- found: “the one element in those five centuries of Hebrew kingship which really makes: thelr history worth telling is the presence of the neviim, the prophets.’ * ‘The earliest of the prophets were fortune - tellers, medicine - men, priests and patriots, all in one. ‘Their simple aim, frenziedly followed, was to keep the Hebrews of the Fertile Cres- cent an isolated people, developing their own nationalism, under the guid- ance of the covenant made by their fathers on the Holy Mountain of Sinal in the Wilderness. With the building of the Temple by Solomon, the prophets were officially replaced by “a horde of fussy, bustling priests.” The probhets were “too wild and foot-loose a <ct of men to mess about for long within the four walls of what they might have de. | seribed as a stuffy little ornamented temple.” The prophets were coura- geous; they accused even kings. Na- than ‘used no euphemisms in telling King David what he thought of his stealing another man's wife: Ahijah attempted to start a_revolution when | Solomon was King; the wild Elijah, clad { in sheepskin, was called the “troubler in Isracl” because he denounced the evil practices of Ahab and his Phoeni- cian Queen, Jezebel. Greatest of the early prophets, Elijah had no tolerance for tyranny, corruption or vicious lux- ury; he was the forerunner of the { Hebrew revolution which came a gen- cration later. The prophets were also | probably the first historians of the He- Old Testament, * ok kK The prophets of the eighth century B.C. and later were, according to M. Browne, of the highest type. During this period took plad the attacks on the Hebrews of the Assyrians and Babylonians which culminated ‘in the deport n of the ten tribes of Israel to Assyria and the two tribes of Judah to Babylonia. Fortune-telling end “tawdry miracles” disappeared from among the prophets, Wwho became philosophers and_preachers—the lead- ers in thought of their times. Amos, “a_simple sheep-herder and lumber- jack from Judah,” went to Israel and preached denunciatory sermons that are great literature because of their simplicity, beauty and power. preaching was more gentle and cul- tured, less bitter. He urged repentance {and offered the forgivencss of a God who represented Love es well as Jus- tice. “Isalah was an aristocrat.” His learning and brilliant style were prob- ably over the heads of the common Judah. Micah was ihe prophet of sim- ple folk, for he was one of them. He was a radical, voicing the wrongs of the mass at the hands of th: rich sts. Zephaniah and Jere- miah, both of aristocratic familics, preached a return to the old-time re- of the forefathers. At the de- ion of Jerusalem in 586 B.C. by the Babylonians, Jeremiah was leit in not worth deporting. The rabble fled | stoned him to death beczuse he would rot keep silence about their sins. Among the exiles In Babylonia, was Ezekiel, the son of a priest; during his life in exile he wrote many laws for the future, all inspired by his belief in priesteraft, Babylonian capti: Haggal and the yount Z animated by the pri Code of Deuteronomy, vengeance unless the promptly rebuilt of priesteraft, protested against th neglect of Hebrew law and the growth of heathen practices. Nehemiah, pointed at his own request by the King ot Persia as governor of his re ated countrymen, rebuilt the w. Jerusalem and then turned his atten- tion to reform of morale. He and the scribe Ezra promulgated a new code of laws, probably drawn up in Baby- lonia, which enforced Sabbath observ- ance, broke up heathen marriages, purged the priesthood, canceied debts, and prescribed methods for the wor ship of God. “The Book of Ruth, Mr. Browne says, “is a velled protest against the laws of Ezra and Nehemiah prohibiting intermarriage,” and “the Book of Jonah in a like fashion was a velled protest agamst the narrow na- tionalism of the new prophets.” Jonah thinks God should care only for the Hebrews, but God teaches him a lesson of universal brotherhood. * o ow o the aged chariah, both tly spirit of the preached God's Tempie Much of the material in Will Trwi “Highlights of Manhat 1S reminis cent of his days as a reporter on the v York Sun in the time of Dana. hen he became acquainted with the inth Ward, now better known as h Village: with Gramercy re ft was surrounded by scrapers: with Broadway when it was stll chtefly a downtown thoroughfare; with Chinatown, which he the Tong wars, reportg for his paper the murders of Mott and Pell stree with the many harbor reaches where lay craft ranging all the way from ocean lin; to canal boats. The mod- ern Menhattan of office towers piercing the sky In rivalry with airplancs, of glant hotels and ‘apartment butldings, Of palatial theaters and restaucants, though obvlously tnteresting him less, 15 st part of his pleture CEERCIEY ‘The fictitious Prestdent of the United States created by Fannie Hurst m her novel. A" President Is Born" is a Schuyler, of Swiss ancestry, born to poor parents in the Middle West. He ives Into w future akin to some H. Q. Wells' Utoplas, tn which he promotes beneficent laws for negroes and Indians, agricultural relief and ex tenston, protective measures agatnst Soviet propagands, leglalation deuling with problems of ‘the air, and other statesmanlike achlevements not requirs g A large amount of originality on the part of the author of the novel DI T N! Laurence Sterne, preacher phleteer, novelist, soctety man, above Al else to express his own ¢ frle views on men and manners and Philosophy, 1y soscalled novel “Tris- ram Shandy” has few characters, ale most 1o plot, but abundance of Sterne’s observations and reflections In many flelds. - Ho absorbed did he become in these that he almost forgot o ntro- duce hix hero, whose entranee into the book wax unduly delayed Letter writ- g was one of Sterne's favorite meth- ody of expression and a collection of his letters has recently been published, CThe Letters of Laurence Stery S0~ fected with wn itroduetion by R. Hrim- ley Johnson. There are letiers o his Wife and daughter, to various soclety Women of his e his banker, to Nis unele, o Gareek, and @ his feiend and companton Richard Berenger, Gentleman of the Horse of Georgs 111 R What accupled the time of the Eng- Il women of the seventeenth - and clehteenth - genturiea? — Diavies and Dovels of those periods Bve Ay DS of mfonmation, though formal history sayn liite of the women Pwo wilters, M Py and - W B Tamkion, have gathered many ] Wit of Information, veri- vdinated (hem i UEnglish - Worggn iy Lite * U They have” made free e of Pepys' CDiary," other diaries M letters, autobiographies, books of travel wnd the novels of Richaidson, Flelding, Fanny - HBurney, Defoo and other noveliats. — HowseReeping meth- s, the bringlng up of ehtldien, fash fons, - amsements, e eduvation pers WHHEA Women, Ways 1 which waimen WIROE AT necossary, cari & VNG Wanges WIEH Fogard to mervants. wre all treated. Waonan eriminals and thele punish- nent are alao dlagussed, pam- e on- | brews. who laid the foundations of the is. Hosea’s | people, but he influenced the rulers of | the ruined city to control the rabble | to Egvpt, taking Jeremiah, and there | After the return from ! was | Malachi, a_devotee | ap- | through | of | ‘There 15 no other agency in the world l that can answer as many legitimate questions as our free Information Bureau in Washington, D. C. This| | highly organized institution has been built up and is under the personal direction of Frederic J. Haskin. By, | keeping in constant touch with Federal | bureaus and other educational enter- prises it s in a position to pass on to you authoritative information of the | bighest order. Submit your queries to | the staff of experts whose services are put at your free disposal. There is no | charge “except 2 cents in stamps for | return postage. Address The Evening | Star Information Bureau, Frederic J.| | Haskin, director, Washington, D. C. Who defeated Capablanca as | champion?—M. E. |, A. The former chess champlon Capa- blanca was defeated November 29, 1927, t Buenos Alres, Argentina, by a Rus- sian chess player, Alexis Alekhine, who | thereby hecame world champion, Q. What animals suck water and | what ones lap it up?—S. J. R. A. Animals of the horse family, ante- {lopes and cows suck water., Those of | | the cat and dog families, such as the | tiger and_wolf, lap water with their | tongues. | paws and lick them. ' | world Some species of bear wet their | ANSWERS TO QUESTIONS BY FREDERIC ]. HASKIN. and the device was used by him in 1784 in making a descent from an upper window from a house in Lyon. rst_descent from a balioon was made y Garnerin in Paris in 1797, Q. How did it come about that Gene ‘Tunney was given a commission in the Marine Reserves?—M. D. A. We quote for your informaticn a paragraph from a Philadeiphia news- paper dated September 25, 1926. This was a telephone message from Maj. Gen. Lejeune to Col. Cyrus Radford, Septem- ber 24: “Colonel, I desire you to pre- sent, in my name, the compliments of the entire corps, active Tunney. He will be eom first lieutenant of the Reser: Q. How old is the so; of the Old Apple Tres A. It was registered for 1905, Q. Does reindeer meat venison in taste’—E. T. E. A. Reindeer is not a game animal and the meat is not st { It compares, rather, flavor it can best be claseed between lamb and the breast of mallard duck. “In the Srade .. B. B. copyright in Q. Who designed the seal of the United States?—C. Q 1s Ash Wednesday this | year’—R. G. T. |~ A. It falls on February 22 and Easter comes on April 8. ‘When @. When was the parachute invented {and when was it put to practical use?— . K. | A. -The invention of the parachute |15 accredited to Sebastian Lenormand i | | lishman a long time to see a joke, but it takes still longer for a Scotchman to see across the ocean by television—a method of extending sight which was invented in Washington, and here demonstrated on June 13, 1925, by Mr. €. Francis Jenkins, the inventor of mo- tion pictures. That first demonstration tary of the Navy, Mr. Wilbur: the Act- ing Secretary of Commerce, Mr. Stephaa | B. Davis, and several scientists. It was fully described in the Sunday morning | papers of &ashington, June 14, 1925 | Nows comes a Scotch inventor, Mr. J. i“‘lfh television which spans the ocean. However, the public is not so much concerned whether the canny Scot of London or the uncanny Buckeye of Wacshington reaps the pennies to come from television as it is concerning what television will do for civilization. and what other improvements science has in store. Science now has a light which makes a 6-foot thickness of lead as transparent as plate glass. * % o % Yesterday, the writer visited the Bu- reau of Standards and talked with Dr. | Henry D. Hubbard on that subject. The scientist was favorably disposed to ap- preciate the benefits of the new device for seeing through the dark by radio. seeing around the curvature of the earth and through fog and night by means of the ether waves, or whatever carries sight and sound through space, without wircs or lenses. biut he was even more impressed by another apparatus which, in a few years, wiil be g ‘mass production” in invention and go far beyond either the Jenkins or the Baird contrivance. This is what Dr. Hubbard described: | “Thinking of the year 1950, or before, | as we will, we give for the mo- ment free pley to imagination and fancy the specifications for the camera of 19502 Dare we expect a camera with automatic focusing and aperture adjustment, recording in full color with | bivisual stercoscopic effect, developing | the picture instantly, telegraphing the pictures exactly as recorded, auto- matically to be filed. and with mechan- ism {nstantly locating any film without Index and exhibiting it instantly: a camera with self-sensitizing plates on which. not separate pictures, but a con- tinuously changing picture is formed and erased after being telegraphed to the storage room: a camera equipped with automatic cleaning of the glass , surfaces and the whole not to exceed | in size the smallest kodak of today?" The doctor was in a teasing mood. and finally explained that the camera which he was describing was & pair of eyes which nature had made millions of vears ago. and which must be the | ideal model for our inventors to imi- ! tate. Remembering the miraculous genius of na . what device of man can be asstimed (0 be impossible® Com- pared with nature, how far has human invention yet to travel? - x o ow In the works of the General Flec-! !tric Co at Schnectady. there is machine called the “Mechanical Man, BY PAUL V. It is proverbial that it takes an Eng-| L. Baird of London. with a surprise— | A. The seal of the United & designed by a young stud | delphia named Will Bar t {of Dr. Benjamin Barton. He made | various designs before-the seal in its { present form was finally accepted. The designs were presented to a comm | consisting of Charles Thomson, se | tary of the Confederation Congress; Dr. | Arthur Lee and Elfas Boudinot, who in | turn reported to Congress. BACKGROUND OF EVENTS COLLINS. Don't credit this picture sole] Hubbard—it's a composite. T! seientist took another of visualizin apparatu: mountain scenery of the ocean bo tom, the same mechanical genius may produce the machine in miniature. Time was when clocks were “grand- father” size, or were tack. was made in the presence of the Secre- | suggested radio ¢ utilized, with radio voice: on a master clock, and* time as often as held to | marble ¢ swallowed. be | diagnosticia all doctors may ask to be Jonah's w {to light up and s | living room. x x % % : Yesterday, the writer. upon visiti the Jenkins Laboratory, was | radio transmission. which p: | picture upon a screen abo: | square. That apparatus is to be g a public demonstration within a mo and then it will be made comme; | to_be attached to any radio receiving set. Not merely movies will then be broad- cast to all radio possessors, but of events on the other side of the world may be reflected he screens. It has passed tr age. An avia! !in Europe or Asia w h flector down upon the battlefleld without taking a negative. 2 battle will be visible in Washington, | it progresses. | * x ox x Mr. Jenkins is of Qual two years ago he wrote of tion undeg the Peace,” argut whatever that T de and communicat assurance of pe: afraid of the silence what we do not s our fears. just as makes dark place the goal of the" 1t in d: safer. * machine now the world. W vears' exp transmitting pictures by siderable distances, Within the limits of tb radio visio which does miracles at the sound of i ¥ | “His Master's Voice.” 1If the command ibe given it in ordinary tones the vibrations of sound wiil release cur- | rents, so that the device will automat- fcally travel from one room to an- other and automatically open or close switches controlling complicated ma- | |chinery. The voice vibrations so affect !electrical switches within the apparat [that it appears to obey with huma intelligence, vet it is only & set ‘of coss and levers and electric wires. But be- {hind the making of that intricate mechanism, man’s brains invented the construction. | Now hiteh that Mechanical Man to [televiston and immediately & new world of wonders is opened to human exploration, LR Jules Verne was & century ahead of sclence, but now sclence leaps & mil- lenntum beyond Jules Verne's “Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea” | Deep-sen divers—-how deep do they ever descend’ Never more than 300 feet, while 130 feet Is counted as quite { harardons. Within a short time, there WHL be constructed & metal contamer | capable of rexisting the pressure of | water amounting to hundreds of tons per square meter; {t will have glass | ports through which intensely britliant | electrie light, alteady tnvented by Jen- | Kins, will lllumine the depths a wile | or three miles down, aa the metal con- | talner or chamber lies upon the bo om of the ocean. ‘The chamber will rest upon wheels, perhups like “cater- | Pl mechantsm, which will revolve when electric motors, controlled by | radio from above, are set o motion | And the wheels will carry that metal | chamber like & car, over the sea plains | OF Up ocean mountains or ate the | Sdark, unfathomed caves” sparkiug | mavhap, with “many a gem of puvest | Ay serene.” Instde the chamber will be e pas- senger - the “Mechanieal — Man® = or something ke him e prineiple, Which Wil guide veflecting lenses so that, by vadlo television, the wonders of the deop will be envisaged far the fust| tine, mitrored upan the ship wbove 16 a0 commanded the Mechanical Man, | down there where no o dueman eould breath a minute. will set his mathon | CAETR I operation, or take “stillyt of | the grand scenery. lghted weirdly by the electrie lumination Ne monsters of the depths will move suspietousty ardd the meehanteal mvader, and (o the fust time I the development of | DIOlogY, OF ARy other “olgy." we shall | Nave movies of the huge habitants of | (he valleys of the ocean, even while | they are In normal action, What landscapes! What mountat vangest What gorges and caverns and | platusl - Havgossa foreats and oarat caatlesl AN fwney. that Nechanieal | Man as ngs b0 hinselt My litle goat, & fish atoat, Balls Toungd the purple peaka vemote,” | | | | | tow } the ¢ one day even see azoy .o Will wentors live W appointment at ¢! heavier-than-air fiving m Stone of the Coas United States Nay the Atlantic was a ‘'t tion, rec g scan | there are 150.000.000 t The mighttest s coutse by tr the g plane s hel matically or curved Bureaun of S the Society neers, at A 4 “The world s » future of rad awakened 1N you that your own fellow founder af this soctety (Je man who ot only had the daring. o attempt 1o unite the twe most popular subiects, radio and moving pleties® - Wit 1 have seen Nis Duteh windmil, v i Anacostia, shown on the screen § his laboratory near Dupont Cirel amosure he will live to see radio v suecesatul achtevement May we ever hope £ar interplanetary tansportation® The stened Goddard rocket for export at least’ series of rearward Qoddard roeket speeds whieh 1 pasaible to leave the e We may explore and UPPEE Atmosphers at frst. later we may shoot a Qoddard rocket around the MO Wo teave (o the wiiters of it the auggestion that the tocket might CORtAI R motlon pletite camera set 10 Operate s 1t passed atvund the day HEhE sde af the moon The tetuen e has aleady been deseribed by Jules Verne i CAround the Moan' et e one say hat mterplanetary communica- o 18 posaile. Whitte vadio s w KHOW 1t does nat pass thiongh the upper atsphere, perhaps the Nartians e bambanting us nll‘\ SOOI Ay s whigh WPAIY penetiate nob anly the i but soutd pass thiough 6 feet of lead Perhaps they think we are not vet syt clently advanved W osolence o wnder. Stand them, or perhans they have siven W Uhe attemipt wa hopeless Cortatnly e Aeams of IEerpanetary s CATII WAY I te 1 come Be 1ealised A% W IMANY Vislonary padests of the Past have today becomne 1ealities ™ ALonpahe AR, by Pasl . Aviiead m answers mak