Evening Star Newspaper, February 14, 1928, Page 8

h‘HE EVENING ST. AR [in the vital principles upsn which it 1s With Sunday Morning Edition. WASHINGTON, D.C. TUESDAY.....February 14, 1928 THEODORE W. NOYES....Editor The Evening s“m- \'C‘l";pl_pll Company aines: 3 11th St and Pennarirania Ave. New York Offce: 110 East 42nd 88, Chicago Office: Tower Building. Furopean Office: 14 Reent St. England. Rate by Carrier Within the City. +45¢ per month (when & Sundars) . . .60c per month e Frening and Sunday Star (when 5 Sundars) 6! a S Collect At oy Orders mas be senl in by mad or telcphone. Main 5000, Rate by Mail—Payable in Advance. Maryland and Virginia. 00: 1 mo., T8e 003 1 mo., 50c $3.00; 1 mo., 25¢ Suncar..1 rr. $12.00: 1erl SR 0 $4.00; Member of the Associated Press. The Associated Press is exclusively entitled %0 the use for republicaiion of ail news dis- 1ohes credited 10 1t OF not otherwise cred. tad in this paper and s'so the local news poblished herain ANl richis of publication ©f apecial cispaiches here: als0 reserved. —_— Hoover agd Willis. Secretary Hoover's entry into the ©Ohio presidential primary makes certain 8 pouitics owdown in that State which may have far-reaching consequences. ©ORio Republicans generally have been ‘willing 10 send a delegation to the Re- publican national convention favorable to the nomination of Senator Frank B. a *favorite son.” Mr. Hoovel ion is & challenge to Senator Willis and upsets the apple cart 0 | carefully arranged by Republican lead- ers of the State. Meir wish has been to send Ohio’s delegafion in har- monious frame of mind, a delegation AAfty-one strong which could be used ef- fectively in the convention. But now in the twinkling of an eve the prospects of harmony are torn as- under. In all probability neither Sen- ator Willis nor Mr. Hoover will be able to win support of a solid delegation, though the friends of both claim vic- tor; If the delegation is evenly @ivided, or fairly evenly divided. Senator Willis, instead of being a “favorite son” with Ohio massed be- hind him, becomes a factor of com- paratively little importance in the national convention. If Senator Willis carries the State handily and a con- siderable majority of the delegates, however, he gains and the presidential stock of Mr. Hoover depreciates ma- teriallr. On the other hand, if Mr. Hoover polis & large vote, possibly a majority, he becomes at once the pre- sumptive nominee of the Republican party at Kansas City next June. His personal popularity with the voters will be acclaimed, and States which have been looking anxiously for the band founded, showing forth In the concrete in the men and women whom these principles inspire. ‘The soul of the representative re- public, of the government of, by and for the people cannot be expressed by & city whose people, as defective and delinquent Americans, have no share in their representative National Gov- ernment; who in relation to the Na- tional Legislature are on the same footing as aliens and who In relation to suing in the Federal courts are, the United States Supreme Court says, less | than aliens: whose Americanization has been ignored as negligible in our ab- sorption in the alluring task of making the material city externally beautiful. Since the mind. the heart, the soul of the Nation cannot be adequately ex- vressed merely by making wonderfully attractive the external aspect of the body of the Capital, what must be done to Washington to cause it to oxpress truly the soul of America? The answer to this question is plain. ‘The people of the Capital must be Americanized. National representation will clothe the Washingtonian with a | vital American privilege to which he is undeniably in equity entitled; - will cleanse him of the stigma and stain of un-Americanism. and. curing his politi- cal impotency, will arm him with a cer- { tain power. The men and women of the Capital | ,can express truly the soul of America | v when the Nation has relieved it- self of the shame and injury-working paradox of maintaining non-representa- | tive un-American government of the | National Capi . at the heart | of the republic, under exclusive na- : tional control. o N “Watching With Interest.” Edward P. Warner, Assistant Secre- |tary of the Navy for Aeronautics, be- | lieves that the construction in England iof six dirigibles designed for regular jmail and passenger carying service tacross the Atlantic will give momentum {to the birth of an “international air | merchant marine.” The United States, |said Mr. Warner, will “watch with in-| terest the developments of the British | | project.” and he thinks that as soon as | ,one nation has opened the way, com- mercial interests of other leading pow- |ers will recognize the possibilities and the advantages of this mode of trans- portation. It would be more in accord- |ance with the traditionally pioneering | spirit of America, however, if the | United States were found to be opening | the way instead of watching with in- terest the experiments of somebody else. Mr. Warner, perhaps, let one cat, at least, out of the bag when he mentioned |the fact that American capital is at {a disadvantage because of lower con-| struction and maintenance cost of | dirigibles in Europe. He suggests, for ilhis reason, that it might be advisable ! for the Government to loan money, at | a nominal rate of interest, to encourage | construction of commercial dirigibles by | private concerns. But if this proposal | wagon will hesitate no longer. | has evident: { y been found not feasible The test in Ohio, where Mr. Willls| sor gppiication to bullding an American §s strongly intrenched and has cam- paigned for years, is not perhaps fair| to Mr. Hoover. But Mr. Hoover has sccepted the contest, knowing the con- @itions that exist there, and must abide by the result. He may lose the State, but if he makes a good showing his friends will still insist that he should be the party nominee. The late Gen. Leonard Wood entered & presidential | preferential primary in Ohio in 1920 | sgainst the late President Harding and polied a large vote. A fifth of the State | delegation favored Wood's nomination. Gen. Wood entered the 1920 convention 4n Chicago with as large a backing as any other candidate. Senator Willis | snd other favorite-son candidates are | hoping today that the fate which over- | took Gen. Wood in 1920 will be the | fate of Mr. Hoover in 1928, and that the convention will in the end be forced | to pick a compromise candidate. The demand coming from thousands ©f Ohio Republicans that Mr. Hoover enter the State primary, however, is tndicstive of the support which the| Hoover candidacy is receiving in many | paris of the country. Republicans in| California, Mr. Hoover's State, have 5o | | merchant marine of the sea, will it gain | favor in the construction of a merchant marine of the air? Right now our Government is doing little or nothing to encourage private enterprise in the lighter-than-air field of aviation. It led the way in the use of commercial airplanes by establish- ing and operating the efficient air mail service. But many believe, with Mr Warner, that “from a sound ecenomic standpoint the dirigible is destined tc be the commercial air vehicle of the future for long-distance over-water fiights” Yet today the Los Angeles constructed in Germany, is the one craft in this country’s possession which is at all representative of the type which, it is believed, will be the air liner of the future. Because of this fact, and possibly because of the tragic fates of the Shenandoah, the Roma and the ZR-1, the Los Angeles i5s a fair- weather ship which seldom cruises m» from home Congress, it is true, has authorized | the construction of two dirigibles, one of them to cost $4.500,000 and both of them to come within a limit of $8,000,- 000. It also authorized $200,000 for far not invited Mr. Willis to enter the | commencing construction on one of the “Mornia presidential primary, nOfgnipe put because of the wording of have they issued such an invitation | pe et the Navy Department has not any other Republican candidate. What would be the attitude of Senator Willls §¢ an invitation came from California $o enter the primary? ‘The presidential preferential primary, mow held in seve Btates, 15 in- Cended w give the voters a chance W yegister eir wishes in regard v 8 presidential nominee. If the people of Ohio lLike Mr. Hoover, it is idie o say thzt because Benator Willis is a native oon, Mr. Hoover snould be precluded from seeking the Ohio delegation, or ¢ Ohio snould be cut a preference for Mr. Hoover or any one else. It might, ©f course, be considered politic in- expedient for Mr. Hoover v, challenge 8 favorite son as strongly intrenched 8 Benawr W possinie v ag his ooirage. Communications from Benatnr Wil @1 Onio ere regarded as ©f keeping with tne D! er.yne y mucn out irit of 8¢ “The Soul of America” n s sage President Corlidge penn recent e Congre, a tnnling e Cap- @resms, v be mase Teal under tie Dious buling program on Newon hes embarked. “This program Lo 580, “rn0ula represent the best Uit exss in e et and science of ar cuttacture. 1n' Lhese sructures * OuLgnt Vi g0 e sspiratinng of the Gon, s iGeals expressed Beruty” Concerning the W stirastive Capiel which w Presicent Gouloge erclsimed @aprese the soul of Americ A fine ought, inspiningly expressed Bt cen the Nations! Cepitel mece erprese fully “the soul hmerics Wiateral exiernsl appearance? Kot battiement, well snd # Conetitute the slale fof City) port seys men “wWho KLOW rign's end knowing Gare malnain” which The w but e, ot least it is 2 ot wates the | yet been able 1o accept the bid of the Goodyea? Zeppelin Co. of Akron, Ohlo which offered to build both the ships |and & hangar for $8000000. It is to | be hoped that at this session of Con- | gress the acceptance of the bid will be permitted and money appropriated ac- cordingly. It is expected that the first of the English dirigibles will be completed in | about three months and under present pians is w fly from london to the il.‘niwd States on a trial voyage. But in the meantime a new Zeppelin, the LZ-127, 18 being rushed o completion |in Germany in the hope of taking the air before the British R-100. The de- signer and bullder of the German ship Dr. Hugo Eckner, hopes to iy around the worid in the LZ-127 in twelve days, Bhe will carry a crew of twenty-six men and twenty passengers and her # gas capacity is half agaln as much as i 1os Angeles The United States will watch with interest the success of these craft. But | the United Btates should be more con- cerned with some of her own, e The greatest patriot cannot pirotect s public from occastonal wearome | “peeches on his birthday = R Dr. Samuel 8. Adams. | The medical profession and the com- munity have suffered a joint loss in the death of Bamuel Shugert Adams i his wventy-sizth year. Bom In the Na- onal Capital end the possessor of in torms o g and impressive record of useful- erfully | ness and kindliness o all with whom rezult “lat Le came n contect, Dr. Adams died imost Jiterally “in barness” It s the Lought of those who knew him best {that Le would have preferred it that wiy Hie protessiona) gWsinmen's were ad merely by glorifestion of it mited U be secon@ only W his courtesy affeniiity and suengih of personslity and s s bigh praise. For decades e skl Bnd knowledge In pediatrics wae widely acknovledged, while his we- vitles dn connection with the Medical i The soul of the Neton ehowe forth [Roctely of the District on behal! of W e en sng w buldings, peies end n, not in monuments v Wirer evider.ces of serumlating weslt o Bia woul of e Naton, pull\eelly, B nursgrice which have proven so valusble hnp. 1n sllence, N LA~ Fd e e hwlth crusades placed bim high in tie renis of Civic benefactors. He was one of \he onginel organizers of the day r | THE EVENING here, and stood always ready to give of his time and strength in the furth- erance of movements for the better care of children. His work in the education of the doctors of the future, at three different local universities, has left a marked impress for good on his com- munity. His writings were considered authoritative. His patients were num- bered in three generations. In spite of the great amount of pro: fessional business that filled Dr. Adams’ life he loved the out-of-doors and en- joyed it in its various aspects whenever possible. Many a local foot ball game attendant may not have known who the jolly man was who seemed never to miss & game here and who entered af- fably into technical discourse with the enthusisasts sitting around him. People in every walk of life will regret his passing and none more so than his col- leagues in the profession. B “Twenty-six Cents.” Twenty-six cents, Director Lord of the Bureau of the Budget declares, is the cost to the Government of writing and delivering a letter. So Gen. Lord has caused signs, bearing the sum, to be placed on desks throughout the Federal service. He believes, and perhaps rightly, that when these “constant reminders” are fully at work, employes of all degrees in rank will think twice before they write letters which might just as well be left unwritten. No doubt in the Government service, as in other walks of life, there is a rreat deal of unnecessary letter writing. ‘While courtesy is a great virtue, and the acknowledgment of letters a fine thing, twenty-six cents also is some- thing. If it takes exactly one cent more than a “quarter” to send a man a neat letter, in which he is informed that his letter of recent date has baen received and filed, it is exactly twenty-six cents more than it is worth, in many cases. “This figure is not final,”" declared Gen. Lord, “but accurate enough to be significant and startling” It is. Ste- nographers cost money, ink costs money, typewriters cost money, station- ery costs money. Time is money. The bureau fecls that time, labor, money can be saved by abstaining from writing letters that might as well be left unwritten, or that can better be an- swered later, or that might as well be taken up over the telephone, per- haps. And If this is a good tip to the Gov- ernment, it is a good tip to all business. Many heads seem to think that letter writing is the be-all and end-all of business. When civility demands let- ters, these should never be overlooked: but where common sense and thrift seem to suggest their lack, they should be left unwritten. Twenty-six cents is something, indeed. —————————— A dry agent with a gun may prove less practical in getting results than the old-time temperance lecturer, who relied on moral suasion. ——— . ‘The prominence of two or three pres- idential candidates does not prevent a half dozen others from clinging hope- fully to the status of the dark horse. R ‘There is an enormous waste of funds in many elections in an effort to pla- cate demonstrative persons whose in- fluence is entirely fictitious. ———————— So far investigation of crime wave conditions has not achieved results much beyond the familiar admonition, “Beware of thugs and pickpockets!" e Switzerland. the playground of the world, sets a wonderful example in managing to keep out of the big and venturesome game of war. —— e In numerous instances it has proved much easler to raise a big campaign fund than to manage it discreetly. — e One advantage remains to Trotsky | over many he antagonized: He i3 at| least still alive. B SHOOTING STARS. BY PHILANDER JOHNSON, Stepmother, Maybe. “And will you be my valentine?” ‘The candidate inquired. ‘The State explained, “Good friend of mine, You're very mugh admired— But the affection I feel due On sweetheart lines can't run; A mother I will be to you, And call you ‘favorite son'!” Untruths. “People say many things about you that are untrue.” “I don't complain” answered Sena- tor Sorghum. “Many of them are quite complimentary.” A Dream of Avarice. All patiently he saved his pay And sald in tones elated, “I may get rich enough some day To be investigated!” Jud Tunkins says & man may have to take a vacation now and then in order to support the theory that he has been working hard Stopping the Discussion. “How was the new play?” “Amusing to listen o, but improper 10 talk about.” “Envy” sald Hi Ho, the sage of Chinstown, “is the punishment that | merit must unconsciously Infilet.” A Valentine. I wish you joy, with no dismay, STAR THIS AND THAT BY CHARLES E. TRACEWELL. Many a Washington resident. who hasn’t been ‘“back home"” for many more years than he would care to ad- mit receives with pleasure every week a copy of the old home town paper. It is an honored visitor to his home, with its items of correspondence relat~ ing to the daily doings of the good folk of the county. He still remembers their names, even their appearances, and takes delight in thus keeping in touch with them. “Back home” is the magic lure which drew the great Caruso, a resident of New York for many years, across the ocean to Italy, to die in the homeland— the land of mother and father. “Back home” is a magnet which comes wrapped up in the old home town weekly, making interesting items which otherwise would strike one as inconse- quential. After all, whether a thing is petty or not depends strictly upon the personal viewpoint. A cut on one's finger is a small thing, of no consequence whatever (o & sec- ond person, yet it may be very painful, and even have serious results, for the one who unfortunately posseses it. There is & tendency on the part of some to laugh at the personal items in the country papers; but no man who recognizes the facts of life will laugh. He is too interested in life. A human being is a human being, whether he frequents the night clubs of the large cities or humbly helps his neighbor to cut wood some sunny afternoon. * ok K % Here the reader has news from the entire county, “as_gleaned by Banner | correspondents.” From the village of Brookville comes the following an-‘ nouncement: “The Fidelity class of the Federated | Sunday School met ‘:“?.ll\m:shM?:;c{‘ nesday evening. Assistant hostesses wri Mrs.y L. B. Meek and Mrs. D. E ungerford. H“D“evot\on-l was followed by a busi- ness and social hour. One feature was each member contributing as many pennies as there were inches in her waist measure. Refreshments were rved to 27 members.” selm 1] ughter which greeted the How some of the smart-aleck “intellengencia” of the mighty city of New York would sneer at this simple amusement! Yet they had a good time. and no/| doubt took up quite a collection, for | it is a safe bet that the good ladies of Brookville do not go in for the diet fad. “Mr. and Mrs. Milton went to Jones- ville Sunday, where they will make their future home.” Not much of an item. truly. yet it means a great deal to the Miltons, and to all their friends and neighbors in Brookville, and possibly to their future neighbors in Jonesville. Perhaps if Mr. and Mrs. Milton and their daughter, Susie, had continued to live at the former place the young man who lived across the way might have married Susie. Who knows? But now she will marry some young fellow whom she meets in their new place of residence, and will never know at all that she was in danger of falling | X‘r'l.;ove with the young man across the | * k%o “Several farmers have finished husk- ing corn.” says the Brookton cor- respondent. Tt is good for us of the cities to think of the farmers, to try to put ourselves into their place, to realize now and then that they are out in their flelds doing their work. ‘The farmers of Burneyville are not faring so well. “The farmers have been trying to get their corn out of the flelds, but the flelds are so muddy that they have experienced much trouble.’ There is a succinct statement for the reader, one filled with human nature and conflict, which is the essence of living on this earth. Nature, which grows the corn, wars with Nature, which sends the rain and lml\k s the ficlds so muddy that the hus sible, at times. Far away in the cities householders send to the grocery for a can of corn sirup, with never a thought of men in people s muddy fields. ‘The life of the coums; more elemental, and, to ‘nt certain extent, more honest, than the more sophisticated existence of persons in huddled aggregations called cities, From Longvlew comes the item: “A number of neighbors and friends of Mr. and Mrs. John Criswell met at the Criswell woods Thursday afternoon and cut wood for them.” There may or not be a story behind this. Maybe it was simply a case of ;:mm(f):'yt cm;fi:r-sy. wlilh the understand- ing that a like service woull - ed in time. S oot Perhaps Criswell was T and the home nceded wood for the drum stove So the neighbors came in to “help out.” ok “The ladies of the Methodist Church will serve a fish and chicken dinner beginning at 5 o'clock, next Friday evening, in thF basement of the church. The public is cordially invited.” This news comes from the thriving town of Chambersville, where one also sees that “Wilbur Darnett is suffering with a severely sprained ankle.” The Wednesday Afternoon Club gave a “500" party. “Three tables were at play,” the reader is informed. From Busy Corners comes the fol- lowing intelligence: “Miss Pearl Scrog- gins went to Brookville Monday, where she will be employed at the home of Mrs. Lulu Dyers.” This may not seem “hot news” to some, but to others it is on & par with a short story—especially if you know Pearl. Pearl is one of those queer country characters which seem to be dying out. except in spots such as Busy Corners. She is an old-time “hired girl” ugly and good-hearted, who can do more work than a man, and who will be insulted if not allowed to eat at the table. Mrs. Lulu Dyers, who formerly lived at Busy Corners, has been in the big- ger town long enough to “put on airs.” At least so Pearl belleves. She is de- termined to eat at the table with Mr and Mrs. Dyers, or “know why.” “Mr. and Mrs. John Tilford have been enjoying a new radio the past w;k," appears in the news from Hem- ock. Rev. J. M. Foss, one reads, “has been quite poorly ‘the past week. He is re- ported bettef at this writing.” Here it is again! “Mr. and Mrs. Fleeta Luntz are enjoying s new radio.’ Well, everybody seems to be getting new radio. How the old world move: along! ng is troublesome, if not impos- | 0il Man’s Defiance of Senate O aviating elf! 1 hope, some day, you'll fly away And just enjoy yourself. “Bave yoh money for a rainy day,” said Uncle Eben, “an’ you may have enough 0 lend umbrellas o all yoh acquaintances.” e -4 Depravity That Is Common. Some of the depravity that Congress hus o delve Into can be imagined when iU 15 sald that one of the Investi- ating commitiees has found out that Jumes M Heck, inoa herolc effort o awing Philadelphin it the Rtepub- Hewn column. shipped numerous boxes of Ti-cent cigars fiom & New York club - e - Ina World of 1is Own, From e New York Heraid Toimne New York 1s sald 1o be suffering from growing paius. And it ban't suf- Arouses National Indignation Public indignation over the Teapot| Dome oil scandal flares anew through the press in discussions of the refusal of Robert W. Stewart, chairman of the board of the Standard Oil Co. of Indi- ana, to answer questions asked by the Senate investigating committee about | the mysterious deal in which several| millions in profits were handed over to | the Continental Trading Co. 1 “Released on habeas corpus writ," | says the Kansas City Star of Mr. Stew- | Art's resort 8 the courts. “he now will take the fufl time that hearings. ap- peals and rehearings will permit. That time may extend two years. It is too long, but it is the way of American procedure. There should be shorter ways to bring recalcitrant witnesses to book. Such delays may be almost ruinous to otherwise sound cases against flagrant offenders.” Pointing out that “everywhere the Government turned it was confronted by serfous obstacles” in the oil cases, the Indianapolis News states that “the sole question as far as the public is concerned is whether Fall, the former Secretary of the Interlor, was bribed,” and concludes: “We suggest that the stlence of men who must be presumed to know, the voluntary exile of others and the determined resistance of all to the efforts of the courts and the Sen- ate to get the facts do not reflect pleasantly on those concerned.” “Are we to understand,” asks the Omaha World-Herald, “that there is an element of big business which contends that its right to do wrong is a privilege that the Government must respect, one that rises superior to truth and justice? Such a doctrine would be a dangerous doctrine, and most dangerous, in the end, to big business itself. The big business men who have showered Stew- art with messages of praise are by that act tugging with all their strength at the plllars of their own temple.” - x e “We have wondered if nohody in the ofl business in this country was dis- turbed by the revelations which have been brought to public attention with the Teapot Dome leasing scandal,” re- marks the Boston Herald, adding: “The revelations have brought the whole oil industry under suspicion. We have wondered just when the industry would start to clean house. Yet ofl organiza- tions have elected anew to their old places the men about whose transac- tions the Supreme Court has expressed its opinion without reservation and about whose conduct the general public has no doubt whatever. The Herald, however, commends John D. Rockefel- ler, §r, for his advice to Mr. Stewart in this case. “We hope,” observes the New Orleans Tribune, “the result of these events w be a sharp and definite lodgment of the mqumfiml-l right with Congress and its committees. The chief legisla- tive body of the Natlon ought o pos- sens this right-—subject to the clause protecting the individunl against self- inerimination. Courts already have this right. It is highly desirable * ¢ ¢ that Congress should enjoy the undis- puted possession of it, tou.” “What does the ofl industry think of the effect on the public of recent acts of some of its leading members?" the Portland Oregon Journal wants to know. “What of those ol men who are exhausting every resource Lo protect those steeped In fraud inst the peo- ple of the United Statea? Is the In- dustry to take no cognizance of their actiona?” LR that “it 18 an unfortunate airs,” the Salt Lake Tribune says: “IL bids falr to last until the oublic consclence ls aroused to such an ‘xtent that the worship of the golden alt will cease and ‘the malefactors of qreat wealth' be compelled 1o obey the uws of the land Just like other people ipeed the day!” The Columbus Dis- pateh expresses the view that “the American people will not belleve that witnesses resorting Lo every possible subterfuge to keeg from furnishing in- formation on the ol deals under serutiny ved by devotlon to con- sttutiona ather than by a de- termina Al what has been done, 1t concenlment 18 posaible.” HNeverthelegs the Cleveland Plaln Declaring state of & Dealer holds that “it is highl; tify- ing that a man of such url:-tyem';:enze as John D. Rockefeller, jr., has chosen to elucidate and emphasize the new recognition of the logical interde- pendence of all elements of the national and social structure and of the false philosophy of capitalistic arrogance.” The Louisville Courier-Journal feels that “the courageous stand of Mr. Rockefeller comes as a refreshing breath of pure air in an atmosphere polluted by the contaminating effect of big business on politics " “If Mr. Rockefeller had been chair- man of the board probably the transac- tions Mr. Stewart is covering up would not have been made,” suggests the New- ark Evening News, while the Roanoke ‘Times remarks that r. Rockefeller works in the open, whereas Sinclair, Stewart and their kind work in the dark.” The Waterbury Republican ex- presses the view that “the ofl conscience is not very sensitive, but it would seem | that the “stockholders of the Indiana company must sooner or later relieve Col. Stewart of a post to which his last | election occasioned some surprise.” o ox o “American business, it seems, must clean house once more,"” advises the Chicago Daily News, and the Baltimore Sun, feeling it “is important to know whether a code of ethics prevalls in the higher sphere in which our captains of industry play their part, different from that which governs men in humbler walks of life,” warns that “answer to the question may have serious bearing in the future on many matters that are not under consideration at this time. The Rock Island Argu! rs that “the mere possession of wealth excuses man for defying constituted authority while the Topeka Daily Capital says that “if the business men and others from nearly all sections of the country who have sent admiring telegrams to Stewart knew where to address O'Neil and oth- ers, they would probably be glad to con- gratulate them on making & successful getaway.” “The original Teapot Dome scandal seems to be rather darkly eclipsed by its bewildering offshoots,” observes the Syracuse Herald. and the Raleigh New and Observer offers the judgment that “the ofl industry s smeared.” Th Nashville Banner asks, “What the value of riches if their possession Was to be subordinated to such an inquisition!" “Maybe Mr. Stewart's nonchalance Arose from full knowle that Senate defying had been done before without being followed by penal servitude or other consequences.” remarks the Cleve- land News. The Little Rock Arkansas Democrat wonders if “perhaps it is a general practice among our barons non- chalantly to toss away $3.000,000 for no other reason than that they have ‘con- fidence’ In some Individual.* UNITED STATES IN WORLD WAR Ten Years Ago Today. American artillery takes an impore tant part in a brilllant French raid in the Champagne sector, particularly in a aix-hour preparatory bombardment and the ensuing barrage. French bring back 160 prisoners eatablish them- nelves In German of three-quarters of nearly & mile long. * ¢ * President Wilson today directed Attorney Clen- eral Gregory 1o make a searching ine vestigation of alleged waste and ex- travagance In the construction of the o rent's fabricating nhly\ rd st Hog Island, Philadelphia, “with & view 10 Instituting criiminal process in- case the facta Justify 1" Corporation satd (o have squandered L 000 000 of Covs ernment’s money. * ¢ * Chaliman of Bhipplng Board calls on shipyard strikers (o resume work as a patrlotio duty and not add to the perils of our Aty Btrlke spreads with Baltimon workers asking for mote pay. * Gevmans assert distiuat of Prestdent Wilsan; see no change in allied alms. Loss of Alsace 1s feared. Relel to debate peace thip uownt. . NEW BOOKS AT RANDOM LG M. CHARLES DARWIN: The Man and His Warfare. Henshaw Ward. The Bobbs-Merrill Co. Last Sunday, February 12, was the 118th birthday of two great emanci- pators, Abraham Lincoln and Charles Darwin. ‘The one freed human beings within the United States from slavery. The other delivered human thought along certain lines from the fleld of an almost exclusive speculation, offering it, instead, the exactitudes of modern sci- ence-—close and muitiplied observations, comparison, experiment, deduction, ali moving out, finally, into the domaln of authenticated knowledge. February 12 of every year finds, and will continue to find, our country deeo- Iy engrossed in gratitude to Abraham Lincoln and in open homage to him. The press, a fresh array of publications upon this theme, ceremonies many and varied, combine each year to remind ourselves and the rest of the world of the supreme debt to Lincoln. Happily, however, mental appraisals and em tional recognitions are not, like m terial goods, capable of overcrowdings and exclusions. So, with no diminution of devotion to the one, now is the best of all points in the year to accord high tribute to Charles Darwin, the man who in so large a measure has contributed to both the quality and the method of modern thinking in every conceivable department of current life. Sincere general homage derives from a fair knowledze of the public service and the life facts of him to whom it is moment of the vear is offered opportu- nity to learn of Darwin and his work or to refresh knowledge on the subject al- ready more or less in mind. ‘The sharp rise of biography in com- mon favor is sourced partly in a revised concept of history and partly upon the recent more dramatic method of project- ing the biographic study. History, in its most effective expression, does not any more consist in a mere record of the run of events, no matter how great and far-reaching these may be. Rather does modern treatment of history focus upon this character, or that small group, upon this vital and influential personality or upon that one, for its clearest interpretations, for its deepest significances. So the great life story becomes the true expounder, the bright illuminator of history itself. Mr. Henshaw Ward stands as an ideal approach to the life and work of Charles Darwin. You have, perhaps, been out with this author before--may- be in the adventure of “Exploring th= Universe.” maybe tracing the “Evolu- tion of John Doe.” In either case, you recall him as a man waywise in the fleld of science, familiar with its content and with the general method by way of which it is seized and apprehended. You remember, I have no doubt, Mr. ‘Ward's deep preoccupation with the sclentist himself, with the man bshind the work. So, here, it is with Charles Darwin, boy and man, that he is much concerned. For in this nature lay the seed from whose growth the world has gathered so great a store of knowledge about life. Amazing story, that of the inherent power of every form of life to adapt itself to the element in which it has to live and by such adaptation to survive, while other life forms, less flex- ible, less accommodating. fall away, leaving the story of defeat in the great geologic epic of the earth. And so. as the vital starting point of the story of Darwin, Mr. Ward tells us of the boy, Charles Darwin. who by way of parental choice might have been a doctor—since doctors ran in the Dar- win family—or even a preacher. Yet an undivided passion for bugs and beetls and butterfiies carried no great | promise for either medicine or the cler- | gy. The boy never grew tired of watch- | ing the amazing ingenuity of these small things in the business of keeping themselves alive—themselves and their progeny. The game became so fascinat- ing and so absorbing that the wise elders were so convinced of the futility of their own hopes for Charles that they, in effect. turned him loose upon his consuming curiosity about the natu- ral world around him. It is at this point that the true ad- venture begins—and it is adventure of clearest stripe. Years of travel and re- search follow. South America, Coral Islands and other far points be- come the school of Darwin, where many forms of lowly life are studied and re- studied for their origins and survivals and variations. After long years of in- vestigation and revision Darwin is ready to submit to the world his theory of the “Origin of Species.” In the mean- time, around him are gathered the no- table scientists of his day—gathered in their printed works or in & personal association. The help that these give to the new investigator is here weighed, in large part by Darwin himself. Lyell, Asa*Gray, Joseph Dalton Hooker, Hux- ley, Owen, Alfred Russel Wallace—some in support, some in opposition, step out here in a clear accounting of individual outlook and position upon the case of Charles Darwin. This is a time of warfare. Fellow scientists stand pas- | sionately for or against Darwin's theory of the origin of species. middle ground of accommodation for these opposing ranks. Darwin himself is the only tranquil human in sight There is no paid. And here at the most appropriate | ANSWESS This newspaper jri'e 8% grur disgemal A O Of Lrmined recsnss nare in nah- Inglon_ who Wil soenss smeinme for You. They hare ass ment deparimenie seumn, galleries wea And U Lhe noteriy e waas maintain headnossne Capital. 1t they oar o0 you, write yur o e send. with s 2 sars Evening - #tar fntosmats Frederie 1. Muskin, friesing ton, D. €. Q. Wan the fijing feia named - after Gen, oo H. C. D - iimnrien e inge ith ® The Wheeler Field in Hawail is named afier Maj. Sheldon H. Wheeler, an offeer § the ‘Alr Corps who wan killed in ifa- wall in an alrplane accident, Q. What American university has the largest attendance?—L. R. A. The university with the largest enrollment in the United States is Co- lumbia University. New York City. In 1927 34,997 students were enrolled. Q. When will the British open cham- fiogxhlp golf matches take place?. A. They are scheduled for May 7-12 ?.tnl;oyal St. George's Club, Kent, Eng- Q. What countries lead in milk pro- duction?—L. R. A. The United States is far in the lead. In 1926, in this countrv the milk production amounted to 120.000,000.000 pounds: United Kingdom. 26.546.000.000 poun France, 26.500.000.000 pounds: Germany, 24.000.000,000 pounds. | | Q How often dors a full moon occur twice. In & month?—J. J. W. a full moon occurs twice in the same month 10 times in 28 vears. on an av erage. Since 1900 this has happened in July, 1801: March. 1904: November, 1906: August, 1909: Mav.'1912: January, 1915; March. 1915: September, 1917: July. 1920; April. 1923: October, 1925. In this list the Greenwich civil day has been used. Q. How powerful a glass is necessary to watch races when part of the course is 6 or 8 miles away?—A. M. mobiles. etc. at a distance of 6 or 8 miles. the Bureau of Standards says. a 6 or 8 power binocular, or a 20 power telescope is recommended. If fine details are to be examined the telescope 1s the better. Q. Why is the limit for vertical !n};‘:lpoiym elevator set at 82 stories? A Mr. Lewis F. Pilcher, vice dean of the School of Fine Arts of the Univer- statement concerning the limit of verti- cal travel of an elevator, says that the approximate limit of travel was set at 82 stories, based upon a height of 840 0”. Piguring the workable tensile sideration the cable weight and the loaded elevator poundage. it was esti- mated that allowing an exceptional fac- tor of safety, necessary on account of | « b1y v Cyorerre | A. The War Department szys that A. The Naval Observatory says that| A. In order to watch horses auto- | sity of Pennsylvania and author of (he| TO QUESTIONS nY FREDERIC 1. HASKIN. | wear, the sections necessary beyond M 1 0” would make any further height sefem fee uneconomical. @. How many National Parks are cared for by the Natlonal Park Service? In how many of them are temporary park rangers employed?—B. S. ional parks with- . ‘Temporary park rangers lare employed In 14 of them. Approxi- 'tately 100 temporary park rangers are ployed each weason. Approximately {109 permanent. park rangers are in the How long will the New Castle W, W. Great North- between Berne and +hi., will be 7.79 miles long. It 1= tn be eompleted in the Summer of (1928, and its cost will be about $10,- 1 006,000, | | | ong has the Coast Guard Air Service peen in existence’—R. L. K. | A. For about. five years. Q. What are the duties of an Ambes- sador?—E. J. A. An Ambassador is the personal | resentative of the ruler or hesd ofz | hation from which he is sent and serves |as a spokesman for the government of his country in the foreign country in | which he 1s stationed. He deals with | affairs of state. and his duties are largs- |17 social and ceremontal. | @ Do ocean How Hot de; k& pos of approach. etc. Warships have | spectal privileges in {in t block of gold weigh? E. A. The weight of a cubic 0t of goid is about 1,200 pound: Q How is the date p A The date patm ts tad eteh e date palm propagat ther by seed or by offshoots. No other meth- od s known. Q. Is the saying. “It is to0 cold %o &no v | A The Weather | the greater | heary enows easter! as t jor s | are rela the = | rougn!y | short, precipita | tively warm eas {and clear wea tively cold mormi the Winter wind it is cold. and tion to give m: the 1 ‘ re; and. indeed. | pens that heavy i surface air is q BACKGROUND OF EVENTS BY PAUL V. COLLINS. ‘There has never been so great a para- | be broader than their own trades. The dox in social conditions in the United silversmiths of Ephesus, States as exists today. It appears al most inexplicable that business and in- dustry are pre-eminently prosperous. while, at the same time. the bread line of the unemployed grows longer. and rivals conditions existing in 1921. when the President recognized a serious situ ation, calling for an unemployment con- ference. i { | lu ;\unoflmh. estimates that 4.000,000 out of work. and mber | is increasing weekly. The unemployed | now amount in number to 10 per { of those emploved. There are 3.000.000 | more out of work now than there were | in 1923, according to the Labor Bureau. | | Inc. It must be conceded that the fig- | ures are only estimates, based on ques- | tionnaires covering many industries, | they are carefully studied. and are not the work of political partisan propagan- | dists. Politics have nothing to do with { the situation, unless it must be counted | ratn and sunshine and | ments of inventive genius. s oxw | Mr. Prancis I. Jones. | eral of the Employm | United States Depa: | attributes the situation large! | inventions of labor-saving mac displacing manual | skilled, director gen- B but In July. 1921, it was officially esti-! upon hearicg preached by Paul, 2 ng for theology, make their idolatrous images of the non-existent goddess. ~ Whea steam power was invented and when !the sewing machine came. men and W n were dl could people sur methods? Again quoting Secretary Davis: “Today when new machines are coming in more rapidly than ever, the period of adjustmen: becomes & more serious matter than ever before. Twenty ars ago we thought we had reached the peak of mass production. Now we know that we had hardly besun. The Bureau of Labor Sta Teased 68 per ce: Vears American pro as increased adout 40 per sumers w fories are s thas | skilled demand in against invention. for hist | onstrated that in the end a saving inventions have resuited his investigations, testing them at a thousand points of possible error, recast- ing the whole from this point of view or that one, Darwin has no time for the warfare going on around him. Then the opposition moved out into the world, chiefly into the churches, keen to pos- sible onslaughts against the very strong- hold of revealed religion. And even to this day men of a certain brand of thinking stand off against the dangers of Charles Darwin in his discoveries tending toward a different interpreta- tion of life from that builded upon the earlier_conceptions when the book of life—the great book of science— had not vet had even its covers opened even a little way However, that is another story. This one is a very understanding and sym- pathetic account of the man who in face of every sort of oppasition went his way steadily, led always by his own findings nd those of fellow sclentists toward & body of knowledge as useful to an en- lightened world as the personality and | character of the man himsel{ are sur- passingly worth while to every reader who finds & great stir in the work and | Achievements of truth seekers in the amazing domain of nature. Others have written the life of Dar- win. Competent and distinguished writers have given their powers to him, for this s & noteworthy man, embody= ing theorles of vast fmportance. and to his various pronouncements sedulous attention has already been pald It is A good thing for the general reader nevertheless, that this fact did not shut off Mr. Ward's biography of Darwin In this story one gets close to the man and, after all, any man is greater th even the most tmportant pare of him posaibly can be. Happily, here we have Charles Darwin, boy and man. We have him at home, at school, where we ourselves can follow, partakingly, the early trend of his luterests and oo- cupations. We travel with him and work with him. for Mr. Ward has suc- ceeded in producing exactly that effect We share his doubts and fears, too. We partake of the courage that never falla All this impression of participatios deepens our attentton upon the great product of Darwin's life, making us study I8 more carefully and in a grow- ing amarement over one of the true niracles of life ftselt ‘Then the stary settles, gontly, to the later home life of the A beautifully stmple man the way through, from work nd high achievement 0 the quietude of less arduous work and to that, finatly of no work At all, save the amasing lesson of life that remains, and will re- matn, . woe . Lese Majesto From Outside. he SE Loute Post Bispaih, Amold Hennett has an exalted notlon of the United States. He says you have 10 got out of It o say what you Wik, - e during that troubled period. Buried in | tering the condition of even the men | they temporarily displaced. The 1 | machines do the work more econom- feally and so they displace the m who must seek other employe: hardship for the individua For example. in Arlington Cu VA, last Summer new waler ma | were laid by a machine manned dv | only three men. This machine dug the | trench from 700 to 900 feet per day lifted and lowered into it the pipes and covered the dirt back & the trench. Seventy-five or eighty ma would have worked hard to have done that much in & day by In mechanical sheet me | methods increase the outy as much as former other lines of ncreased output 12 to 28 per cent | textiles, shoes and. above a g In the great wheat fle! chine called the “combine™ {erated with a traction engine and three men. harvests and hes 50 acres of wheat per day—all do one operation—from 10 to 13 times th work accomplished a generation ago Within the last five years & million farm hands have left 1 crowded city bread I {mer there was a surfet | borers offered At harvest thousands sought in va ment o CEE Y | Soon after President | employment conference i | dusiry began (o pick up How of this revival must be credited to Harding's v fact stands that within six moenths | thereatter all the was absorbed. and wmany calling for more man-power DR The radical changes fa production may be further tllusirated with a few typical tnstances Umtil comparaiively recent tmes, 1t was assumed that no machine could ever take the place of glass-hlowers in making boitles: now ane man with a modern dottie-making machine takes the place of 41 dottle blowers Out of emplovment 40 men Hecretary of Ladbar Davis aduds: “We must. 1 think. s besin think & litle less of our wonderul machines. and a little more of our wan derful American workers, the alter native betng that we may have dis Joontent an our hands The amasing | mdustiial organisation we have duilt up M A countty must not be allowed o GOt 10 fEs oW WAy T we ate fo go on PIOAPerIng. We must gIve same (hought to this matter e oew Has there ever been & laboi-saving wventian which did 0ot jresent s same P _We axpect warkers W lines were 1921 surplus labor | Ty if against wl B & the dar iragien. It was of 1.000.000 8 year Tate Qld_methods. | a pendent of 1 dependent ) power of 1S An unheallny oon, clals and &w | unemy wages warkmen pood: In al g ‘erprises, the mos: ¢ the o toa 1 The e I8 true of & whole—iNe consuming Davis have concen- ad ol mAss pood e IR oD we Al s that the Fenius 8 e wereased and duetvity and prospert o growing breadime of . Siest wortrgsen Tt \Be St would B far more acute but for the RIGGCTOR Of our hame market for our OWI pInucers, an Loy ‘:;\“w :I\\‘Q‘N o created e Naiwo S opiimiuam among th CIA faTment af the situatiw By (he owniny Of Spring. and note the righieni 1he 1o and steel market, § jirades and the increased Aufomadiles. Business fourtshes, There UNeALinass M Anancial elreles 8RO confidence s unshaken rospect and only man fodlas—dn not “viet bt hungre (CoarTiaht. 1098 b Paat V. Colinad of m-.:‘fin,\‘ demand for