Evening Star Newspaper, February 16, 1928, Page 8

8 THE With Sunday Morning Kiition. WASHINGTON, D.C. THURSDAY. . .February 16, 1925 P s room for more. The intercst espacially new books, s | is alwa in erennial. 2 What can bs mors pleasing, to one Editor | Who loves books, than to listen to them 2 _ | discussed by experts? And where, one The Evening Star Newspuper Company | MIENt reasonably ask one's self, can a Rusiness OMe I botter expert be found than the Pt i S R e Y librarian of th> Public Library? Enciand publiz. He knows what the ad, he knows oxactly how many ir titles are, and a1t position to tell THEODORE W. NOYES. Carvler Within_the € So per m r {h2 15 i an exo e per month oghors about them, = ; » which those in- hould not m! o of the many Public Library e end of ea-h telep of n. the of Advance | Washingt ——.—o Hertert Asquith. Ter. 5001 mo. —_—— ugh vested with a title of nobil- o All Other .\l;u . an (':llll:uln‘ ity. 1t was as Herbert uith that the Aty A aday 13 L2001 §1 - Daily only . VAN TSR 001 mos men who died carly terday in Eng- Sunday enly . Tae. SHO0 i ma. . and who for a long period was 2at Britain's premier, was best known |Gr honors of titulary distinction that came to him were not incident to his actual career of active service, but were sub- quent to his retirement from du He sorved his country as a commoner, was proud of his position as such, and did not measure his rewards in terms of formal designation. Horbert Asquith was a Liberal in piblish ©f special diepateny ec as inevitable that the rapi t earporations in the District of C bia should be brought together in combina. | British politics, an unwavering believer tion under a single ownership and man- % the principles of that party which agement. From the point of view of MOt distinctly represented the democ- ublic interes s boen accepted that | TACY. He was a gifted man, a lawyer unified service under a single corporate of unusual ability, a speaker of force e ik preferable | A clearness and logical precision. and. but was sure o be effe ave in the extreme stress of war, an voluntary action on able exccutive. He was an adroit par- traction companie: liamentarian, capable of effective de Iw. In the circ fense under attack, and capable equally been a decided public preference of effective assault against the opposi: voluntary merger. For a long time there secmed to be a prospect of such a unification. Various proposals by the | OPPOsition. District Comraissioners, then acting as | _ There Will perhaps always be division & public utilities commission, faiied of | °f JudRment in respect to the degree ot ERect *aor ity ieaonthe: fim ‘how_ | credit to be allotted to Asquith and to ever. merger forces have been at work | (NS chief associate in lberalism, David and have now, to the gratia ar:mn of Lloyd George, for the reforms that were " though subject to criti. | Cected during the pre-war administra- examination, been ;:m;;ghl % tt;« | tion of British affairs. They made an ot SNEBRILE ficojeck isccepted sid ! effective combination, and until the subscribad to by the three units of Dis- | Jreach occasioned by the war they trict transportaticn, the Railway & Electric Co.. the Capitai | Traction Co. and the Washington Rapic | 0 Transit Co. a8 newcomer in the fic] Y ¥ a pl , u:::;li:; ot :‘V:fud;:‘:wf;gs”‘;ip p. of which Asquith was the leader. g Triliriee | SOCi2] and economic reforms were ac- ?WXWd :}g’: ;‘Z,;unm;;rblah:;_‘cflmpamcd by Asquith’s chief achieve- 2 2 | t, the curtailment of the vetd power proval by that body. with favorable |y : recommendation to Congress for the of the House of Lords. which effected a legislation necessary to effect this| change. Public hearings before the | commission will be held beginning Feb- Tuary 29, the intervening time being| ;y ‘bebk b clns:n:u::ymo: lheb‘r)mn | have been associated permanently with This project involves Bhie unplruc;tci.o 1one of the most beneficial amendments prre ikl ’cn ';'ol the British governmental methoas e 'W: Snky m‘:n:c}ever accomplished. But, unfortunately, them maintaining a separaf s e ith a capy. |t ¥as bis lot to remain on the scenc 4 | while the war clouds gathered, and to talization of $52.400.000 and a valus- | po ot the head of the government when P e 2 mm! rim the great storm. He was not by i et ekt u’:.)mnprramem qualified as a master of e et pu'n'n'l:auon in such an emergency. He mm: sy Lapetes mn“’m"d ’:he | could not effect the reorganization es- ety menm silgrein | sential to meet it. Loyalty to individ- public e u; mi' ;fll’::m< m‘t ‘:: | uals who had fought with him in many mmlu s et locv guarDtee st |i‘ parliamentary and political battie the capitalization would be more mod- | erate and that the proposal would not be such as o tie the hands of the| 2 i o { Dittitios rrrodtng | ozr):;fs...u own incapacity in these con- | :m’fl the matter of fare-fixing. 0 | 525 wrested from his grasp by a coali- point of precluding a lowering of | yon headed by his own first mate, who | the rates charged the public for services. | yoox command of the ship and brought | In all the discussion of traction 1 her into port. merger that has preceded. one of el While it would have been better for | sdvantages to be sought has been the | Asquith’s fame and prestige had he re- possibility of a lower rate of fare jus- | ncyished command when the crisit | tified by the saving of expenses through | came. it was impossible for him to do unified ownership and operation. Itls, He was, indeed, in a desperate sit- | has never been accepted that unifica- | yapon. He chose an honorable course tion would be of any advaniage 1 the | though i led to failure. Portunately | community unless through moderae | for England, fortunately for the world, valuation and capitalization the cOM-|the change was eflected in season, the | bined corporations could be placed in 2 | Britigh government was reorganized, the position to render efficient service at 3 | war ministry carried on to success, and lower rate of fare than that which has| Asquith went into retirement, in which | been forced through the inequality of | for more than a decade he maintained the financial positions of the two major | himself with dignity. eorporste units. | As premier, Asquith did not meas- There will be no public support 107 @ | ure up to the heights attained by mefger plan which does not promise | some cf Great Britain's former leaders, economies of administration and opera- but in alb respects he was a worthy | tion. and consequent economies in pub- | exemplar of the best traditions of Brit- lic expenditure through fares and rates. | ish statesmanship. An exhaustive study of this present .. pian, which affords for the first time an | 1f ethics would permit Tex Rickard sctusl working bes % manage a convention there would be made by the Public Ut be no doubt about abundant funds sion, which will, no doub the source of which would be perfectly was against the government when he was in Washington | g different methods, in tempera- nt antipodal, a rare combination :Asqm:h was the statesman and Lloyd lic life with the accomplishment of thie program of change, his name would i a situation altogether new and strange. Asquith did not publicly at least rec- admit 1o the hearings representatives of the eom- | frank munity, who will voice the demand that .- - in any action looking 1 the untfication Populous Pacific Picnics, of the rapid transit system the main| ... Bty cbjective will be the Jowest possible rate | 'Lam :rn.am»du 2t ; let their climate of fare consistent with s sessonsble |5 UNGe3Tibed or unlauded, as Eastern Droft, based upon 8 fair valuation and ot know. Occastonally per- w000 chsitlizatio sons restding in other pa PAC T e have been known Bestowing & fanciful erimingl makes him feel to suffer h of boredom the itants of and visitors to ol name on a e & hero Golden Btate of the vwonders of of 1 e, A “lox” goes i hm::: A “fox” goes 1 “"rf’dtl’m tant, unadulterated, metlow. sun- which sho i avrge e the s, 1t 13 interesting to ¢ contrast the dsy of January 28 las Book Reviews, here dn the District and miu— along The Public Library conducts many the Pact Here nearly a foot of activities for the ber, the meautitul snow” fell The howling which the public &t wind @rove the Jey particies so briskly scquainted with P might be through mutomobile radiators that for s own profit " & carburevor wmporarlly gave up One of these extr@ wet the ghost. Bnow plows groaned their Beries of book Tevi 1 yway along the street pedestrians cussions wrich Boundered and shipped and bent thely aren'’s yous of * he to the bisst. The mercur Tre metig We stayed meny degrees below the freesn Gclock will e 'ypicel DI George ¥ Bowerman ng Are the great outdoor pic- will review “The Rue of nice held on that eeifsame day inu the Civitization,” by C. A end 14 I Bes1. | neghiornond of Los Augeles for the “dutnes Bryce by M oA L. FRLer ety of visivars from back East: The “lorher Indie” by Kelherine Mayo. | minnespa Bate piente st which twelve &l Education “Msin Currents i Smerican Thought,” by V. L Parring- tom, end “Thas Beleving World,” by Jawis Browne Mre. Helen B will review Wil James' “Cow sud C M. iussell's “lralls Under * Mere wre some of the Giscussed usks o1 the moment, whou! ) one 1nsy Jesrn many interesting facts gnerely through the Jitle effurt requied Vo other, by celebrate “Kansas Day" drew trevel Gown W Ninth street and Nev | e thisand “Jayhawkers” but it York avenue inapponed W be scheduled for the mu- VAl snvesested perscon sie uaies W Bisivm mum’ Frovably sl Ui “The Meening of & by E D Marting | thoussnd former residents and visitors [ from that commonwealth sprawled wround, st basket Junches, renewed old friendstips wud were velcomed by the {mayor of Long Beach, himself & native Lot Farbsult County, Minn; & special Fiowed pienic, though held In eonjunction with | lie Blate sftalr, for those halling from Blie Earlh County and Winnebago City. Minn . end a third for tiose wir from Cambridge, Nebr. S0l sn caine and | and as he will be remembered. The | tion when he was in leadership and | ! worked in harmony, two dissimilar men, | | bert Asquith passed definitely from pub- | © THE _EVEN EVENING STAR ! attend.” states the library. While nhrr!nvnllub}e nearby flelds were in use and meetings have been well attonded, there semebody had to stay indoors. January 20, the day following, and all through early February, similar affairs were arranged, most of them {outdoors and accompanied by delight- ful and healthful land and aquatic di- | versions. On February 4, for example, enough persons were on hand just In |and around Long Beach and the City of the Angels. who had trekked from | Chelan County, Wash., to gather for a :sp?clal big al fresco feast all of their fown. How in the world do the Cali- |fornia ants manag2 to keecp up with | this schegule? : e — What, Indeed? “What's that got to do with {t2 countered Col. Lindbergh when asked by the curious what he ate during his recent flight to St. Louis. The replies of this intrepid young man continue to be models of conver- | sational honesty, mixed with a sublime sort of common-sense. He continues | to rebuff. in his courtecous manner, the | insatinble greed of humanity for petty | details in the lives of its herocs. To the hero worshiper nothing con- | nected with the great one is inconse- ‘quvn(kll He wants to know how the | hero lives. what he eats, how long he | sleeps, what he does for recreation, ;“hnt he reads. The private life of every man in the public eye must be | 1aid more or less open, in order to sat- |isfy the matural curiosity which per- | haps strives better to understand great- ness by bringing it down to its own | level The hero, however, is slightly irked, land. naturally enough. by a continual harping on one topic. He who never thinks of food when in the air cannot {understand why he is forever greeted “What's that got to do with it?" he | ever shows. What. indeed? The thing has got to a point where no doubt the Lone Eagle shrinks from landing. He { knows that no sooner will he have come through fog and danger, calling {upon all his resources, all his flying intelligence, than some one will pop up with “What did ya eat?” Som= day. no doubt. if this keeps up, he will smile that wholesome grin of his and reply, gravely, “The moon and a couple of stars, of course. - |a great man always reveals a successor worthy to carry on his work. The th is comforting. But in practice George the politician of the pa,m"_i’n is usually found that public affairs| {as they miss the guiding hand need isome delicate readjustment. e A law-abiding citizen does not carry {a gun. The illegality of his position |\'eflxab1e revolution in parliamentary does not prevent the professional gun-| chi! government in Great Britain. Had Her- | Man from taking the fullest advantage | why 1 a it — et Admirers of Lindbergh are beginning to protest against the fact that a hero i ts left without adequate provisions for sick leave and regular vacations. . There is not much popular sentiment | in evidence for the preservation of old | Center Market as a uresque land- mark. | | | | ) Many admirers wish Lindbergh would quit flying for a while. The one gift unavailable to him is a period of rest- ful idleness. e e It may be possible to make poisoned alcohol so effective that it will not | . | ‘The ban on bootleg liquor becomes | to shoot. is against the law. R Street car and bus have ward the question of evolution in trans- | portation. ——eat— SHOOTING STARS. | BY PHILANDER JOHNSON, Holidays. In February, here we find A group of holidays, As men who labored for mankind Step forth to public gaze. The snow, unsullied like their lives, Lies white across the scepe. And, next, St. Patrick's day arrives, A-wearing of the green! Ah, busy Feb! Great names we've met In wonderful array! As March draws near, we won't forget Good oid St. Patrick's day. Politics Everywhere. “I have heen very much impressed,” remarked Senator Sorghum, “by read- ing Milton." “Paradise Lost?" “@es 1t looks to me as if even when you get to Heaven you are liable to en- counter anclent traces of some rather ugly politics.” A Politiclan. His oratory wasn't much. And yet the world admires. The heartstrings he could touck But how he pulled the wires! seldom Jud Tunkins says a silly man laughs at his own Jokes, a self-made audience being better than none st all. An Adage Proved. “Riches have wings'" “No doubt of it,” answered Mr. Dus- tn “1 have aviators ™ Erax “There are two kinds of statesmen,” said HI Ho, the sage of Chinatown “those willing to sacrifice themselves for their country and those willing to wcrifice their country for themselves.” Sudden Contrast. | My radio! My radio! | You keep me golng some i One number u Clussic And the next s Just & bum, | “Qeorge Wash n'tn couldn't tell s lie,” | said Uncle Eben. “De world would be hetter it all de chillun named after him was de same way' .- | Those White House Butter Cakes Viom e Boeton Tianscrip Names of guests ut & White House | breakfust indicate that political differ- ences Liuve 1o effect upon an sppetite for buckwheat cakes, oo Murder Trials by Radio, Viom the New York Herald Trib It the radio companies want over big, they I begin broadcastin aer tilals, g o Ko k- with one question. “What did vou ecat?”} | asks, with as near to irritation as he| It has been said that the death of| e brought for- | fnanced several | 1928.° [ THI When you take his seed catalogue out of its envelope, his photograph on the cover slaps you right in the face. green, surrounded by a yellow border, his face looks out, pears out at one, the left corner of the mouth opened, showing his teeth. His closely eves, and his face is lined decply with years of happy living. closely onto his rugged shoulders. dressing up. Why. this is' not so catalogue one holds in one’s hand—it Is a personality! * % K ¥ How does it happen that some men are personalitics, while so many thou- sands of their associates in life are merely people? Here is a man who prides himsell on exactly like a lighthouse, then at least like something different. Is difference, after all, the key to personality? ‘ This catalogue. of his is different. One doubts if there is another in the whole wide world like it or even ap- in every line, in cvery item, the impress of a personality. A mind that dares to be different and a body that possesses the vigor to radi- these would seem to be the s of personality in so far intangible quality may be this traced. Mere difference is not enough-—it I must be a difference with a purpose, in_their own minds. Mere physical vigor is not enough. would take rank as the greatest men help it onward. * % 2 | being “just folks,” but who manages, | nevertheless, at the same time to stand | out of the ruck of humanity, if not| Sct in a background of two tones of | to send a letter slightly | somxe(, the success and cares of probably 50| His neck is short, bringing his head | is all bosh, e The | ground right side up and cover 3 or blue tie in his collar does not fit Ilpid inches deep. into the opening any too well, showing | his proper far Western disdain Ior‘(‘ollrs:& proaching it in any particular. It shows | BY CHARLES E. TRACEWELL. will be filled promptly and carefully. And. of course, guaranteed to please you in every way. And don't forget vszth' y(:‘ur order.” * Open the catalogue and you run into hing Jike this: think without any question this cropped mustache—~in | is the carlicst radish grown, and is the the picture—looks for all the world like | prettiest radish I ever saw. A brilliant a sponge stuck on his upper lip. The [scarlet in color. Pkt., 10 cents; oz, 15 beholder instinctively knows that in|cents; '; pound, 45 cents; 1 pound, real life the mustache does not look so. | $1.25; 5 pounds, at $i.15 per pound; 10 His deep eyes are shrewd, humorous | pounds, at $1.05 per pound. “Asparagus 1s easy to grow,” the reader is informed. “Plant seed or set | plants early. This talk about trenching Just get the roots in the “That's all. Kecp the weeds hoed. of Plant 10 inches apart in the row. Rows any convenient distance much a seed:apart. “It really grows like a weed. “Just give it room and decent culti- | vation and you can’t help but succeed. | No crop first year, but a good crop next | year, and plenty from then on for 20 |years. Great money-maker. Can't freeze out or dry out, drown out or hail out. Sure income. One of the best Spring tonics known.” Well, one has a better opinion of asparagus immediately! “I have always had a preference for | wax bean: declares he. “I have | imagined they tasted a little better than | green podded sorts, but I guess it was imagination only, for the color of the pod has very little, if anything, to do with the quality.” Some yiclds from mangel beets (for stock feeding) are almost unbelievable, he goes on. “Years ago I grew 12 tons from one-fourth acre or 48 tons to the acre. Later on, or 4 or 5 years ago, T grew 80 tons to the acreé in our | vegetable trials, but I have been afraid | to say anything about it for fear some lone would think I was overstating the it Throughout the catalogue are small . | pictures of the proprietor—at the micro- ' 1 phone of his radio station, with an old friend who “has been buying seeds from me for many years,” seated among | eight farmer friends in overalls (which ! he probably sold them); seated with a | lgrowth of Sudan grass, holding a biz watermelon on his knees and admiring | some of his peonies. “We're busy, as usual” he informs his friends. “Wo're eating three meals | a day and are as happy and prosperous ve, I guess. It seems that in the long run we get about what we deserve. “All the children are t ones are getting to be big ¢ * You may wonder ask you to write us. | whether it's satisfaction or criticism ren cap on the back of his head and hold- | Ing an ear of corn; posed beneath a Well, satisfied customers make us feel good and criticism is good for us. | “Now. if you want these new low | prices kept low for next year, show vour | appreciation with an order. Your order | | | l | g “Secretary Wilbur is jus! is worse than a bolshevist The bridge party was fully agreed on the ju.tice of that appraisal by th> Queen of Hearts, Miss Tobasco, but it had taken one of exceptional pep—not | meaning pepper—to express it. | Mme. Chapercn, who had just re- {turned from a presentetion at th~ ,!“homd! He imited his capacity for the mastery Of | pe pecossary for a prohibition ralder | ccurt of George V. was not in toush with public sentiment and meskly in- quired why the head of the Navy had become so “impossible.” “]—I—thought Mr. Wilbur was such He held to the helm until 1t more binding. Any attempt at suicide a haudsome. upstanding American.” she protested “He is always beauti- fully groomed and fashionably dressed ““Handsome is that handsome docs.’ iss Tcbasco cxplained. don't you know, Mrs. Chaperon, that he de- | clares that ‘there arc times when gun- | powder is more valuable than face powder!" The very idear!™” “Yes, he said so when he made a speech’ in Hooslerdom last weck, and he repeated it even before Mr. Mad- den’s committee of Congress. But what can we expect from a militarist>” sup- plemented little Miss Goldenlocks “Next thing we know he will be ar- guing “that blood s redder than roug® |and thicker than puree. He even at- {tacks us girls by saying that if we would stop candy for one year the saving would pay the entire program of building up the Navy for nine years Will you please pass the chocolates, Miss Tobasco? | tng away their pipes and choking off | the barking dogs. He counts our candy At $750,000.000 a year, and the Navy buflding for nine years at $740.000.000 Anyhow, that leaves us $10,000.000 even in the first year for peppermints and chocolates. I could eat that much my- self, but you know I'm reducing now | Down with the Navy! Hoch der candy!” Everybody Inid down the cards and | cheered. and in the midst of the hoo- basco, was announced. He had come to convey his niece home tn the lmou- A good sine “Uncle Srm" is famous seout “who Kkng beans,” whether in London or Boston s “Hear! Hear! What is this?” he seated in the automobile. “You de- nouncing the Navy? Why, why, Susan- na, I'm surprised at you® “Well, Uncle S8am, he picked on us first. Why didn’t hie jump on men's pipes? He sald we girls spend too much on cosmetics and beauty parlort ~—$1,825,000,000. Do you think tha much? Don't we have to be massi and manicured? Isn't 1L just as im- portant to have permanent waves as permanent?” “Oh, tut tut! and 1 recall that he did refer cost of tobacco in 20 years 000,000, declared Uncle Sam I heard that speech, | taught us to smoke, und now they twit us with thetr billions for tobacco in 't over men's pipes And ms that He just added that extra half Ihillion 50 he could blame the women We haven't been smoking 20 years, and | modern rouge and permanent waves are {young yet [ured to darken her eyelashes or her lips.” “Yen - quite young and fapperly” conceded Uncle Bam. “But now, little @irl, let_your old uncle tell you some- titng which you ought to know . “Oh, Uncle Hum, 1 don't want my mind improved “IC It what you want—it's what you need, Busanna, Your present mind would beit w rich man i golng (hrough the eye of a needle” “Isn't thut heavenly, Uncle Sam? 1 guess Ul keep 1t nice and slender, just lke that — P'm reducing, you know " “In the first place, this Natlon must be able to defend itsell 1 case It gels it another war; It must be able to protect our merchant marine in time everywhere,” continued Uncle Bam, In all serlousnoss, know? mean enough, he says our cosmelic and bewuty parlors in the sam yeurs | [ will cost $36.600,000,000 How does he Grandma says she never | vouge facts. But now Mr, —— says he grew from a little over a seventh of an acre at the rate of 92 tons to the acre. directed by a purposeful intellizence. | 85, . ; | There are thousands of “different” peo- | S¢ i YU believe him, you will my story ple who are not personalities except | of 80 tons per acre.” A One is compelled to believe this fel- {low when he waxes enthuslastic about either, else prize fighters and wres:lers‘ms own seed corn: I have sold a lot of seed corn in my in the world, The vigor must be be- i, oo SKE S00 & o ceen a5 beauti- hind the mind, in the true sens2, and | fi'a Jot of high-bred, heavy vielding, d sound, strong germinating seed as about something he is proud of, but how many persons do it, for fear of accusations of egotism or somecthing | or other? One positively grows enthusiastic over the very idea of seed corn. The guar- antee runs as follows “Of course, I can't guarantec you a crop, for I can't be there to plant it and tend it. but you can take the seed | home and examine it and test it and call in she neighbors. “If you think you you can have your money back. course. my guarantce must end wh vou begin to piant, as the outcome of the crop depends on the weather and | <oil and leniency of the bugs and worms | and many other things too numerous to | That's fair enough. All I} is. you give me a fair shake and mention. ave matters in your hands.” 1], old man, shake hands! Y I wel a man after our own heart, and after | the hearts of thousands of other per- | You almost stir us to |y " ey completed fund for which has | sons, evidently. plant corn in our small city back yard. BACKGROUND OF EVENTS (ween @ merchant marine and the ‘horse |0 which I have greatly marines’ you used to sing about when I was little? Does Capt. Jinks still sail with the ‘horse marines'? he gone into the merchant or bour- | geols marines?"” “Isn't that just like the men—al-| { ways wanting us women to economize? | He didn't say a word about men throw- | does not consent that we do that, Uncle. “Stop your nonsense, Susanna. must talk seriously to you. “But why must you talk of war, Uncle Sam? The preacher says we must pray for a ‘will for peace’ and we'll have no more wars. If we build a great Navy, Great Britain will build a greater. and then we must build & still greater, and—away goes our candy and ves' until we get as old as Grandma " “Did not Belgium have a ‘will of peace’ when the enemy invaded her and butchered her people, including women and bables” Does the existence of a means to make good our own pravers provoke war which nobody wants? Why not follow Cromwell's counsel, ‘Trust God end keep your powder dry’? Great Britain does not need to build greater in order to keep ahead of even the projected American Navy. She has three ships with & range of 30000 yards, while we have five of equal range. but her three can outstail our 2 knots an hour, so she would quickly say, 24000 vards-—that's about 14 miles—and at that distance she has 15 ships and we only 9. Of course, if we clevate our guns we d increase our range on all of our ships.” added Uncle Sam. “Yes, but the British Ambassador | My friend of the British embassy was telling me about it. though I didn’t pay much attention to what he said.” “True. British propaganda objects, | but Japan 1s' elevating her guns: she is modernizing her nine ships at a cost of $25.000,000, to_spread over the next eight_vears. Evidently she does not lask British propagandists for permis- rays Mr. 8am Patch, uncle of Miss To- | | American fleet, if in battle with a Brit- | will not be able to close in | inquired, when he and his niece were | | Great to build ships to sall waves that aren't, | stred to the | $36,000;- “Yen ~but maybe that included what clgarettes we ladles use. Eve gave | Adum the green apple, but the men general, Just to throw a smoke screen | | British sion France has already ratsed he guns on four battleships. from 18 de- grees to 23 degrees, thereby increasing tneir range to 25,150 yards—about 13 miles “Without ralsing our guns, the ish flcet against the switter British vessels. and will be obliged to fight at a disadvans tage, so great that. in the end, the will have 20 capital ships in line against our 10 Besides, we must modernize our ships for protection against es and for protection i s from aircraft. We must rt them from coal-burning to ofl~ ming We ' are not trying to compete with Britain’s ~ navy. though, of course, we might have done it if so de- We called a conference in 1921 the express purpose of lmiting and what was the outcome? We upon @ strength for the navies Great Britain, and the United States, and Japan, in the ratio of § -8 -3 And we showed our good faith by prompliy serupping milllons of dollars’ worth ot ships, then building The battleship Washington, on which we had spent, at that time, $22.000000, was taken out to sea and sunk. Steam boilers, which had cost us $30,000 to make, were cut up and sold for serap-tron at $9 & ton “Well, Uncle Sam, wasn't the World War a ‘war to end wars'? What if we did scrap ships tor which we would have no more wse, since war was ended? Be- sides. there was the League of Natlons or Notfons, which 1y 1t —that saves u ot n navies, you kuow, by preventing wars " “Ho? Bince the armistice, there have been more than 30 major Wi not for of Leounting mere riots and border trou- bles.” y must we be stronger than ain? Aren't we both of the same race - brothers?! “Yes, largely the same race as In 10 and 1812, And the same as we were when Cleveland and Roosevelt tnvoked the Monroe Doctrine and backed 1t with our Navy ™ M “What was the good of the Disarma- ment Conference of 1033, 10 now we are 1 break that agreement to veduce the Or has | close in to a range of. ! NG STAR, WASHINGTON, D. €., THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 16 S AND THAT That's the way a man ouglhit to talk | v ! organizations or iave been be“g;\bronzt busts which surmount the on | lets that have been placed by New York PHILOSOPHIES BY GLENN FRANK A while ago Sherwood Anderson. ex- otic novelist,’ gave some sound advice to aspiring writers. The gist of his advice to the young man who wants to be a writer i3 that a man should not try to live by litera- ture, but should get a good job that will support himself and family and do his writing on the side. H. L. Mencken davotes a column to the elaboration of this advice. He agrees with Andorson. Toih Anderson and Mencken in this dis ion address themselves to the youns euthor and suggest the theory of part-time author- sl&p as a contribution to the philosophy of the writing craft; but the advice is cven more important to the Iiation at large than to the writing profe . To put the thing in extreme fashion, I suggest that a movement with the motto—Every Man His Own Author— would have far-reaching implications for the public thought and lfe of America. _ ‘The temptation in our ovarspacializ civilization is to develop a body of spe- cizlists to make the thought of the Na- tion articulate in books and magazincs end newspapers and a body of more or Icss_inarticulate men to carry on the work of the Nation. The group of full-time authors, viork- ing away in their libraries, without first- hand contact with the work of the world save as obscrvers from the side lines, tends to become acacemic. Their thought is not feriilized by 2c- tion, ror is their thought checied and corrected by experience. The group of men who do th> work of the world, but who are incapable of writing and speaking about the ph.- losophy of their work or the fruit ot their experience, tends to become routineers. Their ection is not fertilized by thought, nor is their eaporicnce clari- ficd and focused by thought. 3 tat they might be contributing to the life of the Nation: Articulate writers who have little to Inarticulate men of affairs who have somathing to say, but do not say it. Mr. Anderron’s advice to young au- thers will give us better writers. An while the men whose main in- terest i3 writing follow a business or on on the side, tiae m>n whose | main intercst is a business cr profession will cultivate theart of selves on the side, the public thought oi | th2 Nation will be greatly enriched. (Copyrignt. McCiure Newspaper Syudicate.) ;Hmry Clay and The Hall of Fame To the Edi*yr of The Star: As alrector of the Hall of Fame it | has been my policy to invite appropriate groups to provide llge tab- | University in the beautiful colonnade at | University Heights. Forty-four of "the sixty-five tablets are so honored, and several more busts are to be unveiled with the usual distinguished ceremontes on the 10th of May. Among these are the bust of Agassiz. in the presentation | ou're | 0f Which the American Association for | the Advancement of Science has taken American telegraphers: that of Whitt | been provided by the members of the |Soctety of Priends (Quakers): the John | Paul Jones. which will be undertaken by | the Masons: the Madison. for which the | Princeton alumni are raising a fund in $1 subscriptions, and. it is hoped. the Rufus Choate, which the lawyers of Boston are being asked to support. I | wish T could add that there is a good | “What's the (Mference, Uncle, be- | Prospect of a seventh, the Henry Clay. candidate for appointment as a fiving I this artistic and enduring tribute to the ! interested ms self: Were I not an unconscionable opti- mist about the success of good projects I should be somewhat disco conspicuous indifference with which many Kentuckians, East and West, have 1| regarded the honor which I have re- served for them in inviting them to pay f | The practic of full-time cithorship. | thre Iooizing to professional wr lone { for our literature and eriticism, tonds to | | give us two classes that fall short of rossing them- | the initiative: that of Morse. given by s, BY FREDERL! ‘There is no other agency in the world that can answer as many legitimate questions as our free Information Bu- reau 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 con- stant touch with Federal bureaus and other educational enterprises it is in a pesition to pass on to you authoritative information of the highest order. Sub- mit your queries to the staff of experts whose service are put at your free dis- posal. There i5 no charge except 2 cents in stamps for return postage. Ad- dress The Evening Star Information Bureau, Frederic J. Haskin, Director, ;Wmhmgu)n. D Q. Where was Martha Ostenso horn? —A. T. D. A. Martha Ostenso, the author, was born at Bergen, Norway, September 17, 1900. She was brought to the United States in infancy and educated In the public schools of Minnesota and the University of Manitoba. Q. How does Belgium compare with Maryland in size?>—E. E. C. i Ari It is not quite so large as Mary- and. Q What are the archeological ages? —A. L. T. A. The Stone Age, the Bronze Age and the Iron Age are so called. Q. Is divorce tolerated in China —C.E M. secure a divorce from her husband. A man can divorce his wife for any of nine causes. Divorce by mutual con- sent Is possible. If a wife has mourned | or if the husband was poor at the time of marriage and has since grown rich, the husbafid may not divorce his wil | except in the case of infidelity. 2. Ho;" long is the Hudson River? _A: 1t is about 300 miles long. | Q. How tall does bamboo grow? How | many species are there?—A. O. N. A. Bamboo is a name applied to about 200 _speci of Bambusa, Arundinaria, Phyllostachys and other a great size, some 70 to 100 feet in height, having trunks a foot in dianeter. | Q. Can a Canadian who entered the to prove legal entry become an Ameri- can citizen?>—J. O. E. ‘The act of February 5, 1917, pro- vides “that there shall be levied, col- lected and paid a tax of $8 for every A. Tt is not possible for a w-man to | her husband's parents for three years, genera of grasses, many of which attain, United States in 1922 and is unable toward the new Capitol. which. it ANSWERS TO QUESTIONS C J. HASKIN. !or its equivalent: trigonometry, Went- worth's New Plane and Spherical Trigo- nometry, or its equivalent. Q. Please give me some information concerning the social status of actors in China—T. 8. 8. A. Prof. Edward Thomas Williams in his book. “China Yesterday and Todayv.” | says: “The actors theoretically form one of the classes in China. Under the old regime they and their de- | scendants for three generations were | not allowed to enter the examina for civi: service. They were classed with beggars, barbers, butchers and chair- bearers, who, because of the menial services performed or. in the case butchers, because they were fami with the sight of blood. were regarded as unfit to hold office. There were al- | ways ways of removing the handicao. however, if one were eager to enter ti service, for he could be adopted 25 i 50n by some one who was free from disqualification.” | Q. Of what particular Interest are the | Galapagos Islands?’—G. S. | A. This group of voicanic islands. i lving about 600 miles off the coast of | Ecuador, are of extreme interest to | zoologists in view of the peculiarities of | their fauna and the bearing the fac's | have upon the evolutionary history cf | animals. Reptiles are represented by | the famous giant tortoises, two species f snakes and four of lizards. Q. What trees are best for on streets>—V. B. E A This is lo some extent a matter of | opinion. In Washington, where a care- | ful study of the question is made. red oaks and American elms are used on wide streets and boulevards. Norwav maples on streets of mode: | he hade trees street was o other species. iginal ! Q. Please gi building of the —C. C. G. A. The foundation of the new Stats Capitol of Nebraska was begun April 15, 1922. The corner stone tlaid on Armistice day of that vear and |1t is believed that the building will be | ready by 1930. The delay is due o * | fact that Nebraska may not incur anv indebtedness except for a small amoun to cover emergencies. Approximatelv $1,500,000 annually was appropriated < | estimated. will cost over $9.000,000. The | building is to be four-square, approxi- | mately 400 by 400 feet. In the center is a tower over 400 feet high. on top of |'hlch is a 22-foot figure of "’r"- . | i alicn regyiarly admitted to the United ' Sower,” typifying the spirit of . States.” a Canadian entered without | State. The exterior is of buff Indiana | having pefd this head-tax he cannotlimestone. | prove legel entry into the United States. | { Any alien ®ho cannot prove legal entry | | is ineligible to become an American citi- zen. A native-born Canadian who is | here illegally may leave the United Stats, obtain proof of his Canadian { birth. communicate with the nearest Amcrican consul. obtain a non-quota | visa. enter the United States legall : pay his head-tax as he comes in. | Q. What is the fuel value of whole | milk and buttermilk’—A. G. G. | A | per pound, and buttermilk contains 160. trees in the District trimmed?—D. P. B. A costs about 90 cents a tree. than 100,000 trees to be cared for by the city the cost runs into a tidy sum. Q. What is Hogmanay’—W. B. | | az ble i Q. What does it cost to keep the — Q. Were President Arthur's parenis | native-born Americans>—I. H. B. A. Chester A Arthur was the son of an Irishman. who emigrated to Am ica, and a Canadian woman. Q. Can reindeer skin be made into leather’—R. D. makes one of the finest grained leathers known. Women's gioves made of this skin have the softness of chamois and the durab: Whole milk contains 315 calories ' skin. Q. Was Harry Lauder ever A. L. A. As a Jad Harry Lauder ployed in a flax-spinning mill a miner? was em- and Jater Considering the fact that there are more worked in the coal mines. but he had ?Mmhnx:u talent as &n‘ entertainer that to choose stage as fession. i ! A. It is the name given in Scotland Q Who was the “Laughing Philos- | and parts of England to the last day of opher™>—P. M. | the year. ! A Democritus of Miletus. who | Q. How much mathematics does a | cadet in the Army Air Corps have to i know?—A. J. R. | A. The examination requires a knowl- inson's New Higher Arithmetic, or its | *quivalent. algebra. Wentworth's College | Algebra. its equivalent: geometry. Wentworth's Plane and Solid Geometry. laughed at the follies of mankind, was given that name to distinguisa Rim from the “Weeping Philosopher.” Hora- clitus. who mourned for human de- | pravity and infatuation. uraged at the | edge of arithmetic as covered by Rob-| Q Does a British subject. drawing = war pension. lose his right to the pea- sion upon bscoming an American citi- zen?—A. G. A It is not forfeited. | greatest man identified with their State. | | However, I still rely upon the pride and | | emulation of our fellow citizens of the | {from which subscriptions for the Clay | {may well be_expected—Loutsville, Lex- | |ington. New York and Washington. An | | art committee, consisting of three former | | | | | | | | | i i | Nawvy But we are not hieak: ment, We nnwo“w: t ng any 7‘1:!‘? oapital ships, Blue Grass. The total cost of each of these busts is but $3.000. and there are four groups presidents of the National Sculpture Society. aids the director of the Hall of | Fame in selecting the sculptor from a | large approved list. so that the artistic aspects of this national and unsectional ehterprise may not be open to the - cism with which. on the whole. the col lection in Statuary Hall has been greeted. Clay is a distinguishad one, Robert I Altken, who has already made the superb efligies of Jefferson, Franklin and Webster that are now ir lon- nade. Mr. Aitken is one of ree or four best portrait sculptors in tea. and he is staving off other commis- sions In order to do this piece of work But he cannot be asked to begin it the fund is virtually assured. For these reasons I hope that the honor I am offering Kentucklans will be promptly accepted and that some Amer- fcan will be found to underwrite the needed sum. so that while the subsc tion proceeds Mr. Aitken may compl the bust. 1 hope that publ spirited person —preferab! will undertake a vigorou: raise in Washington at least $1.000 Meanwhile checks to the order of the bursar of New York University m ¢ office of the Hal Fifty-fifth street, he t . 26 East York City. Every ‘American is & stockholder i the Hall of Fame ROBERT UNDERWOQOD JOHNSON. but Great Britain refu any limitation on cruisers 10,000 tons. She declared she had no crutsers of 10000 tons. But she had cruisers of 9.750 and 98¢0 tons when carrying no supplies or fuel. which with supplies and fuel rated 11500 tons. She demanded at the recent Geneva Confer- ence that we should not h our cruisers with guns greater than 6- caliber, while we proposed to arm them with 8-fneh guns. Even merchant ships can carry 8-inch guns, I we carry out to agree 'to exceeding President Coolidge’s recommendation of | 25 crulsers, that will not vet put us on & parity with British crubers. but our House naval affairs comm ?tee proposes to cut 1t to 12 crulsers, and when the bill gets to the House on the basts of 13 crutsers, you will see an effort th cut down to 7. for 7 15 what Great Britam, At the Geneva Conference. consented to let us have. Why should British propa- ganda and lobby dictaty ir naval pre- paredness and efictency “ON dear! And Secretary Wilbuy wants us to give up candy and pay tor preparedness. Is that fan " asked Susanna “No, that candy tllustration was only to emphasize the folly of saving that this great Nation cannot afford an ads quate Navy We must be able to vro. teet our forelgn trade The Untted | Slates 1 the greatest exporting Nation | i the world and unlass we guard owr proteotive tariff it will_ soon became the greatest importing Nation Great Britain's Imports are greater than ours we proteet our domestic markets for our own producers and wage carners Even with smaller imports our totul forelgn trade 1ast year was 89,300,000 - 000, wx compared With Creat Britain's total of $9.800.000.000 her excess due | 0 Ber greater imporis “Why, Unele Sam, then It our trade Is practically equal to that of the Hiithsh, why dont we need a Navy equal to that of Biitain ™ and Susaniny Tobasen became excitad with the ens hustasm of & convert who had just be Bun to see the light (Covyrisht, 1028, by Paul V. Colina) | ] | Lot o TOWS. 155 | | the treaty,” according to the Philads | potent for peace.” Dail s | | impressive gesture by two n | arbitrations le | { The new arbitration treaty between | France and the United States has been reviewed in this country with interest, due largely % its historic associations. While the agreement’s declaration | against war plegsss many as a step in {the right direction. it is recognized as | falling far short of the Briand “out- The sculptor selected for mei | upon { French treaty { for the signing of the new pact of arbi- lawry of war® proposa “A happy thought the 150th anniversary v of alliance with America. was that fixed of the tration betwoen our republic and the motherland of Lafayette.” says the At- lanta Journal. “Never within this cen- tury and a half of friendship lnking e two countries have their relations her in good will and in oppor- tunity to promote together the peace of t world. Since February 6. 1778 France and America both have made much history. have suffered tragic sor- have n to heroic heights, have cred wisdom from the deeps. How ng thit these friends of old should a greater faith born of T experiences!™ ther country. under the terms af phia Evening Bulletin, “could be con- stratned to an arbitration it did not freely accept. It is the spirit which led the nations to frame the v that gives assurance that i w Th> Santa Barbara ths matier as News by the ttes of friendship n to the birth of the Americ Applied to other countries, t de found A g 10 remove “The cr?du.\l strengther g of ant each nation's ments nOL 0 wage War at all or not to wage {t until warlike passions have had A breathing space (n arbitration and - vestigation, is worth while.” in the opin- ton of the Grand Rapids Press. while the Fort Worth Star-Telegram remarks as 1o the future: “The treaty does not renounce war expltettly. 1t, thered 8 not a fulfillm pressad by Premier Briand of France m his famous proposal to Washing vear. The Rriand proposals remain “Some of camplatn,” “that the treaty ex o possible subiect for arbitratton Well, the next best thing avording WA Iy Avotding situations which demand 1t would be a good thing i treaties could lie fn the dust of thew archives, untouched for the length of thetr Hves Beostdes, as President Qools 1dge satd n his latest message 10 Qoae sress, “The heart of a natton is mare mportant than treaties ' Better than nothing the new treaty O course, 1y, states the Richmond News Leader, “but how far shart of the tdeals the people cheriah and could easly at- tam if only politicians and dinloanatie usage did not stand o the way The Chicagy Daily News, however, soes an “immeasurably great maral effect.” exs plaining that “should war be thrust WML ANY SIEDATORY of such & treat: the proof thus furnished of tts pacite the French Tudes almost these | nt of the hope ox- | Treaty With France Arouses Mild Interest in This Country ‘machinery between the two coun! |says the Birmingham Press, while the Wichita Beacon feels that ! goes as far as any war”. that “to go violatien of the const tive given Congress o this treaty,” continu signatories assert that war be is unthinkable. and they set up and stronger arbitral agencies fo ssttlement of whatever difie does actually register a siight advance, and records in useful fo fons detween two great Pasads ca of the New York Times is “little more than France. which inating forev anywhere the trea conceived M & broad J | odvious intention of preventing any oo ‘buts between the two ssuing i hostile meast v oo ‘It is & mere rhetorical Sourih tends the Louisville QouriersJ. mparison with the peace accord thy , Fore! Minister Briand soug! into effect. With Hs studiad sl fram anvthing connectad wit League of Nations the Washing Tation has asvomplished s of outtawing T Orleans Ttem concludes: “We o ably get individual treatics with w a8 well ¢ with ¥ ¥ to gat the e IN WORLD WAR Ten Years dgo Teudas American Army aviahws are doing noteworthy work, using 13 Freach Ree suet wachu Aghte WWer the Ger . Amerie can front s fanly Quiet, with mtermits tent artllery dueh Sadees e dde | leted I amall villages and splendid res | lAbOns enist detween them and Freach | inhabitanis ¢ ¢ v Campag 00 enlist 3000 nurses foar Sunumer | g camp I war ey VKL arrest Qern ihreaten dutehery. pPUrpOses woulkd st thenl 1ts cause Ma- | frces Are delig concentiated ertally. both within 1ts own boundartes | Ukratne to attack (de Bolhevik: Ause and bavond them ™ The Los Angeles | (rians are holding oL dal M pressed Express calls 1t a “long stride fam 1he [nav use her atmy 0 N0t the days af affensive and defensive’ | Ukratne food supply. ¢ ¢t Re - treatiea ™ s Quits a3 Britiah chief of Shaft SEUEN Qen Wik, Rritam'y reprasentative on M “The I:l'r. lRll\ s loked \;‘l\'ll l\\lh'lh: Versaitiea \\nl\;l‘. cmm - here and th Papts as strengtheng Al S suecead him ay material {Rrebadow Uity O aled omBAL mx the Peace-preserting